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You're listening to the Preppy Podcast, and I'm your host, Patricia May Olsen.
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I'll be interviewing the brands, businesses, and influencers who are keeping the modern preppy lifestyle alive.
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Each Tuesday, I'll bring you a new episode, but if you're craving more preppy, then shop the merch and listen to past episodes at thepreppy podcast.com and be sure to follow at the preppy podcast and me, Patricia underscore May underscore Olsen on Instagram.
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It is just truly gorgeous.
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I am just looking outside of my window, which has a tree covered in beautiful yellow leaves.
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The temperature is amazing.
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I mean the coast is right here.
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It's just truly magical.
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I cannot wait to welcome campers today.
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We're gonna partake in a few days of our favorite preppy activities.
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And of course, I have an amazing gift bag filled with some of my favorite preppy brands for everyone.
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But this week I am thrilled because I have an amazing episode.
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It is with the artist Lara Dunn.
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She's known for her beautiful botanicals and florals and greenery that have such amazing detail.
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When we were recording our episode, I just couldn't help but look at the art behind her.
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It's so beautiful.
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And recently she introduced a line of tableware and fabric, which makes the perfect gift for the holidays, like napkins, cocktail napkins.
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Um, you can even get her prints now in fabric if you want to do pillows or curtains, whatever you want to do.
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I think it's so fun to include art in different ways in your home.
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Um, and I really enjoyed hearing about the inspiration, how she discovered her skill as an artist, and sort of narrowed in and defined what she would be known for, which is actually inspired by growing up surrounded by greenhouses and flowers and greenery.
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She just I just love that story.
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Her like painting the picture of what her childhood was like in the inspiration.
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So I think you guys are really going to enjoy this episode.
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And before we get into that though, just a reminder that we have our last Campreppy coming up at Barnesleve Resort, which is right outside of Atlanta.
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So super easy to get to, and it is all Christmas and holiday themed.
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The first time we're ever doing it.
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Um, I am so excited.
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So think all things festive like tartan and sequins and feathers.
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And we are going to be doing so many amazing activities like tablescaping with gains.
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We have mahjong with troop mahjong.
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I'm thrilled to announce that Casey Needlepoint is going to be our brand that we're collaborating with.
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Needlepoint.
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We have Dash Augusta teaching us some holiday glam, Holly Shea showing some holiday fashion styles.
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Uh, the Southern Sideboard is going to be doing a demonstration of cheese straws and all of the usual themes that you can expect.
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You know, I love leaning into a theme and a party.
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So, for example, our welcome party is cocktails, captains, and cocktail rings.
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But if you want more information, feel free to DM me or email me or find those tickets at the preppypodcast.com.
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We only have about five tickets left, so get those while you still can.
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I mean, I can't believe the end of November we'll be here in the blink of an eye.
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And finally, if you were interested in more of a monthly fun from your own home, then during Club Preppy.
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We do virtual events at least one per month.
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And my club members get exclusive gifts from me.
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So this month everyone got it for Pete's sake pottery, um, custom pumpkin in pink and green or orange, very preppy colors.
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Um, so you can find that information as well at thepreppypodcast.com.
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All right.
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Okay, so why don't you first let everyone know who you are, where you live, and what you do?
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Uh, my name is Laura Dunn.
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I'm a fine artist and a painter and a textile designer.
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I live in St.
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Simon's Island in Georgia.
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So way down um in South Georgia on the coast.
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Well, first of all, I am so jealous that you're in St.
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Simon's Island.
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It's just so gorgeous there.
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And we're looking to be the Southern Sea.
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Yes, yes.
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I've been to Southern Sea.
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And like I was saying before when we were off camera, um, it's so cold now here up in the northeast.
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It's like 40 degrees in the morning, and I'm sure it's probably warmer there, even if it's not warmer.
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At least it's like
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so beautiful on the coast.
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Well, right now it's raining, but it's okay.
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We could take, we'll take the rain for a little bit.
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Totally, of course.
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Um, and I just love these beautiful pieces of art behind you for those watching on YouTube.
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Um, you're just so talented and they really just pop.
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So I can't wait to learn more about you and your work and how you've grown the business and the new additions.
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But let's first start at the beginning.
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Tell me a little bit about you as a kid.
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What were you like?
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Were you into art or like maybe crafts back then?
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Were you entrepreneurial?
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Like what was your childhood like?
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Well, I was creative, but I wasn't necessarily an artist.
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I mean, I did, like every child, colors and draws, but I grew up on um a family business, a greenhouse business.
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Um, my parents owned this big commercial growing business where they did bedding plants and annuals and hanging baskets, and they sold to like all of your favorite garden centers.
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They were the ones that sold to the garden centers.
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So they would have huge greenhouses full of plants.
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And my kind of creative uh existence as a child was creative play.
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It was getting lost in the greenhouses or in the pro the property behind us.
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We had a big creek that we could go play in.
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So it was a lot of making up stories and uh adventures.
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And I actually was more of a writer as a kid than I was an artist.
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Um, so I feel like some of that has come back into play a little bit with you know the writing you have to do naturally to promote a business.
