One of my focuses these days is to create tools for other artisans,.  Our lives are filled with  the great gifts of the work and skills of the people in our lives who often to unappreciated.  The grandmother who spends hundreds of hours of her life knitting or crocheting or sewing items to make out lives better socks and sweaters and quilts..  Those who work every day to provide the family with well thought out delicious nutritious meals that keep the family healthy and crate a have of joy around the kitchen table each day.  There is so much art involved in many basic parts of life that go unappreciated and unrewarded … I want to create thing to Celebrate these folks and all they do to make our daily life and experience of joy Items that can be given to those wonderful folks that spend so much of their lives crating for others and rarely could consider gifting themselves with anything. I will endeavor to crate things that will show how much they are appreciated for all they do …

Here are a few items I have been working on I will add more along the way as I complete designs and produce new ideas

Welcome to the BriarPatch   an exercise in small living with an emphasis on sustainability including gardening food preservation and production and traditional life ways and skills for today and the future with a focus on  teaching the young to carry on vital skills that have been learned and passed down for millennia