I have made a record amount of charms lately for markets and orders and just wanted to post that for posterity!
I'll do my next shop drop on June 1 with current pieces! For now this artiste needs a little break 😴
Thank you so much for supporting what I do, liking my art, and believing in me!!!!
Here are some of the prints I have in stock and ready right now! Some new ones and old faves! I'm heading to the post office tmrw morning so these could arrive in your mailbox really fast... Just saying... 👀🩷
Just packing up some cross stitch kits for an order and thought I'd show you the Lovely Lobster all framed up! I think it's sooo cute. I'm going to redo my gallery walls this summer and I want to sneak in lots of small framed cross stitch projects like this ☺️ I think it would also look amazing in a red frame! Or maybe gingham??? This could call for a DIY approach - you know I love painting a picture frame mat!
@luckysprout.studio brings you:
🌸 slow and thoughtful handmade art
🐰 cute critters and vintage inspired designs
🖼️ wearable art and home decor
💖 east coast whimsical memories
💌 paper goods and tiny trinkets
Just a heads up that any orders placed after May 15 will ship on June 1st because I'm going on a really fun vacation!
Reach out any time if you have any questions 🩷 I'm working hard filling orders and preparing for my last spring market in the meantime!!
A couple of my recent cross stitch projects! Always gotta have a couple of works in progress 🩷
I'm thinking of putting some of my patterns on Patreon (on my Sprout School tier). Probably some of the simpler ones that aren't going to turn into kits. Let me know if that sounds fun to you!
This big spring piece is going to take forever but I'm very excited to see it come to life 😍
Some hand-painted brooches for ur whimsical life 🐰 I'm obsessed with these and look how nice the new gold paint is looking! Very happy very happy 💖
I will be bringing these along to @halifaxcrafters this weekend - I will be bringing a ton of my watercolour art prints and cards of course, but I do have some little gaps in my display to fill in, so I'll be stuffing them with small handpainted things 🥰
Tell me who is your favourite little guy?? I'll be putting any that don't sell onto my online shop on Monday 😚
Here is the print for May's snail mail club!!
To get this ~exclusive~ 5x7 print plus the monthly letter, you gotta join my Patreon snail mail tier by May 1st!
The mail tier is $15 CAD and is sent out on the 1st of each month.
I wanted to paint with some bright spring colours and make something cozy and cottagey - I'm going to the Cotswolds in May so this felt fitting!!
Hope you like it too 🥰
They're live! My three easy starter cross stitch project kits are now available on my online store for all you crafty folks who have been following along on my journey with them 🩷
Thank you so much to everyone who has helped troubleshoot, cheered me on, and expressed their interest in learning this fun craft with me!!! 🧵
Here are some notes on each to help you decide on the right kit for you:
- the lobster is the easiest of all bc only 3 colours and symmetrical! 🦞
- the puffin's belly is challenging because it's white on white, but adding the black is SO satisfying in return! 🐧
- the plover has the most colours and lots of tiny areas so you'll be rethreading your needle the most! 🐦
Ok hope that helps! Let me know if you have any questions 🩷 love ya!!
A couple pics from this weekend with my mom! If you didn't know, my mama, Marsha, runs @southshoreseasalt and you'll often find her at the booth next door to me at markets! She is my favourite person and we are pretty good at turning work weekends into fun adventures with yummy meals and very good memories.
My mom was the one who suggested I start a business when I left academia many years ago and it was a GOOD IDEA! Now we are both business owners and I am so proud of us.
I think my mom is extremely cool. She has a million good ideas, creative solutions for everything, and matches my infinite capacity for whimsy. I barely have to articulate a full idea and she already completely understands what I'm trying to say. And she's sooo funny. I just love her to bits.
Anyways that's my sappy post that she's going to tease me about!!!! I'm so lucky! Literally the luckiest sprout!!!
(Also I would really like to eat that gnocchi with burrata again!)
A couple booth photos from @makermarketpei ! I'm back home now but had a great time over on the island meeting SO many wonderful people and sharing cute art with everyone!
Some notable moments:
💖 people who had been following my journey making the new cross stitch kits stopping by to see them in person!
💖 customers buying something on Friday then stopping by again on Saturday wearing the thing they bought!
💖 hearing stories about other people's amazingly supportive parents after seeing my sign about my dad (and meeting my awesome mom @southshoreseasalt at the booth next door!)
💖 meeting other rabbit parents and showing them my live camera of Blueberry because I am insane
💖 meeting store owners and making new wholesale connections when I have sooo many cool new things to show them
💖 finding out which art prints people love the most from my new collection, because so many of them had never been tested at a show before!
Anyways I'll do another post about all the things I did for fun on this trip but thanks again to everyone who came out. I'm truly lucky to have a business that attracts the sweeties and kindest people, and never take for granted how magical it is that you choose to put my art in your home! Omg I love us!
I've been working hard on preparing my newest product: cross stitch kits! I'll be ready to reveal the final product photos next week but thought I'd log all these work-in-progress photos from my stories over the last couple months.
I have found cross stitch to be a really nice hobby that got me outside of my usual skillset (painting) and off my phone, using my hands and doing something that requires a different part of my brain. My favorite thing to do at the end of the day is sit with Blueberry, listening to an audiobook, and stitching away at a little cute pattern 🥰
I started designing my own patterns this year and was trying to figure out the best way to share them. I do have plans to share digital file patterns, but making kits felt like the right place to start. It has taken tons of research, trial and error, and mostly testing testing testing! I've finally settled on three sweet patterns to start - a puffin, a lobster, and a plover. Super east coast and easy designs to start with.
After I launch this initial collection, I'm going to expand to other designs - seasonal, themed, location-based, and more! I really love designing these and am so excited to continue. I hope you will give them a shot if you're also into crafts like me!!
Finally, I'm going to have these first 3 designs in my online shop and at @makermarketpei and @halifaxcrafters this spring (alongside my art prints and other usual products🩷) and then hopefully you'll be able to find them with some of my wonderful retail partners!
So stay tuned for more info and final photos and release dates!!! I hope you love these as much as I do! 🧵🪡
