Maclean Smyth

Crafting and chronic illness…with a few healthy home tips and homesteading stories along the way ✨

I’m a disabled homesteader originally from the Bay Area who used to own a makerspace in Houston, now runs a global custom merchandise brokerage, and used to have forty five acres near Denver but now calls one acre in Asheville home. I've just relaunched my online shop full of hand crafted and thoughtfully designed goods after several years being bed bound. There lots more to come in the future, and I hope you'll follow along! And in case it's useful, it's pronounced muh-KLAIN sm-EYE-th ;)

10/17/2026

✨The fourth of my fall product launches is now live! My quilt-inspired Sawtooth Cottage collection, felt pies, and paper gingerbread houses have arrived in the shop✨

Last week, I shared some of the process behind these pieces while I waited for the wool felt to arrive. Thank you for following along, and for giving me a little more time to get these ready.

I really struggled with pricing these. Like many other artists, I’m grappling with a lifetime of undervaluing my work, and part of my healing process involves compensating myself fairly for my labor going forward. However, making my work accessible matters to me, so if the listed price of a handmade felt piece or any other product is out of reach, please get in touch. I’m open to discussing sliding scale pricing or a trade, and I’m happy to explore an arrangement that works for both of us.

thank you for supporting everything I’ve released so far this fall. Your orders mean a great deal to this very small business. If you aren’t shopping right now, sharing the link to my shop or engaging with my posts is also genuinely helpful.

One more small launch is coming on November 1, my birthday. I started drawing something for myself and decided I want to share it with you too.

Let me know your favorite piece from this launch in the comments below!

10/16/2026

Tomorrow at 8 pm est I’m finally launching my felt pies and quilt blocks in wrist pincushions, ornaments, and coasters, my paper gingerbread house ornaments, and my quilt-inspired print and woven blanket! Yay!

10/11/2026

Decided this was important enough for a grid post

My neighbors a few doors down have decided they want to start doing a monthly crafternoon for the neighborhood with crafts for a variety of ages and skill levels. That’s amazing enough in itself, but what’s really cool is that they reached out to ask how they could make this event accessible for someone like myself, and then they followed through and actually did it.

I did the adult craft - cutting up an old romance novel and turning it into a decorative apple - as well as the intermediate kid’s craft - a paper pumpkin. I love them both.

I don’t get to participate in in-person things very often, and while I’m thankful for the social connection I can access through social media, my existence is still pretty isolated. I also don’t choose to have the requirements I do around in-person activities. I’m literally just trying to stay alive until tomorrow.

All I’m saying is I’m really looking forward to next month.

10/09/2026

TL/DR: ✨30% off everything in my shop!!✨

I was planning to launch my quilt block prints and blankets, my paper gingerbread ornaments, and a whole bunch of felt products today, but my production felt is stuck in transit. So, while I wait for that to arrive, I’ve decided to extend a deeper discount than ever before: use the code FELTDELAY30 for 30% off anything and everything currently in my online shop. The code is limited to one use per person and runs from October 9, 2026 at 4:00 p.m. Eastern through October 12, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern. I may do one more 20% off discount code this year, in late November, but I probably won’t offer 30% off for a while.

www.macleansmyth.com/shop (also linked in my bio)

And please let me know: would you prefer a thinner elastic band on the pin cushions?

10/03/2026

I’m taking the rest of the weekend off, but I’ll be back on Monday with a big giveaway!

I think I will probably always struggle with pacing. I keep burning myself out because my physical capabilities don’t match my creative pursuits, but… I can’t stop. If I could, I would have three years ago when I was on my deathbed.

Instead, I’ll keep trying to learn the elusive balance of not working past the point of exhaustion and being so thankful to be able to create anything at all.

Thank you so much for the overwhelmingly positive response to my birthday cards, stickers, my Apple Tree Farmstead collection, and my Forest Folk House collection. Come back on Monday for an Apple Tree Farmstead giveaway! 💝

If you’re an artist who also has to navigate chronic illness, have you gotten the knack of pacing?

09/30/2026

My Forest Folk House Collection is now live

Drawing from Hungarian folk art, my Forest Folk House lives deep in the woods, where winter settles in and darkness comes early. By day, it stays tucked beneath the oaks on its uncanny homestead. After dark, it rises onto its bird legs and walks the forest by moonlight, with its crow companion overhead.

I turned the house and its corner of the woods into an entire collection:

- An 8 × 8 art print featuring the full blanket design
- A 5 × 7 art print featuring the house mid-stride
- A lined stationery pad
- Matching printed and lined envelopes
- A complete letter-writing set
- A 20-sticker sheet
- Two weatherproof die-cut vinyl stickers
- A reversible cotton woven jacquard blanket

The collection is full of oak leaves and acorns, rust-red tulips, blue flowers, candles, cauldrons, mortars and pestles, and a crow that’s always close at hand.

You can find the full collection at macleansmyth.com/shop (also linked in my bio).

Swipe through to see everything, and tell me which piece you would let wander into your home.

09/21/2026

The Apple Tree Farmstead Collection is now live. ✨🍎

This collection is inspired by the Autumn Equinox: the apples are ready, the farm birds are cleaning up after the harvest, and the c***r is going into the crock to enjoy in a few months when winter needs a warming drink. It lives in that brief stretch of the year when a chill is beginning to creep into the morning air, but the summer flowers are still singing their swan (goose?) song.

I reworked my original Apple Tree Farmstead artwork a little and then turned it into an entire collection:

- A 9 × 12 art print (corresponding fabric frame option coming soon!)
- A lined stationery pad
- Matching printed and lined envelopes
- A 20-sticker sheet
- A complete letter-writing set
- Two weatherproof die-cut vinyl stickers
- A reversible cotton woven jacquard blanket

The blanket is a preorder, with ten available in the first production run and shipping expected in mid-October. Everything else is available now.

You can find the full collection at macleansmyth.com/shop (also linked in my bio).

Swipe through to see everything, including the goose who is either supervising the harvest or trying to keep everyone else away from it. If you have a favorite, tell me which one!

09/13/2026

🥳 I ❤️ sending birthday cards. 🥳 If you’re a friend or a family member, you’ve probably received a few from me over the years, and it probably had a sticker or two tucked inside. So it made sense to start with those as I dive into designing stationery products.

For this first launch, I made the kinds of birthday cards I’m always looking for myself: funny, a little strange, and not overly sentimental. And then I made a few stickers that I would want to send. One for a water bottle and two acknowledging the state of the world at the moment.

Altogether there are five card designs and three matte vinyl stickers, including designs inspired by Belinda and Barbara, the two wild toads who live under my deck stairs.

Everything is available now at macleansmyth.com/shop (also linked in my bio).

If you have a favorite, tell me which one! Maybe that’s the one I’ll send on your birthday this year 🥳

09/11/2026

Available tomorrow! 3” stickers for your laptop, your water bottle, your local telephone pole, or wherever else you want to stick ‘em.

Starting with three designs - two of birds practicing their right to protest and one of a toad just being its authentic self.

Live at 8 pm eastern tomorrow at macleansmyth.com

07/15/2026

Happy 4️⃣th Birthday, Odin! 🥳🎂🎉

You are an absolute gremlin and I’m glad you ended up with us.

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