Welcome to Peace From Paradise

A place where prayer, remembrance, and handmade beauty meet the hope of eternity.

This mission began in the most difficult place a mother can stand — the space between heartbreak and heaven.

After losing my daughter Erika, I wrestled with a mind split in two: one half living daily life, and the other entirely consumed with grief.
I kept telling myself the same thing over and over:
“I just need peace.”

Then I returned to Erika’s final words to all of us —
a message she wrote just four days before God called her home:

“Faith moves mountains. Repeat that…
I get scared. I cry…
But I’m slowly learning I’m in a win-win situation.
A win to live a long life with my loved ones…
And a win if God calls me home to paradise…
He daily gets all my fear and pain and anxiety at His feet because He loves me.”

In that message, I realized what I had been searching for:
Erika is in Paradise — and the peace I longed for could only come from there.
From God.
From her.
From knowing she is held, healed, whole, and waiting in His embrace.

That is how Peace From Paradise came to be.
Through prayer, through tears, and through the understanding that love is stronger than death.

Today, I create handcrafted rosaries — each one made with intention, devotion, and hope —
offered as a way for others to find the same peace that is carrying me forward.
Every piece is crafted in Erika’s honor,
and 100% of all profits support AIM at Melanoma for melanoma research, awareness, patient and family support,
and our home parish, St. Anne Catholic Church in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin.

May these rosaries bring you closer to Christ,
to the comfort of Our Blessed Mother,
and to the peace that flows gently from Paradise —
the peace that is healing my heart and continues to guide my steps.

Welcome. I’m so grateful you’re here.