Charissa grew up making mud pies beneath old oak trees and sneaking through abandoned Gold Country buildings. She loves rusty metal and weathered wood, Irish linen and jars of mismatched buttons. A devoted tree-hugger with an MFA in Transformative Arts, she still makes wishes on passing hay trucks. Charissa says: My life as an artist and maker has been shaped by the West Coast and its deep ties to the Pacific Rim. I’m drawn to loose edges, materials touched by time and weather, and the practice of collaborating with what I work with rather than mastering it. I surf change. I stay rooted in the present. Unsurprisingly, this aesthetic became the foundation of my business, too—keep moving, reinvent when needed, find what works, build empires from salvage. I believe in redemption, in messy passages that hide buried treasure, in sustainability as a way of life, and in the profound beauty of imperfection.