OneRedPoppie

One Red Poppie.

Today is Remembrance Day, a day to honor those lives lost in WWI. About 10 years ago, I wanted to commemorate it. Since it’s not something often done stateside, I had to make my own poppies. I made one when I was at work, and everyone wanted one! When Etsy started around the same time, I said I would name my shop One Red Poppie because it started with one red poppy. And here we are today!

Why a poppy? Poppies were the flowers found growing on the battlefields after the war was over. 🌺

What’s this?
What’s this?
There’s color everywhere!

is back, Jack!

If we have to wear them the rest of the year we may as well have fun with it and look good 😘.

Jack’s Moon and more available in the shop ❤️

As this year winds down I find myself grateful.

This shop was born of a pandemic, and it gave me purpose when I had none. When the world stopped in March I found myself without a job, without an income, without a schedule and without a path. I never imagined I’d have been unemployed for 7 months, and more than that, I did not know that this shop would become a life line for me.

In the early days I joked around, I lost track of days, I slept in and was constantly wondering when it would be over. By mid May, I knew this was going to be a long pause.

In June when I was back in Chicago I watched the news in horror. I could hear it outside my windows and I could see its affect in my neighborhood. Sure there were broken windows, and stores were boarded up. Multiple protests every weekend...it weirdly became very normalized. But the energy in the air was electric. It felt like love, and change and kindness. And it still does even though we are tired.

Much like everyone else, I lost a lot. I lost people, I lost things, and I lost my freedom. I sat in solitude with my sewing machine and my thoughts, and I grieved. I felt guilty for my sadness, because my losses were not as big as the losses others had endured. But that is an unkindness to myself, because my feelings of loss, and grief and sadness are valid too. It’s funny, when I sit down to sew now, I find it therapeutic.

By early September when I was probably the most depleted I’d been all year, I said to a good friend that I would live it all again, because what I had gained was so much greater. The friendships that have deepened, the connections that have been made...

This shop is my love letter to the sh*tty year known as 2020. I poured myself into this shop this summer, and it gave me so much in return. The beautiful messages I got on Etsy and in my DMs got me to here, and I thank you.

There are few moments where ORP does not occupy my mind. There are few moments where all of you do not occupy my mind.

2021...let’s do better. ❤️

“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.” – Lao Tzu

Be my:

Love
Valentine
Candy Heart
Person
Mickey
Lobster 🦞

Whether you’re in love with someone or just in love with love, you’ll fall for the new patterns in the shop!

This year instead of wearing your heart on your sleeve why not try wearing them on your face? ❤️

Some hearts and lobsters to brighten your days to come.

“I’m speaking.”

Two words that said so much more.

Get your Biden-Harris masks in the shop now!!