The Art of Faith: Emily Pitre's Journey

What happens when a pandemic hobby transforms into a divine calling? In this heartwarming conversation with Emily S. Pitre of Emily S P Art, we discover the beautiful intersection of motherhood, faith, and creative entrepreneurship.

Emily shares how a simple watercolor kit from the children's aisle at Michael's and unexpected free time during COVID lockdowns led to creating Catholic-inspired art that now appears in over 90 stores across the country. With disarming honesty, she recounts her journey from full-time pediatric occupational therapist to faith-driven artist, including the miraculous confirmation she received through a novena to St. Therese that involved nine specific roses appearing exactly when needed.

As a mother to an almost three-year-old and a fresh two-month-old, Emily creates with purpose—designing products that are both beautiful and practical for Catholic families. Her watercolor saints adorn everything from mugs to "Mass bags," helping children and adults alike recognize that saints were regular people just like us. "We're all just trying to get to heaven, provide for our families, and be regular people," Emily reflects, capturing the accessible spirituality that makes her work resonate with so many.

The conversation delves into the vulnerability of following unexpected callings and finding community among like-minded creatives. Emily's story reminds us that sometimes the most meaningful ministry happens outside traditional roles—whether through art that sparks conversations about faith or gentle nudges that lead teenagers back to confession.

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Meet Emily Petrie and Her Catholic Art

Speaker 1 0:00

See, honey, I did not realize you had a baby that fresh. Yeah, she's fresh, she's so fresh, oh man. But also she could have brought her so I could have smelled her. It's a boy or a girl? It's a girl, okay, okay, okay, I said she.

Speaker 3 0:12

Yeah, yeah, I smell stinky brother any time. And I do.

Speaker 4 0:22

He's not fresh, though, and I cup of coffee. Settle in and let's dive into real conversations about life, motherhood and a little inspiration to brighten your day.

Speaker 1 0:34

Well, welcome to August. I know summer is flying by. It's time to go back to school kids. Teachers, sorry Teachers, sorry Parents. Rejoice yes.

Speaker 3 0:47

Parents rejoice. It's time to go back to school, yes, but we have a very special guest today. This is Emily Peet. Hi, do you?

Speaker 2 0:56

say Peet or Petrie. So my husband, their family, says Petrie.

Speaker 1 1:00

I say Petrie too, but I didn't know if that was right or not?

Speaker 3 1:03

Well, I'm from Peteville and so everything comes out Pete, so Emily Petrie Art. Emily S Petrie Art. Yes, Okay, which that's what I say. You Like? Okay, whenever I call everybody by their government name that I see on Facebook.

Speaker 1 1:18

If it's on Facebook, the whole name. That's what you're getting called. That's what you're getting called.

Speaker 3 1:21

That's what you understand, but I was trying to be cool and not do that.

Speaker 1 1:23

But, emily s, petrie, that's your name yes, we're gonna get to her story in a minute. Yes, okay, but first we want to say a big, big, big thank you to blue plate mayonnaise and we say man is not mine is and not mayonnaise and not whatever, but it's mayonnaise to us blue plate. Um, you might have heard of it. If you're from the south, you probably have.

Speaker 3 1:45

Oh, you've absolutely heard of blue plate. If you haven't, let's tell them about that.

Speaker 1 1:49

Yes, okay, so blue plate was well, it was born in New Orleans, right here in Louisiana. Since 1927, they've been making what we consider to be the best-tasting mayonnaise out there and I just learned this recently. But they make their mayonnaise with only egg yolks, so it's that rich creaminess. You know, don't skimp on the blue plate, don't skimp on the mayonnaise. No, when you're making a big fat sandwich or po' boy or potato salad or whatever, you be generous with that blue plate. Okay, we don't mess around when it comes to flavor around here in South Louisiana and we only reach for the blue plate when we're making things with mayonnaise.

Speaker 4 2:33

So thank you, blue plate, for being the official sponsor of coffee talk with the cajun mamas for august.

