Merchants & Artists

Check out the vibrant community of merchants and artists who call South Main Creative home!

Ashli Ahrens

Mailbox Memories

Instagram: @mailboxmemories

Mailbox Memories, based in Little Rock, specializes in the sale and repurposing of antique and vintage postcards with an emphasis on Arkansas cards. Ashli Ahrens began collecting postcards only recently, but quickly became enamored with their variety, printing quality, historic information and personal messages. And will drone on endlessly about postcard types and their history to anyone who asks.

Ann Clements

Sparklythangs

Instagram: @sparklythangsFacebook: Sparklythangs

Sparklythangs is a line of handcrafted, one-of-a-kind jewelry combining vintage elements with fresh, creative design. Owner/Designer Ann Clements, driven by a passion for collecting and the love of an object’s story, creates distinctive, meaningful jewelry out of bits and bobs. If you have family pieces you’d like transformed into modern, wearable memories, Ann also accepts custom commissions.

Erin Morris Wood

Elm’s Attic

Instagram: @elms_atticFacebook: Elm’s Attic

Erin Morris Wood grew up surrounded by reinvented furnishings. From a chicken coop coffee table to bushel basket trashcans in a style her dad called ‘Early American Attic,’ each piece had strong, sentimental ties to the past. While her own style tends more towards kitsch, the ‘make do, reuse, and recycle’ attitude is strong in her selection of decor items. Erin’s booth has a bright, pop-y color scheme throughout, with items from many eras.

Kandy Jones

Garage Sale Queen

Instagram: @kandygsq

Kandy is a mosaic artist working in mixed media. Her whimsical pieces incorporate items from everyday life in unexpected ways. She enjoys combining mosaic elements with other sculptural elements like hypertufa, concrete, and polymer clay. Kandy’s pieces are filled with delightful details which draw the viewer in and reward a closer look.

Erin Wood

Et Alia Press

Instagram: @etaliapressFacebook: EtAliaPress

Et Alia is a small press based in Little Rock with publishing interests in three areas: Local Histories, Health and Wellness, and Emerging Artists. Own and run by Erin Wood, Et Alia publishes award-winning adult nonfiction and children’s books with strong ties to Arkansas, with special value placed on stories that might otherwise go unheard. (Et Alia is Latin for “and others.”) All books are printed in the US.

Susan White Sullivan

SWS Makes

Instagram: @sws.makes_2020

Susan White Sullivan is the maker behind SWS Makes. In her space, you will find a mix of vintage glassware, handmade items and DIY kits. The mix changes periodically but you may find Shibori hand-dyed towels and dinner napkins, lavender filled heart sachets, masks for social distancing, sweet bibs and hats for baby, linen tote bags and kitchen towels as well as counted cross stitch kits.

Kim Christ

Peace Love Patina

Instagram: @peacelovepatinaFacebook: Peace Love Patina

Kim is Little Rock’s seller of Debi’s Design Diary DIY Paint, a lusciously pigmented clay and chalk finish artisan furniture paint. Fueled by her love of rescuing and transforming forgotten pieces, she also sells her own groovy reclaimed vintage furniture and home goods transformed with DIY Paint, as well as a curated collection of vintage items.

Jane Dennis

Jane’s Junk

Instagram: @janesjunkarFacebook: Jane’s Junk

As a child of the Arkansas Delta, Jane has been on the trail of good “junk” all her life, inspired by a mother who restored antique furniture and a grandmother who was a historian. After a long career as a writer, editor and marketer, she turned her passion for vintage rust and romance into Jane’s Junk, an eclectic mix of furniture, accessories, art and home goods. Beautiful wood items, colorful pottery, whimsical figurines and treasures made of all sorts of metals are favored at Jane’s Junk.

Becky Witsell

Studio Werk

A visual artist trained as a painter and printmaker, Becky Witsell’s career has included teaching, designing and fabricating exhibits, creating commissioned fabric pieces and liturgical textiles, and working as a historic decorative painter. Her booth at SMC features Victorian antiques, silver and crystal, antique woodworking tools, and a large selection of resource books, as well as pieces of her original artwork.

