Today I am joined by Jessica Peddicord! Filling homes with color and whimsy, Simply Jessica Marie offers classic prints and florals, city art prints, personality-packed heirloom family crests and thoughtful watercolor gifts.

Founded in August 2013, Simply Jessica Marie’s Lifestyle Shop provides charming, high-quality products that fill each day with beauty, ranging from watercolor art prints to personalized stationery, calendars, wallpaper and more.

The creative business also features the Crest Bar, bringing the stories of couples, families and businesses to life through cherished crests personalized with hand-painted floral, color, monogram and icon selections and transformed into investment pieces that last a lifetime.

Simply Jessica Marie is founded and owned by Jessica Peddicord, a Grandmillennial watercolor artist, crest designer and mama to two who is dedicated to preserving family memories and decorating intentionally.

In this episode we chat about her journey to becoming an artist, her crest bar, resources for other artists, and so much more!

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East TN Children's Hospital

Etsy Class

Watercolor Classes

Digitizing Watercolors

Vendor Guide

Today I am joined by Suzanne Cunningham! Suzanne is a professional calligrapher with 32 years of experience. She was co-editor of the 25th edition Speedball Textbook and is a Calligraphy Masters team member. Suzanne has taught in-person workshops with numerous guilds throughout the country. She currently teaches a variety of online classes through learncalligraphy.com. She specializes in flourished Copperplate script, wedding invitation designs, and monograms.

In this episode Suzanne and I talk about how she got her start in calligraphy, what her 30+ year career in calligraphy has looked like, her tips for getting started with calligraphy, and so much more! Y'all are going to love Suzanne!

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Ariel Sullivan is the author of Conform and Beneath. She lives in Connecticut with her husband, two sons, and their two French bulldogs. Growing up a military brat, Ariel moved every two years as a perpetual new kid; Ariel often observed from the outskirts, where a deep love of reading was born. When she isn’t writing, Ariel loves to read everything from poetry to psychology, bake with her sons, listen to live music, and travel.

In this episode, Ariel and I talk about how she came up with the idea for Conform, why it is a trilogy of trilogies, the art of writing a love triangle, her best writing advice, her new book Beneath, and so much more!

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