Sharon Pennington No doubt you have heard the quote, "Good things come in small packages."

Sharon Pennington certainly falls under that category. This pint-sized pixie who lives at Callender Lake is a good person loaded with a ton of talent.

Embarrassed to talk about herself, it wasn't easy to convince her to tell me of her accomplishments as an artist.

Born in Nacogdoches, Pennington started showing her artistic ability in art and music at an early age.

After graduating high school, she attended Stephen F. Austin where she studied art and music and then went on to attend Sorbonne University in Paris.

Getting married and moving to the Houston area, she was an aspiring artist who showed her paintings at the River Oaks Gallery and took on consignment work of wildlife paintings and sketches.

After having three daughters and moving to the Dallas area, Pennington retired from everything to focus on her children and their activities.

When the children became old enough to attend school, she also went back to school, but this time to substitute-teach art classes in the area schools and to give private piano lessons.

Before moving to east Texas, she participated in playing extras in TV and movies, such as "Dallas," "The Jessie Owens Story," and "Places in the Heart."

Pianist for Holly Springs United Methodist Church, Pennington not only plays piano, organ and keyboard, she is also a mural painter. Perfection is her goal and one can see this in her work as an artist, musician, and teacher.

Three of her students - Velinda Stringfellow who plays keyboard and is assistant administrator of Martins Mill Independent School District, Frieda Alsobrook, a first-grade teacher at Martins Mill and Jerrod Ediehauser, Texas A&M at Commerce radio station manager and instructor of broadcasting - and Pennington on piano - will present a Christmas concert Sunday, at 6 p.m., at Faith Baptist Church in Brownsboro.

Following the 30-minute

event, a Christmas play is scheduled by the children of Faith Baptist.