We have so many interests we like to dabble in, love art and love working with our hands. After many years on the road, motivated by a layoff, Dave decided to work from home and hang out with his family, hoping to make enough at odd jobs and art to support the Smith family. De is helping out while homeschooling the kids.

Both of us have a deep connection with art and working with our hands. The creative process is as satisfying as the finished product. We've dabbled here and there in our lives, taking things apart, working jobs from all areas and genres, exploring all sorts of things and places and hobbies. We learn from everything we do and never plan to stop!

Dave has been an artist since he could close his fist and loves to come up with his own ideas as well as the challenge of copying well-known art. His talents seem to know no bounds and he dabbles in almost everything. He can take just about anything apart and fix it. He is extremely creative and has a unique vision and a strong sense of quality and beauty for his art.

De has always been interested in unique watches and for a time, worked in a watch sales/repair shop, where she developed a fascination for the beauty of the inner workings of timepieces. She has loved decorated socks since before the kids came along, and baby socks just increased that interest. The lack of comfortable, decorated socks in larger sizes spurred the interest in painting socks. De dabbles in just about everything and has lots of intriguing plans for items to create for the store...

The whole family attended their first Anime convention in Columbus, Ohio in 2010, which opened the doors of creativity even more - a love of Steampunk was born! Dave started putting together little pieces for friends here and there, and they were very popular. As the handyman business was lagging & income dropped off, we found Etsy & put it all together at the very end of February 2012. We figured we'd jump in with both feet (all four feet?) and see what kind of success we'd get!

As we learn and grow, we're adding things to our repertoire, like area craft shows.

Dave & De both hope you enjoy our work and are ever so thankful for people like you who support small businesses and individual artists! <3

"If you're buying from a small business, you're not adding to a CEO's portfolio of expensive cars and vacation homes. You're helping put food on the table for a family, buying clothes for growing kids, helping a family support themselves."