We were lucky to catch up with Tasha Thrall recently and have shared our conversation below.

Tasha , thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Alright, so you had your idea and then what happened? Can you walk us through the story of how you went from just an idea to executing on the idea

When my daughter started preschool, she was very shy and didn’t like change much. Her preschool teacher helped her opened up. He was the best first / preschool teacher I could of asked for. I want my daughter to have the memories of him being her teacher and remembering how much he helped her opening up. I have seen those ideas of teachers signing a Dr Seuss book at the end of the year for the students to read at graduation. I thought why did they have to read on the book pages, why couldn’t they just write on notebook paper or printer paper. Or what happens that have bad handwriting and she couldn’t read it? I wanted to be able to keep her teachers kind words in a book that she absolutely loved as a child.
So that’s when I came up with an idea taking a copy of my daughters favorite book a Batman book. I took off the bind, and I had my daughters teachers write kind words on notebook paper, scrap paper and even a teacher type out what he wanted to say. My daughter is in kindergarten now. I have two years of all her teachers kind words and notes saved to the side . So when she graduates I will take all the notes, the pictures with teachers and maybe pictures of her friends into this Batman book and give her at her graduation.
Even though this graduation gift will take years to make, but it gave me hope that other parents will love the idea too. I take variety of books and make them into notebooks. You can use these notebooks as a diary, journal, graduation gift or even a baby shower gift. I also have opens up to custom orders. I have had a couple customs of a customer grandmas old books that she have saved with her hand writing inside and wanted to keep it and use it as a notebook.

Tasha , before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

Well Hi! My name is Tasha. I have two beautiful kiddos, and I married my highschool sweetheart.

I have also been a very creative person. I like to work with art that gets my hands dirty.

I love to recycle, and why not involved my business to recycle too. Did you know you can reuse a piece of paper many ways? When you are finally finished with that piece of paper you can recycled it and make new paper?

I make a lot of different things in my business. Notebooks, Journals, Stickers, Notepads, Greeting Cards, Seed Bombs, Coloring Pages, Recycled Crayons, Acrylic Pins / Badges and Affirmation Cards. Everything I make was recycled. The Notebooks have covers of old books or old game cards. The Seed Bombs have seeds in the middle of shredded and blended paper. The Coloring Pages, I print on recycled paper and I ask you to recycle the drawing afterwards if you don’t want to keep it.

Any advice for growing your clientele? What’s been most effective for you?

I have found to have grow my clientele is by, going to different markets. Setting up a booth talking with customers about what I make and how they can use them. And introducing them my website where I keep more of my products. And how I can do custom orders when they have a certain book in mind.

We’d love to hear the story of how you built up your social media audience?

Building an audience on social media is being consistent. Showing your clientele, not only there orders make their days better but it makes your day better.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://simpkinsstudios.com/
• Instagram: http://instagram.com/simpkinsstudios
• Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/simpkinsstudios/

Image Credits
Loveland Farm Photography