Teacher and master woodworker Jamie Yocono is a new North Las Vegas business owner who thinks of herself as "a one-woman shop." With the June opening of her woodworking school, Wood It Is, 2267 W. Gowan Road, serving as proof, the journeyman carpenter may not be too far off base.

Yocono said she has been designing and building custom furniture for more than 35 years, a love affair that was sparked by a high school woodworking class that eventually led to a degree in furniture design and a string of galleries in the Midwest.