Keepsake Boxes
Pine and hardwood boxes with clean joinery, woodburned geometry, and color-stained details. Built as practice, therapy, and art.
Woodworking · Joinery
Always Forward · Always ForKeepSakes
ForKeepSakes is my living workshop: boxes and carvings, AI art and Echo animations, late-night experiments and family memories — all in one creator hub.
TikTok: @forkeepsakesfks · Website, woodshop, and wild ideas working together.
A feline, living-metal guardian watching over the workshop and the world below. Animated clips, lore, and experiments live here.
Meet Echo →This isn’t just a portfolio. It’s a timeline of recovery, discovery, and creation. From learning joinery to carving turtles, from shop jigs to digital milestones — ForKeepSakes is the story of building a life around making.
It started with one box for my Mom — a final resting place and a promise to learn the craft properly. That project opened the door to keepsake boxes, pine builds, and custom pieces that carry memory.
Between healing through my inner pain of my Mom's passing, dealing with the physical pain of elbow injuries, and all life's little storms, the shop became more than a workshop it became a place of healing and creativity, a place to prove to myself that slow progress still counts as progress. Always Forward, always with positivity, Always ForKeepSakes.
My daughter Izzie, my step-dad Mike, and the spirit of my Mom are built into this journey. This site is for them, for the people following on social media, and for anyone who needs a reminder to keep moving forward.
Keepsake boxes, carved turtles, digital prints, and experimental pieces. This gallery will grow over time — a mix of sawdust and pixels.
Pine and hardwood boxes with clean joinery, woodburned geometry, and color-stained details. Built as practice, therapy, and art.
Woodworking · Joinery
Carved shells, glass “water” inlays, and element-based designs that blend carving, resin, and story. Each one a small world on a board.
Carving · Resin
Coloring books, dark fantasy Echo series, and Sora-powered mini films stitched together in CapCut. Where the shop meets the screen.
AI Art · Video
Echo is a humanoid feline wood-spirit in living metal armor — part guardian, part narrator, part sarcastic co-host for this whole adventure.
Here you’ll eventually find Echo’s lore, animated clips, and special sequences that tie the space station, the workshop, and Earth together.
A dedicated Echo gallery with video embeds, behind-the-scenes prompts, and printable art will live here.
Short, honest tutorials for people who want to start — not just watch. Expect simple, practical guides with minimal fluff.
Box joints, simple jigs, planer sleds, and carving practice projects.
In progress
How I film, edit, and engage without turning into a sales robot.
In progress
Printable geometry burn patterns, coloring pages, and more.
Coming soon
Small digital downloads, coloring books, and eventually physical pieces. Nothing spammy — just ways to support and own a piece of the story.
This section will connect to PayPal for simple purchases and will grow as new projects are ready to share.
Coming soon:
Have a question, idea, or just want to say you saw the journey on TikTok? You can reach out and I’ll get back when I step away from the sawdust.
For my Mom, whose memory lives in every keepsake.
For Mike, who keeps believing in this crazy plan.
For Izzie, whose inspiration is the spark behind this whole adventure —
the reason I stepped out of my comfort zone to pursue my journey as a creator.
Always forward.