Hey friends welcome! I always love having you along and today I am sharing a

conversation with Emma Chapman from a beautiful mess. You might remember that I

had her sister LC on to visit when we were talking about the state of Maine and

today we are talking about just a pioneering group from the state of Alabama.

Let's dive in. I'm Sharon Nickman and welcome to the Sharon Says So podcast.

Thank you so much for joining me. I am super excited to have you here. Thank you.

Yes I'm so excited to be here. I was honestly a bit nervous all morning so. Oh

oh no no reason to be nervous. I have been following you at your sister. I

mean easily oh well over a decade. Thank you. You've also revealed my age. No I'm

just kidding. I'm just kidding. My too as well. Mine as well. Yeah so tell

everybody what you do. I'm Emma Chapman and I run a blog called a beautiful

mess with my sister LC who's also been on the podcast and our tagline is stay

home and make something and we like to think of ourselves as creativity

cheerleaders. We really want to provide inspiration both from like specific

projects and recipes and things that people could replicate but also we just

want to communicate the same message that we were given when we were growing up

from our art teacher mother which is that you are creative and you can make

stuff from anything you have anywhere you are you don't have to think that

you're talented or be anything else like you are already creative and so we're

just trying to create a brand that that cheerleads that for people and hopefully

it leads to more curiosity which I think kind of has a crossover oddly enough

with the governors which is you know a whole different arena but I do think

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