Finding inspiration wasn’t a challenge for Kobie, mom of one, when deciding to create her own line of modern baby books. Creativity runs deep in the women in her family which gave her an artistic foundation in life. Kobie has always felt a longing to create something of her own, and after becoming a mom, it looks like its found its way out.
Inspired by her grandmother’s name meaning “delight”, Edna Mae baby books provide beautifully modern ways to capture your child’s cherished moments but instead of the standard fill-in-the-blank way, you get to do it yours!
Read more about Kobie and how she truly believes life is full of moments worth celebrating. And, enter to win your very own Edna Mae custom brag book!
We hope you find Kobie as creatively cool as we do!
1. Tell us a little about yourself, your family, and/or your business.
I’m married to an amazing husband and father, and we have a 10 month old son, Thatcher. I’m owner of Edna Mae Originals, a paper and gift company, and most recently baby books!
I come from a long line of amazing seamstresses. Creativity runs deep in the women of my family…taking raw material, patterns, and making something beautiful. I remember playing in my grandma Edna’s fabric store as a child. I loved looking through all the patterned material and sorting through the interesting buttons of all shapes and sizes. possibilities. imagination…it’s part of me.
Although I did not become a seamstress, my creativity has taken on a different form. I studied graphic design and fine art in college. Layouts, concepts, and color are elements of design I love. I have been a freelance graphic designer for the last 7 years. My longing to create something of my own has always been a part of me and now it’s finding its way out.
2. If you had to describe your business in less than 15 words, how would you do it?
Delighting in the everyday with design and goodness.
3. What is your inspiration for your business? Your products?
I love taking the everyday patterns I see around me…in nature, fabric, architecture, wallpaper, and combining them with pure whimsical bliss…In the form of greeting card packs, custom stationery, wedding invitations, birth announcements, imprintables…
And most recently my son has been my inspiration for my baby line. I had such a hard time finding just the right baby book and I thought there might be other moms in the same boat. So I decided to create a modern baby book and photo album with pages you can add to customize your own book and make it your own…so far it has been a hit!
4. What is the most rewarding thing about being a mom? A mom-preneur?
I love seeing my son laugh and being able to be at home and not have to rush off to work somewhere else everyday. It’s difficult to juggle it all, but I love what I do.
5. What advice would you give to someone considering becoming mom-preneur?
First, set goals and find online communities that can keep you being creative (finding designers and creative moms to follow on twitter has been really fun for me) and set a time during the week when it works for you to work with no distractions. I seem to find my creative time to be at night after my son has gone to bed. And second, multi-tasking has its place, but taking time to soak up the moment, to go for a walk when the weather is beautiful is vital for me…I’m just learning that I need to stop during the day and play and laugh with thatch. I could have a huge list of things I need to work on, but when my son is the room, it is like time stands still.
6. What keeps you motivated?
My studio. Maybe that’s not my ultimate motivation, but having a space that is fun to work in gives me inspiration.
7. What is your next big goal?
My next big goal is to be able to successfully sell my baby books on amazon. I think there are a lot of moms out there looking for baby books and I want them to be able to find them.
8. What is your guilty pleasure?
I love my coffee in the morning. There’s nothing better than sitting at my computer being creative, listening to music and sipping on my latte.
9. Name a product that you can’t live without, for you or your baby?
The moby wrap and the ergo carrier. I love them both for my son and it makes it so easy to go places…and he loves being carried in them.
And for me, my grid journal. It seems to make the creativity multiply.
10. What is the most valuable lesson you have learned as a mom {so far}?
Be present where I’m at, whatever I’m doing…whether it is hanging out with my family or working on a new design for my baby books.
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