"I wish I were dead". It was those words that I spit at my mother in my tween rage. It was those words that taught me the difference between saying...
Past Posts
Cluttered Little Workbench
When I was a little girl I spent hours and hours in my dad’s basement workshop. He still to this day, in his late 80’s...
Left Behind in the Sorrow
Grief is the feeling we are expected to feel when one dies. There is a grace period you are granted while you pull yourself together....
Be My Un-Valentine
"I wish I were dead". It was those words that I spit at my mother in my tween rage. It was those words that taught...
What's Behind The Name?
These balls you see scattered about my site and in my product photography are called iron ore pellets. They littered the train tracks in the sleepy mining town...
10 Reflections
Make sure you have a plan to separate church and state. I purposely leave my home computer and phone in the other room to not...
A Blue Suitcase Moment
As caretakers we often forget to take care of ourselves. Blue suitcase moments allow us to do just that.
Find Your One Thing
Find the one thing that makes you feel you and cozy the hell out of it.
Lockdown + A Broken Lady
From Covid lockdown, to a broken earring, to an obsession to fix it. The founding story of Ore & Alloy.