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But um, yeah, I was more of a dirty kid out in the way.
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But that sounds magical, like being surrounded by plants and flowers.
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It just sounds so beautiful and like a great childhood then.
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Yeah, we would have like so you know, when you go to church at Christmas and they're decorated with poinsettias, yeah.
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We grew the poinsettias that we've delivered to churches, and there's just nothing more magical at Christmas than a greenhouse absolutely full to the brim of all colors of poinsettias.
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Oh my gosh.
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Just that's one of like the real vivid memories that stands out, you know, when you're a kid and you're like this high, yeah, and everything you can see for as far as you can see is just color.
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It's amazing.
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That sounds so beautiful.
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And I can clearly see now then how it inspires your art because you do so much with botanicals and and flowers and greenery, um, which I'm sure is inspired by that.
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And I do like though what you said about you were into writing as a kid because I feel like writing is painting with words, essentially, right?
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So it makes sense to me, honestly.
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Yeah, I'm honest, and I think really my version of writing as a kid was to start describing where a story would take place, and then I wouldn't get any further than that.
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So it really was probably just writing, um, painting with words back then.
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Yeah, totally.
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Okay, so then tell me um, if you went to college, where and what did you end up studying?
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Was it something relating to, you know, art or marketing or writing?
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What was it?
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I actually went to school for interior design.
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So I attended a small women's college in Winston, Salem called Salem College.
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I actually listened to one of your past episodes, the woman who founded VATREE.
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Uh-huh.
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Um I don't know, don't know if I said that correctly, but she did a couple of years at Salem College.
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And so I thought that was so wonderful.
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But um it was a great experience.
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Women's colleges are not the same as this traditional college experience, but it was wonderful.
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And I met some of my very best friends um there.
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But yeah, I studied interior design.
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I had an aunt and a grandmother who had worked in that field, and I knew I wanted to be creative, but having grown up in a small business, I thought, oh, that looks way too hard.
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Yes.
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I don't ever want to own my own business.
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That looks like a lot of work.
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There's no weekends, there's no vacations, it's just work.
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So I want to work for someone else.
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So of course I was like, Flash forward now.
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Yeah, flash forward.
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And I'm like, oh, I get it now.
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It's not work, it's really fun.
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Oh funny.
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So,
how did you end up wanting to study interior design?
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Like, I it makes sense because it's so visual and compared to what you do now.
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Um, but I'm curious, did someone influence you or you kind of just wanted to work for someone else and thought this was something that was pretty to do as well?
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Yeah, I did love shelter magazines.
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Uh, you know, kind of back in the early days of Barnes and Noble when you would like that was the thing you did.
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There was no Amazon for buying books.
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You went and you just spent hours in a bookstore.
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I would sit in the magazine section just the entire time, just flipping through all the shelter mags I could get my hands on.
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And I just wanted to be part of making things that you could live in.
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I just love the idea of making a space beautiful that you could then live in and enjoy every day.
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And um of course, you know, work working in that industry is a little different than dreaming about it.
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But um, yeah, I just I like the idea of it's kind of like world building, really.
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That's a good point.
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And you know, it's so funny because I um I have like a certificate in interior design, and my friends, I have some friends who study interior design, and it's a lot harder, I think, than a lot of people realize.
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I say the same with fashion too, like it's a lot more, you know, numbers than I think people think, right?
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Um, so it's a harder field than you'd ever imagine.
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It is.
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I I like to say that interior design is like creative, a creative job for a type A personality.
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Because if you're not on top of your spreadsheets and you're not on top of your details, you are gonna get in big trouble fast.
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Yes.
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Oh my gosh, that's such a good point.
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So now tell me a little bit about then your career journey up until you know, discovering that you had this talent as an artist, getting into art.
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Um, what was what was that journey like?
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Sure.
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So I graduated from college and I wanted to stay in Winston-Salem.
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I had met um my boyfriend who became my husband, and I wanted to stay near him.
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Um, I could not find a job in interior design.
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I did not realize how important it was to have a network of people that you knew.
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And right out
of college, that is so hard.
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Yeah.
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Uh especially back then, it just, I don't know, it was just so different.
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Um finding those connections was a lot harder than it is now.
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So I took a job with a showroom.
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Um, I eventually ended up in on St.
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Simon's um running Dutchman's furniture store.
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If you've been to Highlands, anyone who's been to Highlands knows Dutchman's.
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So I got the job helping her manage the store down here.
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Okay.
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And so I transitioned into that.
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I did that for like six years, but it was a wonderful experience in terms of learning how to run a store, how to buy for a store.
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Um, and honestly learning about how customers interact in a store with product.
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Yeah.
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It was a lot almost like psychology, you know.
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You'd realize the thing that people brought people into the store was not the thing that they ended up leaving with.
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Yeah.
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So you just learn a lot about display and and all of that.
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So I that was a great experience.
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Okay.
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Um, but then of course, still had not gotten my residential interior design job that I had always dreamed of, but I so I eventually did get one down here.
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Okay.
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Worked for her for a few years, and I loved it.
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I did.
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Going to High Point is an amazing experience.
