Made in the U.S.A.
I source my materials from manufacturers in the U.S.A. My strict standards ensure the highest quality for my products, each of which I sew myself in my studio in Rochester, New York.
Sustainable Design
I am dedicated to creating products that are sustainable and eco-friendly. I strive to create multi-use products that are beautiful and functional with materials that are durable and long-lasting.
Eco-Friendly Packaging
I am committed to decreasing the amount of packaging sent to landfills. Each order is carefully packaged in plain white tissue paper that can be recycled or reused and shipped in eco-friendly packaging.
Giving Back
The power of women and girls to be civically engaged is at the heart of my social activism. Each year I designate a different non-profit group that serves women to receive 5% of profits.
Throughout 2023 the Alice Paul Institute, located in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey, will receive the proceeds. Alice Paul (1885-1977) was an American suffragist who led the fight to ratify the 19th Amendment in 1920, extending voting rights to women. Her childhood home, Paulsdale, is a National Historic Landmark now dedicated to programs in leadership training and intersectional feminism.
Psst! Did you know that less than 10% of historic landmarks in the United States honor a woman?
Meet Krista
With 25+ years of experience behind the camera, Krista has worked for the New York Times, the Associated Press, the Lincoln Journal-Star, the San Antonio Express-News and many media organizations. In 2002, Krista won the Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News for her contributions to The New York Times’ coverage of September 11, 2001. She left daily journalism in 2006 to teach photography and journalism at VOICES, Inc., a Tucson-based non-profit that mentored youth in the documentary arts to share the stories of their lives through visuals and text. Together, they published hundreds of youth-created stories in newsprint, radio, and video.
Krista earned a B.A. in photojournalism from San Francisco State University and a Master of Arts degree in art and photo history at the University of Arizona where she also earned a certificate in Museum Studies. During graduate school she was the Ansel Adams Intern at the Center for Creative Photography – one of the leading photo archives in the world – in 2013-2014, and again in 2014-2015. Her master's thesis investigated the intersection of photography, museums, feminism, and postmodernism through the study of New York-based photo artist Louise Lawler.
Krista was the primary still photographer for the 2008 public art project The Invisible City, in which writers, poets, dancers and filmmakers explored and created art in response to public spaces in a gentrifying downtown in Tucson, Arizona. Her first solo photography book, HeartFound, a quirky collection of heart shapes found across the United States, was published in 2012. Her second book, Co-Authored is currently in the final editing stages.
She learned to sew the summer between fourth and fifth grades on her mother’s vintage Singer sewing machine, and continues to find sewing a magical creative process. Krista made her formal gowns for high school dances and continues to experiment with up-cycling thrifted items which show up for sale in the shop from time to time.
She lives in Rochester, NY with her super awesome husband, Mike, a musician and wood-worker. When not working, they renovate old homes, grow gorgeous vegetables in their garden, and travel.
Handcrafted in Rochester, NY!
I am proud to design and sew my products in Rochester, New York. I love being a part of the bespoke artisanal movement focused on sustainable design that is thriving in Western NY.
The original “boom town” after the Erie Canal opened, Rochester is home an inspiring lineage of creators, entrepreneurs and activists including George Eastman, whose company Kodak changed photography forever; Abolitionists Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony who led national voting rights activism from homes not far from my own; and artist and furniture designer Wendell Castle who taught for decades at the School of American Craft at Rochester Institute of Technology.