Our Story
My name is Betsy Rich. I create each
Mountain Aura in Evergreen, Colorado.​
It began with a roll of fairy lights and a challenge from a friend and fellow knitter. “Unleash your creativity and do something interesting with this,” she said. As a tenacious competitor, I couldn’t refuse a challenge. So I grabbed my biggest knitting needles and knit the fairy lights into a rectangle. It looked great when it was lit. When unplugged, my project looked like a mess of wires. It wasn’t attractive or interesting.
Being a knitter, I have a stash of gorgeous yarn just waiting for the right project. So, I pulled out the most beautiful skeins and began weaving yarn into the fairy light structure.
As I considered how to offload the piece from the needles, a small branch fell from an Aspen tree in our yard to the ground. I picked it up dusted it off and slid the stitches from my needle onto the branch. It looked great. I added beads and a feather and plugged the fairy lights into an outlet. When lit up, the piece was so beautiful and unique, it took my breath away. That was how the first Mountain Aura was created​
Each Aura includes a block to connect the attached USB to a power outlet as well as a remote control that will change the pattern of the fairy lights.
Please enjoy the light and love that are the essence of each Mountain Aura.