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Pulling art and rugs and fabrics and all of that for clients was amazing.
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But I just kept feeling like this isn't quite enough.
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Like I love these jobs, were so creative and so and like there was so much to learn that I was like, there's more in me.
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I just have more creative juice than I'm able to give.
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Okay.
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And after I had my second child, I decided to stay home and keep her with me.
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Okay.
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Which was a fortuitous decision because I decided that in January of 2020.
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Oh, wow.
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Okay.
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And I was like, I feel like I just knew what was about to happen.
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But that was the first time I now throughout all of those jobs, I was painting for myself.
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I would paint on the side just because I
loved to do it.
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I would just I didn't have any direction artistically.
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I'd like to take a picture of something and I'd try to paint it, or I'd just make something up as I went.
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Um, but when I decided, and I'd always had this like little nudge, like I'd love to be an artist, but that just seems really unrealistic.
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And I don't even have the first clue how to do this.
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It seems so hard.
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Um, and almost like a level of unknown I couldn't even fathom.
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Not to mention the confidence it takes to make something and put it out there.
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Yeah.
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So I kind of like I kept kind of feeding my own creative juices, but without really sharing it or doing anything with it.
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Okay.
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So once I stayed home with her, I was like, okay, this is it.
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It's now or never.
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And so that's when I just fully committed myself to first developing my style and my process.
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Okay.
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And I told myself from the beginning, I'm not worried about being successful in the next two years.
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I'm worried about being the best artist that I can be and making my work the best it can be.
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Um, and it was slow, so slow.
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I feel like that's with every business, though.
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I know.
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I've like, I have no stories of viral success for you.
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I have no stories of like aha moments.
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It was just like showing up every day and doing it, even though nobody told me to and nobody was asking for it.
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Um tell me then a little bit.
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You said that you were painting, you know, for fun all these years before.
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Um, and then really, once you decided you wanted to be, you know, an artist with a capital A, let's say, that then you were gonna really hone in, define your style, and get really good at it.
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So, how did you go about that?
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Like, how did you decide what you wanted your art to look like, what you wanted to be known for?
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Um, what was that process like?
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And sort of what was that that you wanted to be known for?
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And and people to like when I see that, I'm like, oh, that's your art.
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Like, I just know it.
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Did it come naturally because you were surrounded by greenhouses and beautiful flowers as a kid?
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Is that kind of what inspired me?
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I really enjoy talking about this part though.
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This was the fun part.
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So I really started with like, let's make this something I cannot avoid.
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I was like, if all I have is paper in my in my toddler's like tempera paint set, that's what I'm gonna use today.
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It was just a first, it was just make sure you show up and make something every day.
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And I already had a because I'd worked in creative industries, I had a pretty good sense of what my like what felt good, but I just didn't necessarily know how to make it happen on canvas or paper.
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So it was just a slow process of I'd I'd paint like a series of watercolors on paper, like abstract watercolors.
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I'd move on and I'd I'd say, well, what happens if I add this to it or add that to it?
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And then how do I take it from paper and put it on a canvas?
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And then um, I eventually landed on uh working on canvases that I stretch myself so that they can be absorbent to be similar to working with a watercolor on paper because it's not um uh it's it's a porous surface.
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Okay um, but it's I really it was definitely like on it was like pulling a thread on a sweater.
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It was like you just follow the next right thing.
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Um, what felt good in the last few pieces that you made, let's try and do it again, or let's try and do it differently um until I landed where I am now, which is you know, zoomed in blooms that are really detailed, but all the foliage is abstracted.
00:17:01.759 --> 00:17:16.559
Um, the ferns, I will say, if I had listened to some good artist advice about five years ago, I might have been further along because I had another artist that I was in a small group with say, you know, the ferns feel special.
00:17:16.720 --> 00:17:18.880
I think you should focus on those.
00:17:20.400 --> 00:17:27.759
But when I was doing markets, I started doing like one day or half day markets, like as soon as possible, just to get out.
00:17:28.000 --> 00:17:29.680
A, it was COVID and in St.
00:17:29.839 --> 00:17:31.759
Simon's, we didn't do COVID here.
00:17:32.079 --> 00:17:33.680
It was like, come on, y'all.
00:17:35.119 --> 00:17:37.680
We're not gonna be locked up inside, we're going out.
00:17:37.839 --> 00:17:50.240
Um, so we started doing half day markets as soon as possible just to get myself out, to like show people my work and to get that feedback because I didn't have a big social media following and still really don't have a huge one.
00:17:50.400 --> 00:17:50.640
Uh-huh.
00:17:50.880 --> 00:17:53.519
But I just needed eyeballs on it.
00:17:53.759 --> 00:18:03.440
And I
learned so much, but that's kind of what led me to more towards florals because when you're out and people like see the florals and they they're like, ooh, they go straight to it, right?
00:18:03.599 --> 00:18:04.079
Yes.
00:18:04.319 --> 00:18:11.200
So that kind of became what I did is I used the florals to like bring people in, but I was just slowly working on the ferns here and there.
