The Card That Carries It All
An earring card is a two-inch piece of paper. Most people look at it for three seconds and put it in a drawer. I have spent more time thinking about mine than I will ever fully admit. This is the story of how a hand-carved stamp became a hand-drawn silhouette, and why Kate Winslet is on an earring card going home with women who deserve to hear what she has to say about aging.
What If the Good Thing Happens
I am an Enneagram 6. Which means I have thought about every possible way this could go wrong. Not occasionally — constantly, reflexively, before the idea has even fully formed. Running Anam Cara Clay Goods has made me see my 6ness more keenly than almost anything else in my life. And then a friend asked me a question I wasn't ready for: but what if the good thing happens instead?
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.