The shop is a hands-on operation.
I’m Cameron — I run the Sandstories Shop. My background is in sports operations and journalism, where I learned the same lesson in different uniforms: pay attention to the small things, care about the details, and tell the truth about what you’re seeing.
Every piece in the shop passes through my hands before it gets near yours. I find items through estate sales, donations from retiring practitioners, and educators downsizing their collections. I clean each figure, check for chips and cracks, photograph it, and pack every order myself.
If something isn’t good enough for a clinical space, it doesn’t make the cut. If you get a box from us, everything in it has been through that process.
Why second-life
A working sandtray collection can run hundreds to thousands of dollars new. For many clinicians, that’s frequently the difference between offering sandtray work and not offering it at all.
We believe every object — like every person — carries a story. By sourcing from practitioners and collectors who are ready to pass their pieces on, we keep quality tools in clinical hands at a fraction of the cost of new. The miniature that sat in a closet for five years may be exactly what your next client needs to tell their story.
What you’ll find
The Sandstories Shop carries the full range of what sandtray work requires — not just what sells easily.