00:18:11.359 --> 00:18:21.039
And then it sounds like you know, you referenced that when you um were working at that interior design store, that you know, there's something that brings people in, right?
00:18:21.200 --> 00:18:25.200
And that sounds like a skill that you developed there that now you even use today, right?
00:18:25.440 --> 00:18:27.599
Yeah, and it works great at markets too.
00:18:27.680 --> 00:18:34.319
You always want like one or two really big things that just that people can literally see from like 50 yards away.
00:18:34.400 --> 00:18:36.640
And they're like, wait, what's happening over there?
00:18:37.359 --> 00:18:38.880
I need to see that booth.
00:18:38.960 --> 00:18:40.160
I don't know what's going on.
00:18:40.400 --> 00:18:43.599
Um, so that's why I like the big azaleas that I have behind me.
00:18:43.680 --> 00:18:49.200
That's my big one that I'll put out front, and that people are they go straight to it.
00:18:49.279 --> 00:18:51.359
But then they get in there and they say, Oh, look, what is this?
00:18:51.440 --> 00:18:52.240
Oh, it's a fern.
00:18:52.400 --> 00:18:53.039
That's amazing.
00:18:53.200 --> 00:18:57.200
So I mean, that's I love that.
00:18:57.519 --> 00:19:16.960
So you mentioned also in that story, um, you know, another artist had given you some advice that you were part of a group, which I find that's so helpful, like finding a group to be part of, whether it's something like the Southern Sea or it's just, you know, a group of three friends of yours that also are entrepreneurs, but maybe in a completely different industry.
00:19:17.039 --> 00:19:26.079
Um, can you talk a little bit about some um groups or um people that have helped you in like how like community and how that's helped?
00:19:26.319 --> 00:19:35.200
Yeah, I I have been a part a lot, a lot of different groups, uh, because I I feel like every so often you need something a little different.
00:19:35.440 --> 00:19:38.799
Like what early on, I needed to know the basics.
00:19:38.960 --> 00:19:45.440
And at the time there was uh something called a studio source, and it was two artists that ran it.
00:19:45.599 --> 00:20:00.559
And I met some artists that I'm still friends with um online there, but that was the first one I ever did, and it was a bit more of a business program for artists, and it helped me do like some of the basics of website and commission setups and and that kind of thing.
00:20:00.720 --> 00:20:07.440
I've also been a part of the Art Queens in the past, which was great for that was that small group I was part of.
00:20:07.680 --> 00:20:17.519
Um and then I eventually had some one-on-one coaching for a little while because I got to where I was like, okay, I need somebody to just talk to about my stuff.
00:20:18.160 --> 00:20:20.079
So I worked with Haley Price.
00:20:20.160 --> 00:20:22.720
Um, she does the um art coaching club.
00:20:22.880 --> 00:20:23.200
Okay.
00:20:23.440 --> 00:20:25.839
And I worked with her for a while.
00:20:26.160 --> 00:20:40.319
And then I got to a certain point where I was like, I mean, I love my artist friends and the artist community is so wonderful and supportive, but I feel like I need just business in general, creative business of other kinds.
00:20:40.480 --> 00:20:49.039
I want to find inspiration and connections with businesses that are not necessarily other artists because it's just such an interesting cross-pollination, right?
00:20:49.279 --> 00:20:49.519
Yeah.
00:20:49.680 --> 00:20:57.759
Um, so that's why I joined the Southern Sea, is because I I all these founders are so creative, but they all do different things.
00:20:58.079 --> 00:21:02.400
And I that's always been like really inspirational to me.
00:21:02.720 --> 00:21:05.440
Yeah, it gets you another perspective, right?
00:21:05.599 --> 00:21:12.720
Because sometimes if you're just with people in your industry, you're so pigeonholed and and you can't see more abstractly, I feel like.
00:21:12.880 --> 00:21:23.519
Um the other thing I really like that you mentioned when you were first getting started is just showing up every day and painting or making something every day.
00:21:23.680 --> 00:21:35.359
Because I think that's something that applies to every business, and especially like even if you already have a business, but you're in a rut, like it's just showing up every day, doing it over and over again and finding a solution.
00:21:35.440 --> 00:21:50.319
Like I hear that a lot with people who um are trying to grow on social media and advice from others who are great on social media and have a large following is like you just have to keep showing up consistently and like trying things and something will stick, something will take off.
00:21:50.480 --> 00:21:54.240
Um, and I I think that's so true with so many things.
00:21:54.319 --> 00:21:59.599
Like, even writers, like just each day writing a little bit, even if you're uninspired, like you just need to kind.
00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:06.480
With keep that that skill sharp so that you can get better and you know find inspiration in it.
00:22:06.880 --> 00:22:08.079
Yeah, absolutely.
00:22:08.319 --> 00:22:17.039
Because the the thing, especially when I first started, so when COVID happened, I had a one-year-old and a four-year-old.
00:22:17.359 --> 00:22:23.200
And nothing teaches you how to make use of 10 minute pockets of time, like having two small children.
00:22:23.839 --> 00:22:29.599
And I feel like that's what a lot of people discount, these like tiny little blocks of time.
