Originally from Bronx, New York, my family moved to Florida in the mid 90's. Florida is where I met my husband of 16 years and where our three children 1 girl and 2 boys were born. 

Education: Associates Degree of Health Information Technology & Bachelor's Degree of Human Resources/Organizational Leadership. 

I have always enjoyed arts and crafts and taking pleasure of creating my own items in my free time. Having three kids and a full time career it can be difficult to do the things you enjoy. So I decided to leave my boring career and started doing the things I enjoyed and making that my full time career. ​ After deciding to start with candles & wax melts, I started to sample 100's of scents available while also looking at what was already offered by most sellers. One thing stood out the most to me during this time that most of the scents offered by others were your everyday traditional scents.

We all love scents that remind us of fond memories and the holidays. Being Puerto Rican it is very hard to find Spanish scents like tembleque, which reminds me of the sweet smell of coconut pudding my mother used to make the whole house smelled of this Spanish dessert. So that's where I started Spanish scents and moved on to more tropical scents and then the name of my new venture was born. Jade is a nickname that I grew up with and is my favorite color. Tropical for the types of scents that are offered at my store and finally creations because I knew that I would not stop at just candles and wax melts. After putting it all together Jades Tropical Creations was born!