About Me

I make sculptural soaps shaped like animals and creatures that people often keep instead of using.

They’re usually chosen on instinct. Sometimes they make people smile. Sometimes they’re comforting. Sometimes they help someone remember a pet, a moment, or a love that mattered. When a piece brings happiness, or helps someone hold onto something important, that gives the work its purpose.

I didn’t start with a business plan. I started by making things with my hands and slowly learning how far I could push the medium. What began as simple forms became more detailed and expressive as I challenged myself to do better, to pay closer attention, and to let each piece develop its own presence.

The turning point came when I realized people weren’t really using my soaps. Even children told me they were too nice to wash with. Months later, they still had them. At markets, people would sometimes stop by not to buy something new, but just to tell me how much they still loved a piece they’d bought before. That’s when it became clear that these weren’t really about washing.

Each piece is individually made, guided more by attention and feeling than by a formula. Even when I return to the same form, the work is never exactly the same. The process is deliberate and demanding, but it is so worth it when a customer states "I will NEVER use this!" and you know they mean it.  It's not a soap to them, it's something else. 

Everything here is made by hand, in small batches. Most pieces start as an idea rather than a plan, and custom soaps are often based on photos people send me of animals that matter to them. Some pieces are whimsical. Some are memorials. Some simply feel right when you find them.

They are soap.
But they’re also small pieces of work meant to be kept.