Objet Trouvé 4 U

05/19/2025

05/19/2025

Old Dominion, 7 year AMC Award winners, Amazing artists, and just a good group of humans. This piece now belongs to one of their biggest fans....So honored to make this for such a beautiful bride.

03/28/2025

This has quickly become my favorite accessory for any music event. It is so comfortable to wear and such a spectacular piece of art! Thank you .lisa.18 for being in the right place at the right time and having this beautiful piece of art waiting for me!!

02/13/2024

Beautiful

Today I said “I’m fine”, not once
But five times altogether
When people asked “how are you?”
Then made small talk of the weather

And so I hid behind my mask
The one I’d worn a while
I set in place my bravest face
And dressed it with a smile

And that was how the day went
All “I’m fine” and talk of rain
Until somebody asked me how I was
Then asked again

They asked if I was truly fine
And I said I was not
And they said they were sorry
That they couldn’t do a lot

But then they sat beside me
Whilst I spoke the truth at last
They listened and they held me
As the tears slipped through my mask

And where before, I’d felt I should
Maintain this brave façade,
I realised there was much to gain
By letting down my guard

See, though my load was still the same
It now was not as heavy
‘Cause sitting and offloading it
Had helped a bit already

Today they asked “how are you?”
And I told them I was fine
‘Til someone saw behind the mask
And asked me one more time

And though they may have felt
That there was little they could do
They’ll never know how much it meant
To tell someone the truth

*******

Becky Hemsley 2022
Artwork by Alev Neto

“I’m fine” is from my second collection:
https://a.co/d/hz7kmJs

02/04/2024

01/27/2024

Every woman I know has, at one point or another,
sobbed in the shower
cried in the car
swallowed down tears in the supermarket
and broken down in the bathroom.

And then she has dried her eyes, lifted her head, taken a deep breath and carried on.

She has walked into work
or in through the front door
or into the store or the coffee shop or the hair salon.
And she has smiled and chatted to people so that no one would know she’d been crying.

And I’m not reminding us of this to say
“look how strong we are to pull ourselves together when we are falling apart”.
Although that still stands.

I’m reminding us how easy it is to paint on a brave face so that other people are none the wiser.

So whilst it might not have been you sitting in the car park crying this morning, it might have been that woman who sits three desks down from you.

Whilst it might not have been you sobbing in the shower before getting the kids ready for school this morning, it might have been their teacher. Or another parent on the school run.

Whilst you might have gotten round the supermarket without being on the verge of tears today, it might not be the same for the person working the till. Or the person behind you in the queue.

Everyone wears their brave face in public.

And we’ll never really know just how many people around us have pulled themselves together with the thinnest of threads each morning. How many people are ready to fall apart again at any point.

But compassion strengthens those threads.

Compassion is powerful.
Because even when no one can see it,
even when no one can hear it…

They can feel it.

******

Becky Hemsley 2022
Artwork created on Canva

‘Handle with Care’ is from my new collection which can be found here:
https://a.co/d/97OIz9l

*I wrote this from experience which is why it says 'woman', but I'm sure it applies to many men too.

07/31/2023

Family is everything!

07/29/2023

I do love bridges…

07/07/2023

Creating new display pieces and jewelry cards. Just another day in the office…