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Roll up Your Sleeves!
Down with disposable! Roll up your sleeves and get intimate with your every day. These heirloom goods are to be used and reused, to be renewed and renewing. See the full 16 piece series here Read ode...
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Problematic Crafting
In it’s very essence, I believe that crafting is a potent subversion from the dominant paradigm. To me, crafting is a celebration of the creative (not of the production heavy factories), coming from a...
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If you really knew me, you’d know that I love multi-function gadgets
With the moving out of everything and everyone from the warehouse that I work in, It’s felt a little like camping at work when it comes to making lunch. I scavenged and couldn’t find a spoon, a pot, a...
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The Ladder to Lifetime Success
I’ve been upwardly bound my whole life. I remember thinking when I was in middle school that it was too late for me to be a successful athlete or artist. I would watch the olympics and see kids my...
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Picking up speed in product design, testing, and development
I’ve been in a whirlwind of progress lately! I’ve been testing out new labeling methods with my jars so that they remain plastic-free, leave behind limited waste, can be easily customizable (for...
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Crafting in Circles
When I was 14 I read an article in Seventeen Magazine that shared how some everyday household items could double as hair care products. Among them, mayonnaise. Mayonnaise (I found out) works also as a...
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DIY your own hand salve & lip balm
Hey folks! The good people of SFetsy let me share a tutorial on making a moisturizing skin soother, which I use for everything. It’s made of such pure and awesome base materials that I tend to use it...
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May 5th is my Debut at the Urban Air Market in SF
In just a couple of weeks I’ll be holding my first booth for a craft fair. I’m thrilled, and anxious about it since I’ve internally put a lot of pressure on myself for it, declaring that how that show...
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One pot meal: farmers market style
Since the beginning of April I’ve made a commitment to not shop at any grocery store that depends on conventional or ambiguously “natural” (not organic) products. It arose out of my frustration with...
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Products by Deconstruction Crafts (and a special discount just for you)
Over the past year I’ve been creating my own line of products made sustainably and locally for replacing the disposable items in our lives. Grab a hand etched mason jar, and a variety of mason jar...
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How to store produce (without using plastic!)
The following is borrowed from the Ecology Center here in Berkeley, who puts together the lusciously abundant Berkeley Farmers Markets three times a week. They’ve made a commitment to being plastic...
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