Our Story

A smiling couple posing together in front of a light gray wooden wall. The man is wearing a black suit, white shirt, and red tie with glasses, and the woman is wearing a black top and glasses, with curly hair and bright red lipstick.

We are the Patterson family.

  • Our family business started in mid-2024 with shadow boxes and snappy towels. With some of our favorite gift ideas we decided to try running a booth at a local city days celebration. We’ve enjoyed doing that for the last couple of years, and we’ve had many people ask us if we have a website. Now, in 2026, we started this website to see if we can have success selling our handmade crafts to a wider audience, like many friends and family have suggested.

  • The kids have always been excited to help make the different gifts. They enjoy being part of the process of designing and creating something they think would be fun to give to someone. As parents, we love watching our kids innovate and make something come to life that they have thought through.

  • There are a couple of reasons why we do what we do, and why we decided to start a family business. First, and foremost, we love to share our talents with others and give gifts that we have made by hand. The other is to help provide more opportunities for our family to do some of the things on our wish lists. One of our kids has special needs, which not only means increased healthcare costs for the family, but it also limits a lot of what we can actually go and do as a family. With some additional income, we hope to better manage our healthcare and also take our kids to do more family activities locally, and possibly even go on vacation more often.

  • The temple shadow boxes are something that our family enjoys creating and giving to others. We are active members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and when Colette and I (Brady) were married we were sealed together for eternity in the Mount Timpanogos Temple. As our kids have grown up and made their own decisions to love the temples of the church as much as we do, it was an easy decision to venture into the creation of the temple shadow boxes. We hope to one day be able to have the selection grow to include all of the temples of the church. Living in Utah, our focus has been those temples that are closest to us, but we’ve expanded to those that have been specifically requested.

A black framed shadow box of the Mount Timpanogos Temple with a black night background and stars, flanked by a small potted plant on the left and a beige abstract sculpture of two people forming a heart on the right.

Photos of other projects we’ve made over the years. Some of them we still sell, but only at local events. Others we have only made as gifts for others.

When our kids were younger, we tried many different things to help them hold all their cards when we played card games.

We made these first for our younger two, but we quickly found that everyone in the family wanted their own.

Now we don’t play many card games without them. These are great for all ages.

The diaper and toy tote, and the changing pad clutch were made for baby shower gifts for some of our nieces. They have become things that other nieces look forward to getting some day when they have kids.

When it comes to hand towels, our Snappy Towels are something we can’t live without. We no longer have towels fall on the ground when we lay them over the oven or dishwasher handle. Unlike the crocheted top kitchen towel option that wraps around and is held on by a button, this is a full sized towel that wraps and snaps to itself and only comes off when you want it to by unsnapping it.