We are all works in progress :)
I began making dream catchers in 2018, while living in West Marin County, in the San Francisco Bay Area… My little rental in Fairfax was one of my favorite places I’ve ever lived, but when I turned 40, I could no longer ignore deep yearnings for freedom, adventure, and eventually, owning my own home again. In 2021, I purchased a blank slate cargo trailer, built it into a mobile art studio and living space, carefully selected the crystals, beads, yarns, and special things I wanted to create with, and I hit the road. I’ve been a full time nomad ever since. If you are imagining a super nice, spacious RV customized for comfort and ease… well, you’d be a little off. The point isn’t to live as comfortably as possible; the point is to live as simply as possible. Plus, every dollar I was spending in rent (and then some, with discipline) has gone into an interest earning account for that eventual forever home. When folks ask if I have a YouTube channel so they can follow my crazy artist gypsy life, I answer with some embarrassment but also pride: I do not. I am not a content creator (cue social norm pressure to hustle). If you follow my Instagram or Facebook posts, you’ll see that I post a little sparsely… During the summer time, I spend a lot of time at friends’ and family’s to offer my art at Bay Area art festivals… During the winter and spring, I’m on the road… traversing US Forrest Service land, BLM (Bureau of Land Management) land, and occasionally for-fee campgrounds. In these hills, deserts, forests, and wild places, I recalibrate both my life’s path and my connection to Source to ensure I’m living the way I want to live, being the person I want to be, and creating from a place of more gratitude for my privilege than I could ever articulate. It’s not a time to be trying to share content; it’s a time to recharge and create free from the distractions of social norms, noise, and expectations. So I post when I can and I don’t when I can’t. :) It isn’t an easy way of life but some of life is always a challenge, wherever I live. That I get to live my purpose by creating art that touches peoples’ lives (I STILL hardly believe how lucky I am) in a way that gives my soul maximum freedom for adventure and time in nature has actualized a near-constant overflow of groundedness, connection, and blessings ~ both in solitude and at festivals with YOU. I didn’t know it was possible to experience the depth of connection to myself, other people, and Source and it is truly only possible because people shop small, handmade art. I hope to always be growing, to always be creating something that moves the namesless places in others’ hearts… And for now, I do that from the nameless places I find to camp and create!
Further down the page is the further back in Meticulouslight’s inception… I make a mess of beads, crystals, feathers, yarn, and suede wherever I go, lol, so I am trying to let go of self-consciousness and share the chaos from which your art emerges, through me. :)
Cutting Custom Hoops
WRAPPING METAL HOOPS WITH CRUELTY-FREE FAUX SUEDE… WEAVING AND BEADING…
The vast majority of feathers adorning your dreamcatchers come from small, sustainable, cruelty-free family farms.
These feathers have naturally molted from the birds and are collected, cleaned, and disinfected by the folks who lovingly raise the fluffies. Some of these gorgeous feathers are pristine, however most have natural imperfections and surprisingly minor wear and tear, since they were originally adorning an actual clucking or honking or quacking, wing-flapping living creature.
All photographs of birds, who are some of the actual birds molting these feathers, are provided by the farm families who care for them. see links to their stories in the descriptions below!
Above… Naturally molted and collected with care: Tufted American Geese and Silver Appleyard Duck feathers from PrimordialMressions, another small single family operating farmstead, in Silver Point, Tennessee. The owner of this shop is Holly and she also a gifted sculptor. See her work follow her story at www.facebook.com/bluetoothhollowfarm and on Etsy, https://www.etsy.com/shop/PrimordialMpressions!
I have harvested the driftwood incorporated in some of your dreamcatchers from local beaches and waterways.
Every visit also entails picking up as much litter as possible. There is no other way to take gifts from the beach, even just photographs, without also taking what does not belong there. The mantra to use is “I can only carry what I can carry” and the mindset is similar to hunting for the perfect piece of driftwood: I try to stay present and be in the process. When I’m not hangry, it’s just like a treasure hunt, ha...
