Layla Joy Oxford/Infobox

Layla’s deepest dream was to be an actress on Broadway. As a child, she took acting lessons and drama classes, performed in plays, and competed forensics in reader’s theater and poetry recitation to work on her extemporaneous speaking. She took vocal lessons and sang in her parish’s children’s choir. Layla took dance classes in jazz, ballet, tap, hip-hop, modern, world, and Irish step dancing. She also enjoyed dabbling in arts and crafts, while mastering none of the modes. She liked her work to be colorful and whimsical, expect for her photography, which she liked in black-and-white. She also enjoyed writing in journals and composing poetry, especially reading poetry at slams when it could be said with proper emotion and verve. She taught herself to play the piano by ear. Although she is vibrant, imaginative, passionate, and sensitive, she fears that she falls short creativity; that her work doesn't live up to her idea, and that she isn't skilled enough to be a true Toreador artiste. What she especially desires to capture is a way to express faith through art.

Home-schooled with the Charlotte Mason method, Layla was a voracious reader and an appreciator of nature, especially having grown up in a picturesque Pacific Northwest rural town. She had an eye for beauty and an instinct toward being unique and special; unlike another.