​Oh Henry! How do you do it?

Buried in the forest, North of Atlanta is a top-secret wood shop called Forestique where elves make jewelry. Henry Wischusen worked his entire career as a Director of Product Development at a packaging company. You know...that plastic packaging that kids liked better than the toy inside -- because it makes a crackling sound? Or those blister-packs that require minor surgery to get the toys out? Well those are Henry’s designs.

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One day Henry sat down at the same executive desk he’d been sitting at for 30+ years and declared…”I CAN NOT DO THIS ANY MORE!” Then he did what most of us only dream about and quit his job to start Forestique. 

​Taking over half the house, Henry holed up for months in his newly christened “Forestique woodshop” slicing and dicing every type of wood known to man. He developed a top secret process to create very thin (but very strong) slices of wood and carve them into lace-like jewelry. His designs are based on patterns in nature and when Henry goes hiking, he’s always on the lookout for unique plant leaves to mimic into new jewelry designs.

As I wandered through the ultimate man cave woodshop, itching to photograph all of Henry’s cool boy-toys, he informed me that he’d have to kill me if I shared any of his wood secrets. 

 
​So while I can’t tell you anything I’ve seen, I do have a entire box of very cool jewelry bestowed upon me in trade for taking photos of real people…in real places…wearing Henry’s beautiful creations. ​