Hi there, my name is Grace and I’m a first generation broom maker. I started making brooms in 2021, shortly after purchasing one from a Japanese boutique in my neighborhood. From that moment my awareness of the beauty of the broom was awakened and I decided to learn to make them.  I found a woman online who offered workshops on making whiskbrooms. I took the workshop and out of the 20 or so other people participating, I was the last to finish and the most frustrated. But once I figured it out and had the finished product in my hands, all I wanted to do was make more. And so I did. By the time I had made dozens of them to gift to friends and family, I had fallen inlove with the craft. Once my hands knew their way around a whiskbroom, I was ready to make long handled brooms. I took a few trips to different forests near me, but none of the fallen branches I brought home did the trick. In the midst of my quest to find the perfect branches for my brooms, I took a trip to Northern California to visit friends. While visiting, I was staying in a forest full of Redwoods. I lived in Northern California several years prior and while I was there I got very connected to the Redwoods, like many do. And it turns out, the fallen branches of Redwoods make for the perfect broom handle. This discovery took my passion for broom making to a whole new level. I always like to mention, that it is the WOOD of a wand that gives it its power. The intelligence of the tree. Redwoods are some of the most ancient and tallest trees in the world. To me, it’s the Redwood that makes my brooms so special.

It took about a year of refining the long handled brooms before I was ready to sell them. And once they hit the stores, it was clear that as many as I could make was as many as I could sell. People loved them. As an artist, that is one of the greatest feelings in the world.

I continued to primarily sell my brooms at shops, from hardware stores such as Ace Hardware in Walnut Creek and Baller Hardware in Los Angeles, herbal apothecaries, cafes, nurseries, and boutiques. And then in the fall of 2023 I started experimenting with a renegade approach to selling my brooms. Meaning I pop up with my wagon full of brooms at a place with a lot of action, usually farmer’s markets, and would make and sell them on the spot. This turned out to be a very successful business model and I was able to quit my side gigs to be a full-time broom maker.

Since I've been directly engaging with customers through my renegade approach, it’s become evident that there is a demand for online shipping. And so here we are :) I’m so excited to share my work with more people. The journey of being an entrepreneurial artist has been one of the greatest experiences of my life and I hope others take the leap.  Doing work that fills my soul and brings joy to others is simply priceless.

“Let yourself by silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It won’t lead you astray.” -Rumi