Heart Boxes

  • Hand-crafted & specially curated therapeutic gifts

  • Born of my own experience seeking connection with others through the pandemic

  • Price starts at $45 depending on size, details and embellishments.

Art Class Guardian, inviting youth to take their time and work mindfully

  • Younger ones

    • New baby
    • New sibling
    • Birthdays
    • Milestones or rites of passage
    • Experiencing struggle or transition
    • Grief & Loss
    • Needing encouragement



  • Adults

    • New parent
    • Parent struggle
    • Special occasions
    • Marking life transitions
    • Grief & loss
    • Encouragement & support
    • Relational repair and/or connection
    • A gift to Self
    • Marking personal victory and other worthy celebrations

“Erin I look at my creation every day and cherish it. Thank you for your gifts.”

— Mary

Custom-made for you or your special person

  • Choose your critter

  • After consultation, I assist in offering TENDER WORDS that fit and feel right. I am delighted to integrate and/or use your own words also.

    • empowerment messages

    • tools & tips for wellness

    • poetry & meaningful quotes

    • mindfulness and spirituality supported

Critter Keeper: a wooden container added to Bunny—together they can “hold” worries for a 6 year old.

  • Comes with caring instructions and developmentally appropriate tips to help externalize anxiety. Small paper pieces included.

Co-created.

From family-to-family, sharing love and remembering in a time of bereavement.

  • Letter & Tender Words

    Each specially curated Heart Box comes with a personalized letter and small container enclosing relevant affirmations and supportive words.

    ‘What this little critter has to say to you’

    Letter has a wax seal.

  • Bubble Candle

    Beautiful unscented soy candle made in Langley BC by Connection Candle Co.

    Using a ‘bubble’ metaphor, I offer tools and tips for kids, youth or adults to support mindfulness

    $ 10

  • Critter Keepers

    Small containers added in to framed box. Animals can ‘hold’ worries or hopes for safe-keeping.

    Flower pot or Barrel.

    Small papers and instructions included.

    $6

  • Malas & Rosaries

    Prayer beads.

    Ancient practice across many religious traditions. Used for counting prayers, repetition of mantras or affirmations. Grounding, supports mindfulness and contemplative centering

    $ 15-27

  • Joyful Gestures

    Tiny handmade bunting to adorn any box or wreath

    $ 6

  • Alpine Flora

    Tiny flowers grow near the back door of our cabin in the Bridge River Valley.

    Dried and pressed, they are perfect for decorative work on wooden frames.

    $ 5

  • Mushrooms

    Felted fungi are delightful.

    Great for speaking in metaphors: reminding us of growth in the darkest, dirtiest debris

  • Gentle Hands

    Open-ended symbolic meaning.

  • Comfort Hearts

    Grounding, weighty and smooth.

    Handmade in Bethlehem. Olive wood has a deeply rooted symbolism of peace in the religions of the Middle East.

    The wood is obtained by the necessary annual pruning of olive branches. Made by a member of the World Fair Trade Organization.

    For small palms $10

    and bigger palms $12