Hello, I’m Brauna Rosen, a Brooklyn based jewelry designer and the creator of The Wishing House.  

Please allow me to share the story behind The Wishing House with you. 

 As a child I grew up believing in magic and always felt that I would be able to find magic lands and mythological creatures just around the corner if I just wished hard enough. I also understood that you had to put a good deal of serious work in to discovering where the magic was hidden. I spent my afternoons and weekends in the fields and woods surrounding our house searching for magic.

To my recollection, I often found it. 

I started carving little houses one day as a way of reconnecting with the spirit of my childhood and recreating for myself the mysterious character of the houses I passed every day on my walk along the forest path to the school.

I discovered once I began to show my little houses to others that many  people shared a similar feeling about the houses of their childhood and the endless, wondrous possibilities of magic. 

Often, when I was at jewelry shows someone would make a beeline to a wishing house and cradling it in their hand would ask “what do you do with this?” - I remembered my fervent childhood belief in wishes and one house in particular at the edge of the forest which seemed so full of promise.  

How wonderful, I thought, it would be if there was a house where a wish could live!  

How the Wishing House is Made