Lori // Papermill Creative
@papermillcreative.bsky.social
Librarian-turned-artist creating art & gifts that celebrate the places we love. Based in Durham NC. www.papermillcreative.com/links
With the Durham Craft Market, I'm honoring those impacted by Hurricane Helene one year ago by raising money for ongoing rebuilding efforts in Western North Carolina.
I've made a limited run of this watercolor painting I made of the mountains outside of Asheville ♥️ You can grab one from my website!
I've made a limited run of this watercolor painting I made of the mountains outside of Asheville ♥️ You can grab one from my website!
October 22, 2025 at 9:18 PM
With the Durham Craft Market, I'm honoring those impacted by Hurricane Helene one year ago by raising money for ongoing rebuilding efforts in Western North Carolina.
I've made a limited run of this watercolor painting I made of the mountains outside of Asheville ♥️ You can grab one from my website!
I've made a limited run of this watercolor painting I made of the mountains outside of Asheville ♥️ You can grab one from my website!
Everything was tuberculosis @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Everything was tuberculosis @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
July 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
July 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Work in progress Wednesday 🌻 It is Wednesday, right?
June 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Work in progress Wednesday 🌻 It is Wednesday, right?
That's my Bull City ♥️💙💛
Just an unending stream of people in glorious Durham North Carolina
June 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
That's my Bull City ♥️💙💛
I made a silly little sticker. Keep up the work and keep up the treats that make you feel like it's worth it ✨
May 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I made a silly little sticker. Keep up the work and keep up the treats that make you feel like it's worth it ✨
First market of the year today at NCMA! I always feel so rusty after the holidays, like I forget how to put my booth up and also how to interact with people
March 1, 2025 at 5:52 PM
First market of the year today at NCMA! I always feel so rusty after the holidays, like I forget how to put my booth up and also how to interact with people
No big deal I'm just IN A MAGAZINE
February 26, 2025 at 8:23 PM
No big deal I'm just IN A MAGAZINE
Welp guess I'll be using my slightly damaged postcard inventory to write my reps! Seems like a good way to use up stock I can't sell... and I can't miss out on using a UNC Chapel Hill design to advocate for preserving NIH funding.
February 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Welp guess I'll be using my slightly damaged postcard inventory to write my reps! Seems like a good way to use up stock I can't sell... and I can't miss out on using a UNC Chapel Hill design to advocate for preserving NIH funding.
Update from the snowfall and my pine drawing. Both are coming along nicely!
February 19, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Update from the snowfall and my pine drawing. Both are coming along nicely!
I'm having a rare magical moment today, drawing pines and watching the snow fall ❄️
February 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I'm having a rare magical moment today, drawing pines and watching the snow fall ❄️
From the North Carolina Outer Banks this past weekend 🦢
February 13, 2025 at 2:34 AM
From the North Carolina Outer Banks this past weekend 🦢
Every day I think "this is the day my studio will stop being a wreck." Anyway. Today was also not that day.
February 11, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Every day I think "this is the day my studio will stop being a wreck." Anyway. Today was also not that day.
Hot damn, if there's not anything better than holding your new product for the first time.
(Also hot damn, what am I thinking releasing house warming cards at a moment when the whole metaphorical house is on fire)
(Also hot damn, what am I thinking releasing house warming cards at a moment when the whole metaphorical house is on fire)
February 3, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Hot damn, if there's not anything better than holding your new product for the first time.
(Also hot damn, what am I thinking releasing house warming cards at a moment when the whole metaphorical house is on fire)
(Also hot damn, what am I thinking releasing house warming cards at a moment when the whole metaphorical house is on fire)
What's a girl gotta do around here to be reincarnated as a little cat in a big papasan napping in a sunbeam
January 31, 2025 at 1:42 PM
What's a girl gotta do around here to be reincarnated as a little cat in a big papasan napping in a sunbeam
Yay, my Native Plants of NC stickers are back in stock! (another top notch job from @stickerninja.bsky.social 💜💜)
And now they're in two sizes: one for your car bumper, one for your notebook, so you can easily be identified as a native plant nerd wherever you go.
