Sandy, with her husband, Pierre, has been costuming for forty years. She has won multiple awards, including four Worldcon Best of Shows. Sandy has judged many masquerades, including both F/SF and Historical. Shee was the Corresponding Secretary of the International Costumers’ Guild for a year and serves to this day as an assistant Archivist. She was the co-chair of Costume-Con 10 and a Division Head of the 2012 World Science Fiction convention, Chicon 7. She and Pierre were presented the ICG’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000. They were Fan Guests of Honor at the San Jose World Science Fiction Convention in 2018.