00:22:29.839 --> 00:22:40.799
And so when
you realize that even working on a giant painting, if you can just put in 30 minutes today, you will be amazed at how much can get done in that 30 minutes.
00:22:40.960 --> 00:22:41.839
It's not a waste.
00:22:42.000 --> 00:22:46.240
It's like don't don't not start at all just because you don't think you have enough time.
00:22:46.319 --> 00:22:48.000
You don't need hours and hours.
00:22:48.240 --> 00:22:52.400
Um, eventually the kids will be bigger and you will have hours and hours.
00:22:53.119 --> 00:22:54.000
Totally.
00:22:54.240 --> 00:23:00.880
Okay, so it sounds like you know, you launched um and started going to these markets to sell your art.
00:23:01.279 --> 00:23:10.960
And then how did you decide when when was time to start a website, so start social media and growing that customer base, so not a hyper local then?
00:23:11.680 --> 00:23:14.720
I really started everything all at once.
00:23:14.880 --> 00:23:15.200
Okay.
00:23:15.839 --> 00:23:23.279
Uh when I stayed home, uh actually my website I started um during COVID.
00:23:23.359 --> 00:23:27.279
Like that was one of the first things I did was I I grabbed my domain.
00:23:27.519 --> 00:23:30.160
But prior to that, I had had an Etsy shop.
00:23:30.319 --> 00:23:31.519
It just didn't stick.
00:23:31.680 --> 00:23:38.480
I just found the interface very non-user friendly and it was just very cumbersome for me.
00:23:38.640 --> 00:23:38.880
Okay.
00:23:39.039 --> 00:23:44.000
Um, so I started that and my social media all at the same time.
00:23:44.319 --> 00:23:55.119
Just kept, I found it a lot easier to just snap a few pictures and share it on social than the like laborious website stuff.
00:23:55.279 --> 00:23:57.759
So I would work on the website here and there.
00:23:58.160 --> 00:24:06.160
And especially even now, I still do everything myself, which is, you know, a lot of people have to do.
00:24:06.240 --> 00:24:15.200
And so I just again, it's like, okay, I'm just gonna update this amount of my website here and there, and just it's just always happening, right?
00:24:15.359 --> 00:24:18.160
It's never, it's never done.
00:24:18.319 --> 00:24:34.319
Um, but I found when I finally broke down and paid for some real photography, I feel like that made the biggest impact on a my social media, of course, but upgraded the website like without doing anything else.
00:24:34.559 --> 00:24:43.759
Um and so that, especially for artists, I mean, but any product now, the the high quality photography is just worth its weight in gold.
00:24:43.920 --> 00:24:46.079
It's the best money I spend all year.
00:24:46.400 --> 00:24:54.960
Everything is so visual these days, whether someone's looking on a website or social media, that you need those images to really stand out and people to remember them.
00:24:55.119 --> 00:24:59.279
So those high-res professional photography images really make the difference.
00:25:00.240 --> 00:25:03.920
Um, now I know you also have textiles.
00:25:04.000 --> 00:25:12.400
So, how did you decide to also add that in and get into the whole textile world um with your beautiful fabrics and and rugs?
00:25:12.720 --> 00:25:13.200
Yes.
00:25:13.359 --> 00:25:19.200
Okay, so well let's talk about the rug first because that was a TSC um collaboration.
00:25:19.359 --> 00:25:19.680
Okay.
00:25:20.079 --> 00:25:28.559
Met Mary George through of the Southern Sea and on a whim, reached out to her and was like, Oh my gosh, I had no idea you did rugs.
00:25:28.640 --> 00:25:31.119
Cause at the time she was doing more uh clothing.
00:25:31.680 --> 00:25:39.200
And I found her rug page and she was like, Oh, well, if you want to do rug collaboration, I'm ready when you are.
00:25:39.359 --> 00:25:41.839
I was like, uh yes, please, and thank you.
00:25:42.559 --> 00:25:56.640
So I spent some time pulling colors for the rug that came directly out of my artwork, and we created this beautiful design together that's traditional Ushak design, but using uh my signature colors.
00:25:57.119 --> 00:26:03.279
Um, but while I was doing that, I decided to also do some fabrics, which I'm just getting ready to launch.
00:26:03.519 --> 00:26:07.039
Fabrics have always been a dream of mine.
00:26:07.200 --> 00:26:13.359
I mean, that's I feel like every interior designer, every little girl that grows up loving interior design loves fabric, right?
00:26:14.240 --> 00:26:28.240
Um, and when I was at the design firm, I was always disappointed in the fact that they'd have maybe a token fabric here and there that was very painterly, like looked like it had brush marks to it.
00:26:28.480 --> 00:26:28.799
Okay.
00:26:29.279 --> 00:26:32.000
And I would get really excited about those fabrics.
00:26:32.079 --> 00:26:33.839
And I'm like, why is there like two?
00:26:34.160 --> 00:26:36.559
Why aren't there like a whole line of these?
00:26:36.799 --> 00:26:37.359
I love this.
00:26:37.519 --> 00:26:41.039
It looks like someone literally painted on the fabric, and that's what I wanted.