Speaker 1 2:35

Yes, so excited so much, and they even sent us some cute little merch items. Uh, if you're watching the youtube video right now, you can see what we have on our table. Um, which was very exciting, they sent us a little package of things, the crowning jar of mayonnaise on the top yes, on the shelf behind me, you'll see. We put her on a pedestal a pyrex pedestal oh, the most appropriate it is yes, all right.

Speaker 3 3:01

Well, yes, thank y'all so much, uh, for being our sponsor this month. All right, let well. Yes, thank y'all so much for being our sponsor this month. All right, let's get into it. So I have so many questions. We have been loving your work for quite some time. I have friends who like that's all, like everything they buy. They're like look what?

Speaker 4 3:17

I got look what I got.

Speaker 3 3:18

Look what I got. Do you have this one, do you have this one? And so you know. And then we connected with you not that long ago, uh, just to kind of promote or whatever, and it was just like okay, but I want to know your story. Okay, how did this all start?

Speaker 1 3:32

How did you come to have? Well, first of all, I don't know if we said, but she is the owner of Emily S Petrie art. Yes, and it's hand painted, one of a kind-a-kind catholic inspired art right, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 3:47

So I um I how the whole process works is I do a watercolor painting of a saint um and then, because I'm a mom of two, I um send that painting off to some lovely people that create prints and stickers, and keychains, and apparel and mugs, and so it all starts with one watercolor painting and you can tell like it has that watercolor vibe to it, and then they bring it to life into yeah different things and, um, if you catch me on like a live event, I'll sometimes have some originals and stuff available, but on my like online website, it's all of these products that have been created from the art okay, and they're so beautiful they

Speaker 1 4:29

are. They are so beautiful. I have um this is called the mini mary cup right yes, it's one of my favorites. Anytime I'm like doing a facebook live or something with this cup. All the comments where'd you get that mug? Where'd you get that mug? They love this design. It's all the different versions of'd you get that mug? Where'd you get that mug? They love this design. It's all the different versions of Our Lady, and not all of them, but a bunch of them.

Speaker 3 4:48

Yes lots of them, lots of them, lots of them. The well-known ones for sure.

Speaker 1 4:53

Yeah.

How Emily's Art Journey Began

Speaker 3 4:56

And here I have, is it this camera? Probably so, that camera for you. Okay, this is Charlene Richard. You know we love Charlene Richard. And it says servant of God on the side. Uh, she does other saints. Uh, too, charlene's not a saint yet, but and uh, every time I pull this out, uh, roz says I said, who's that an angel? And I say, no, it's Charlene, charlene she says Charlene Shawween, she says Shawween. Oh my goodness, my heart, so we found this also. You know, got my sticker my.

Speaker 3 5:28

Shawween sticker I mean, she has so many other saints that she does too and lots of different kinds of merch. So tell us all the things how to get started.

Speaker 2 5:40

Oh my goodness, so I am a pediatric occupational therapist. Okay, so in 2020, like everybody else, I was sitting at home because I was a contractor and even though hospitals were very busy and I was working in a few, they cut all staff to like very essential staff. So my husband is a PT and he was doing a residency. So we were living up there thanking God every day that he was a salaried employee, because I was hourly.

Speaker 2 6:11

I went from working like 45, sometimes 50 hours a week to like three, three hours a pay period, good lord um, which, thankfully, like we were just married, we were living a very minimal life at the time, so we were okay financially. But boy, I had some free time, and I think my husband would probably still say to this day me with free time, it gets a little dangerous.

Speaker 4 6:37

I get ideas. I get a little crazy.

Speaker 2 6:40

You know, it's just what happens. Um so I had recently gotten a watercolor kit from the kids aisle at Michael's one day and thought to myself I'll paint flowers because they're pretty. I taught myself um calligraphy before I got married, because I'm too cheap to pay anybody to do that. So I was like I'll calligraphy things and put a little flower and give me something to do.

