TheMidnightOrange
Buffalo, New York ·
TheMidnightOrange
Tender keepsakes for tender heartsBuffalo, New York 15622 Sales On Etsy since 2008
Rainbow Baby Blessing - new baby after child loss - made to order with just mother or both parents - you choose wing color
$95.00
Sleeping Baby memorial sculpture with butterfly or angel wings - beautiful pregnancy and infant loss sympathy gift of remembrance
$30.00
Baby Loss Memorial Statue - Mother Father and Angel Baby clay sculpture - add additional siblings - child loss keepsake - made to order
$90.00
Family of 5 Loss of Husband, Father, Grandfather, Brother or Adult Son - bespoke sculpture made to order - custom angel artwork
$130.00
Announcement
Warmest of welcomes, thank you for coming to visit The Midnight Orange. I make all of my sculptures by hand with tender care and my turn around times can be viewed within any item's listing. I appreciate your patience as your order goes through my regular creation timeline and ask that you keep in mind my capacity when placing new orders.
If you are giving a gift, you might consider giving your recipient a "Gift to Come" and printing out a picture of the sculpture to give inside of a card. You can let your recipient know that you've commissioned an artist to sculpt on their behalf and that as soon as their handmade gift is ready it will be on its way. Please do refrain from placing an order with instructions to rush the creation period in your order notes. I always work as quickly and efficiently as possible and treat all of my orders as urgent and time sensitive and make sure to get all orders out in the mail by the timeline I've committed to in my quoted creation period.
With care,
Dana
Announcement
Warmest of welcomes, thank you for coming to visit The Midnight Orange. I make all of my sculptures by hand with tender care and my turn around times can be viewed within any item's listing. I appreciate your patience as your order goes through my regular creation timeline and ask that you keep in mind my capacity when placing new orders.
If you are giving a gift, you might consider giving your recipient a "Gift to Come" and printing out a picture of the sculpture to give inside of a card. You can let your recipient know that you've commissioned an artist to sculpt on their behalf and that as soon as their handmade gift is ready it will be on its way. Please do refrain from placing an order with instructions to rush the creation period in your order notes. I always work as quickly and efficiently as possible and treat all of my orders as urgent and time sensitive and make sure to get all orders out in the mail by the timeline I've committed to in my quoted creation period.
With care,
Dana
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Today I Got to Touch Stars - hand sculpted angel memorial for pregnancy, infant, and child loss - made to order
$34.00
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Birth of a Rainbow - Pregnancy after multiple losses - Family of 6 with parents and children - you choose angel or butterfly wing color
$165.00
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Loss of Father, Grandfather, Big Brother or other adult and child relationship - made to order - you choose child's age
$55.00
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Family of 7 bespoke memorial sculpture with angel and rainbow baby, twinless twins, or two heavenside babies - choose wings - made to order
$170.00
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Birth of a Rainbow - Pregnancy after loss gift - Family of 6 with parents and children - you choose angel or butterfly wing color
$165.00
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Five Stages of Grief - Shock, Anger, Rejection, Acceptance, Healing - clay human figurine sculpture set - therapy gift - made to order
$105.00
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Family of Five, Six or Seven sculpture with heavenside child, siblings, and rainbow baby - handmade gift for child loss - made to order
$138.00
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Remembrance Gift for Twin Loss or Multiple Loss - clay angel butterfly babies sculpture - made to order in your choice of wing colors
$60.00
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Baby Loss Memorial Statue - Mother Father and Angel Baby clay sculpture - add additional siblings - child loss keepsake - made to order
$90.00
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Mommy To An Angel necklace hand sculpted clay baby with your choice of wing color - child loss jewelry and remembrance gift - made to order
$22.00
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Rainbow Baby Blessing - new baby after multiple losses - made to order with mother or both parents - you choose wing colors
$140.00
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Single or set of Monarch Butterfly Ornaments - colorful butterflies in glass bauble - you choose colors - beautiful memorial
$13.00
Bestseller
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I Have A Sibling In Heaven - angel brother or sister sculpture - clay child memorial keepsake- made to order in any wing color
$45.00
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I Have A Sibling In Heaven - angel brother or sister sculpture - clay child memorial keepsake- made to order in any wing color
$45.00
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Sending a Rainbow Baby - parents and three angels or triplets - you choose wings- expectant parents gift after multiple losses-made to order
$150.00
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Rainbow Baby Blessing - new baby after child loss - made to order with just mother or both parents - you choose wing color
$95.00
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Parents and New Baby sculpture - clay mother father and child - polymer clay fine art piece - made to order
$90.00
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I Feel All The Things - small handmade polymer clay art therapy sculpture - sandplay figurine
$20.00
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Family of 5 Child Memorial Sculpture - sister/brother in heaven - custom family of 5 with heavenside child and two siblings - made to order
$130.00
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On the Edge of Healing - grief sculpture - human figure in polymer clay - hand sculpted and made to order
$20.00
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Please Be Kind - hand sculpted art therapy figurine - perfect for sand play - made to order
$20.00
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Angel in Womb sculpture - mother and angel baby - miscarriage, neonatal loss or stillbirth gift for grieving parents - made to order
$70.00
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Reading With Daddy - Father and Children sculpture - twin angels or twinless twins - heartfelt gift for bereaved father - you choose wings
$75.00
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Sleeping Baby memorial sculpture with butterfly or angel wings - beautiful pregnancy and infant loss sympathy gift of remembrance
$30.00
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About
Grief Care
When I founded The Midnight Orange, I never imagined myself working in grief care. Once I started sculpting families, a client asked me to make an inclusive sculpture showing her entire family portrait including her young daughter that couldn't be earthside with them. With extreme reverence I took on the custom project, and once their sculpture was received it was shared with other bereft families and online communities.
