Handmade, with great Love ✨💛✨

Long Spoons : A project that I launched in 2019. Three spoon styles available, in limited quantities. Send me a message, if you are interested. Read below to learn more about what inspired me to create these functional sculptures.

Do you know that that average American wastes enough food each month to feed another person for 19 days?

And that 1/3 of the food the world produces every year (1.3 billion tons) is lost during production or tossed by consumers– North Americans are the worst offenders.

Long Spoons are heirloom quality hand-carved spoons cast in recycled brass: functional sculptures with a greater purpose. A percentage of every sale is donated to Feeding America, the United States largest hunger relief organization, combatting hunger and food waste.

Have you heard the parable of the Long Spoon? Let me share it with you! The sentiment is potent.

“One day a man said to God, “God, I would like to know what Heaven and Hell are like.”

God showed the man two doors. Inside the first one, in the middle of the room, was a large round table with a large pot of stew. It smelled delicious and made the man’s mouth water, but the people sitting around the table were thin and sickly. They appeared to be famished. They were holding spoons with very long handles and each found it possible to reach into the pot of stew and take a spoonful, but because the handle was longer than their arms, they could not get the spoons back into their mouths.

The man shuddered at the sight of their misery and suffering. God said, “You have seen Hell.”

Behind the second door, the room appeared exactly the same. There was the large round table with the same large pot of wonderful stew that made the man’s mouth water. The people had the same long-handled spoons, but they were well nourished and plump, laughing and talking.

The man said, “I don’t understand”.

God smiled. “It is simple”, he said. “Love only requires one skill. These people learned early on to share and feed one another. While the greedy only think of themselves…””

– Author Unknown

In her article Closing the Loop: How might we design for circularity?, Lauren Yarmuth writes:

“We have come to understand abundance as success without considering the repercussions that this mindset has on our lives and the planet… We have allowed a major blindspot on waste and resources to develop– and worse, seem to have lost sight of our actions having consequences.”

Above all of my passions in various mediums, Food is my Love Language.

As a child, I was fortunate to live literally next door and around the corner from my grandparents. My grandfathers tended to their gardens which yielded succulent fruits and vegetables that contributed to the pantry. My grandmothers were endlessly cooking the most delicious Polish, Slovak and Belgian dishes. And I was right there in the garden and the kitchen with them, preparing this mighty soul-sustenance.

These special, yet simple meals planted seeds in my heart, which grew into my desire to care for others through lovingly prepared food!

To nourish as many people as possible, in various forms, I’ve made sculptures that literally feed you, and others, with a portion of every spoon sale donated to Feeding America.

Elevate the Everyday with Long Spoons. Feed yourself. And others.