Speaker 2 7:04

Yeah, yeah um, and then on St Catherine of Siena's feast day that year, which is, I believe, april 29th, um, I was like I have all day today, let me paint St Catherine oh, that was your first and I texted my mom and my sister you know our daily updates of like, look at what I did today. And my sister was like, oh wait, that's good, you should start an Etsy shop. And I was so sassy I was like never, which I still haven't done well, but I do have a website he burned us big time.

Speaker 1 7:40

We don't, we don't talk about that. They shut us, us down oh that's okay.

Speaker 2 7:45

But so, and then people just I posted to like my personal Facebook page, you know, as we all were with our COVID hobbies, and a few people were like, oh, that's great, can you paint something for me? Can you paint something for me? Oh, like, I very much remember the first person that reached out to me that was not a friend on my Facebook and like I remember he got two paintings for his wife for Mother's Day, but he thought Mother's Day was like a month later and I was like, so are you going to pick them up?

Speaker 3 8:14

like today, oh my Lord, I was thinking of my father's day maybe, but yeah, and the rest is history.

Speaker 2 8:23

Like, I don't know how it got here, but I'm so happy. Yeah, Um thank you, jesus, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 8:28

Yeah, yeah, to be able to do something that you're you love to do.

Speaker 2 8:39

And I mean, are you still doing your other?

Speaker 1 8:40

job too, so I um.

Speaker 2 8:40

I work. Obviously, I don't live in Shreveport now. We're back in Youngsville. Um, I work in the school system, but I'm a contractor. There's only work two days a week Enough, where I still like it. Yeah yeah, you know I'm not too mad at the world.

Speaker 4 8:53

Right, yeah.

Speaker 2 8:58

But so I do this all the other days and sometimes some weekends.

Speaker 1 9:01

You know, in the fall comes Catholic Women Conference season so I'll be at a couple of conferences and have tables there and stuff yeah, that's so cool, that's wonderful yeah yeah, and I think the first time I saw your work was at the Pink Paisley in Lafayette. Yeah, um, because you had all your stuff there and we ended up printing some of our stuff with them. And every time I'd go in I'd go to your little table and I'd look, see, what see, what's new? And stuff. Yeah and uh, just it. Just, you have such a unique look about your art, um, and it automatically can tell it's yours.

Speaker 3 9:33

Yes, exactly we. You know, we're like oh look emily's here, oh look emily's here yes so, like we, we can. Just I don't know, it's just it's appealing.

Speaker 1 9:42

It's so appealing. What? What drew you to the like? Do the cath Catholic part of it, though? Like what? Because you could have just started selling flower paintings or whatever. Well, the flowers were never great.

Speaker 2 9:54

We'll start on that. But you know, I'm from Abbeville, Louisiana. I'm a cradle Catholic and I'm very lucky to have just leaned further into that. The the older I get, the further.

Speaker 1 10:10

I lean in adulthood.

Speaker 2 10:11

We've talked about that before, for sure and my husband and I like, even though we have these careers and these, we went to grad school and do all these things at a very big heart of our relationship, our marriage and hopefully into our kids, is ministry. Like I don't know about you guys, but when I get to heaven, like I want so much to see and encounter the people that I loved here on earth, it would break my heart I mean I know I will be if and when I get to heaven.

Ministry Through Art and Motherhood

Speaker 2 10:43

There will be no heartbreak, exactly but the thought of living eternity without my best friends, my family, the random kids that I encounter in the schools that you, you know. I'm sure you're thinking of some kids that you've encountered, like I want them there with me. So we've, we do youth group, we have a youth group that we do, we do high school ministry Like we just can't leave.

Speaker 2 11:06

And so it's such a big part of this and for me I'm not perfect, I'm so so, far from perfect I still, um, um, love a margarita. I still, you know, make so many mistakes, but so did these saints. The more I paint them, the more I learn about that.

Speaker 1 11:27

I learn about like their struggles, that they have. I love that so much, yeah, because we put them on pedestals as they deserve, but at the same, they were just like us, mm-hmm. Just like us.

