Our Story
Momentcraft began with the love I wanted my daughter to remember.
I’m a designer and a mother. In 2024, my husband and our beloved dog died in the same car accident. In a single day, the life my daughter and I knew changed completely.
I didn’t want the way we lost them to become the whole story. I wanted her to remember how deeply they loved her, and the ordinary happiness we had shared as a family.
I wanted her to remember the love.
Photographs held his smile, our dog’s familiar expression, and the small moments that once filled our home. By chance, I discovered 3D printing and began to wonder if I could turn those photographs into something my daughter could see, touch, and keep close.
Nothing could replace them. I only hoped to make those memories feel a little nearer.
So I began learning how to make them.
Drawing and painting were familiar to me. 3D modeling was not. With help from AI, I taught myself to build models from photographs. Then came printing, sanding, refining, and painting—skills I learned one imperfect piece at a time.
I started with the two figures I knew by heart: my husband and our dog.
There were many attempts before they felt right.
Prints broke. Proportions looked wrong. A face could be close and still feel unfamiliar. I started over more times than I can count. Whenever I was ready to give up, the people around me encouraged me to try once more.
Then, in the curve of his smile, our dog’s familiar posture, and the tilt of an ear, I recognized them. The figures did not bring them back or take away the grief. But they gave our memories a place in our home. Little by little, making them helped me find my way forward.
That love became Momentcraft.
What began as something for my daughter and me slowly became the idea for Momentcraft: a place for many kinds of love—the pets who become family, the people who make a home, the love we learn to give ourselves, and the partners with whom we share a life.
At Momentcraft, every figure begins with photographs and a story. Each one is modeled, 3D printed, refined, and painted by hand—not simply to capture how a person or pet looks, but to honor why they matter.