I’ve been collecting nature since I was a child, wandering into the woods with a small cross-body bag, gathering whatever spoke to me: scraps of bark, feathers, rocks, bones. I’d carry my finds home and arrange them in an old cigar box, returning again and again just to look at my treasures.

I never stopped. My mother collected wildflowers and hung them to dry in our barn, and I grew up in a generational flower shop, surrounded by her constant experimenting with new crafts. In college, I studied every medium, but sculpture, working in three dimensions, was the one that held me.

Foraged Home Decor is where all of that meets: a childhood spent collecting, a life spent around flowers, and a lifelong pull toward the woods. I dehydrate what I find, moss, mushrooms, wildflowers, and combine it with crystals, skulls, and butterflies to build small, intricate worlds. Each piece is my cigar box, grown up.