Melanie's artistic skill came from her mother, who was always drawing whenever she had paper in her hands. "There is an odd story about my mother. Since most hilltrits and supernatural things, she never knew about Buddhist temples and had never seen images of Buddha, but she dreamed of them from her memory," said Melanie. "It was during her first visit ti Chiang Mai that she found out what she had dreamed of. Now she is a Buddhist and has led me to this religion too.