About Us

About the Owner

Aphena Arshisha

Founder of All The Wishes

Our Story

All The Wishes is a Black woman, LGB, owned business. We are a purposeful business. A portion of our proceeds grants Wishes for BIPOC, LGBTQ and underprivileged women.
All The Wishes is a brand new business, that came to be, when in 2020 Aphena found her biological father on Ancestry DNA. He was married to an amazing artist and actress and they had been married for 40 years, Aphena’s whole life. Unable to have children of their own, it was quite a surprise when they discovered they had a daughter. Cynthia Jones-Taylor, her father’s wife, had always hoped to pass down her legacy. Aphena, a healer, Empath and mom of 7 was on her own spiritual path and always had a powerful connection to divine.
Her and Aphena were instantly connected, by destiny and All The Wishes was born!!

Meet Our Designer

Cynthia Jones-Taylor

Mind of Madness Design

About Her

 

Cynthia Jones-Taylor Is an award-winning actor/singer of stage, studio and some screen. She has appeared on many stages in many incarnations. As owner of Mind of Madness Design, she creates wearable art and wall and decor artwork of metal and stone. Her interest in metalsmithing and lapidary study began after she was diagnosed with a brain aneurysm. During recovery, she was inundated with post-brain surgery images. They plagued her night and day, an unending, constantly moving, stream of shapes, swirls and designs that were totally unknown to her prior to the surgery. Having no choice, (other than going mad) she found a way to relate these intangible shapes to her tangible world–creating them using stone and metal. Once she started physically creating these designs, the night and day barrage of images ceased, and all was right with the world once again.