Olive Mable Joyce, my grandmother, was a woman who made what she needed, grew what she ate, and repaired what was broken. She wasted nothing and gave everything. That way of living is the foundation of this studio.

Portrait of Olive Mabel Joyce holding a bouquet of pink flowers, seated outdoors, smiling gently at the camera.

Olive Mable Joyce

I have always been a collector. Since childhood, I’ve rescued discarded items because I saw a spark of potential that others couldn’t. Just ask my father about my stashes of bottle caps, bus tickets, and odd-shaped rocks.

Even then, I would look at these forgotten things and reimagine them, finding a worth that others had missed. It was always about taking an object that had finished its first life and seeing exactly how it could begin its second.

Today, I breathe new life into those discarded items to create one-of-a-kind pieces, from handbound journals made from discarded magazines to unique jewellery pieces and mixed media art.

Nothing here is mass-produced. At Olive, I choose to reuse, repair, and reimagine the things the world left behind.

Every piece is a slow, handmade tribute to a more intentional way of living, allowing me to recreate the discarded into something you can truly relove.

-Kelly Joyce