About Bivvy Home Goods LLC
Hi! I'm Cynthia: Owner, Creator and Mad Scientist of WalkingTree Ceramics and French Creek Soap ~ now all under one roof at Bivvy Home Goods LLC. As "Bivvy" means shelter or covering, I thought it was a good place to house both studios.
French Creek Soap Company started because, well, who doesn't LOVE making soap? Have you tried it? I hope to convince you in 2021!
With a long history of making things, an undergraduate degree in painting, foraging just about every material on the planet to explore and create; and a late-in-life MA in Art Education, I am just thrilled to enter the studio each day. I enjoy the learning the processes as much as exploring the materials, and through both ~ thoroughly convinced ~ have learned to see things more clearly from different perspectives. Sometimes it comes as an immediate understanding, at other times, in stages ~ as seeing men walking, like trees at first, then finally clearing. For those who know me, the ceramics part of my studio is named "WalkingTree" as reference to my height and a constant physical connection (being this tall) ~ to trees. For those of you who know The King, it is a reference to the miraculous intervention of coming from blindness ~ to sight.
It's a one-woman show here, wearing all the hats, and learning to even build websites, thanks ahead for your patience + understanding as I am not as confident in anything, as in mixed up orders ; )
If you're still reading, I'm so glad you're here : ) XOXO
More info for this page is coming soon!
Email Cynthia if you'd like to learn about making :
- cold process soap ~ loaves, molded, hand-milled or hot process
- lotions + scrubs ~ sugar + salt scrubs, face masks, lip balm
- ceramic casting for bowls + mugs and vases
- slab rolling/hand forming pottery
- wheel throwing pottery
- batik/textile dyeing
- handmade paper making
- craft distilling
- screen printing