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 Elsie 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 McMahon 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 was so excited to be here. I was honestly a bit nervous all morning.

Oh, oh, no reason to be nervous nervous I have been following you and your sister I mean easily oh well over a decade

Thank you you've also revealed my age.

No, I'm just kidding.

Mine 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, Elsie, 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, 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 cheer leads that for people.

And hopefully it leads to more curiosity,

which I think kind of has a crossover oddly enough with the governor's,

which is a whole different arena, but I do think you're fostering a lot of like open-minded curiosity about the world and I love that about your brand.

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