Natalie Reyes is native to Puerto Rico.   She and her family moved to the State of Florida when she was little for better opportunities where she grew up in Gainesville, Florida.  She later relocated with her family to Clearwater, Florida where she still resides with her family.   As a child, she spent a lot of time crafting small forts for her army men, miniature cities for her micro cars, carving candles for fun and drawing characters from comic books.   Her uncle, Gabriel Reyes (RIP) and Father, Juan Reyes, have always been a major inspiration to her - both garnering artistic abilities.   Her father being a craftsman/handyman and self-proclaimed MacGyver crafting gifts out of scrap wood, or sculpting little characters from epoxy, and her uncle was a well-known artist in Puerto Rico while persevering through multiple sclerosis. 

As an adult, Natalie took another route pursuing a career in Bookkeeping.  Although this became one of her passions as well, she was always missing that piece to the puzzle.   In 2016 she reignited her original passion of Art and started sculpting again as a way to cope with her own medical diagnosis of Graves' disease and Hyperthyroidism.     She not only realized the piece to the puzzle she was missing, but realized she could make others happy through her art.   She founded Reyes Custom Creations, LLC where she sold via Etsy for a little while and by word of mouth.  To date she has a small storefront based out of House to Home located at 920 McMullen Booth Rd, Clearwater as well as a storefront based out of Coastal Cottage located at 300 Corey Ave, St Pete.   From time to time she participates in select arts & crafts events in the Tampa Bay Area.