Leather Love

With every custom and semi-custom leather bracelet order received, an accurate wrist measurement is needed. There has been an occasion or two when the measurement that has been provided is not very accurate at all, resulting an email from a disappointed customer. 

The mistake usually doesn't occur in the misreading of a measurement. It's made in the what that had been measured. A customer will measure the length of their favorite and well fitting bracelet, giving to me that measurement as their wrist measurement. But here's the thing, the length of a bracelet is NOT the same as your wrist circumference. They're just not. Since I cannot give...

I Am Lisa Maria Cantalupo and I Make Beautiful Things With Leather ~ Art You Wear!

After two phones had crashed, I found myself scouring through all my Facebook photographs downloading as I went, trying to recover some lost images. As I was scrolling through the years and years and years of creating with leather, I was also reliving the memories that I had captured in these photos. With each image that I had thumbed through, I became more grateful to have had the...

All the images in this video are ones that the extremely talented photographer, Cynthia August, took of me in "my space". By placing all them together, in a video format, tells a story so much more eloquently then viewing them one at a time or reading a collection of words that have been written about me.

The story too is deeper than the obviousness of what I do and what all artists do. The story is about "the how" and "the...

Sometimes life gifts you with an opportunity that at first, you're not even aware it's an opportunity. I'll explain.

Recently, I received an email asking if I would sell the leather I used in my Dragon Scales Dice Bags. Sure, why not. These are hides that I stock, so it's not a big deal to sell one or two of them. I emailed her a price and awaited a reply.

It took another one or two emails from her before I realized it wasn't a leather hide that...

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