About

I've spent twenty years making things that help people feel a little better about their lives. Sometimes that's a website that finally sounds like the person who owns it. Sometimes it's a pair of earrings made from hand-painted paper, worn by someone who was tired of jewelry pieces that felt too ordinary. Sometimes it's a wedding invitation suite, simple enough on purpose that the two people getting married can make it theirs.

The materials change. The instinct doesn't.

That instinct continues to show up in all three places. I design and sell handmade paper jewelry through The Marshall Muse Gallery here in Greensboro. I build Squarespace websites and provide ongoing support for a small group of clients I genuinely like working with. I provide them with the kind of hand-holding that covers everything from a full site build to the moments when something needs doing that they just don't do often enough to remember how, or never felt confident enough with the tech side of things to try on their own. And I design wedding stationery, signage, and an array of giftable items through Zazzle, where I've been making things since 2017.

I've been making jewelry intermittently for two decades, starting with beading, then wire work. I was taking a pottery class at the time, this all began, and started playing with clay scraps as an experiment that turned into pendants I kept making for years. These days it's almost entirely paper that provides the focus of my jewelry-making efforts. I paint it, cut it, finish the edges, and turn most of it into earrings that don't look like anything else on a standard jewelry counter.

The pieces I make are for people who want to put on something a little quirky and a little unexpected and feel just a little sassier when they look in the mirror.

I started building websites for small creative businesses in 2005, exclusively on Squarespace. This was the first platform that let me build the kind of sites I could see in my head without a level of tech skills I never achieved. Most of my clients find me through referrals, often already deep into something worth doing, and just need a hand getting their sites where they need to go.

In 2017, I started designing print-on-demand products through Zazzle: wedding stationery, signage, and gifts which total more than 15,000 products at this point, across hundreds of collections. Most of it lives in that space between elegant and easy, simple enough for someone planning a wedding at midnight on their phone to find exactly what they need and make it theirs in just a few minutes. I'm not chasing trends here. I'm building things that work, again and again, for people who just need this one part of a very long to-do list handled well.

I feel compelled to say, and after reading this far, you won't be surprised: I have ADHD. (What creative person doesn't?) It shows up as energy and as scattered attention in roughly equal measure, and you'll probably see both if we work together for long.

What you'll also find is that I'm great at listening to someone tell me their story and helping them figure out how to tell it to everyone else, whether that story is a business, a wedding, or a single product line. Twenty years of doing that with people is its own kind of skill, separate from anything else going on upstairs.

If that sounds like a fit, fifteen minutes is usually enough to know. Reach out, if you’re looking for a unique pair of earrings, a website that needs a confident hand, a Zazzle collection worth browsing, a conversation about what you're trying to build.