Ear­ly in her career, Don­na owned an inte­ri­or design firm and cre­at­ed both res­i­den­tial and com­mer­cial floor plans. In addi­tion, she and her hus­band built new homes and ren­o­vat­ed his­toric build­ings. Their per­son­al home was on a Texas tour show­case in 1974 and again in 1985. When the fam­i­ly moved to Galve­ston, Texas to ren­o­vate beach homes, Don­na also designed and paint­ed wall murals in the Ronald McDon­ald House, Shriners Burns Insti­tute and the Uni­ver­si­ty of Texas Med­ical Branch-Child Life Cen­ter. She was com­mis­sioned to cre­ate sev­er­al of Galveston’s Mar­di Gras posters and (for four years) was cho­sen to design the city’s annu­al “Har­bor­fest” ship­ping and adver­tis­ing promotions.

Since she had always loved school, she attend­ed col­lege with her chil­dren and grad­u­at­ed with a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Hous­ton. After grad­u­a­tion, she began her career as an art direc­tor and graph­ic design­er for the Moody Cor­po­ra­tion, cre­at­ing adver­tis­ing and mag­a­zine ads for their banks and insur­ance com­pa­nies. She also main­tained a design stu­dio and taught adult and children’s art classes.

In 2004, she moved to Flint, Texas and was employed by Euro­pean Inte­ri­ors for eleven years while con­tin­u­ing to ren­o­vate and “flip” homes with her hus­band in the East Texas area. In 2016, she designed and made cos­tumes for the San Anto­nio Fiber Arts Fash­ion Show. She has won many art awards, has had numer­ous group and solo art shows in both uni­ver­si­ties and cor­po­ra­tions and con­tin­ues to show her work in art shows and galleries.