Hi Reader, How are you?

I wanted to send you a quick update from the week. I've added some new things in my shop this week, as I've been trying to update it for the holidays. Speaking of the Holidays, they are sneaking up faster than you probably realize. There are only 61 days until Christmas. 😱 I bring this up to let you know that I am fully booked on projects right now, I have several to finish up before my upcoming travels and then several last minute original painting commissions for Christmas gifts in December. So I won't be taking on any more commissions until the new year.

So if you'd like a custom painting in early 2027, let me know!

What's new in the shop?

ADVENT CALENDARS

My popular advent calendar that I sell every year is back and filled with a variety of nature inspired designs: hiking, flowers, bears, bugs, & more.

Get yours

Y'all know how much I love hippos, and since you do too, I added a hippo specific advent calendar! Every day will have a different hippo sticker.

Get yours

The wildlife sticker advent calendar includes only animals (no flowers or hiking inspired stickers). It's for the animal lovers who can't choose a favorite animal!

Get yours

Greeting Cards:

I designed a variety of fun holiday cards last year, and you loved them so I've just re-listed them in the shop for this year.

Show me the cards!

Mystery Animals:

Blind Date With An Animal

Adopt a mystery original 4x4” watercolor painting by me.

You’ll receive one animal painting, chosen at random and wrapped like a mystery adoption. The identity of your animal won’t be revealed until you open your envelope.

Each envelope will contain a different animal.

Collect yours here

(these also make amazing gifts!!) I only have a limited number of these, and have already sold 10 since I listed them this week!

A couple more shop updates:

Pygmy Hippo Washi is officially BACK IN STOCK! This sold out last time. :o
America has a new National Park, so I decided to paint it & add it to my National Park Collection!
Last week I celebrated World Okapi Day by donating 20% of the sales from my shop to The Okapi Conservation Project & y'all are amazing and I donated over $200. Thank you so much for the support & helping me give back to wildlife through art.

Okay, now, I have another update for you (so many updates, I know!) about the collection that my art bestie Briana and I are creating!

As you know my friend Bri & I are collaborating on 400 paintings and we're nearly there. We have a lot of work still ahead of us, but this project is coming together beautifully. I'm painting every day and putting all of my heart into each one!

Our Collection launches November 20th!!

We have big dreams of selling out all 400 paintings, we know that's a big goal, but it would be so incredible and we've put so much passion into every painting and we just know that you're going to love them! 🤗

If you have a fave piece already, as an email subscriber, you can claim first dibs on your favorite minis NOW. We won't be launching the full collection publicly to our 170,000+ followers on socials until November 20th, but you can adopt any you have your eye on right now!

These 40+ have already been collected: (Thank you SO MUCH!)

Here are the paintings that we've both created in the last week:

We painted 35 minis in just the last week. I painted a few mini hippos, so you know I'm excited about those! woohoo! 🦛🦛🦛

So if you already see one or more that you want to claim before anyone else does, then directly reply to this email and tell me which one(s) you want from us and I’ll send you a custom order link. 🤗

Here’s some important info.

#1 The minis you order will not be shipped until after the collection releases in November because Bri and I need them all until then so we can piece them together for the bigger painting they will all create unitedly.

#2 Here is the pricing for the minis:

1 mini = $75 USD

2-3 minis = $70 each

4-9 minis = $65 each

10+ minis = $65 each with a free 8” x 8” print of the whole collection pieced together.

#3 All orders of original paintings will ship free in the USA 🇺🇸

#4 For International orders, we recommend budgeting approx. around $25-$35 USD for shipping costs.

#5 It's first come, first serve. Once you let us know which painting you want, we'll send you a custom listing. You'll have a grace period of 3 days after we send the listing to pay, but after that those paintings are back up for grabs to our email subscribers.

Thank you all very much for the excitement you’ve been expressing for Briana's and my collaboration 🥰🥰 We are so grateful for you all 🫂 🫂

I'm at 160 mini paintings completed! That's 40 more to go, so if you have anything you'd like to see me paint, hit reply and tell me! It could end up in the collection, ya never know. ;)