After taking a stone carving class in the hills of Tuscany from a little old man who didn’t speak a word of English, I wanted to see what else I could carve. Played with wood carving a little, but quickly found my love for leather carving. Studying architecture gave me a sense of design, then meeting Mark further inspired and pushed me to grow, as his creativity can be contagious. Now, we work together on most projects. He often comes up with the design and sometimes helps paint/dye our leather, while I do the hand-tooling. Some days it’s tricky to find the time, between working part time and watching our one and two year old full time, but it’s such a refreshing outlet. We use vegetable tanned, full grain leather, water based dyes and paints, and a water resistant protective coating.
Hand-tooled Leather Goods
Ranunculus Dark brown background, reddish brown ranunculus. Inspired by our favorite flower from our wedding. It’s a flower you don’t see too often, which reminds me how unique beauty can be.
Butterfly Medium brown background, dark brown butterfly with orange and white paints. I have enjoyed watching the migrating monarchs with my daughter in our backyard these past few weeks.
Ranunculus Reddish brown background, painted orange ranunculus. Inspired by our favorite flower from our wedding. It’s a flower you don’t see too often, which reminds me how unique beauty can be.
Ranunculus Dark brown background, painted orange ranunculus. Inspired by our favorite flower from our wedding. It’s a flower you don’t see too often, which reminds me how unique beauty can be.
Bracelets
Ranunculus Medium brown background, painted blue ranunculus. Inspired by our favorite flower from our wedding. It’s a flower you don’t see too often, which reminds me how unique beauty can be.
Stripes Dark brown thick stripe, painted blue, and thin stripe in natural color of leather. Simple with a pop of color, perfect for any age, guys and girls alike
Stripes Dark brown thick stripes, painted blue thin stripe. Simple with a pop of color, perfect for any age, guys and girls alike.
Ranunculus Light brown background, natural leather ranunculus. Inspired by our favorite flower from our wedding. It’s a flower you don’t see too often, which reminds me how unique beauty can be.
Bracelets
Edelweiss Light brown background, painted blue edelweiss flower. Reminds me of time spent studying abroad, and watching the sound of music every time we visited my grandparents. My personal favorite, I wear a variation of this one most every day.
Chevron Dark, light, and reddish brown chevrons. Loose interpretation of snake skins, feathers, and tire treads, take your pick.
Chevron Dark, light, and reddish brown chevrons. Loose interpretation of snake skins, feathers, and tire treads, take your pick.
Daisy Dark brown background, natural leather petals, reddish brown center. You can never have too many flowers. I love the contrast on this one, it really pops.
Bracelets
Music Medium brown background, dark brown Treble Clef, natural leather staff. Brings me back to those 7 years of piano lessons and band practice.
Plane Medium brown background, paints and dark brown stain for the plane. Perfect for kids, they won’t want to take this one off!
Trash Truck Medium brown background, painted truck. Per request of our almost 3 year old son, down to the single orange stripe and trash can with trash. He wears it everywhere, and tells me minimum once a day he likes it.
Music Medium brown background, dark brown Treble Clef, painted blue staff. Brings me back to those 7 years of piano lessons and band practice.
Bracelets
Vespa Trails Handmade wedding presents for some of my best college friends, these sets of his and her luggage tags are one of a kind and will hopefully bring back memories of their special days every time they travel. Vespas for the couple with an Italian destination wedding, and Estes Park mountain range where the other wedding took place. Flap on backside displays address.
Luggage Tags
Gnomerific Leather pen case Anniversary present to my husband. Gnome on the front since he’s been collecting them since elementary school, and the florals from our wedding invitation he designed on the back.
Pen Case
Save a Tree Leather iPad case for a nature enthusiast. Inspired by wood grain and uses a gradient of dye colors., with reddish brown as the background.
iPad Covers
Ranunculus Leather iPad case for my husband of the ranunculus flower from our wedding. Notice the stitching on the strap is an “A� for our last name. He liked the rugged edge straight from the cow-skin. Reddish brown background, medium brown on straps.
iPad Covers
Go Wolfpack Leather coin dish. Dark brown background, reddish brown “S� and natural leather color outline. For an NC State alumni who works with the university now.
Coin Dish
Buck Command Leather Christmas ornament. For my brother in law from southeast Texas who loves to hunt. Makes a great personalized Christmas gift that is so thoughtful.
Ornaments
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