Valerie Wingert

wabi-sabi designs

Instagram: @wabisabi.designsFacebook: wabi-sabi designs in South Main Creative

wabi-sabi is the centuries-old Japanese philosophy of finding beauty in imperfection. It is the appreciation of handmade things and of objects that bear the marks and patina of years of use. One will find treasures ranging from antique handmade furniture to vintage industrial to upcycled lighting in wabi-sabi designs.

Mark Hughes

Regalia Handmade Clothing

Instagram: @regalia_handmade_clothingFacebook: Regalia Handmade Clothing and Bing Bang Boomerang

Regalia Handmade Clothing is a line of comfortable natural-fiber clothing designed and sewn by Little Rock native Mark Hughes, now living in Eureka Springs. His designs are simple, classic, and easy to wear. His secondary label, Bing Bang Boomerang, showcases his love of Mid-Century design, featuring retro shirts and dresses, many of which are made from actual vintage fabric.

Christie Young

Silver n Sage Jewelry

Instagram: @christie.silvernsageFacebook: christie.silvernsage

Art & metalsmithing come together with unique, organic hand crafted jewelry created by Christie Young using precious metals and all natural stones. Each piece is formed by hand: hand forged, hand fabricated, hand carved, and hand designed. Christie’s work in jewelry is an expression of her love of the natural world. The colors, the textures, and the way nature moves all fuel her creativity resulting in rustic, organic designs reflecting Christie’s love of the outdoors.

Debbie Diener & Sabrina Chan

Whispering Wool

Instagram: @whisperingwoolFacebook: WhisperingWool

Whispering Wool is the sister team of Debbie Diener & Sabrina Chan. Debbie has been involved in crafts and art all her life, focusing mainly on ceramics and watercoloring rubber stamp art, and now is fully immersed in the art of needle felting. Sabrina got a later start in the crafting and art arena, beginning with designing and creating jewelry in 2008, before also embracing needle felting. Debbie’s style is more realistic, while Sabrina’s focus is more on fantasy pieces, but they both love the process of creating and working together, exchanging ideas and encouragement.

Catherine Johnson

Orbiting Debris Vintage

Instagram: @orbitingdebris and @orbitingdebrisjewelry

Catherine Johnson is a vintage enthusiast of long-standing. Her first loves are costume jewelry and sewing patterns, but she also offers a nice selection of interesting and unusual vintage clothing and accessories, as well as home decor items, with an emphasis on mid-century modern. On occasion, she’ll also make available select pieces of her own handmade jewelry.

Marianne Kirksey

The Blue Swallow Clothing Company

Instagram: @blueswallowclothingcompanyFacebook: Blue Swallow Clothing Company

Originally from Austin, Texas, with an education and background in textile arts, Marianne started her interior design business 18 years ago in Arkansas. She retired recently to follow other artistic endeavors: creating comfortable natural fiber clothing and metal works jewelry inspired by antiquities. Her favorite materials are fabrics, metals, stones, and gathered objects.

Mena Loya

Ximena & Elle

Instagram: @ximenaandelle
Facebook: ximenaandelle

Born in Argentina, Mena was 12 when her grandmother first taught her to knit. The next year, her family moved to Belarus and knitting was forgotten in the midst of the adjustment. As an adult with a family of her own, she rediscovered knitting and started Ximena & Elle. At SMC, she sells hand-dyed and hand-spun yarns, knitting needles, and other knitting supplies for fellow knitters!

Jake Bleed

The Side Hustle

Instagram: @thesidehustle501

The Side Hustle is dedicated to furniture (vintage and handmade) and hi-fidelity sound, and to populating our collective living space with the cool, the groovy, the unusual and the distinct.

Don Edwards

DonMart

Instagram: @donedwards5160

Don Edwards has a master’s degree in art and is a long-time collector. His booth at SMC specializes in paintings, drawings and artist prints with an emphasis on 20th century Arkansas artists. He also offers an array of 20th century collectibles and jewelry.

