About us

Welcome Welcome! I've created this page to bring a convenient way to shop our handcrafted goodies. Everything here and in the She Shop is handmade by your locals. I've selected a few incredible people who's products I personally love and use, whom I would also love to share with you! In a world full of huge retail stores and mass produced items made by machines, not only here in the states but overseas, it means so much more to me to use and showcase items made by hand by real people. Your Friends, neighbors, and family. Items created by individuals who find fulfillment in creating and expressing themselves through their hands. As well as our hard earned money go to another hardworking person like you and I. 

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A little about me personally.

HI! I'm Chez. The Chez behind the Crafts n' Crap. Everything I made is recycled, repurposed, well... someones JUNK! One man's trash is a  Midwestern girls treasure. I do my best to only use lumber,  goodies from the marketplace, junk piles, my jobs "scraps" anywhere and  everywhere, NOT from a huge retailer. I haven't circled the earth for a million years, but with each trip I've made around the sun I have always searched for purpose and passion. I truly started this adventure by here and there making custom orders to save up for our maternity leave as a little cushion. Little did I know just before my daughter was born my significant other and father to our daughter would tragically pass leaving so many unknowns.  Creating custom work then began being a means of income and guidance through my grief and all of the unexpected obstacles to follow. Life is so fickle and so strange. Sometimes when your world shatters, while picking up your pieces, you find yourself. Through every hurdle I've found more and more of myself. little did I realize till life truly handed me buckets of lemons... I've always known what I loved as I'd been doing it all my life! I love painting, woodwork, random DIY projects and anything and everything I can make and learn from. It brings me true joy and fulfillment when I create something or finish a project and another human loves it. I did that. These two hands created that.

with that being said, it was my passion to also create a space where individuals like myself can share that same joy. Real people with real passion.

 

signed with loads of love..

Chez