OUR STORY

About Lisa:

I’m a mixed media designer with several years of experience in various degrees of art and design. My book, Altered Art Circus, Quarry Books, is dedicated to my love of recycle, everything we see and own has an endless supply of uses, my job is to navigate one’s thought process into seeing this. One man’s trash is definitely one man’s treasure, a philosophy I engage in every aspect of my life including my store front, Piddlestixs, located in a turn of the century former theater where creating vignettes and displays is done on a budget through finds at thrift stores, rummage sales, curbside, dumpster diving and recycling. I am known as queen of the re-purpose process, and laugh over Sanford and Son. I say at this point in my career I realize dumpsters are my friend.

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As a NJ native, I am not your stereo typical Jersey Girl, I’m actually a country girl and thoroughly enjoy living in the mountain region of the state, however I do have the Jersey hair, I won’t lie. I prefer hand made to Gucci, vintage and worn items instead of brand new. I indulge in thrifty treasures, Ladure Macarons and cupie dolls.  I’m your perfect candidate under pressure, with a down to earth and comical personality, easy to work with and a child of the early 80’s Smurfs era, who was almost named Moonbean instead of Lisa, so I’d say I’m truly one of a kind.

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My specialties range in a varied spectrum, I work in every single medium and art level , I think out of the box and my visual perception causes me to see things a million ways, more than the normal person does, I’m most noted for my recycled baseball cuffs, reproductions and books.

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