About The Artist

A circular drawing of a pale skinned woman with curly red hair, making jewelry out of wire. A black cat is on the table in front of her, playfully biting a pair of pliers. There are plants in the background.

Welcome to Wyrding Studios - I'm Kythryne Aisling, and I've loved and collected interesting stones and crystals for as long as I can remember.

Twenty years ago I started making jewelry out of wire and pretty rocks - partly because I couldn't find the sort of jewelry I wanted to wear, and partly as an excuse to buy more shiny things.

It turned out that a lot of other people wanted the same sort of jewelry as I did, because in 2005, a year after I first started making jewelry, it accidentally became my full-time job when I rage-quit my RealJob(tm) in the non-profit world and became a full-time artist. I'd saved up a bit of money from selling my jewelry as a hobby, so I hastily ordered a set of Lindstrom Rx pliers, plunked a folding table in a corner of the living room in my Manhattan apartment, cobbled together a mostly functional website (Etsy didn't even exist at that point) and took the subway to the Garment District for the first of what would be many, many purchasing trips.

...and much to my surprise, it turned out to be the best thing I'd ever done.

A black cat sits on a desk looking directly at the camera. There are storage organizers with many drawers behind her and bins containing small boxes and padded mailers above her. A sticker dispenser is on the wall to her right.

In the years that followed, I moved away from NYC and a lot of other things changed in my life, but through it all I kept making jewelry. Some years it was barely a side hustle (parenting a toddler while my body tried to kill me in new and creative ways for three years in a row didn't leave a whole lot of time or energy for creativity) and other years I pulled 60 hour weeks (divorce lawyers are expensive) working late into the night after bedtime to finish whatever I hadn't managed to get done while my daughter was at school.

These days things have settled down to a fairly predictable sort of chaos: I'm still a single parent, but my daughter is a teenager (HOW???) and while my body is literally held together with bubble gum and dollar store duct tape, I'm very good at putting my joints back where they belong when they go wibbly-wobbly. I live in New Hampshire now, in a charming (read: perpetually in need of expensive repairs) Victorian house with a spacious studio and small adjoining office on the second floor where I pack orders and wrangle my website. I've made many, many thousands of pieces of one-of-a-kind jewelry for people all over the world and have no intention of stopping any time soon.

A small black labrador is standing with her front paws on a desk, looking hopefully at a jar of dog treats. A computer keyboard is visible in the lower right corner and there is a printer and books on the desk.

While I particularly love making elaborate statement jewelry, I am committed to creating affordable wearable art for people of all genders and all sizes. I can work with almost any budget and all of my bracelets and necklaces can be custom sized, including sizes not usually offered in more conventional jewelry.

When I'm not in the studio or asleep, I can usually be found following my three dogs around with a vacuum while yelling WHAT'S IN YOUR MOUTH STOP EATING BEADS WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS. In my non-existent spare time I enjoy permaculture gardening, baking, and collecting art supplies. 

A wide image of an artist's studio with purple and white walls shows a wooden workbench and black chair on the right, with purple pegboard holding tools on the wall next to the workbench. There are large windows with sheer white and silver curtains and many plants, and a print of Van Gogh’s Sunflowers on the right wall and a table and bookcase against the left wall.