Tracy Partridge-Johnson

This wonderful family portrait is the second project I have worked on for one of my fantastic clients. I was thrilled and honored to work on another piece for him. This time the burning was to be a commemorative portrait of their beautiful family. This gift is from four siblings to their adoptive father. They want to give it to him on the anniversary of their adoption date. Interestingly, and unbeknownst to me, my client grew up in my hometown, and his older sister went to the same high school I attended! Small world! The funny part is, he contacted …

This wallet was quite a project! A man contacted me wanting a really special gift for his wife on Christmas morning. She had been very close to her grandmother, who passed away a year ago, so he thought a hand-burned portrait on a leather checkbook cover or wallet would be just the thing! He texted me a couple of different photos to choose from, and we settled on the one below. I then began the search for a vegetable-tanned leather checkbook cover or wallet that would work. Pyrography can only be done on vegetable-tanned leather because it is untreated and …

This wooden box was a Christmas gift client project I worked on during the month of November. This is for a teen sister team who have started their own, thriving small thrift-store business and mom and dad wanted to surprise them with a customer drop-box for items. This is the lid of a darling wooden crate for that purpose. The girls have an Instagram profile where they post items for sale. Locals have been dropping off their thrift pieces but, until now, there has been no designated spot for those items. This wooden box now sits on their front porch …