About Us

We're two friends, two artists and two moms who spent a couple of decades too busy to do the thing we love most: making stuff.

Careers happened. Kids happened. Deadlines, carpools, school lunches, more school lunches. The paint dried up and the scissors went in a drawer. We were late to Photoshop and later still to selling online. Honestly, we'd rather have glue on our fingers than a mouse in our hand. But one day we looked up and realized we were missing the boat.

So we got on a different one: the menopause boat. (Some call it cougar puberty.) What a ride. It turns out hot flashes come with creative bursts, and somewhere in the chaos we found our way back to ourselves, to our work, and to you.

How our work is made

Everything starts on a table, not a screen. We cut and layer real paper into collage, paint with real paint, and draw with real pencils and pens. Many of our pieces begin life as ACEOs, tiny original artworks the size of a trading card, made one at a time by hand. Some of those originals we scan and bring to shirts and other goods, printed to order, so the handmade piece can live on in your everyday life.

Conceived, drawn and made by a human. No AI, ever.

Every design you see here was imagined, sketched, painted or collaged by one of us. That's the whole point.

Our mission

To create and share our hand-crafted designs, and bring them online so everyone can have a little piece of our work, made by two menopausal mom-artists.

Our vision

To blend analog and digital art in ways that honour the old classics and breathe new life into them, while keeping them attainable and part of everyday life. Small batches, authentically crafted, conceived by humans. Us.

Come along

We know what we know, and we know what we don't. We're not afraid of either, and frankly, we're too old to care anymore. We just want to make beautiful stuff: quirky, clever and unusual.

Come with us on our journey of rediscovery and new ways to create and share.

— Tahnee & Larissa, Moxie and Madj Made in Toronto and on the Sunshine Coast of BC