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Lori // Papermill Creative @papermillcreative.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Carnivorous plant sticker out now! 🪰 www.papermillcreative.com/product/carn...

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Lori // Papermill Creative @papermillcreative.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Painting carnivorous plants and listening to Dolly Parton this evening 💙🦋

The beginnings of a watercolor painting of carnivorous plants: maroon pitcher plant flowers surround a circular watercolor palette

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Lori // Papermill Creative @papermillcreative.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Went out painting! I could have been a little less literal capturing how muddy the river is.

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Lori // Papermill Creative @papermillcreative.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Art out here imitating life with my new design's color palette

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Lori // Papermill Creative @papermillcreative.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

This little study is my first painting of the year! I'm working on simplifying shapes and being a little less literal. #pleinair #watercolor

I'm holding a small painting of bare winter trees reflected in still water

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Lori // Papermill Creative @papermillcreative.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

I painted some cute lil Durham ornaments that I'll have at the rest of my markets this year 💚

I'm holding a wood slice ornament painted with a green and pink design inspired by Scandinavian folk art. A floral pattern surrounds a white Durham water tower. Durham is written on a pink banner at the bottom.

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Lori // Papermill Creative @papermillcreative.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

With the Durham Craft Market, I'm honoring those impacted by Hurricane Helene one year ago by raising money for ongoing rebuilding efforts in Western North Carolina. I've made a limited run of this watercolor painting I made of the mountains outside of Asheville ♥️ You can grab one from my website!

I'm holding a watercolor painting I made of the Blue Ridge Mountains

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Lori // Papermill Creative @papermillcreative.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I saw the stars with very little light pollution this weekend for the first time in a long time, and my husband took this picture of the Big Dipper (and I think the northern lights too?)

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Lori // Papermill Creative @papermillcreative.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Just my printer running in the background! 😆

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Lori // Papermill Creative @papermillcreative.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

No, for this I was using reference pictures I had taken

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Lori // Papermill Creative @papermillcreative.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Work in progress Wednesday 🌻 It is Wednesday, right?

A half finished watercolor painting of yellow sunflowers and pink cosmos sits on a desk surrounded by art supplies.

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Lori // Papermill Creative @papermillcreative.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

I made a silly little sticker. Keep up the work and keep up the treats that make you feel like it's worth it ✨

This sticker says "feeling fancy" in script font on a periwinkle background, and is surrounded by fancy little treats like Milano cookies, Ferraro rocher chocolates, and Bonne Maman strawberry preserves.

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Lori // Papermill Creative @papermillcreative.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Wow, this is gorgeous! What cute names they have in Dutch too 🤗

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Lori // Papermill Creative @papermillcreative.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Love seeing local folks pop up on here! Also love this collection ♥️

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Lori // Papermill Creative @papermillcreative.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

First market of the year today at NCMA! I always feel so rusty after the holidays, like I forget how to put my booth up and also how to interact with people

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Lori // Papermill Creative @papermillcreative.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I was shocked!! October Forever was featured too!

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Lori // Papermill Creative @papermillcreative.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Welp guess I'll be using my slightly damaged postcard inventory to write my reps! Seems like a good way to use up stock I can't sell... and I can't miss out on using a UNC Chapel Hill design to advocate for preserving NIH funding.

I'm holding a few postcards with a design of Wilson Library at UNC Chapel Hill

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Lori // Papermill Creative @papermillcreative.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Update from the snowfall and my pine drawing. Both are coming along nicely!

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Lori // Papermill Creative @papermillcreative.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I'm having a rare magical moment today, drawing pines and watching the snow fall ❄️

The beginnings of a sketch of long leaf pines on my ipad, next to a window with snow falling in the background

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Lori // Papermill Creative @papermillcreative.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Your styling is GREAT! I struggle with that so much

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Lori // Papermill Creative @papermillcreative.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

From the North Carolina Outer Banks this past weekend 🦢

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Lori // Papermill Creative @papermillcreative.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Yes! I got off Meta because of politics, but I am staying off because I'm realizing how much building my business around an algorithm SUCKED.

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Lori // Papermill Creative @papermillcreative.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Every day I think "this is the day my studio will stop being a wreck." Anyway. Today was also not that day.

My art studio is in disarray, with products and boxes and packaging everywhere.

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Lori // Papermill Creative @papermillcreative.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I called Tillis' Raleigh office yesterday and the caller ID said "The office of Senator Jesse Helms". Just bonkers. Keep calling.

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Lori // Papermill Creative @papermillcreative.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Whoa engagement has 4x'd since I checked last 😄

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Lori // Papermill Creative @papermillcreative.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

🎵do a little protesting, do a little product releasing, get down tonight🎵 For real I am appreciating artists and activists alike right now.

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Lori // Papermill Creative @papermillcreative.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Hot damn, if there's not anything better than holding your new product for the first time. (Also hot damn, what am I thinking releasing house warming cards at a moment when the whole metaphorical house is on fire)

I'm holding two new housewarming card designs. One has a vintage dollhouse design and one says "congrats on the new place" surrounded by a frame of lots of types of houses.

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Lori // Papermill Creative @papermillcreative.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I was a Nickelodeon kid who watched a lot of Nick at Night. I had this one in the BAG.

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Lori // Papermill Creative @papermillcreative.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Going to try to do the southeast first but maybe eventually I'll have all 50!

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Lori // Papermill Creative @papermillcreative.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Like what is the customer support number I call to correct the mistake that I have to file taxes and never nap in sunbeams

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Lori // Papermill Creative @papermillcreative.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

What's a girl gotta do around here to be reincarnated as a little cat in a big papasan napping in a sunbeam

A gray kitty is curled up in a big yellow papasan cushion

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Lori // Papermill Creative @papermillcreative.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Shout out forever to my Finch app with its silly little bird and silly little affirmations reminding me to focus on what I can control 💜

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Lori // Papermill Creative @papermillcreative.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Yay, my Native Plants of NC stickers are back in stock! (another top notch job from @stickerninja.bsky.social 💜💜) And now they're in two sizes: one for your car bumper, one for your notebook, so you can easily be identified as a native plant nerd wherever you go.

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Lori // Papermill Creative @papermillcreative.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

🙋🏻‍♀️ also a list maker who puts off creative play. Gorgeous color, it's like tomatoes!

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Lori // Papermill Creative @papermillcreative.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I have had these files sitting around half-finished for a year. I finally buckled down this week to finish them and get them off to the printer!

I'm holding two mockups of housewarming cards, one featuring an illustration of vintage dollhouse and the other that has a design of many types of homes from brownstones to a camper.

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