Hi, I’m Jen! Owner of Garden of Stone.

All my life, I have been the tinkerer, finding ways to work with my hands. I was the little girl in her grandpa’s workshop. Sometimes I was the ONLY girl in the industrial arts wing of my high school. Now I’m the girl in the neighborhood with the tools out, cutting and grinding stone

Garden of Stone began in 2015, making and selling chain mail style jewelry with my roommate as Chained Wolf Creations. From there we explored prop making, eventually incorporating cnc tech such as 3D printing and then CO2 laser engraving. 2020 brought us COVID and I took a break from that to make thousands of mask holders shipped all over the country for first responders and front line workers.

How did all that morph into engraving stone? 2021 brought about a lot of loss. I wanted to give something, DO something. For me, no one is completely gone so long as we can keep their memory alive. Giving people a unique opportunity and way to talk about their loved one helped keep part of them alive, and for some, even aiding in their healing process. It is something I felt I was good at and needed to keep doing. I combined my love of making with my past experience working with traumatic events in disaster services and tech experience, and went forward with ideas, unofficially at first. In 2023 I officially registered Chained Wolf Creations as a business with the state. I kept the name because it was already known.

In 2026, with a more definitive direction, the name became Garden Of Stone. There’s a story to the name, but that’s for another time. Memorials are my cornerstone, but there are so many other ways to use this to make people happy. I love working with clients and helping them bring their ideas to fruition. I love helping them find or create the obscure, the nostalgic, the strange and unusual.