00:26:41.200 --> 00:26:44.000
And I just no one really did it.
00:26:44.240 --> 00:26:51.759
Um, so when I finally got around to learning how to do it myself, that felt the most natural.
00:26:51.920 --> 00:26:53.039
Like it felt the easiest.
00:26:53.200 --> 00:26:55.359
I kind of again taking the path of least resistance.
00:26:55.440 --> 00:27:04.720
I was like, well, what feels easy is digitizing just like a sweep of a brush stroke on a piece of that was um how I got started.
00:27:05.039 --> 00:27:12.240
And so I've just started gradually adding to it because I'm like, I want paint, I want fabric that looks like an artist painted on it.
00:27:12.400 --> 00:27:16.880
I don't want fabric that's like really I like big bold patterns.
00:27:17.119 --> 00:27:20.640
Um, I like really vibrant color.
00:27:20.880 --> 00:27:22.799
And so that's what I just started going for.
00:27:22.880 --> 00:27:25.200
And I actually Mary George was very sweet.
00:27:25.279 -->
00:27:30.240
I showed her some of my fabrics when we first got started, and she was like, oh my gosh, I love those.
00:27:30.319 --> 00:27:31.759
I feel like I don't see that anywhere.
00:27:31.839 --> 00:27:33.920
And I was like, thank you.
00:27:34.880 --> 00:27:36.799
Like, that's exactly what I needed to hear.
00:27:38.240 --> 00:27:41.680
Um, so yeah, I I just decided that I had to do it.
00:27:41.839 --> 00:27:53.680
It took me a while to find a vendor that I really loved because because I had worked in interior design, so I knew what high quality fabric should feel like and should look like.
00:27:54.000 --> 00:28:00.640
And I've there's plenty of print-on-demand options out there, and I just wasn't thrilled with the quality.
00:28:00.799 --> 00:28:08.000
So I finally found someone in South Carolina who was doing really great fabrics, and they were very helpful, especially when I was new.
00:28:08.079 --> 00:28:12.640
They were so sweet and kind of held my hand through the whole process.
00:28:13.039 --> 00:28:16.160
I kept saying, sorry, I'm sorry, I don't know what I'm doing.
00:28:16.799 --> 00:28:18.640
And they were so nice about it.
00:28:18.880 --> 00:28:34.079
Um, but yeah, and the fabrics are something that I also was like, as a person who loves designer fabric, I also understand that not everyone can afford designer fabric everywhere, right?
00:28:34.400 --> 00:28:37.440
Custom pillows and custom draperies are wonderful.
00:28:37.519 --> 00:28:39.680
And if you can invest in them, do it.
00:28:39.920 --> 00:28:44.880
But if not, I was like, well, it's just a shame that you don't get to use those fabrics every day.
00:28:45.039 --> 00:28:48.640
Like I want, I want to use them in my everyday life.
00:28:48.880 --> 00:28:55.519
And that's where I kind of was like, you know, I love a good cloth napkin.
00:28:56.160 --> 00:28:59.759
And I started looking around, like, okay, maybe somebody's done this.
00:28:59.920 --> 00:29:01.359
I don't need to do this, right?
00:29:01.519 --> 00:29:02.960
I don't need to make this.
00:29:03.200 --> 00:29:07.279
But I just I looked and shopped and I couldn't find anything just right.
00:29:08.160 --> 00:29:10.880
And so I was like, okay, I think I have to make these.
00:29:11.119 --> 00:29:18.240
So I'm about to launch a line of dinner napkins and cocktail coasters out of these fabrics.
00:29:18.480 --> 00:29:18.799
Okay.
00:29:19.039 --> 00:29:23.839
It's just a great way to use that little colorful piece of fabric in everyday life.
00:29:24.000 --> 00:29:27.759
I just, I, you know, you make a piece of toast and stand in the kitchen and eat it.
00:29:27.920 --> 00:29:28.240
Yeah.
00:29:28.720 --> 00:29:30.240
I pull out a fabric napkin.
00:29:30.480 --> 00:29:32.400
Yeah, it elevates the everyday.
00:29:32.880 --> 00:29:37.599
An extra special piece of toast that day, you know, like these little crackers that you carry to the porch.
00:29:37.759 --> 00:29:41.519
It's, you know, little things like that that I have always loved.
00:29:41.599 --> 00:29:53.759
You know, my retail background was also important in showing me how unique it is to find home decor items that are really truly special and that have that artistic touch to them.
00:29:54.079 --> 00:30:00.000
Of course, back then, artist lines and of home decor were not nearly as prevalent as they are now.
00:30:00.160 --> 00:30:04.319
I'm I love, absolutely love that artists are making all the things.
00:30:04.559 --> 00:30:10.240
Um, but I I just decided I had to jump in and make one of the things.
00:30:10.559 --> 00:30:14.000
I love it how it turned into a whole lifestyle line now.
00:30:14.160 --> 00:30:18.240
Um, and there's something then at all different price points, really, right?
00:30:18.400 --> 00:30:29.920
Like you could get a ton of fabric and make gorgeous drapes, custom drapes, or you could have these little cocktail napkins that um are you're having, you know, with your wine and cheese later.