Kirby Shofner

Instagram: @kshof

Kirby has been interested in antiques since he was a little boy. As a child going to antique stores with his mother, he had to keep his hands in his pockets to keep from touching anything of value, a habit he’s still trying to break. He likes to find value in things most people throw away, lost things found. Kirby has taught science at LR Central High for many years. He collects baseball cards, Niloak, Viewmaster items, and oddball items he finds.

Dondi Warren

Delta Gilt

Instagram: @dondididitFacebook: deltagilt

Dondi is an artist, maker, and vintage collector, and has just launched her own proprietary line of art supplies, including gilding materials and chalk paint. Dondi’s art explores the symbiosis of have and have not, highlighting and incorporating many themes from the South: place, heritage, family; beliefs, desires, aspirations, fear; scarcity, resourcefulness.

Krystian & Mary Samek

Ruth Hanna’s

Instagram: @ruthhannasFacebook: Ruth Hanna’s

Krystian and Mary of Ruth Hanna’s are modern-day treasure hunters and counterculture curators who are here to funk up your lives. They travel far and wide to seek out true vintage goods and clothing that make you think of your grandma, remind you of your childhood, or make you say “what the funk?!” Join the movement, #gogreenbuyvintage.

Adam Smith

Adam Style Floral

Instagram: @adamstylefloralFacebook: Adam Style Floral

Adam Smith has more than 25 years floral experience designing custom arrangements for weddings, events, and everyday floral needs in Arkansas and surrounding states. Working to make designs that meet the client’s needs while keeping his own design aesthetic is Adam’s goal for each unique project. Adam also enjoys putting his floral and event skills to use for fund raisers that benefit local non-profit organizations such as Youth Home Inc, Methodist Family Health and several others.

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Kim Christ

Lifelong crafter and maker Kim Christ of Peace Love Patina sees possibilities — from a grungy thrift store wingback chair made fresh with clay paint, to a seen-better-days sideboard ripe to be transformed into a coffee bar. She teaches a wide variety of hands-on workshops using the dynamic duo of Iron Orchid Designs products and Debi’s Design Diary DIY Paints.

Dondi Warren

Dondi, a former art educator in Mississippi and Arkansas, has taught painting, drawing, ceramics, art history, multimedia, and graphic design. She has also worked professionally as a photographer, painter, and on small restoration projects. Though experienced in a wide range of media, she is currently focusing on gilding applications, artistic furniture, faux techniques, and mixed media work.

Ann Clements

Ann Clements is the Owner and Designer of Sparklythangs, a line of handcrafted, one-of-a-kind jewelry combining vintage elements with fresh, creative design. Driven by a passion for collecting and the love of an object’s story, she creates distinctive, meaningful jewelry out of bits and bobs.

Whispering Wool

Whispering Wool is the sister team of Debbie Diener & Sabrina Chan. Debbie has been involved in crafts and art all her life, focusing mainly on ceramics and watercoloring rubber stamp art, and now is fully immersed in the art of needle felting. Sabrina got a later start in the crafting and art arena, beginning with designing and creating jewelry in 2008, before also embracing needle felting. Debbie’s style is more realistic, while Sabrina’s focus is more on fantasy pieces, but they both love the process of creating and working together, exchanging ideas and encouragement.

Anne Weaver

Anne Weaver is a sewist and general creative type, a hoarder of craft supplies and fabric with an inherent need to put even the smallest of scraps to artistic use (or re-use). She’s a mother to an active teen girl and a Crazy Cat Lady and the Queen of Unflattering Selfies. She enjoys sharing her creative bent with others through blogging and through hands-on classes.

Susan White Sullivan

SWS Makes

Instagram: @sws.makes_2020

Susan is the creative force behind SWS Makes. The bulk of her career was spent in the craft publishing industry leading an editorial team in creating DIY books on a wide variety of creative art techniques. Susan has been teaching since 2015 and is certified by the Craft Yarn Council as a crochet instructor. She loves introducing folks to this versatile yarn skill.  Susan also teaches sewing, English paper piecing, and embroidery as well as gel plate mono printing and rubber stamp carving . Coming soon? Shibori indigo dying!

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