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Mythical Designs by Miscellaneous Oddiments LLC

We are a husband and wife creative team crafting unique handcrafted items while exploring fantasy art.
Creating our art is about bringing legends and myths into form and life. Each faery tale we tell our children is a cultural inheritance going back to our ancestors. By finding meaning and inspiration in modern myth you can connect with the intimate relationship our forbearer's had with the natural world around them, and still face forward into the 21st century.

Leah Odom is a native daughter of Maryland and the Chesapeake Bay country. The rich environment of the region strongly shaped her love for the outdoors and the wilds. As a teen, she found work at the MD Renaissance Festival learning the craft of mask making. Many years of this work prepared her to embark upon an independent career as a “mummer”. Leah’s continuing passion for craft and beauty has helped fuel an amazing ability to capture in brush and paint the subtle shades of a butterfly wing or the exuberance of a fairy face! Through painting she expresses the deep need we all have for the creative act.

Shane Odom is a native son of the ruggedly beautiful landscapes of north central Texas, When he attended his first renaissance faire as a child, he knew he had found his calling as a craftsman. A life-long interest in art & design has lead him to explore many mediums and techniques. A continuing love for myth and legend guided him to a passion for Masks and Labyrinths as modern meditation tools, and his profound attraction to the image of the “Green Man” has helped create the Beloved Order of the Green Man at www.bogbrothers.org

Our children bring much joy and meaning to our lives. Shane’s teenage son, Jared Odom, enjoys traveling the festival circuit with us, learning what it means to be an artist. Our newest “Oddiment”, Ellawyn Odom is reveling in her early childhood as a daughter of artist parents and a “Faery Princess”.

We have been in business since 1997, and feel that our various interest and artistic skills, combined with a love of all things creative, help to round out a truly “Miscellaneous” experience.

Favorite Materials

Leather, acrylic paint, polymer clay, copper wire, wooden dowels