00:30:30.079 --> 00:30:31.440
So I think that's so smart.
00:30:31.599 --> 00:30:37.440
So tell us then about um the textiles and these little home decor pieces.
00:30:37.680 --> 00:30:40.160
What what are the colorways?
00:30:40.319 --> 00:30:42.160
Um, what do they sort of look like?
00:30:42.319 --> 00:30:44.000
Do you have any with you by any chance right now?
00:30:44.720 --> 00:30:45.200
Oh, perfect.
00:30:46.799 --> 00:30:49.599
Um, so I will show you the the coasters first.
00:30:49.839 --> 00:30:50.160
Okay.
00:30:50.480 --> 00:30:58.240
So they're um yeah, this is a palette knife stripe, so it's like aqua, but it has like this peach um surging on the edge.
00:30:58.400 --> 00:31:00.799
It is I love the contrast of them.
00:31:01.119 --> 00:31:01.680
Yeah.
00:31:01.920 --> 00:31:08.799
And then so I have this violet, it is one of my favorite colors to use, and it has a green um edge on it.
00:31:09.039 --> 00:31:09.359
Yep.
00:31:09.599 --> 00:31:12.880
And then a classic blue and white, because you have to have blue and white, right?
00:31:13.119 --> 00:31:13.599
Totally.
00:31:13.839 --> 00:31:15.680
So those are the three coasters.
00:31:16.000 --> 00:31:18.640
And then I have more than just three in the napkin.
00:31:18.880 --> 00:31:20.559
So the blue and white dinner napkin.
00:31:20.799 --> 00:31:21.759
Oh, pretty.
00:31:22.000 --> 00:31:23.039
It's really fun.
00:31:23.920 --> 00:31:26.880
Um, this is a bigger pattern.
00:31:27.119 --> 00:31:30.079
So to really see the whole thing, you have to pull it out like this.
00:31:30.240 --> 00:31:30.559
Okay.
00:31:30.799 --> 00:31:34.000
But when you I love all the different colors there, it like ties them all together.
00:31:34.240 --> 00:31:34.480
Yeah.
00:31:34.559 --> 00:31:37.680
So this is the one that I did based on the rug that we had designed.
00:31:38.079 --> 00:31:42.319
Um, so you know, you fold it up different ways and you get a different napkin every time.
00:31:43.039 --> 00:31:48.799
Um, but then of
course, then the the violet and the mint napkins.
00:31:49.119 --> 00:31:50.559
The violet is so pretty.
00:31:50.640 --> 00:31:53.759
I think violet for this fall is like everywhere.
00:31:53.920 --> 00:31:59.440
You know, normally I don't think of it as a fall color, but it's it's really popular this fall, especially in fashion.
00:31:59.680 --> 00:32:04.240
Yeah, and it goes well with like olive green and those burt umber colors.
00:32:04.400 --> 00:32:07.599
It's a nice contrast, some traditional fall colors.
00:32:07.759 --> 00:32:12.319
And then um, this is one of my original print designs too, the pink and green.
00:32:12.480 --> 00:32:14.240
So very preppy.
00:32:14.880 --> 00:32:17.440
Yes, very preppy podcast.
00:32:17.680 --> 00:32:20.400
Um, but yeah, that's one of the first ones I did.
00:32:20.880 --> 00:32:22.319
So yeah.
00:32:22.799 --> 00:32:23.759
Those are gorgeous.
00:32:23.839 --> 00:32:25.279
I love all the colors.
00:32:25.440 --> 00:32:30.640
Um, and I love how they complement your, you know, your art, your canvas art so well.
00:32:31.039 --> 00:32:34.880
So actually, then while we're there, what does preppy mean to you?
00:32:35.039 --> 00:32:40.480
We just showed a preppy little napkin, but I'm curious, how would you describe preppy?
00:32:41.039 --> 00:32:47.279
So I think when you relate, I think most people think preppy and they think clothing in some way.
00:32:47.680 --> 00:32:57.039
But if you're gonna pull it into the home decor world, to me, it is about quality and craftsmanship over trends.
00:32:57.359 --> 00:33:19.359
Um I like the the idea that preppy is more about honoring um your own family heritage, like hand-me-down furniture and uh art that comes from other people in your family down through um generations, and less about what can I buy quickly on Amazon to fill a spot.
00:33:19.519 --> 00:33:32.319
You know, I to me, I would rather buy something a little wonky secondhand than something that's cheaply made overseas, yeah, wherever possible.
00:33:32.720 --> 00:33:36.960
Um, so to that's to me, that's what preppy is really about.
00:33:37.119 --> 00:33:51.839
It's you know, when it started out as clothing, you know, it's about kind of an inspirational, um, almost uh like to me it's very New England, but if you're gonna make, but it can be very personal too.
00:33:52.079 --> 00:33:55.920
It's very you know, it's like good bones, right?
00:33:56.079 --> 00:34:01.519
Like all those pieces, they're you know, historic or they have special personal meaning behind them.
00:34:01.599 --> 00:34:03.519
Um and they have these these great bones.
