SITE COMING SOON
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Once a week for the past 4 months I’ve had the privilege of visiting a magical place and working with my friend/client to make her dreams come to life. Follow along on our adventures @broadlawnfarm 🧺 #broadlawnfarm #letlizhelp7 days ago -
This summer I marched with my family. Correction: This summer I peacefully marched on Washington D.C. with my family. Corrected: This summer I peacefully marched on Washington D.C. with my Black family, because it’s about them. There is so much noise today, but what should be lifted above it all is that #blackvotesmatter because #blacklivesmatter.2 weeks ago -
I don’t have any profound thoughts for the New Year, I’m just glad to see it and grateful that everyone I love is healthy 💗 #happynewyear3 weeks ago -
Sometimes you just have to capture a moment so it lasts forever. New color palette in my bathroom, where a @greenwichletterpress tote randomly landed, while the pups approve the @ruggable runner.4 weeks ago -
Approaching the end of yet another year that most of us wish we could wash away, but it’s good to remember some of the wins, too. Some briefer than others and still so much has to change…but I won’t forget that for 85 minutes a Black woman was President of the United States of America. Keep soaring through that glass ceiling, ladies! #blacklivesmatter #liftupwomenofcolor #firstwomanpresident1 month ago -
Really looking forward to that 🧀…anyone else? . Card by our brilliant friends @ladyfingersletterpress. It was actually a surprise best seller at the shop at first and became a staple.1 month ago -
While my new business focuses on Strategic Consulting, it’s always fun to bring Design and Paper into the fold. So excited for all of the exciting things @nightlightakron has planned and now they have some shimmering stationery to keep in touch with all of you. ✉️ #LetLizHelp #LizScottDesigns 🎥 Remember #NightlightCinema for #GivingTuesday2 months ago -
SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY : go out and shop from the stores you want to see around next year! We know all too well the challenges that statement holds. 4 years ago, while on vacation and brainstorming ways to help my storefront, Lovely Somethings, we ended up in a shop in upstate NY, and it inspired Blair to make candles. From our shop we sold tons, did it “save” the business, no, but did we learn a lot, oh yeah! I do still believe the secret sauce to small independent storefronts is having your own merchandise, those items where you can make larger margins than the typical 50% mark up from small artisans - which makes it virtually impossible to offer sales (so if they are offering sales today, it’s a big deal!!!!) Blair made and continues to make the greatest candles ever, @akroncandlecompany. I’m not biased at all. And while we no longer have the storefront, we’ve experienced so many challenges, having the raw glass available, delays in painting it, shipping (like the empties just arrived yesterday so guess what we’re doing this weekend…). I’m not really sure where I’m going with this post but just a little reminder, especially here on #smallbusinesssaturday that you never really know how hard it is for small businesses. When I closed the doors 2 years ago, every single business that messaged me condolences lamented that they were contemplating that step too, or wondering how long they had. It’s a miracle that small shops survived the pandemic, now that you can get out there and support them in person (and many online) I really hope that you will 💗 Rant over. Back to decorating, and pouring lots and lots of candles with this amazing small business owner. #madeinakron #blacklivesmatter #shopsmall #buyblack2 months ago -
GRATITUDE : this is def my theme for the year. Each morning I wrote about it, and now on this day, there are 4 amazing women that I want to thank for helping change my life, thank you. @darlene.coach you are everything I knew I needed but didn’t know how to get there, thank you for helping with the “thru,” and I can confidently say I am “Better than Fine” - yes because of me, but with your major help. @hillaryoravec I don’t even know where to begin, that fateful call looking for advice about whether I should leap, changed my little family’s life forever, because you believed in me, thank you. @designing_elizabeth you’ve always believed in me and I am so honored to help make your vision a reality, thank you for allowing me this opportunity to let all of my creativity fly, with your beautiful heart. And in the most unexpected and wonderful new development, to my little sister, @rose_langstaff. We’ve been through it all, and while near identical experiences, generally for the bad, never together. I’m so thankful that we are in the place we are in now, and are truly friends, I love you. So amazing women, these 4, and all of my friends, family and followers, rock on with your bad selves because I’m grateful for you! And the dudes too. And those that identify as neither, or both. Happy Gratitude 🦃2 months ago -
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(BEFORE) It was clearly grooming day for Quinnie. Now🤞 that some of it grows back before his grandma gets home for Christmas. @adventuresofquinnandpiper2 months ago -
