EARTH ANGELS: Annette Petersen

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Tuesday, May 3, 2016

such nice news...Wee Forest Folk in Print

I love that I was able to feature the so well-deserving Petersen Family & Wee Forest Folk in my column "The Business of the Studio" in this issue of Where Women Create magazine...

I think it's incredible to still be an artful soul in old age, and to think and move creatively in business...

This was a special day...I went to shoot the story and found so much more...

It's impossible not to fall in love with 97 year old founder, Annette Petersen when you encounter her, sitting and working with her was an incredible experience...

Her family is everything and they create together...

three generations of artists with one vision...

I appreciate them all...Willy, Donna, Bonnie...

It's even more impossible not to fall in love with all they create....by hand...in Massachusetts...

The new issue of

Where Women Create is available HERE

...and to see what comes from the many hands of the Petersen Family...CLICK HERE

And a huge thanks Jo Packham

for making this all possible...

xo jen

Monday, February 1, 2016

...3 generations making art together..this send me

...the idea of three generations of hands working together to make art truly sends me...

I wanted to share the exciting news that Bonnie Petersen -- grand daughter to artist Annette the founder of Wee Forest Folk and daughter to Willy Petersen -- has just returned from California and begun to work and design

for her family's 44 year old studio business.

Bonnie's debut collection...called

"The Confection Collection"

was announced just last week and it is truly charming

Here's a bit of a peek at some of her new pieces...

All are available -- in very limited quantities -- at Earth Angels Studios on

The Petersen Family's gallery pages HERE

It's a wonderful thing for me to be working with this talented family and I am so very grateful for the opportunity to know them, share their story and promote the sale of their work...

Watch for a feature coming soon in the May issue of Where Women Create magazine. Jo Packham has graciously allowed me to photo and write a story on

Annette Petersen and her incredible business style and story in my column...

stay tuned!

And congrats to the Petersens on these recent accomplishments! I cannot wait to see what's coming next from their Massachusetts studio this spring...

xo Jen

Monday, December 7, 2015

....a classic tale can be re-written...The Little Match Girl...so much the better!

The Little Match Girl.

You know...I never really liked the ending of this story...

It's the first story that I can remember reading that actually made me cry.

The world was bitter and lonely for her...

and I just could not reckon with her death.

I am forever thankful to Annette Petersen, founding artist of Wee Forest Folk, for revisiting the story and making it her own with a much better...

and happier ending.

The "Little Match Girl" is Annette's most recent sculpt...at 96 this talented artist has exercised her wisdom and artist's prerogative to rewrite the story...

...and to share her fresh interpretation with her hands...

...we are sharing it here:

The Little Match Girl

as retold by Annette Petersen

Our Little Match Girl has appeared from the past, and perhaps we can reintroduce her with a more merciful ending?

On a very bitter Christmas Eve she was sent to the streets to sell matches so that her desperately poor family could have some food and fuel. The poor child was forced to burn those very matches in order to keep from freezing, those none were sold - alas!

The reformed Mr. Scrooge upon finding our Match Girl, brought her to his warm home for both nourishing broth and comfort. Intending to prove his change of heart and make amendments, Scrooge provided her family with a truly wonderful Christmas dinner with all the delicious trimmings.

We hope you and your family also enjoy the comforts of Christmas...