Haunted Cypress Studios (2025)

Welcome to Haunted Cypress Studios! Here you will find swamp jewelry not only inspired by the haunting atmosphere of the Louisiana swamplands, but also handcrafted from materials that have been gathered from swamps with haunted history.

11/10/2024

My heart hurts saying this but I backed out of the Twin Steeples art market this weekend. It’s no secret that I’ve been struggling lately (with a capital S), so like last year I tried to suck it up and pull it all together but I just keep creatively collapsing, and I have been feeling so completely defeated. My heart is crushed with grief.

I’m taking a temporary break from everything Haunted Cypress related until further notice while I focus on my mental health and my home.
My house got DROPPED by lifters we hired last week, and while that really sucked, my partner and I have newly devised plans for a completely new rebuild, including a brand new studio for me👻🖤 Right now I feel steeped in chaos, but I know good things are coming.

I hope to return next year with a brand new home, a brand new studio (including a KILN🔥), and a renewed energy to put towards my work. I love all of you so much. I’ll be back🖤🐊

27/09/2024

Lately I’ve been called to paint and draw again, for some reason it feels more satisfying than my usual metal work.
I took advantage of this beautiful morning before work and did a quick ink painting of this gorgeous tomb.

I’m usually studying my tomb photos to replicate with silver, but spending time to paint one feels so much more intimate. Noticing details in real time, really appreciating them. Thinking about the people that lay behind the wall, and what their lives may have been like.

I’ve always had major death anxiety my entire life, but after my brother passed away last year, I see and feel everything very differently. I recently realized that the majority of my art work has always been centered around the “spookiness” or fear of death. Hauntings, folklore, bones, tombs. I think this current life was meant for me to explore that fear🤍

27/08/2024

This video of me soldering bails may look pretty non-eventful (& poorly angled/edited🙃) but it took a lot of mental weightlifting and therapy to get to this point of creating simple things again. And I just wanted to pop in since it’s been so long since I’ve made a post about my work.

The loss of my brother has felt like the loss of a limb, or like my head has fallen clean off for 12 straight months but somehow I continue to appear normal and functional on the outside to everyone else. Sucking back tears is a skill I hope no one ever has to master for too long, after a while it takes a toll on the heart.

And while that all sounds dark and gloomy, what I REALLY came here to say is that lately I have managed to cherish little moments of lightness through my art again, and by connecting with my people in nature, while holding space for my pain at the same time. When you’re with the right people, it doesn’t feel like such a struggle, joy and grief can coexist at times, and I think there’s some kind of magic in that❤️🐊

After a year of carrying around the heaviest grief I’ve ever known, I now know that healing is cyclical🔄 The storms will always return but I’m learning to move through it differently each time, a little less paralyzed, a little lighter. Choosing ✨wisdom✨ over woe is easier said than done. I’m still a work in progress.

Sending armfuls of love to anyone else walking around with a massive invisible weight on their shoulders. There is also lightness within you at all times, I hope you always manage to find it when you need it the most. This s**t ain’t easy, I 🤎 you.

If you have managed to read this far (thank youuu) I am planning to be at Twin Steeples Arts Market this coming October. Stay tuned for updates, I am going to attempt to post more often about what’s in the works💚🐊🐊🐊🐊

25/02/2024

Future cypress swamp hearts🖤🐊
Just got a brand new CORDLESS dremel, sitting by my pond on this peaceful February spring day with my cup of tea in my fav swamp mug (by ) READY TO CARVE OUT SOME HEARTS🔪❤️🩸 lol

18/02/2024

I finally crawled out of my sad girl cave with the energy to organize my workbench & entire workspace last night (I even dusted things, whaaat?! lol)
Now today it’s practically begging me to sit down & create something, I haven’t felt that fully in almost 6 months.
I have so many projects on hold, now to decide where to start🔥✨

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This video of me soldering bails may look pretty non-eventful (& poorly angled/edited🙃) but it took a lot of mental weightlifting and therapy to get to this point of creating simple things again. And I just wanted to pop in since it’s been so long since I’ve made a post about my work. The loss of my brother has felt like the loss of a limb, or like my head has fallen clean off for 12 straight months but somehow I continue to appear normal and functional on the outside to everyone else. Sucking back tears is a skill I hope no one ever has to master for too long, after a while it takes a toll on the heart. And while that all sounds dark and gloomy, what I REALLY came here to say is that lately I have managed to cherish little moments of lightness through my art again, and by connecting with my people in nature, while holding space for my pain at the same time. When you’re with the right people, it doesn’t feel like such a struggle, joy and grief can coexist at times, and I think there’s some kind of magic in that❤️🐊 After a year of carrying around the heaviest grief I’ve ever known, I now know that healing is cyclical🔄 The storms will always return but I’m learning to move through it differently each time, a little less paralyzed, a little lighter. Choosing ✨wisdom✨ over woe is easier said than done. I’m still a work in progress. Sending armfuls of love to anyone else walking around with a massive invisible weight on their shoulders. There is also lightness within you at all times, I hope you always manage to find it when you need it the most. This sh*t ain’t easy, I 🤎 you. If you have managed to read this far (thank youuu) I am planning to be at Twin Steeples Arts Market this coming October. Stay tuned for updates, I am going to attempt to post more often about what’s in the works💚🐊🐊🐊🐊

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