About Us

We are Dani and Simon and Nerdy Narwhal Handmade is our store. We have an adorable Goldendoodle named Dresden (after the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher).

 

We love almost everything nerdy with Harry Potter, Firefly, Video Games(which one changes regularly), Critical Role and Dungeons & Dragons being our top obsessions.

Dani has been crafting and making things since she was old enough to hold a glue stick and the love of creating things has never diminished. She taught herself how to make dice, from building a pressure pot to sanding and inking. Every design you see on this site is designed and created by Dani from start to finish.

Simon developed a method of recipe keeping for each dice Dani pours so that we can consistently recreate popular dice styles. He helps with the dice making process by recording the methods and dice recipes as Dani is pouring each set of dice. He helps pick a lot of the flowers you'll see in our dice and often provides inspiration for new styles of dice. He is also in charge of most of the technical side of things like creating the website, as well as helping packaging and shipping orders.

Dresden helps by stealing molds, sniff-testing dice and most importantly providing love and comfort when needed. His interests include swimming, making friends with everyone he meets, and of course chasing balls.

You might know our Etsy store and sister site, Nerdy Narwhal Co. Nerdy Narwhal Co. started as a way for Dani to make all the nerdy earrings she'd always wanted but could never find to buy! Expanding into RPG dice was a natural progression fueled by a love of Dungeons and Dragons.

Dani had also rapidly developed into a full blown dice goblin and being able to design, make and sell our own dice was a dream come true.

That's where Nerdy Narwhal Handmade came in!

We've spent many long hours staring at the astonishing dice out there so being able to add, even in a small way, to that world is humbling and extraordinary.

We began playing D&D together to meet new people and finding something we loved to do together. Simon has been playing RPG games since high school and Dani first started playing D&D about 3 years ago.

It's not always easy to pinpoint one specific turning point in your life but for us starting to watch Critical Role and then playing D&D together was the thing that sparked everything we've built together with Nerdy Narwhal Co.

We have been very fortunate to have amazing family and friends that have supported us from the beginning. We are so thankful to everyone that has bought something from us and helped support our nerdy dreams!