Hello! So glad you could stop by!

My name is Kim, and I’m Wife to Chris, Mom to four kids, and Nana to six grandkids!

Many years ago, we dubbed our little homestead “Thistle Dew Farm,” which was a play on words…
…Thistle Dew? Yup, This’ll Do!
It’s a good place to be and live and raise a family and create and grow up and grow old… and a good place to run a little home-based family business like Thistle Dew Mercantile.

About the art you see here?

I have loved playing with paper and paint and yarn and fabric
and colored pencils and crayons and ink since I was a little girl,
and kinda always knew that I’d do some sort of art when I grew up.

The art of papercutting caught my eye as a young wife and mama, and many years later, it still has my attention. My artwork is strongly influenced by the Pennsylvania German arts of scherenschnitte and fraktur, and centers on themes based on Bible stories and verses and Americana.

I hope it brings joy… and a bit of whimsy… to the places it eventually calls “home.”