Oh My! Handmade

Making a good life since 2010

2025 JFREJ Virtual Mazals Producer & Diasporspritz

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Project: Virtual producer of the 2025 Jews for Racial and Economic Justie (JFREJ) Mazals responsible for virtual run of show, coordinating with special guests, and event facilitation. Designed Diasporspritz printable and marketing content for JFREJ newsletter. Also virtual emcee of the 2024 Virtual Mazals program. Date: September 2025 … [Read more...] about 2025 JFREJ Virtual Mazals Producer & Diasporspritz

The Biscuit Eater Cafe & Books

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Project: The Biscuit Eater Cafe & Books From 2016-2022 my family owned and operated a rural cafe and bookstore with a focus on community care. I commissioned illustrator Kat Frick Miller to illustrate our building that was built in 1775 and one of the oldest in town. I designed all the branding, marketing materials, decor, signage, menus and photography as well as … [Read more...] about The Biscuit Eater Cafe & Books

On Distance: Paul Robeson and the Rolling River of Resistance

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This is a story about distance, that is a story of resistance, as most stories worth telling are. It is both a warning and reminder that words have power to unite or divide, heal or harm. Take for example the distance between Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter. Whole lifetimes and generations of meaning exist between these six words. Words that wound, hold histories … [Read more...] about On Distance: Paul Robeson and the Rolling River of Resistance

South End Environmental Injustice Society Branding & Reports

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Project: South End Environmental Injustice Society (SEED) was founded by Louise Delisle in 2016 as a direct grassroots response to the siting of the Morvan Road dump in the historical Black and working poor community of South End Shelburne, Nova Scotia. Details: Logo and brand design, Community Well Proposal, annual report … [Read more...] about South End Environmental Injustice Society Branding & Reports

A New Year’s Revolution

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Dear loves & fellow makers, Why don’t we abandon resolutions on the garbage heap of good intentions and commit ourselves to revolutions instead? In the face of fear, intolerance, uncertainty, and rising rage I raise an overflowing glass to call in revolution, a toast to goodness, a cheers to the possibility of change. If “magic is the art of changing consciousness at … [Read more...] about A New Year’s Revolution

#FellowMakers History & the Triangle Factory Fire

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Fellow makers, many of us have forgotten International Women’s Day began as International Working Women’s Day. The agenda? Changing conditions for the working women of the world and uniting the working class. On March 8, 1857, garment workers in New York City marched and picketed, demanding improved working conditions, a ten hour day, and equal rights for women. On March 8, … [Read more...] about #FellowMakers History & the Triangle Factory Fire

70 Ways to Build Community

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It’s become such a cliched phrase-something we say and recognize to be true but don’t often act on: “It takes a village to raise a child.” What does that even mean? I am asked all the time - “How can I possibly do it all?” The hard truth is you can’t. You can’t be everything to everyone all the time. You can’t be the only one responsible for raising your children, running … [Read more...] about 70 Ways to Build Community

Community Is Not Clubs: How We’re Segregating the Internet & What We Can Do

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Community is not clubs Lately there seems to be examples everywhere of how we are segregating the internet into exclusive cliques and clubs instead of communities where we share real human moments. Statistics from the 2014 Employee Diversity Reports for our major networks show that online giants like Facebook, Twitter, Google, Pinterest, Ebay and Etsy all fail to hire employees … [Read more...] about Community Is Not Clubs: How We’re Segregating the Internet & What We Can Do

Courage/Ometz Lev

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Want to find Courage? Let compassion be your compass. Don’t go looking for the one yelling the loudest at the front of the crowd, Courage isn’t always some powerhouse full of fire and fury.  Courage is often a quiet thing who visits us in daily decisions and unsung moments. Courage is the girl sold on the street by one of her mother’s boyfriends before she was 14, who … [Read more...] about Courage/Ometz Lev

Notes To A Little Schmuck

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Found in my grandmother Ana Brom’s notebooks tucked between instructions on dying wool and sketches for clothing designs are “notes to a little schmuck”, as she referred to herself. Born Ann Doris Rosen in Brooklyn, New York in February 1930 to Jewish parents Clara Brom and Simon Rosen, she died on Vancouver Island, unknown to all but a few family members on the first day of … [Read more...] about Notes To A Little Schmuck

Allegory of the Long Spoons

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Imagine that hell is a dinner party. There is a long table in a grand hall filled with  delicious food but the guests are miserable. No one is able to eat because they are forced to use long spoons that cannot reach their mouths. They have so much but they are still starving and suffering.  Imagine that heaven it’s a dinner party. There is a long table winding … [Read more...] about Allegory of the Long Spoons