I've always admired handmade objects, but I only started making things myself after my husband walked through our screen door -- twice. So your can guess what my first Etsy items were made of.

From there, I moved on to finding crushed aluminum cans in the street and turning them into a line of playful animals I call Canimals. Over the years, I've made necklaces from vacuum tubes (this work was featured in Garth Johnson's book "1000 Ideas for Creative Re-Use"), earrings from used Starbucks gift cards, and nesting boxes from recycled magazines.

I live in the desert southwest, which serves up the usual found object delights, as well as some uniquely local treasures, such as Anasazi pottery shards. I've made necklaces from these objects, collected on private land, and used the opportunity to educate the public on an indigenous culture in my home state of Arizona.

I hope you enjoy what I've come up with lately. Welcome to my shop, and have some fun!


A WORD ABOUT THE CLEANLINESS OF MY RECYCLED ITEMS... I'm a recycler, but I'm also a clean freak. Everything you buy from me that can be washed has been given a thorough cleansing with soap and water. It may be old, it may be bruised with character, but gosh darnit it's clean!

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