ORIGINS

Prettygoods was born out of a desire to share in the belief that just about everything is art to someone. This has always been at the heart of my pathos, along with the feeling that one of life's greatest delights is sharing a unique gift with a loved one. 

Growing up in rural Texas, I shared a small ecosystem with my parents and older brothers, and anytime more family visited, I'd get relegated to our living room sofa. And family came over all the time.

Whenever I collected a new treasure–whether unique looking rocks or shells unearthed from our pastures outside, or dolls gifted to me on birthdays, or lucky coins from relatives–I would neatly line up my treasures around the perimeter of our family sofa, like a shrine to my own joy-filled imagination. In my childlike estimation, it was all pretty good stuff.  Today, I have a home, a husband, a dog, a cat, and a much larger sofa–but I've never stopped finding beauty in the small things. Everything is art. And one person's trash is another person's sofa shrine.