Making Things in the Margins
It's usually after 6 or 7pm when I sit down in my studio. Josh is in the den, the house is quiet, and I'm already calculating how much I have left. Some evenings the clay absorbs me until 11pm. Some evenings the couch gets me first. Both of those evenings are part of the same story — and so is the endometriosis that shapes all of it.
I Don’t Make a Living from My Jewelry Business
I'm just going to say it upfront: Anam Cara Clay Goods is not my primary income. My dad was a full-time artist his whole life, and I watched what that cost him. I made a different choice — and I want to talk about why that choice doesn't make this business any less real. If anything, it makes it more honest.
A Passion Born From Change
I was a chef before I was a jewelry maker. Before that I was someone who thought her life was mostly figured out. Then everything changed — a move, a community I didn't expect to love, a diagnosis, a surgery, a pandemic, a piece of clay. This is how Anam Cara Clay Goods actually started.