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Shop update coming sooo soon! My newsletter list gets the first chance to snag pieces for shop updates. ⚡️
Visiting the sweet humans behind @manna.shop & their lovely shop has been on our list for some time now. On my bucket-list: take a trip around to all the wonderful shops that carry my work. It’s been such a fun part of my business: building relationships with the humans that work their tails off for their shops, so getting to hug them & thank them in person would be the ultimate.
These light catchers made their debut at @echoparkcraftfair last month and were an absolute hit. This weekend at @westcoastcraft was no exception. New shop update with lots of pieces to choose from will be going down soon! ...these little bits of magic included. My newsletter gets first dibs when new work is made available. You can hop on it via my website, if you’d like. ⚡️
A love letter to @westcoastcraft: 3 years ago, you were a huge kickstart in helping my creativity and business go from a side situation as a stay-at-home-mama college-dropout that liked working with my hands, to a full fledged creative business, providing for my family in ways I couldn’t have imagined then. You gave me the opportunity to show people what I was doing on such a large scale that I hadn’t experienced before - it was a game-changer and I’m so grateful. You’ve also given me the gift of greater connection — of growing closer bonds with my closest and dearest maker pals — people with big hearts and a sharpness that pushes me to get after it (@urbapothecary, @younginthemountains, @sigilscent, @debbie.bean). I have to call out these 4 individuals because they’ve been pivotal in my journey— maker pals that I hold so dearly. Go feast your senses on what they all do. Pure beauty. Existing friendships have flourished and new ones pop up each time (tagging some of my favorites!). It’s one of my favorite parts about you, WCC. You’ve become a reunion of sorts, every six months, to see these people that just get it. They get the beautiful and the brutal of creating for a living. It can be a lonely endeavor, but they make me feel seen and supported. Beyond the chance to meet the raddest creative people in the biz, meeting the people who resonate with what I make is so fulfilling. Meeting new faces and getting to hug repeat collectors pumps me up so much! I get to explain my process in person, geek out on a shared love for brass & patinated copper and wrap up pieces that I know will be well-loved. It’s the coolest. So, thank you @westcoastcraft. I always come back from you with a new fervor to kick ace creatively, with heart and an extra pep in my step. You’re a gift.
lots of driftwood pieces are coming to @westcoastcraft this weekend
One of my large kinetic sculptures fitting in verrrrrrrry nice in the new @realmdenver Photo: @coniferpine
hello sweet humans! I’m deep in @westcoastcraft prep-age, so I’m coming up for air to tell you: I’m slowly getting back to emails. Just wanted you to know: If you’re interested in a piece, I unfortunately am not able to do customs at this time, but I’ll be doing a shop update soon! In about 3 weeks there will be a bunch of new work up in my online shop. Large mobiles, small light catchers and everything in-between⚡️ As always, my newsletter list gets first dibs. And then Instagram a day or two after. If you’d like to hop on that, sign up via my website. 💛 Stunner photo by the wonderful @jackipotorke, at the @blueskycenter
Wherever, however this finds you, I hope you’re able to see the beauty and the magic and the good in this day, even with every reason not to. Contemplating and searching this for myself. Photo: @jackipotorke, at the wonderful @blueskycenter
@echoparkcraftfair was everything I hoped for and more; a weekend full of beauty and kindness. It truly was a celebration, as @beatricevalenzuela, @rachelcraventextiles and their rad team celebrated 10 years of bringing the creative community together. I’m grateful to now know, in the flesh, the grace that this community of people contains. I’m bringing the conversations and stoke into this week, ready to make pieces with depth and meaning. What a weekend ⚡️ Photo by: @taka_nonakahill
a lil FYI -⁣ You can see my work in the flesh two times this spring/ summer:⁣ ⁣ - @echoparkcraft in LA, May 11-12⁣ - @westcoastcraft in SF, June 8 - 9⁣ ⁣ Would love to meet you ⚡️⁣
“..the world is profoundly holy, and there is so much to be discovered in it, and our place in it, and what our limits are in it. To me...it deeply challenges sort of the American Protestant work ethic that says, ‘With just enough hard work, we can literally pull off anything’ ...’we can control it, we can shape it’, and that's obviously not true, and leaves us with so much disappointment, both spiritual and experiential, but the earth teaches us a different story. It really does, and it's a good one, and it's good to feel [like we] have a right place in the world [among the family of things]. To me, that's a relief. That doesn't make me feel small and insignificant, it makes me feel relieved, to just be this one simple part of this big wonderful story that I didn't craft, and I didn't start, and I'm not gonna finish.” - from Jen Hatmaker’s podcast with Barbara Brown Taylor I can’t stop thinking about this conversation and their reference to Mary Oliver’s poem “Wild Geese.” I feel like I can chew on this for a while and still extrapolate what it means for my life, right now. It’s humbling and it’s good.
Bare-faced and content in this moment, in this season. Open hands and open heart. Thank you for seeing me and capturing me in this place, @jackipotorke
A tiny taste of what @jackipotorke captured this week at @blueskycenter. Her vision and eye + her ability to capture it is bonkers. So stoked to see the whole collection of photos and to share them here. What a week with my two sweet creative pals, @jackipotorke & @urbapothecary ❤️
Can we please take a moment of sweet appreciation for @jimmybrower_ & @damien_merino’s beautiful living room (the beautiful humans behind @westperro 🥰)? The light is rad and the plants and the everything, but what I love the most is that it’s filled with meaningful pieces. That’s a kick I’ve been on in outfitting our new home on wheels: keeping the things that were made lovingly by humans I love and respect, either from afar or in person. The pieces I treasure and that serve to remind me of beautiful things. Bravo, pals, for curating a sweet, meaningful space 👏🏼 I’m taking notes.
“The sun continues to rise & the creek dances” This is new language for us, as we’re steeping ourselves in a slightly different existence — a more “elemental” life, as Barbara Brown Taylor puts it. Being a little closer to nature is bringing about new work that I’m excited to explore.