EL PASO COUNTY — For El Paso County resident Brenda Quiñones, the road towards discovering her artistic flair has been lined with hundreds of hats and defined by their decades of stories.

Brenda owns and operates St. Clement Custom Hats and spends her days crafting and restoring fur felt hats, "Some people wear fedoras, some people wear western styles, and I can make all of those hats."

All of those and more besides.

"Id say I've made over a hundred new hats. and I've repaired and restored twice that."

Brenda describes the journey towards this vocation as an unexpected one, having spent her professional career in a more corporate environment.

"After 40 years of professional environments and regulatory affairs and offices and fluorescent lights," commented Brenda, "you know, it's so re

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