My inbox became a treasure chest unpryable to the faint of heart. The messages I received were heavier than gold, private as pearls. What families shared with me about their loved and little ones who touched the stars too soon could have easily intimidated me or been a responsibility I was not mentally or emotionally prepared for, were it not for Christopher.
Christopher. His name is still the "golden bell hung in my heart". On the first day of summer in 1990, the world suddenly lost a very cherished eight year old and I lost my bursting childhood friend. As a child I did not know how to process this loss and for years I just carried him with me. Every milestone I had I wished for him. In college I became desperate, not for closure but closeness to him and I wrote a letter to his family about 10 years after his passing. My message was strong and clear. I missed Christopher, I loved him still, and I REMEMBERED. Always I remembered him.
The letter I received back I held with trembling hands. His mother wrote that my letter was a true miracle and went on to explain that after his passing, his loss was so painful that he became rarely spoken of outside of family. I felt such newfound sorrow when I read that. In retrospect I now am keenly aware of (and hope to help break) the deep taboo that has surrounded child loss and I understand how easily a well-intending heart can be lost for words when confronted with the unthinkable. At the time that I read it, however, it became a new burden on my heart and this unknowingly bookmarked what would later become my life calling.
One of the things that stood out profoundly to me was need. The need for loved ones to be acknowledged, celebrated, spoken about. The need to know others remember. The need for a LEGACY. Years later when my artistry unexpectedly intertwined paths with grieving families, I knew such deep love for them and that I was tasked with the tremendous privilege and responsibility to help others nurture these love legacies.
Sculpting these tender memorials isn't something I ever set out to do. The shift in my artistic responsibility came to me first in whispered urgency and then in amplified echos. Family after family came to me, entrusting their hearts to the interpretation of my hands. Friends of grieving families came to me, seeking a way to express comfort while sensitively nurturing grief in the absence of knowing what to say. I continue to be so deeply honored, so indelibly touched with every sculpture I make. Sculpting on your behalf isn't my job, it's my life calling. Watching a family's love and unity form in my hands is unforgettably personal and the highest honor my artistry could ever be called to do.
My work isn't about loss. It's about life and love and loss co-exists among both. You'll find in my available collections and past work that I sculpt for all of life's occasions. Through clay I aim to capture the spectrum of human emotion, from very bright to very raw. I choose to create with bravery and want my work to serve as a story telling outlet that marks personal milestones among the human experience. I am very humbled to share that my sculptures are used worldwide by therapists who most often incorporate them into sand tray therapy to aid in the path of healing.
I live in the United States and my business is fully run right out of my home studio in a quiet little town in New York, right between Niagara Falls and Buffalo. We are an "art family" and fully immersed in creativity here. My husband is also a full time artist and we have two young daughters who are 11 and 9. I promise to not expect them to travel my own path, but on that same token I have to say proudly that their art souls are fully in bloom over here! Our family loves animals and is home to 4 beloved rescue pets. I'm also an avid hobbyist when it comes to fish-keeping and I maintain two aquariums and a backyard pond with full admiration for the ecosystems and balance within. Life, in all its intricacies, fully enraptures me. I try to endeavor each day with newfound joy and interest amid the reality of life's varying circumstances.
This is a lot about me and there's irony in that. My bespoke handmade sculptures are about you and your experiences. To learn more about the process and how to start or grow a collection of sculptures from The Midnight Orange, I warmly invite you into my shop.
Shop members
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Dana Pecoraro
Owner, Artist
Through clay my aim is to touch all of life's journeys, from very bright to very raw.
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Thomas
Helping Hands
Meet my beautiful husband, Thomas. Tom helps me at home with parts of my process that don't require sculpting. At times he prepares my clay for me, cuts out wings, and helps me with packaging every now and then.
Shop policies
Accepted payment methods
- Accepts Etsy Gift Cards and Etsy Credits
Returns and exchanges
I gladly accept returns and exchanges
I don't accept cancellations
The following items can't be returned or exchanged
- Custom or personalized orders
- Perishable products (like food or flowers)
- Digital downloads
- Intimate items (for health/hygiene reasons)
Returns and exchange details
Should an item ever arrive damaged, please contact me and I will help you and ensure that your experience brings you both satisfaction and a beautiful, in tact product. Shipping maladies are few and far between but if the issue should present itself, you know where to find me. :)
Payment
Shipping
My current creation period varies based on the item and is viewable in the Shipping Tab of each listing. I work in volume and make every sculpture by hand with tender care. Prior to placing an order, please review the item's creation period and consider my handmade capacity and ensure that my timeline works for you. If you are giving a gift, you might consider giving your recipient a "Gift to Come" and printing out a picture of the sculpture to give inside of a card. You can let your recipient know that you've commissioned an artist to sculpt on their behalf and that as soon as their handmade gift is ready it will be on its way. Please do refrain from placing an order with instructions to rush the creation period in your order notes. I always work as quickly and efficiently as possible and treat all of my orders as urgent and time sensitive and will make sure to get your order out in the mail by the timeline I've committed to in my quoted creation period.
Thank you so much and sending lots of warmth,
Dana
Additional policies and FAQs
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Frequently asked questions
Do you offer engraving services?
I do not offer engraving services at this time.
How long does it take to receive an order?
My turn around times change depending on how many orders I have in queue. To see an item’s expected turn around time, please refer to the listing details as I update these frequently as my capacity changes.
Can you do different colors?
The only clay color I now work with is the silver pearl colored clay featured throughout my shop. Color can be incorporated via the wings and any add on jewels.