And now they're in two sizes: one for your car bumper, one for your notebook, so you can easily be identified as a native plant nerd wherever you go.
January 30, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Yay, my Native Plants of NC stickers are back in stock! (another top notch job from @stickerninja.bsky.social 💜💜)
And now they're in two sizes: one for your car bumper, one for your notebook, so you can easily be identified as a native plant nerd wherever you go.
And now they're in two sizes: one for your car bumper, one for your notebook, so you can easily be identified as a native plant nerd wherever you go.
I have had these files sitting around half-finished for a year. I finally buckled down this week to finish them and get them off to the printer!
January 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I have had these files sitting around half-finished for a year. I finally buckled down this week to finish them and get them off to the printer!
I'm a big fan of this starter pack! It's making my feed so colorful and creative 💜
I made a starter pack for illustrators and surface designers so we can find each other & connect! Let me know if you’d like to be added (or removed)!
go.bsky.app/QNy4Z82
go.bsky.app/QNy4Z82
January 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I'm a big fan of this starter pack! It's making my feed so colorful and creative 💜
One screen for drawing, one screen for reference, one screen for entertainment (and in the darkness bind them?) #unexpectedtolkein
January 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
One screen for drawing, one screen for reference, one screen for entertainment (and in the darkness bind them?) #unexpectedtolkein
Still trying to find my community here! I'm looking for you if you are:
🐂 Durham, NC / Triangle-based
🎨 an artist or maker (esp. watercolor, gouache, & stationery)
🛍️ a local gift shop or bookstore
🌱 into native plants & birds
💡 a resource for creative businesses
🤓 into local history & architecture
🐂 Durham, NC / Triangle-based
🎨 an artist or maker (esp. watercolor, gouache, & stationery)
🛍️ a local gift shop or bookstore
🌱 into native plants & birds
💡 a resource for creative businesses
🤓 into local history & architecture
January 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Still trying to find my community here! I'm looking for you if you are:
🐂 Durham, NC / Triangle-based
🎨 an artist or maker (esp. watercolor, gouache, & stationery)
🛍️ a local gift shop or bookstore
🌱 into native plants & birds
💡 a resource for creative businesses
🤓 into local history & architecture
🐂 Durham, NC / Triangle-based
🎨 an artist or maker (esp. watercolor, gouache, & stationery)
🛍️ a local gift shop or bookstore
🌱 into native plants & birds
💡 a resource for creative businesses
🤓 into local history & architecture
Hello to everyone who's followed me over to Bluesky from Instagram! I'm excited (or is that actually trepidation?) about trying to run a Meta- and Amazon-free art business in 2025. I look forward to connecting with you on Bluesky, my newsletter, and always and forever most importantly, in person 💙
January 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Hello to everyone who's followed me over to Bluesky from Instagram! I'm excited (or is that actually trepidation?) about trying to run a Meta- and Amazon-free art business in 2025. I look forward to connecting with you on Bluesky, my newsletter, and always and forever most importantly, in person 💙
I did plein air painting for the first time today. It taught me some things I don't know about watercolor, like for example that I don't know anything about watercolor 🙃
November 25, 2024 at 8:19 PM
I did plein air painting for the first time today. It taught me some things I don't know about watercolor, like for example that I don't know anything about watercolor 🙃
No painting to post today, just my goofy dog. This is Miracle Max and he will kindly take whatever treats you have in your pocket tyvm
November 22, 2024 at 3:05 PM
No painting to post today, just my goofy dog. This is Miracle Max and he will kindly take whatever treats you have in your pocket tyvm
My favorite house portrait I've ever done 💚 Give me an overflowing garden over a lawn any day. #watercolor #art #illustration #gouache
November 21, 2024 at 6:12 PM
My favorite house portrait I've ever done 💚 Give me an overflowing garden over a lawn any day. #watercolor #art #illustration #gouache