Southern Seeds

Michael's very gifted artistically. He can pretty much paint anything. When we lived in North Carolina, he did a few murals and paintings for people there. We never really gave it much thought at the time about doing it on the side to bring in some income. Mainly because he was already working and going to seminary at the same time.

The idea of Southern Seeds didn't really first come about until I was expecting Micah (about 3 years ago). While planning Micah's nursery, I knew I wanted Michael to paint something for Micah's room. We came up with the canvas below. A canvas like this bought from a store would likely cost around $75-$80.

When several friends saw the painting, they joked about how we should sell similar paintings. We threw around the idea, but the timing wasn't right. But, this led to more and more paintings for Micah's room and more encouragement from some friends to sell Michael's paintings. 

Then, when we found out I was expecting Asher, we knew we needed to move Micah to our guest bedroom and turn it into his big boy room so we could keep the nursery for Asher. We came up with the baseball theme for his room and added a baseball canvas. A friend saw the painting and asked us to do a football canvas for her son, so we did! 

Once we had Micah switched over to his new room, we started on Asher's room. Of course, I wanted Michael to paint something special for Asher too. 

So, we got a little carried away painting!  I always came up with the design and then Michael carried out the plan. And again, the idea to start sharing our creations with others came up. But again, the timing didn't seem right. We had a toddler and one on the way and the thought to add more to our plate at the time was a little overwhelming.

But, when Asher was about 6 months old and we had a pretty good routine down with the boys, we knew that it would be a good time to bring our idea of Southern Seeds to light. We prayed about it and talked about how it would work, so that we weren't adding too much more on Michael's already busy schedule. We figured out how I could help more so that Michael was not carrying the load. And with Christmas coming up, we knew that it was a good time to see how Southern Seeds could do. We started with Christmas door hangers, knowing they were big sellers around this time. We were so excited to see how well they sold and how many of our friends supported and encouraged us. Even if they weren't able to purchase anything at the time, just by liking our Southern Seeds Facebook page and our posts helped us spread the word about what we were doing and that was a tremendous way to support us! 

Some of our Christmas door hangers

We sold several of the Christmas door hangers but we also had several customers purchase items for Christmas gifts.  We have been very blessed with the ability to finally make Southern Seeds more than a thought and idea floating around in our heads and are excited to see where God takes us on this new journey! 

Some other projects we have completed

Check out our other projects and like our Facebook page at Facebook.com/southernseeds. We are working on an actual website too! Our website is under construction but will be coming soon!