Speaker 3 11:41

Just people. And then you know, sometimes it started and it starts out the same. Really, you know, I always thought, you know well, to be a saint you have to be a nun, always, mm-hmm. You know, I got to do that, but it's so not true. No, you know I gotta do that, but it's so not true, you know they're just regular people who you know who ministered?

Speaker 3 12:01

yeah, you know, and ministry can look so different, so different and so this is so different from like you know, I always thought, okay, give out communion, sing in the choir or be an altar server, correct? Yeah, if you don't want to be, you know, or a deacon, or you know, and it's just like but there's so many other ways you can minister.

Speaker 2 12:22

Yeah, and you're doing that, yeah, like those ladies that sit in the church and they get there early and they pray their rosary, like that is a ministry in its own self. It's not one I'm called to, especially not at this phase of life. With an almost three-year-old and a two-month-old. We are not getting there early enough to see Two months Honey.

Speaker 1 12:39

I did not realize you had a baby that fresh. Yeah, she's fresh, she's so fresh, oh man. But also she could have brought her so I could have smelled her. It's a boy or a girl? It's a girl, okay, okay, okay, stinky brother, and I do, and I do still smell that stinky thing. But oh, so, yeah, you in the, you in the trenches of motherhood right now. Yes, thank you for being here, because you probably would could be napping right now, or something you know, but my mom has my kids right now so yeah, I'm happy to be here yes, yes, a little bit of you away, I guess kind of get away, I guess yeah.

Speaker 3 13:17

Sometimes it's a good thing.

Speaker 1 13:18

She was like I might even go to Walmart after this yes, yes, some time by yourself, that's nice.

Speaker 3 13:24

No, whenever I messaged her or she messaged me and she was like hey't, you know we? I was like I remember that.

Speaker 1 13:38

Yeah, she didn't know what day it was no wonder she was.

Speaker 3 13:41

She was still pregnant at the time, probably but, and yeah, and I was like you don't worry about that, don't worry about that. But I mean, yeah, I'm so happy you're here.

Speaker 2 13:54

Yeah me too.

Speaker 3 13:54

So like okay, catholic Women's Conferences, you have anything new coming up that you want to talk about discuss?

Speaker 2 14:02

Well, I just let's see. I'm kind of going through and looking like 2020, while it feels like yesterday that everybody was wearing masks and wiping down our groceries with Clorox wipes that we bought at the store. It was such a time, it was a wild time even though that feels like yesterday and 20 years ago.

Speaker 2 14:23

At the same time, I still have some, some saints that I painted then that are like some of my best sellers, like my. Our Lady of Guadalupe is a tried and true painting, but she's one of the first ones that I ever did. Um, and so kind of slowly, uh, as their feast days come around and roll out, you'll see some new, more updated versions. Just to reflect, like you said, like when you look at my art and the the products that I have with my art on it, hopefully you can tell that I did it, because I truly did. I'm not AI and that goodness.

Speaker 2 14:58

I feel like it'd be too much work for me to learn how to AI and create.

Speaker 1 15:01

Yeah, when you have the talent, just do it.

Speaker 2 15:05

So I'll be doing some of those and just kind of updating some products, just because as we get older, as we kind of lean into some of the things that we're doing, I'm realizing, like as a mom, when I get a gift, I want a consumable gift that won't stay in my house for the next 20 years or feel guilty doing that, or I want something that like is useful and practical, or that if you give my kid like, might inspire him to do prayer.

Speaker 2 15:35

Um, john, who's almost three, he's actually probably the most spiritual one in our house, that's precious um y'all.

Speaker 3 15:43

It's the most precious thing.

Speaker 2 15:44

I love when little kids they're, so they're such sponges, you know my mom got him for christmas last year, um, like a little black cassock and a cross, and so it's his. Like father, he plays mass oh yeah, we have a mask. It I love. We have different color vestments, oh sure. But he thinks we have to wear all of them at the same time and I'm like baby, that's not how liturgical seasons work it's not the right, the appropriate color.

