10/09/2025
Happy spooky returns!
Here’s a witchy green flame to ignite your senses 🧙🏻♀️
I’ve been busy making a bonkers amount of custom work, and some new rings for Open Studios - which is coming up. Put it in your calendars, Nov 1st & 2nd (10-5) both days and it’s daylight savings weekend, right after Halloween.
I made my first wedding crown this year! I’m currently working on a new engraving technique - gold inlay. I get to make all the tools I use for engraving. I’ve been really pushing myself to learn new techniques for my projects this year and it’s some good growing all around.
Libraries are pretty pumped on my new night light workshops, so those are booking in fast. The work feels really satisfying, and there’s a lot of it, so that’s great.
Besides making all the shiny tinys, I’ve been learning how to grow food this year! We harvested tons of tomatoes, grew blue flower corn, I learned how to plant and dig potatoes and sweet potatoes. We put in apple trees, a black locust hedge and raspberries and blueberry shrubs, among many other things that were unfortunately decimated by beetles! It’s been a labor of love on our new property and it’s really fulfilling and a TON of work. We just got two new barred rock chickens to add to our flock (need some names for them - suggestions welcome)
Baby Kitty has got a new adventure vest and gets to go outside again, but super safely with us on a leash. It’s amazing to see her explore the garden and play in the corn field. I swam a lot this summer, went to Maine, traveled around to a million libraries teaching and am continuing to do so and have dates booked into next summer. Just wanted to fill you in and show you I’m still here, crushing it behind the scenes and off social media for the most part for my mental health. I’ll try to update more often, but if you need me, just email or call to say hi!
I miss you all and hope you’ll come to Open Studios.
❤ HB