Landline Collection: A Call from Home

A connection through time, earth, and ancestry.

Lately, I’ve found myself tracing the threads of where I come from. It started as simple curiosity, a few searches into family names, stories that lingered from my grandmother’s kitchen.. but it’s become something much deeper. I’ve learned that I carry Utah pioneer blood in my veins, even though I didn’t inherit the religion or belief systems that shaped their world. I still feel them with me, now even stronger.

My ancestors came to Utah as Welsh miners, called west under Brigham Young’s settlement efforts. They built new lives in Cache Valley and Tooele, carving homes and futures out of the same red earth. Even without sharing their faith, I can’t help but admire their drive and resilience, their innovation and ability to create something meaningful in the middle of nowhere.

Since beginning this search, signs have been showing up everywhere.. quiet, persistent reminders to keep looking, keep listening. I’ve started to see how much of who I am mirrors those who came before. When I’m in the studio hammering silver, or in the kitchen baking, I can feel all my grandmothers moving through me. She lives on in my hands, as does her mother, and her mother, and hers.

All of their names trace back like a song on repeat- Mary, Mary Jane, Jane, Mary, Mary Jane, Jane- until my grandma Judy. A lineage of strong women, makers and doers, whose fingerprints are still pressed into the soil of this home state.

I’ve been listening to What Once Was, a podcast that dives into Utah’s forgotten stories and local lore, and it’s been feeding this new obsession- a hunger to understand what it means to call this place home. I’ve come to see the desert not just as landscape, but as inheritance. Its storms and silences teach the same lessons my ancestors learned: to keep going, to keep building, even when your world feels like it’s burning down or washing away.

This fall collection Landline, is a call from home- a connection through time, earth, and ancestry. Each piece carries a piece of Utah’s heritage and mine, crafted from stones that tell their own histories.

If you call Utah home, I hope this collection speaks to you too. I hope it reminds you to dig deep, to find strength in your roots, and to keep creating beauty through whatever life gives you. Home isn’t always a place. Sometimes, it’s a call you answer through the work of your own hands.

Shop the collection November 6.