Speaker 2 16:12

so he um, he inspires me to do a lot, and so that's how, whenever I did the mask bags for the first time, like we didn't need to bring, like we maybe had a diaper or two in the car, but I wasn't bringing, we weren't having blowouts and masks anymore, it was more like toys and things to keep you entertained. And so I was like, well, what if I had a mask, a bag that had saints on it and it's the most precious thing in the world? When he says like, oh, saint max, yeah, whenever, he identifies and sees him, because even though they're just him naming it, it's still his little prayers.

Speaker 2 16:49

Yeah, talking to the saints that are like yeah, I want my kid to be like saint maximilian colby he's this.

Speaker 3 16:54

I didn't know you had a mask bag.

Speaker 1 16:56

I gotta go get one now.

Speaker 2 16:57

Yep, for ross, yeah, oh well that's great we might have to get a charlene on a bag for ross. Oh man sean ween, sean ween.

Speaker 3 17:08

Even brother has a set of pajamas with showing on. Oh, I'm like uh, yeah, we need all the showing but, that's just amazing that you can. You, you know, just like teaching them letters, just like teaching them you know shapes, to recognize that. And then, once they get older, they build upon that knowledge and be like, okay, I could be a saint one day. I could do that, you know and have things to relate to.

Speaker 1 17:34

You know like, oh, look at what they went through. You know what I'm going through. I feel similar, or what I'm going through is nothing compared to them you know what they were able to do? Yeah, I love that you are. Your stuff is in a lot of local boutiques around us. Yes, are you continuing to expand there? Yeah, yeah.

The Rose Novena Sign from God

Speaker 2 17:58

So I calculated the other day. It was a little overwhelming because I realized now this is across the country, everywhere from. I think the furthest east I have is maybe like the virginia area up to um. Where'd she go? Minnesota all the way to california there's over 90 stores across the country. Y'all like 90. I do this out of a spare bedroom, oh that's amazing that is so amazing.

Speaker 4 18:30

I'm thinking like yeah, that is what.

Speaker 3 18:33

But not even on this level Could you imagine and you're by yourself. You got somebody helping you.

Speaker 2 18:40

Not really. I have a couple unpaid interns my sweet mother and husband and then there are a couple babysitters that we really love and I'm like hey you want a couple extra hours? That are good to us, and so we try to, you know, help them out too, while we can, but yeah most everything is me.

Speaker 2 19:00

I have someone that helps me out with social media and that's just been a whole lot of grace for me and understanding. To make sure you know, especially in the Catholic creative space or in any creative space, especially whenever you feel like this is something God is asking you to do.

Speaker 3 19:19

Yeah.

Speaker 2 19:19

Because I've asked him to tell me. No, he didn't.

Speaker 1 19:22

Or like are you sure about this? And he's like mm-hmm.

Speaker 2 19:27

Yeah, I did a novena to St Therese of Lisieux, so, for those of you that don't know, I prayed for nine days, this very specific prayer, and I asked her like, okay, I had two intentions. I had one intention, for a friend to get pregnant and I said, give me a yellow rose. And I was like, and I love being specific like that, and for me I'm going to be a little sassy and I want, like this cream rose with pink edges.

Speaker 2 19:54

You did not say that I did and I was like, if I don't get a rose, I'm going to fire, sale everything, get rid of it, move this stuff out my house.

Speaker 1 20:03

Oh my goodness, you really were sassy. You were like this, is it?

Speaker 2 20:07

Well, I was really overwhelmed.

Speaker 3 20:09

I was still working five days a week with the school board.

Speaker 2 20:13

John was in like maybe one in his first or so year of life and I was just tired. It's a lot and going into like the christmas season and so, um, like I said, we have a youth group. My husband went and we bought roses for the youth group to give to the kids to like, bring a rose home oh um, and he bought different kinds of roses.