New perspective. I bought this @leeheinenstudio painting from @harrisstantongallery when we started our home renovations, sometime mid-pandemic (or wait is that now). I purchased it because it spoke to me but also because I felt it would be perfect in one of the guest rooms. It’s hung there for over a year but just hasn’t felt right. The scale was way off, and maybe it was too perfect. Did it need friends? Nope, I think it was destined for somewhere else in the house. We have lots of work starting in the house this week: painting the kitchen, main bathroom and family room plus the built-ins installation, so get ready for some before and afters and oh god I might even try to DIY a new backsplash. #shoplocal #buyart2 months ago -
Congratulations, @bibbforcle! Can’t wait to see the real changes you will make for Cleveland. #blacklivesmatter3 months ago -
🌟✉️ NEW SERVICE ALERT ✉️🌟 I’m super excited that this new chapter keeps paper in my 💗 and at the forefront of my 🧠 as I’m teaming up with The Paper Nerd herself, @ms_sarah_schwartz, founding editor-in-chief of @stationerytrend magazine, to offer wholesale and maker consulting to those in the paper and gift world. We will review your line, give advice on where you can grow, design critiques, retailer sell-through guidance, write press releases, design your media kit and more. Whatever your dreams, Sarah & I look forward to taking a deep dive into your world and making them happen. Link in Bio. #LetLizHelp3 months ago -
I’m insanely lucky to know such talented people. Gratefully a certain black-haired friend of mine, brought @silas_hite into our little orbit. He never ceases to amaze me with his creativity, truly inspiring! Silas just released his latest album this week: check out #Fushigi, especially if you bought his #SongsforaDinnerParty from my shop. Oh yeah! Have you done a deep dive into my new site yet? LINK IN BIO, then go to PROJECTS > LIZ LOVES and you can find some of my favorite recent purchases like this amazing translucent purple vinyl and things I’m coveting like embroidered gloves, and links to the artists (or sometimes yes even giant retailers) website so you can buy directly from them. And Si, I wish your inscription were true 😉 #silashite #shopsmall3 months ago -
Powerful image. And, yet another mind-blowing realization. I knew that our parents’ generation lived through the first civil rights battle, and sure iconic images of whites only drinking fountains and other atrocities come to mind - I’m sure because of tv/movies - but only when seeing this post from @spoutfitter did I learn that parks, where I think of being the most free space were illegal for BIPOC, a very short time ago. I’m so glad I see; via social media and IRL, friends and family basking in nature and sharing their #blackjoy; and in turn crushing those stereotypes that we may have been taught (which were bad enough, let alone these awful origins). For the record, my husband still can’t swim (his cousin gave him one lesson two years ago), and has never camped. When I asked his dad if he himself swims, a flat no, kind of with the look like “that’s a very odd question.” But in my white girl brain, that reply and fact is so totally foreign to me. That was my childhood…but it’s never been ILLEGAL for me. #blacklivesmatter check out @spoutfitter, @blackoutside_inc and awesome women here in Akron: @blackwomenexplore3 months ago -
Surprise flowers from the hubs is one of the best feelings in the world! #lovelysomethingsathome3 months ago -
Kitty appreciation post 🐈⬛ Poor Neo hasn’t gotten much love from me in the 10 years that he’s been in my life (Blair adopted him when he was @univmiami, so he’s definitely 14+ years old). Sure it doesn’t help that I’m now super allergic to him and can’t touch him. Right, appreciation… he is a sweet cat. When I decide to say “screw my allergies” and run one finger under his chin his head goes straight into the air and it’s the cutest thing. 🤞that we’ve found our groove. Sure it means putting an old lady plastic cover on the new couch when we aren’t actively on it, locking him in B’s office at night, and buying the ridic expensive @thelitterrobot, but all seems right in our little world. In the morning when I open Blair’s office door, he marches out and joins the pups at my feet and the little ducklings follow me downstairs for their breakfasts. While he has his own food/water in B’s office, he likes sharing a bowl with Quinn, in the dining room, so long as Piper is relegated to the kitchen or she scurries through the living room like a shark to steal all of their food. I just said to someone this past week, I always thought it was crazy, people that treated their pets like kids, but that is what they are to us, and they act like it too! #lovelysomethingsathome3 months ago -
So much for The Golden Rule, eh?! (Read pic 2) 🤯 #blacklivesmatter . #BLACKGENIUSbook in progress by @tre_john_son3 months ago -
And away we go... the beautiful-mind-type-board I've been adding post-it notes to for months is finally in consumable form, as we launch our new site and thus my latest business, Liz Scott Design(s). . As with life, things don’t always go as planned. The switch over to the IG name I’ve been saving didn’t happen. Fingers crossed for 14 days from now, so still @trooplovelysomethings, because the troop will always live on (I hope) 💗 . Thank you for still being here. I have some super exciting things planned and will continue to add to the blog, but for now from the new site (link in bio) head to to the PROJECTS page and you can find a PAPER People map, my favorite follows under LOVES and more. . #letlizhelp3 months ago