Taking the leap w/ Casey of Love Your Mother
JEWELRY & WEARABLE ACCESSORIES • HANDMADE WITH HAND-PICKED FLOWERS
This story begins with —
A pair of homemade earrings for a best friend’s birthday… that has now become so much MORE!
A chat with Casey
on the beginnings of Love Your Mother
It’s cool. Life is weird.
Sometimes you just have to take the leap and the doors open.
That’s how I feel.
Like everyday I feel so lucky, I just feel so lucky to be able to do this.
Yeah! I get to sell art for a living.
It’s something I said I was going to do since I was like a kid and now I’m doing it.
Now I’m almost 30 and I’m doing it.
Everybody can, that’s the beautiful thing about America. You can’t be a woman and do this anywhere else. You really can’t.
So, how’d you start?
So, my best friend’s birthday, we lived in Florida at the time, and I had my husband’s surfboard resin epoxy just laying around. Decided I was going to make her a pair of earrings and then I made myself some cuz they were so stinkin’ cute.
And then I was bartending at the time. Wore them to work and some lady wanted to buy them out of my ears.
And I cried and I’m like ‘Oh, god. Okay, this is a thing.’
And then I would start bringing a few pairs to work with me. And people would ask about my earrings and I’d say, ‘well I have a few here.’
And then within 6-weeks I had to get an LLC. A couple local boutiques wanted them.
Then we moved to Colorado and started a whole garden and started doing markets and just shipping to stores across the country.
I’m in 16 stores across the United States right now.
Yeah. It’s cool! It’s really cool.
So like the flowers, everything keeps growing and growing.
It’s really dumb, but it’s so beautiful! It’s all like this giant metaphor and I just love it.
How does it feel at this point?
I feel like I’m in a dream, because I didn’t think that I was going to leave my bartending job.
And I didn’t know what I was going to do, because we have kids.
And I didn’t want to bartend. I didn’t want to like just sit there and get disrespected by men all the time. I didn’t want to do that forever. I didn’t want to be one of those 70-year old ladies still working at the bar.
And I didn’t want to go back to school. I already went to school, did all that. Didn’t want to do the things I went to school for.
It just doesn’t feel real. It just doesn’t, that I get to wake up and spend one-on-one time with my family. Things I didn’t get to do when I was bartending.
And now I get to sell my art for a living.
It just feels like I’m living in a dream. Cuz every day something else cool happens! I’m like, Oh god! Me?! Okay!
I took the leap and then all kinds of doors are opening for me.
You are sitting here interviewing me and I had someone else email me that they saw me on a brewery that posted me. I did a pop-up at Walburgs and they posted me and then so I got another email saying that they want to do an interview for up-and-coming entrepreneurs.
It’s just weird and cool that people want to talk to me about the flowers.
So yeah, that’s my story.
Image courtesy of Love Your Mother
Thanks Casey! ❤︎ Maker of More