Everything in this shop is made by an actual human (me, Laura) with a laser, a stack of upcycled wood, and a raccoon mascot named Scrap who supervises badly. This is where I show the work behind the work, the part most makers hide.
I document my process for a simple reason: the things I make are designed, revised, broken, and remade by a real neurodivergent person, not spun up by a content farm. The wobbly first drafts, the material that scorched wrong, the earring that was too heavy until it wasn't, that's the proof. If you want to know whether a thing was made with care, watch it get made.
How a weird little thing gets made
Idea & Illustration
It starts as a sketch or an original digital illustration, usually a creature with too much personality and a name I argue with myself about.
Vector Cleanup
The art gets traced and tidied into clean vector paths. Crisp vectors are the difference between a sharp engrave and a muddy one, and almost nobody sees this step.
Material & Test Burn
I pick the substrate (upcycled basswood, slate) and run test burns to dial in power and speed. Different materials lie to you differently.
Engrave
The xTool S1 does the actual burn. This is the satisfying part and also where things occasionally catch fire, conceptually and otherwise.
Finish & Sensory Check
Edges get sealed and smoothed. For earrings, lightweight wood meets 316L surgical steel. If it isn't comfortable to wear or hold, it doesn't ship.
Pack & Send
Each order gets packed by hand (Scrap supervising) and sent off to its person.
Field Logs
Short process clips, design revisions, and laser experiments. New logs drop here and on social. Each one comes with the full story in text, because the honest behind-the-scenes is the whole point.