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09/20/2026

Hi guys, I’m just over here chomping through a rather beautiful restock of wood (s/o to Singh Hardwood) in preparation for an October Fashion . Art . Design Market . NYC and holiday gift selection.

Day job has been kicking my butt recently so it’s been nice to retreat to the repetitive, meditative nature of batch work in the studio. At other times I’ve despised this way of working (especially making cutting boards - so cliche!!), but I see now the value in the ebbs and flows of work that coincide with varied seasons of creative energy.

I hope you’re all finding your little corners of harmony amidst the horrors. Go touch grass and make something with your hands.

✌🏻❤️

08/24/2026

And here is the remaining cast of characters: Job Interview, Supportable, The Transitionalist, and The Minimalist. Which is your fave? All the plant cubbies are now live in my store - link in bio!

Tidying up the shop this week to get ready for some new smalls runs, my focus for this fall. Hoping to stock the new online store with a wider range of little gifts and things before deep diving back into furniture.

08/08/2026

Plant Cubby: Black Cat

Another of the latest plant cubby collection, born of experimenting my way through rebuilding and reimagining a new chapter of life.

Delicate brass inlay purports to hold together splitting ash that wasn’t dried properly. It’s hard to throw away things we invested in when they break. So sometimes we just force them to keep working for us, even if that means a silly little desperate hack.

This and the rest of the plant cubby family are available today and tomorrow at Dilly Dally Fair (15 E 40th St in Manhattan)! Going for sale online after the fair, so this weekend’s visitors get first dibs 👀

07/29/2026

The Architect ~no comfort in the growth zone~

I recently wrapped a collection of plant cubbies in a handful of varieties. This one is The Architect.

The materials were mostly repurposed from what I purchased and prepped for a class I was to teach the weekend before moving back to Brooklyn (lol), but that was cancelled due to no signups. It was mostly my fault - a weirdly designed class and no time on my end spent marketing.

I was still in the throes of grief from Helene, leaving behind many things I’d invested in for 4 years, and unsure what the future of my craft looked like.

The cancellation was on-theme.

Sharing more of the plant cubby story on my substack soon.

06/19/2026

It’s easier to talk at someone than to listen.

A soliloquy lets you stay inside your head, comforted by all your presuppositions and entrenched opinions. A dialogue forces you off the controls. You must loosen the grip on your expectations, your comforts, the stories that tuck you into bed each night. You’re now met with stories you could have never discovered on your own. If you let them in they might change you, which is the really scary part.

I prefer my block plane to get saw marks off skinny flat parts like these.

I tried the sander with 150 grit and it was mindless but it took 8 minutes for one leg, and even then would require a full repeat with 180 before the final pass with 220. The sander was loud and the wood was silent.

The block plane is not so mindless. The wood has opinions when you bring a blade to it, so you have to listen and take its concerns into consideration. Nothing like a first swipe in the “wrong” direction to make the grain scream “NOPE! OTHER WAY PLEASE!”

So now we’re in a dialogue, and suddenly l’m looking at a person, not an object. Two minutes later we’ve arrived at a compromise and she’s ready for a quick scuff of 220.

06/15/2026

Hi there! I am here! I am making things! I am stirring up the fairy dust of NYC! I am confronting the horrors and the joys and the insurmountable odds and the miracles!

Feels like lately I’ve been driving stick, constantly shifting up and down the gears to nail these tight turns and catch a little air on the hillcrest.

Or instead maybe a tortoise, on my way to a destination unknown to those with waning attention span, regularly popping my head inside the mysterious and hidden place for an unmeasured time before starting off again. Is she going to her den for a snooze? Is she headed for the field to graze? TBD.

Soon I will have some spicy little objects to blow up your feed for the five seconds they’re allowed. When, you say? Soon. How soon, you say? Soon.

03/31/2026

“has a very high-level texture, and the Seasonal trend color matching, alone makes people excited. The Gentle And Advanced N**e Color, The Unobtrusive Hazy Beauty”

— the gel nail color display at Reedchy Nail Spa, Park Slope location

07/07/2025

“Crafting Home” just opened a couple weeks ago at .art, and I genuinely feel so honored to have a seat at the table (literally and figuratively) with such a talented group of craft artists 🥹

Bravo to Erika for curating a beautiful show. It’s like walking into a dream home where literally everything you see and touch is handcrafted 😍

Also shoutout to .durhamstudio for the lovely dining table and desk - we didn’t go to school together but somehow I feel like we’re classmates? Your skill and success inspire me.

06/04/2025

Hi folks! Amanda here. It’s now been a little over 8 months since Helene ripped through WNC, and so much has happened since then. I had to stop sharing updates publicly for a while because it was all so tender and personal. The internet isn’t really a helpful place for grief and nuanced change, and that’s okay.

The short of it: I’m now back in Brooklyn and moving into a new studio in Gowanus this week 😱

The long of it: My husband Blake started a new job about the same time as the storm, and we quickly discovered that the best thing for his career was for us to be back in NYC. I’d always thought we’d be in Waynesville for many years to come, but the decision to leave came with total peace and anticipation for what’s next.

Place is a collaborator in our lives, so when I began to imagine my woodworking practice in the city, it looked very different than my dreams for Coda in WNC. It looked like smaller scale, greater margins, and more creative freedom.

So what can you expect? I won’t be taking on any fully custom commissions or wholesale orders. I’ve had plenty of time to imagine up new ideas, including a new body of work involving textiles and new smalls for the online shop. More “studio practice,” less “consumer goods brand.”

If you’re a craftsperson in Brooklyn or nearby and don’t already have too many friends I would love to come visit your studio and say hi 🤓 Please reach out!

Pictured is my *200 SQUARE FOOT* studio in which I will entertain you with my Tetris skills as I get the space built out in the coming weeks.

Thanks again to everyone for your support and encouragement post-disaster. I couldn’t be navigating these changes now without it ❤️

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