Bone And Parchment

10/21/2025

Hey guys, just wanted to give a life update and also make everyone aware, I will be putting my Etsy shop on vacation mode temporarily. I don't know how long this will last but I will be sure to keep everyone updated through my socials. We unfortunately had to help our last baby, Miss Riley cross the rainbow bridge this evening. We were luckily able to have the weekend with her and celebrate her birthday early (October 31) on Saturday before she passed today. This was the final straw and combined with everything else going on in our lives currently, I'm this close 👌 to a grippy sock vacation and need to step away for a bit. I thought 2025 couldn't be that bad after the last several years we've had but here we are, hanging on for dear life!

I had already decided to take an indefinite break from in person markets but I'll now be taking a break from my Etsy shop as well. This has been a difficult year as a small business owner in the current climate here in the USA and my personal life has been nothing short of a nightmare since spring. Riley was diagnosed with an aggressive osteosarcoma in her jaw in May and she's been holding steady until last week when she started to really go downhill. Over the summer I was also finally able to find some great specialists and was diagnosed with what I knew I already had and then 3 more things on top of it and I've struggled to fins a new normal, followed by two people dear to me dealing with their own personal health struggles. It is just officially too much and I'll be taking a hiatus for a bit. All current orders will be fulfilled by the beginning of next week and I will not be currently taking on new orders until further notice. I appreciate all the love and support and I hope to be back soon. I may post some normal life updates in the meantime until I'm back but if not I hope to be back soon ❤️

07/11/2025

Starting off my Summerween reading with My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix at our monthly Silent Book Club at B. Leigh’s Coffee. Come join us until 8pm if you're local!

06/22/2025

Thank you so much to everyone who came out to the Summer Solstice yesterday! It was a wonderful day and we met so many amazing people! Big thank you to Moon Raven Alley LLC for hosting such a cool event and a big shout out to our fellow vendors, entertainers, sponsors, and all the local businesses who participated making this such a successful event. What a great way to kick off summer! Count us in for next year! Not only was it a successful day, but my lillies are starting to bloom! Look how gorgeous they are 😍

06/21/2025

Come out to the Summer Solstice Festival and support your local small businesses in Mt. Joy today until 5pm! Lots of amazing vendors and we've got fans set up for a little bit of a breeze in our booth!

06/20/2025

Check out the QR code to find vendor information and entertainment schedule for tomorrow's Summer Solstice Festival! Only one more sleep before the festivities begin!

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📲 Scan the QR code to view the full Summer Solstice 2025 Map — including vendors, entertainment schedule, local specials, and a shoutout to our amazing sponsors!

01/09/2025

We've officially made it an entire week into the new year! 2024 was certainly NOT our year but let's hope 2025 treats us better! Dec was just absolutely slammed for us, business and personal, and I took a much needed step back from social media during that time but I am feeling better and wanted to pop in and say thank you so very much to every single one of you that supported my small business this holiday season! 2024 was incredibly hard for all small businesses, and it was my slowest year ever. Open for over 4 years and for the first time in that span, I had to think about closing up shop. I decided to stay through Dec to see how things went and give my dream a fighting chance. I'm so glad I did. I had a huge burst of orders start the last week of Nov after spooky season, usually my busiest time of year, had only crickets. I didn't expect a Christmas rush and I am so grateful for all of you who saved us this season and gave me hope that maybe things will pick back up again.

It was a busy Dec fulfilling orders, spending 2 weeks with out of town family, but it was also a sad Dec. This was our first Christmas without our Rudy, our "firstborn" pup who passed in Jan. 2024 was just a really really bad year for us all around. I took the slow year to take a step back a little and focus on myself and my health, I had some debilitating flare ups from my chronic illness this past year and I was struggling to take care of myself, the business, and maintain my personal life all at once. So I guess the slow year was a bit of a blessing in disguise, but I also missed how busy the business used to keep me. I thoroughly enjoy what I do, and I hope to continue through 2025 bringing you all the unique, weird, beautiful handmade pieces you guys love! I'm taking these next couple weeks to get reorganized, rested, and prepared for the rest of this year and hopefully things get back to normal. If you've read this far, I'm sorry for the long sappy post but I thank you for being here on this journey with me and 2025, please be gentle with me 🥹 ❤️

12/17/2024

Here's the hours for the rest of the year. There is still time to stop in and support your local artists before Christmas!

Hours till the end of the year!

12/14/2024

Our Crafty Ways LLC Curated Curiositites is hosting their Spookmas Open House today and are officially open for business! Stop in today from 1pm-5pm to shop all the amazing vendors! The new shop focuses solely on the alternative community with a collection of vendors bringing you year round spooky vibes, oddities and curiositites, all the witchy things, horror themed items and more! There's still time to stop in and shop small this holiday season. Our booth is stocked and ready to go with some new items debuting at today's open house along with our usual pieces you all know and love. We are so excited for this new step in our journey and are so grateful to Alecia and Sharon for bringing a new space for the alternative community to our area. We unfortunately couldn't make it in today since we have family coming from out of town for our annual family cookie day but if you're local stop in and take a peek!

12/05/2024

Take a peek at one of my new pieces debuting at the grand opening of Our Crafty Ways LLC new shop next Saturday December 14th! This was initially going to be part of our second Halloween drop but life had other plans so it's dropping in our new local booth instead! This is a hyperrealistic 3D resin printed cat skull nestled in an ebony stained coffin with faux plant life and moss. Shoutout to Littleblades Handmade for providing me these super cool faux skulls to be able to bring you guys some unique and ethically sourced bone art! I've struggled immensely with the ethics of this kind of art and these 3D printed skulls have allowed me to still create beautiful unique pieces while feeling good about where they come from. I do have a few more pieces dropping as well and am currently working on some others so stay tuned.

12/05/2024

Watching a true crime documentary and decorating a bunch of mini 🍄 bookshelves tonight! These are custom orders and each mini is going to be a different theme. Can't wait to share the finished pieces with you guys!

12/04/2024

Snag a pair of our bookshelf earrings just in time for Christmas! Save 3️⃣5️⃣% now through Friday 12/10! Includes free 🚢 I have a surplus of these ready to ship and would like to move them to free up some space! These make excellent stocking stuffers or perfect gifts for gift exchanges. Will ship within 2-4 days!