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How your heirloom is made

Every Life Story Heirloom begins with the stories only you can tell — the names, places, and small moments that make a family yours.

Our makers work slowly and by hand, translating what you share into a piece built to be held, given, and revisited.

The result is not a keepsake — it is an heirloom, designed to carry the people you love into the generations who have not met them yet.

The care that goes into a Life Story Heirloom is the kind that makes someone, decades later, feel seen.

— Miriam Badger

We are a small studio, and we work like one. Recording your story is not a transaction we want to rush through, so we do not — we listen first, ask good questions, and do not move on until we have captured something you would actually want your great-grandchildren to hear.

Generations worth keeping

The faces, the gatherings, the ordinary days — the very things a recorded life story carries forward.

Vintage photo: a group of young women dressed up together
All dressed up
Vintage photo: four young women laughing together outdoors
Forever young
Vintage photo: three women standing together by palm trees
Out in the sun
Vintage photo: a woman posing on a country lane beside vintage cars
Down the lane
Vintage photo: a woman in a winter coat standing in the snow
A winter's day
Vintage photo: a family gathered around the Thanksgiving table in 1954
Thanksgiving, 1954
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