Stephen and Christina live on a nine acre homestead in Virginia with their two year old son, Fisher. During the warm months they can be found milking goats, wrangling free range chickens, or tending the garden. Of an evening you'll find Stephen reading aloud or sketching as his wife mends, sews, or sculpts. Come the winter they spend time nursing a fire and working away at hand crafts to sell throughout the year to support their family.

The couple has always been drawn to creative pursuits, both having varied interests. Christina loves old world hand craft as well as traditional fine arts, but has recently focused on pottery and hand sewing. A jack of all trades with a love for the imperfection inherent in hand made goods. Stephen's latest plan is to carve bows from an old mulberry tree on the property, fashioning the bowstrings from wild yucca and fledging his arrows with turkey feathers.

Back in 2007, Christina opened up shop selling the first terrariums on Etsy. Wanting to complete the verdant scenes she began sculpting miniature ceramic houses. Eventually the "Shelf City" was born and she found herself selling the tiny homes, churches, and factories up and down the east coast at shows.

Things slowed down with the arrival of their son, raising him being a full time job. But come the winter of 2014 they'll be opening up shop again. This time selling whatever is made that day. You can expect to see old standbys like the Shelf cities mentioned above, as well as handsewn clothes, pottery, quilts, paintings, jewelry, basketry, inkle loom weaving, wood carvings and much more.