Love, like art, is always a work in progress. It requires patience, perseverance, making and repairing the mistakes, maintaining balance during the highs and lows, and being willing to climb a little higher than we thought we could.
Made with vintage lead toy figure, playing cards, ladder with wooden scaffolding, red wheels, symbol of red paint.
Framed under glass in a 2.5” wide natural hand-milled pine frame.
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24” x 24”
This piece is a celebration of curiosity, and wonder, reminding us to pause, look up, and drink in the marvel of the extraordinary universe around us. Though the earth is where our journey begins, the compass and binoculars invites us to keep searching, exploring, and looking beyond what we already know.
Made with a picnic case created from a vintage game board with brass claps and hinges and an old suitcase handle. The night sky is filled with constellation made with marbles and vintage jewelry parts including rhinestones which glitter like stars when reflecting off any light source. The vintage red drinking glasses are filled with cotton clouds and celebratory “fizz“ made of rhinestones. The vintage compass is brass, and the eyes pairing out from the old binoculars are lined with glittering rhinestones. The background is made of astronomy charts from an old geography book.
This piece is framed under glass in a 2.5” wide black hand-milled pine frame.
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24” x 24”
This piece is meditation on communication, exploration, and human connection. Like messages in a bottle cast into the sea, we never fully know what directions our words will travel, how far they will reach or whose the life they may ultimately touch.
Made with old bottles containing original handwritten entries from antique journals and notebooks. The corks are wrapped with vintage postage stamps. The antique brass calipers have ink pen nibs on each point. The shell cradles the vintage porcelain “postmaster” figurine standing on an antique inkwell who guides and delivers the sea mail. He holds a large compass hand on one side and a small compass in the other. The shell has a crown of ink pen nibs. The background has vintage maps and original pages with positive affirmations taken from an old handwriting instruction manual. This piece comes in a black frame.
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This piece explores the unpredictable rhythm of life through the familiar game of musical chairs. The four chairs represents different stages and circumstances we encounter along the way: success, comfort, love, and those times when we are feeling lucky in life. But like the game of musical chairs, we can never assume the chair beneath us will always be there. Ultimately this piece is a reminder to appreciate where you are but never get so comfortable you stop listening to the music.
Made with piano keys, vintage dollhouse chairs, an old yellow record, pillars, musical instruments, pocket watch faces, a stage made with a vintage ruler, sheet music, and a time chart from an old atlas. The chairs are adorned with vintage charms: The chair of success has a lion wearing a crown, the chair of comfort has two birds flying, the chair of love has a heart locket, and the chair of luck has a horseshoe and four leaf clover and a spring popping out of the floor catapulting into the air.
This piece is framed under glass in a 2.5” wide black hand-milled pine frame.
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Like the tides and seasons are shaped by the natural world, we are shaped by the rhythms of our lives – our environments, relationships, and emotional highs and lows. At times we retreat inward, at other times we rise and re-emerge. This piece honors that ebb and flow – the quiet withdrawal and the powerful return.
Made with Nautilus shell, pillars, seashells, vintage star and astronomy maps, and a vintage bisque doll head coming out of the shell wearing a shell crown adorned with rhinestones.
Framed under glass in 2.5” wide natural hand-milled pine frame.
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Resilience honors the courage and patience it takes to mend rather than discard and come back to the table of life. It acknowledges that the repaired object is never the same as it once was – but it is still hole in a new way. And perhaps more importantly, it suggests that there is dignity, even beauty, in choosing to sit down again, surrounded by imperfect pieces, and continue the act of living. But that doesn’t mean you won’t stop tossing plates and silverware from time to time.
Made with vintage paper, old linen napkin and plate mended with vintage zippers, and broken silverware mended with buttons and thread, pins, bolts, watch band, metal clip with chain and old compass parts.
This piece is framed under glass in natural hand- milled 2.5” deep pine frame.
Life often feels like riding a roller coaster at a carnival. Around every turn lies the unexpected: dice remind us of chance, and odd companions like the snapping crocodile, the dragons, or chattering teeth, symbolizing the distractions and detours that keep us spinning through ambition and chaos. At the center of it all Home is quietly representing peace, purpose, and refuge.
Made with vintage Parcheesi game board, train tracks, vintage cars, alligator and dragons, dice, novelty, teeth, wooden figurine flinging tin globes, antique monkey toy holding a lenticular mouth which grins and frowns at different angles, rhinestone hearts, stars, vintage horseshoe pin. The rhinestones and rhinestone hearts and stars on the Parcheesi board will reflect off any light source making them twinkle like stars to help guide your path home.
Framed under glass in 2.5” wide natural hand-milled pine frame.
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Framed under glass in 2.5” deep hand milled pine frame.
Sometimes it’s not just about having 20/20 vision. It’s about perceiving beyond the obvious, catching glimpses of magic, memory, or possibility.
Made with vintage eye chart, antique eyeglasses and eyeglass cases with hand painted background scenes portraying a porcelain doll holding a star fetched by a ladder from the night sky, breaking out of an egg from a nest, and an old lead figure cowboy riding off into the sunset on a swan.
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Framed under glass in 2.5” deep hand milled pine frame.
With a little ingenuity and audacity the impossible can be possible.
Made with 1956 National Geographic celestial map, vintage marbles, vintage and handmade ladders, tin zeppelin, vintage jewelry and rhinestones which twinkle like stars in the night skies when any light source reflects off of them.
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24.5” x 26.5” x 2”
Even as adults we still play games to get what we want. Weather in relationships, our careers, or daily life issues, when we reach a stalemate and a resolution has not been reached. We rely on a combination of games as ploys to win the game. Among my large collection of vintage games, I chose those which best represent the tactical behavior of mind games.
Made with original game boxes, vintage game, spinner, chess pieces with bisque doll heads, and crown. Framed under glass in 3 inch deep hand milled pine frame.
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Framed in hand milled 3.75” deep pine framed sealed under plexiglass.
Made with vintage Strat-O-Flyer kite, Mid century honeycomb rocket ship with tin space cowboy Astro gun handle, Tom Mix cigar label, string, gems from vintage jewelry, which glitter like stars, when any light source reflects on them. Hand, painted acrylic, background of the cosmos.
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Framed and hand milled pine frame sealed under glass.
You either have it or you don’t
Made with Vintage, animal, figurines, vintage British brand, labels, old Spell-It card, game, vintage magnet, iron toy wheels.
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Framed under glass in hand milled 2” deep pine frame.
All drama, whether real or imagined, deserves a stage.
Made with piano keys, vintage frames, old clock face in brass casing, blocks, vintage, cow and sheep, bisque doll parts, chair, jewelry, doll eyes, wooden balls, original acrylic painting of galaxy in background.
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