Speaker 2 20:37

He didn't. He knew I was praying in novena, but he didn't know anything about the specifics. So in the the bunch of roses he brought home were some yellow ones and I was like there's a rose, oh, yellow. My friend can have a baby, but she has, oh awesome. Yeah, she had a beautiful, healthy baby after some struggles for a while. And then I saw the other, for I was like, oh man, he bought them, but it doesn't count, uh, yeah, yeah, this don't count, it's not for me. So we brought them to the youth group. The kids took all of the flowers, the priest each took a flower, the core team took flowers and all that's left were like nine Okay, of the cream roses with pink.

Speaker 3 21:17

Nine of them All nine of them. All nine of them.

Speaker 1 21:21

they're likely you have to keep. That's so good yeah.

Speaker 2 21:25

So after that I cried and then got it. I made an appointment with the spiritual director. I was like, are you sure I'm not reading into this, because I think he's asking me to do something here? Um, and so after a very long it was like an hour or so, and I just felt like finally I had the permission to say like it's okay to not do what I thought I was gonna do. Like I spent so much time and put so much effort and y'all. I really like there's so many reasons that God asked me to be in OT. Um, it's a beautiful career. We work with people from birth to death, just in helping them be as independent as they can, and I still think that is beautiful and it's a ministry in itself. Yeah, sounds like it, but I said out loud for the first time like maybe I'm not supposed to do that five days a week that's so scary it's so scary y'all but like the fruit the absolute fruit.

Speaker 2 22:21

Like I am sitting here talking to y'all on a random.

Speaker 1 22:26

I don't know what day it yeah, the week, it is like Thursday maternity leave summer, like all the things.

Speaker 3 22:32

I don't know nothing.

Speaker 2 22:33

I just don't know what day it is most days um but like that's so cool and I'm here in this, this public space, talking about Jesus, just telling y'all a little bit about the saints, telling all the friends and families that are listening to this, just like, yeah, you can be a saint, you can do little things, you can talk to your kids about it. You don't have to go and kill a bunch of heretics. Like that's not what we're looking for here.

Speaker 3 23:03

Just spread the good news. And just be normal, like love people, yeah, yeah nice yeah, I tell my kids that all the time. Like be nice, that costs you zero dollars, zero dollars it probably costs you more to be mean.

Speaker 2 23:17

Yeah, I'm just saying it takes more effort for sure like man.

Speaker 1 23:21

y'all really have time to go out of your way to be ugly to somebody, or each other yeah, it's mostly to my kids is ugly to each other.

Speaker 3 23:29

I'm just like to each other, really Cause no money, just to be nice. But you know, but the fact that you, you listen to that call, though, you know, and you I just, I resonate with this so much because we both did it, you know, we were both like what even is this.

Speaker 2 23:47

It looked different for us, but it was the same concept of having to let go of what you thought and and the security of it Absolutely and and just trust God that he's pulling you in this direction for a reason, yeah, and whenever I find when people are in a more creative space or it feels like a more entrepreneurial step, if you're doing this because you feel like it's a call on your heart, you are received so well by the other people doing it. Like I walked in here so comfortably because I know that you guys are doing this, not because y'all are like I want to be famous. Um, it just kind of like oh, that went viral.

Speaker 1 24:27

Like yeah, yeah, interesting people want to know what we have to say.

Speaker 2 24:32

Um, in the same like whenever I walk. I remember going to my first catholic conference with these other like artists that have been doing this for a long time and I was like, oh, I don't deserve to be in this room, but but they come up, they talk to me stuff, like somebody bought one of my things and like y'all, I was hot stuff.

Speaker 2 24:52

Um but just that affirmation of like you know, like we all are trying to figure out what we're doing. We're all just trying to like get to heaven, provide for our families and be like regular people and provide for our families and be like regular people.

Speaker 1 25:06

Yep, that's a perfect way to say it.

