My big freckled man, 4 boys, and I, live by the sea in California.

My sister and I grew up camping and mining in Baker, CA at our family’s turquoise mine. My most cherished childhood memories were bringing home chunks of rocks lined with turquoise and also maybe trying to sneak some lizards into the car ride home.

My grandpa was a butcher and would take chunks of turquoise and shove it into a round piece of bone, string some leather through, and call it a bolo tie. Or shape a piece of pipe to a finger, gluing chunks of turquoise on top, and call it a ring. He used what he had to create art and I’m thankful that exists in me.

Stones and smithing have been calling to me my whole life and I feel so blessed and excited to be on this journey!