00:34:03.599 --> 00:34:06.319
So I totally, totally hear that.
00:34:06.640 --> 00:34:10.239
Now, who would be a dream customer of yours?
00:34:10.400 --> 00:34:16.159
Like if you could have your art in anyone's home or your textiles, your rugs, um, who would that be?
00:34:17.039 --> 00:34:18.880
Okay, I have lots.
00:34:19.760 --> 00:34:20.559
Let's hear it.
00:34:21.199
--> 00:34:28.880
As an artist and uh a textile designer, I have a my dream interior designer to work with would be Isabel Ladd.
00:34:29.119 --> 00:34:32.960
Oh, because her use of color and pattern is absolutely fabulous.
00:34:33.119 --> 00:34:35.760
Um, so she would be a dream designer to work with.
00:34:35.840 --> 00:34:36.000
Okay.
00:34:36.159 --> 00:34:41.360
If I was gonna pick a celebrity to work with, it would have to be Reese Witherspoon.
00:34:41.519 --> 00:34:41.840
Oh, yeah.
00:34:42.159 --> 00:34:52.159
She's just got the right, like bold but like fun personality for any of the artwork or the textiles.
00:34:52.400 --> 00:34:54.400
Yeah, she's a classic Southern woman.
00:34:54.559 --> 00:34:55.599
Yes, absolutely.
00:34:55.920 --> 00:35:06.800
And I love Isabelle, like her art, like her designs and work are just so colorful, so vibrant, so happy, um, but still like classic in a way, too.
00:35:06.960 --> 00:35:07.519
I feel like.
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Yep.
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What um are there any like pinch me moments or something you're really proud of with the business?
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I mean, obviously launching textiles is a huge one, but anything else?
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Uh yeah, I do have a few.
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Actually, there was um okay, in 2023, I had submitted my artwork to be in a magazine, the Arts to Hearts magazine.
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It's an independent publication.
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So a lot of artists, if there's artists listening, would have heard of it.
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But there was an issue being curated by Liz Lidget of Liz Lidget Gallery.
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And she is just a a force in the art world and such a force for good in the world in general.
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And she actually pulled, picked my work to go in that episode, that issue, sorry, not episode issue.
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And I just was like, oh my gosh, that's like the biggest validation in terms of like what I'm doing is good, and someone out there sees that it's good.
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Um, so that was massive.
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Um also something that I kind of it was pinch me, but I also was really just proud of myself for making it happen was I reached out to a local arts organization and organized my own solo show in 2025.
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I was like, you know, I wanted to do it, but no one again, another story of no one was asking me to do this.
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I didn't have galleries knocking down my door, like, hey, Laura, please do a show for us.
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So um I was really proud of that.
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It was a good reason for me to like go bigger with my work up until that point.
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I had stayed to the medium side of um of my pieces, mainly for storage purposes.
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Um,
you know, I don't have a lot of places to put big paintings.
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So it was a good reason to make myself go out of my comfort zone there.
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And it's just in general, just really satisfying to see an entire space filled with just your own work.
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Um so that was really exciting.
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And then um earlier this year, I did a show in Jacksonville um called A Vision for Art.
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It's a fundraiser show for uh the Episcopal School in Jacksonville, and it was the first time I sold out all of my fern pieces that I sent to them.
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Um, I was blown away.
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So that was my most recent.
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That was wonderful.
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Those are all just such amazing pinch me moments.
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You should be so proud of them.
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Like, congratulations on all of those.
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Thank you.
00:37:44.239 --> 00:37:47.199
So, final question: any sneak peeks?
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Um, but can you maybe give us some dates for these textile launches?
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Any shows you're doing maybe that people should check out?
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Um, yeah.
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So at the end of this month, October 24th, I'll be at the Isle of Hope Art and Music Festival, which is up in Savannah.
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Um, I will be launching the textiles uh that same weekend.
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Um that'll be online because these are really small batch made.
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It they are actually the napkins themselves are fabricated locally.
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So I'm not ordering a big stock of product from overseas or anything like that.
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So I'm gonna take pre-orders for those starting that October 24th weekend.
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Um, and so you know, that'll be posted on my social media and all of that when that comes up.
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But yeah, and then another show in Savannah, I think that one is November 14th.
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Okay.
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Um I started doing shows in Savannah last year or the year before, actually, and it's a fabulous town for the arts.
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And they are those people show up even if it's raining.
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It's a wonderful, a wonderful community.
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That's so amazing.
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Okay, we're gonna put October 24th then on our calendars for those textile pieces.
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Okay, lastly, where can people find you?
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Where can they um follow on Instagram, shop, anything to support you?
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Yeah, so my website is maclucile.com.
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I named my studio after my paternal grandparents.
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Um, so it's uh m-a-c l-c-i-l-l-e.com.
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And then my Instagram is also MacLucille.
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Um, that's where everything you can find me under everything.
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Perfect.
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Um C P C.
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Well, I love chatting with you today, Laura.
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This was such a pleasure.
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Um, and just even staring at your beautiful art during this recording the whole time was so lovely.
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Thank you.
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This was so fun.
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