Sprig + Stone was born from a Mother’s Day request and two curious kids.

Before watercolor entered my life, I spent years in the design world drawing interior spaces by hand, illustrating them with markers, colored pencils, and gouache. I had an artistic foundation, but watercolor was never part of it. That changed when I asked my husband for something just for me: a monthly subscription to Let’s Make Art. It felt like permission to play, maybe for the first time in a long time.

What started as a personal practice became something more. I took other art courses out of curiosity, but also so I could leave the house and protect time that I felt belonged to me. Time for myself that felt lost as I transitioned into motherhood.

I've met other mothers feeling exactly the same way: stretched thin, running on empty, and quietly craving a break from responsibility. Like me, they wanted to just "be"... and not have to think.

And then I noticed something as my kids as began to paint with me. They approach every project with pure curiosity. No planned outcome, no judgment, no fear of getting it wrong. They lived in the moment and just had fun doing it.

They taught me what I had forgotten: that making something is its own reward. Sprig + Stone is named for them. My two kiddos, and the two greatest teachers I have ever had. My mirrors.

The business grew from a simple observation: adults need what kids do naturally. A deliberate pause. A tactile, screen-free experience where the outcome does not matter and the process is the whole point.

Whether working with a corporate team running on cognitive fumes or a group of individuals who have not made anything with their hands in years, the experience is the same: guided, low-pressure, and genuinely restorative.

The only thing required is your presence.