HarralCrafts of Fort Worth is owned by Harriet and Paul Harral, longtime residents of Fort Worth. Harriet Harral is principal at The Harral Group, a consulting firm that specializes in organizational effectiveness, working with boards in crisis, strategic planning and group facilitation. In addition, she served as executive director of Leadership Fort Worth for 25 years. Harriet comes by her love
of crafts naturally, modeling herself on her mother, the late Gene Aubrey Briscoe, who lived a long and active – and crafty – life despite being struck with polio as an adult. She specializes in wreaths, developing her craft over the last 10 years. She also enjoys creating table arrangements and other home decor and is always eager to meet specific requests from customers. Paul grew up doing carpentry and other construction work for his father in the Texas Panhandle town of Shamrock. He is former Vice President and Editor of the Editorial Page for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and former editor of Fort Worth, Texas magazine and The Business Press. Paul has been doing woodwork for decades and made and gave away a number of crosses over the years. The specific impetus to formation of HarralCrafts was an art show at Broadway Baptist Church, where both he and Harriet are members, and which featured crosses made of the armrests of Broadway's church pews. Aprile Harral Westbrook is their multi-talented daughter who learned from both her mother and her grandmother. Aprile is responsible for the stone and shell encrusted crosses we carry.
