Mother and daughter help customers ‘keep memories’ by selling voodoo dolls and junk journals

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Published astatine 10:45 am, July 4, 2024

POCATELLO — A mother and girl person taken to trading 2 very different products that transportation a communal taxable – representation keeping.

Cathrine Melragon, 57, and Zoe Tassava, 30, some from Pocatello, tally Disturbed Findings, and they waste handmade voodoo dolls and junk journals. They run arsenic an online seller, but were astatine nan Mystic Realms Fantasy Fair past weekend.

Melragon is nan originator down nan voodoo dolls recovered connected Disturbed Findings. They’re designed to “link a representation to a beingness object.” The junk journals are for illustration “pop up books for adults.”

“It’s sewage a batch of flips and flaps and pockets and it’s benignant of for illustration a representation keeper, for illustration a scrapbook (except it) doesn’t really return up your time. You conscionable put your worldly successful there,” Melragon said.

To make nan dolls, Melragon starts pinch a canvas guidelines and past sews connected repurposed items, for illustration buttons, dresses and vinyl doll appendages. Sometimes these items are donated to her, and different times she finds them astatine thrift stores.

Oftentimes, group who bargain nan dolls opportunity it reminds them of a loved one. Making a doll that brings backmost a representation for a personification brings Melragon joy.

“Her favourite point successful nan world is erstwhile personification comes successful and 1 of (her dolls) makes that personification happy,” Tassava said. “She conscionable glows.”

Making junk journals is simply a “magic process,” Tessava said, that starts pinch binding record folders together and adding each kinds of pockets and flaps passim nan pages.

“Every clip I look, there’s a caller pouch I didn’t cognize existed,” Tassava said. “I usage excavation arsenic a scrapbook without nan work. I don’t person clip to glue things connected nan pages and make them look pretty. I conscionable get to tuck worldly in.”

While Melragon hasn’t ever been personification who makes voodoo dolls and junk journals, she has ever been personification who likes to sphere memories and activity connected crafts.

“As I grew up, we did each sorts of crafting, each sorts of creation stuff,” Tassava recalled.

Her mom often sewed apparel for her erstwhile she was a kid.

Melragon built up a ample magnitude of crafting supplies complete nan years. Being personification willing successful things macabre who besides had a sewing instrumentality made creating voodoo dolls look for illustration a earthy adjacent step.

She besides recovered it easy to activity what started arsenic a hobby into her schedule.

“You mightiness only person 15 minutes to do thing and these are easy to commencement and stop,” Melragon said.

They started their Etsy shop successful 2018 and launched their website nan pursuing year. During nan pandemic, Melragon added junk journals to nan business.

While Melragon’s hubby doesn’t spot nan entreaty of nan voodoo dolls, he’s a immense instrumentality of nan babe doll caput potted plants she makes.

“Everybody’s sewage their ain thing,” Melragon said. “That’s what makes us, society, support going because everybody is truthful different, and you’ve sewage to clasp that.”