LittleEccentricities was born out of a daydream. I (Aleah) was teaching in the public schools. To be honest? I wasn’t happy, and that particular school system just ‘wasn’t the right fit’. And so, on one fateful weekend, I decided to open a shop.
It started out small, on just one platform. My pictures were admittedly subpar, my vision for the shop still blurring, but…I thought ‘Maybe, just maybe somewhere down the line, creating art and studio-recorded flute music could be what I do. For a living! How nice would that be’
And I’m very pleased to say, that is exactly where I am today. I’m writing this as we launch our 4th online storefront. (I digress).
I wanted to make a shop where everyone would be able to find some little something that they could enjoy. Not something you need, but something you just plain want! Be it something vintage or fantastical…Steampunk or Lovecraftian…A piece of jewelry, a mesmerizing paperweight…
Time passed by, and our customer base expanded from the United States, to Europe, South American, and even Uganda. Custom order requests become increasingly more complex, and I began to struggle to keep up with the needs of our clients.
Then: enters Sam.
Shortly after Sam and moved in together and I overtook a spacious basement in a unsightly little house build it the 1940’s…Sam had made a plan with my dad to get my a 3d printer for my birthday
We started making mold boxes and 3d prints. Then? Another gamechanger. Sam taught himself 3d modeling and sculpting entirely from scratch.
Even now, there are late nights where I beg him to come in from his home office to watch a show with me. But I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t worth it, because he began to teach me, too.
Now that spacious basement is filled with resin printers and FDM, a laser engraver, 3 pressure pots…(I’m beaming as I’m writing this, because we are running out of room and I’m wondering, what’s next for us?).
Now, we can make any of your ideas come to life and become something you can hold in your hands.
I might not be teaching anymore, but I like to think that I’m making the world a little happier, one shiny object at a time.
Over & Out,
-Aleah (Shop Owner)