Making an Impact Through Catholic Art

Speaker 3 25:07

Exactly Like we all, we all just trying to do our best with with what we got you know what? I'm saying, and what, what we know we're supposed to be doing, and I just I feel like I feel like I'm so glad you got all those roses because you are doing an amazing job, ministering to so many people all over the united states, you know, with with this art and they can share it with people and then they learn about more saints.

Speaker 3 25:33

And then I would love to see when hey, hopefully when we get to heaven together, we're gonna see the impact of all of this and that will be yeah, you know what?

Speaker 2 25:44

a reward, you know, and there there are some times where, like, we're not meant to see that impact here on earth right like we're meant to do hard things. We're created to not be comfortable here, um.

Speaker 2 25:56

But then there are other times when you feel a little worn down that, like god knows, wait, I need to let me I need a grand person, and that's when somebody sends you a message or you see them in person and they say, like hey, like even I love in-person events because I get to talk to people and see where they're at. Like I've accidentally told juniors in high school like you need to go to confession.

Speaker 1 26:20

Yeah.

Speaker 2 26:20

Like I love you, but man, and then they come back and they're like wait a second. So like I don't know if you remember, oh, and I was like yeah, I resonated on that for a long time um and they're like. So I went to confession and that kind of helped me, kind of orient myself a little bit better to the life that I'm supposed to be living and like thanks, yeah, like, oh, thank goodness wonderful.

Speaker 3 26:44

I love those god's god sends us. Uh, people like that too, who are just like thank y'all so much for making us laugh every day. I don't have this or I don't have that.

Speaker 1 26:53

I'm going through a hard time and I just I look forward to y'all's content because it just it lifts my mood and my spirits, and then we'll send those messages to each other and we'll be like.

Speaker 3 27:03

This is why this is why you know so um just just hopefully spreading god's love and just kindness yeah, you know obviously laughter, but yeah you know, there's that, but thank you so much for coming uh, please tell us and our viewers, yes, where can we find all your stuff?

Speaker 2 27:21

you have your website right yeah, so I have a website. It's wwwemily s petrie artcom, um, and then I'm on facebook and instagram as well. So facebook's just my, my legal name, emily s petrie art, and then instagram is emily s petrie underscore art, so you can find and I'm gonna tell you how to spell that, because it's you know, it could be pete, it could be Petrie.

Speaker 1 27:43

Emily could be special Emily E-M-I-L-Y S middle initial, petrie P-I-T-R-E. That's how you're going to find her. Search that name and art, yeah, but if you want to look on the socials, that's her name.

Speaker 3 28:01

You're going to find her. She's in all the states.

Speaker 2 28:06

Maybe not all of them one day. I need to sit down I'll bet, I'll bet you are.

Speaker 3 28:10

There's no hawaii in alaska oh, not yet we got in alaska we did okay.

Speaker 2 28:18

So for all of our listeners, viewers, let them know where they can find you, and your art absolutely so you can go and shop me directly um from my website, wwwemilyspetriartcom, and then you can find me on social media emily s petri art on facebook and emily s petri underscore art on insta and hopefully, wherever you are, you can find me in some of your local stores and boutiques and if not ask your shop owner?

Speaker 1 28:45

yeah, I was gonna say ask your little boutique in your town. Hey look, you need to carry this girl's artwork. She's so good. Uh, I'm gonna tell y'all how to spell her name, in case you know, I don't want y'all, I want y'all to be able to find her easily. Emily is spelled e-m-i-l-y-s middle initial and then pete petrie. Sorry is P-I-T-R-E, so it's emilyspetrieartcom yes, alright.

Speaker 3 29:09

Well, thank you so much for coming and chatting with us. I think we could like chat all day on a porch swing somewhere or rocking chairs. We'll save that for another day, though. Yeah, we will. Alright, so what? We will thank Blue Plate Mayonnaise for sponsoring other day, though.

Speaker 4 29:26

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Speaker 3 30:32

Thank you so much for being our sponsor and we'll see y'all next week thanks for joining us on coffee talk with the cajun mamas.

Speaker 4 30:40

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