Our History
Our Story
It Started With Sand
In 2004, I was a jewelry maker in Maine looking for something different. Something no one else was doing.
I started experimenting with sand as a material — not because I had a grand vision, but because I wanted to stand out. What happened next I never could have planned.
Customers started bringing me their own sand.
A handful from a Cape Cod beach where they spent every summer as a kid. A small bag from the shore where someone proposed. Sand collected on a family trip that everyone still talks about. Quietly, one order at a time, I realized I wasn't just making jewelry anymore. I was preserving places. Protecting memories. Helping people carry something irreplaceable with them wherever they went.
That's when everything changed.
Two Decades of Handcrafted Beach Sand Jewelry
I was the first person in the United States to create beach sand jewelry — and I've been doing it ever since.
What began as a creative experiment in a small Maine studio grew into a mobile shop I drove to Boston's beloved SoWa Open Market, then into a brick and mortar store in Portland's historic Old Port, and eventually into the online studio you're visiting today.
Through every chapter, one thing has never changed: every single piece is handmade by me, one at a time, with care.
A Day in the Studio
My mornings start with orders. I check what's come in, pull the sand for each piece, and lay everything out on my worktable — the materials, the settings, the glass. There's a ritual to it that I love.
Then I make jewelry.
Each piece is filled by hand, sealed, and set. No two are exactly alike because no two handfuls of sand are exactly alike. That's the whole point.
In the afternoon I step away. I walk through the woods near my home or down to the beach. I'm a native Floridian who ended up in Maine, and I never take for granted how extraordinary this place is. Being outside — really outside, in nature — is part of how I stay connected to the work.
Then I come back and make more jewelry.
The Piece I'll Never Forget
Over twenty years I've made thousands of pieces for thousands of people. But one order has stayed with me more than any other.
A customer sent me sand she had collected from Omaha Beach in Normandy, France — the site of the D-Day landings in World War II. Her family had served there. She walked that shore herself, gathered a small amount of sand, and brought it home.
She asked me to make it into something she could wear.
I held that sand differently than I hold any other. I thought about what that ground had witnessed. I thought about her family. I made that piece as carefully as anything I've ever made in my life.
That's what this work is, at its best. Not just jewelry. A vessel for something that matters.
The business has grown and evolved over the years, but my commitment has remained steady...thoughtful design, quality craftsmanship, and honoring the meaning behind every order.
Thank you for being here and for supporting handmade work. I'm honored to create something that represents your coast, your calm, your memory.
Every piece is handmade to order in Maine. Free shipping on all U.S. orders of $35 and above.