Mending Moments is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit that strives to cultivate a more connected, compassionate, and resilient world and believes this can be accomplished through creativity, sustainability, and community engagement.
About Us!
Mending Moments
Transforming materials, memories, and moments into opportunities for healing, hope, and human connection through art.Mending Moments is a creative arts nonprofit dedicated to using creativity, storytelling, and transformation to inspire healing, resilience, connection, and belonging.Through artistic expression, meaningful keepsakes, and upcycled creations, we demonstrate that beauty, hope, and healing can emerge from even life's most broken pieces.
We We Are
Mending Moments believes art has the power to transform.Not only materials—but memories, experiences, and moments.Through creative expression, storytelling, and community engagement, we create opportunities for individuals and communities to process life's experiences, celebrate meaningful memories, cultivate resilience, and discover connection.Our work is guided by one simple belief:Transformation is always possible.A discarded material can become something beautiful.
A memory can become a connection.
A moment of kindness can become hope.📩 Email us at [email protected]
Our Mission
Mending Moments empowers healing, hope, and human connection through the transformative power of art and creativity.We create meaningful opportunities for individuals and communities to process life's experiences, celebrate cherished memories, cultivate resilience, and discover purpose through creative expression.By inspiring transformation—of materials, memories, and moments—we foster connection, encourage compassion, and demonstrate that beauty, hope, and healing can emerge from even life's most broken pieces.
Our Impact!
How We Create ImpactMending Moments creates impact through three interconnected areas:
Healing Through Creative Expression
Your Memory Will Carry OnOur signature creative initiative celebrates meaningful memories while fostering kindness, connection, and community through art.Your Memory Will Carry On transforms memories into opportunities for storytelling, remembrance, and connection.Current Projects:
KillJoy Joy DropsHandcrafted commemorative keepsakes shared as unexpected acts of kindness.Each Joy Drop creates an opportunity for someone to experience connection, remembrance, and a meaningful moment shared with another person.Community Memory MapAn interactive online experience where recipients can share where they discovered a Joy Drop and the story or message behind their experience.Together, these shared stories create a growing collection of memories carried forward through kindness.Commemorative KeepsakesArtist-designed creations that preserve meaningful experiences and memories through tangible works of art.
Transformation Through Upcycling
Giving New Life to What Was OverlookedMending Moments transforms discarded and overlooked materials into meaningful works of art that celebrate sustainability, creativity, and renewal.Each creation serves as a reminder that transformation is possible—in materials and in life.Upcycled Glass Garden ArtHandcrafted garden art created from reclaimed glass and repurposed materials.Current Creations Include:🌸 Glass Garden Flowers
Upcycled sculptural pieces designed to bring color, light, and beauty into outdoor spaces.🐦 Birdbaths
Functional garden art designed to attract birds while creating meaningful and beautiful outdoor spaces.🐝 Bee Baths
Functional garden pieces that provide water sources for pollinators and beneficial insects while supporting biodiversity.
Healing Through Creative Expression
Memorabilia Transformation PiecesSelect concert memorabilia is transformed into handcrafted keepsakes that preserve memory, meaning, and cultural connection.Current Creation:🖤 MCR Voting Card & Misfit Ticket OrnamentsUnused or misprinted commemorative tickets and concert voting cards are transformed into one-of-a-kind ornaments.Each piece preserves the emotional significance of the original experience while giving the materials renewed purpose as a lasting symbol of memory and connection.
Community Impact!
Community Through Creativity & Kindness
Community connection is woven into everything we do.Through shared creative experiences, storytelling, and acts of kindness, Mending Moments creates opportunities for belonging, compassion, and human connection.This impact is seen through:🖤 Sharing a KillJoy Joy Drop with another person
🖤 Adding a memory to the Community Memory Map
🖤 Connecting through transformed artwork
🖤 Celebrating shared experiences through creative keepsakesAs Mending Moments grows, future opportunities may include:Community art workshops
Creative healing experiences
Collaborative art projects
Community partnerships
Public art experiences
Core Values!
What Guides Our Work
Creativity as HealingWe believe creative expression is a pathway to healing, resilience, and hope.TransformationWe honor the ability to transform materials, memories, and experiences into something meaningful.ConnectionWe foster belonging through shared experiences, storytelling, and acts of kindness.CompassionWe approach all people and experiences with empathy, dignity, and care.AccessibilityWe strive to create welcoming opportunities for creative expression.SustainabilityWe value responsible reuse, upcycling, and mindful creation.
Support/Call to Action!
Be Part of the Transformation
There are many ways to support Mending Moments:🖤 Share a memory
🖤 Participate in Your Memory Will Carry On
🖤 Support creative programming
🖤 Purchase transformed artwork
🖤 Partner with us to bring creative experiences to communitiesTogether, we can transform:Materials into art.
Memories into connection.
Moments into healing.
Every Contribution Matters!
As this nonprofit continues to grow, the founder balances full-time work alongside ongoing health challenges. Community support plays a meaningful role in keeping this work sustainable during this stage of development.Whether through purchases, donations, or sharing the mission — you help keep this work alive.
About The Founder 🖤
Jenna Tullberg (she/her) is the founder and Executive Director of Mending Moments.A second-generation teen mom and survivor of housing instability, Jenna combines her lived experience with a background in social work, human development, and public policy to create healing-centered art and connection through creativity.Her Story:
What began as a mobile DIY studio nonprofit and a personal project creating handmade commemorative concert keepsakes for her sons — inspired by the live musical moments they’ve been blessed to share together — quickly blossomed into helping others capture those same feelings of music, nostalgia, memory, and connection.That journey has since evolved into the “Your Memory Will Carry On” Initiative and KillJoy Joy Drops — a movement rooted in multiplying the kindness, creativity, emotional healing, and shared human connection Jenna unexpectedly discovered while creating the commemorative tickets.Through Mending Moments, Jenna transforms art, upcycled materials, and even “misfit” keepsakes into opportunities for people to feel seen, connected, and remembered.💚 “I created the space I needed, and now I share it with others.”
