This edition of Etsy Love Stories features Michael and Lani of GreenSpaceGoods. This is their story, from the Etsy Love thread in the Forums. Here's Lani.

Michael and I started our Etsy shop together. We've always worked together, even before we were dating. Everything in our shop is something we both contributed to. Our favorites are our ink blot collection. (Shown above.)

Not long after we started dating, Michael was moving into a new apartment. While helping him pack, I opened one of his sketch books and became incredibly confused. I couldn't figure out how he had gotten one of my sketchbooks! I turned several pages before realizing that they weren't my drawings. While I recognized the style and shapes, I didn't recoginize the complete images. It turns out we've been drawing the same types of images since before we even met. So, it just made sense to start drawing them together.

We sit down with a piece of bristol board and one person draws a shape. Then the other person adds a shape. We don't know what we're going to draw, it just slowly emerges on the page. (And it's all in ink from the beginning, so no mistakes, no changes!) I guess you could say that the ink blots represent two intertwining souls. We think of them like children. They might not be perfect, but they represent the twisted thoughts of two kindred spirits.

That's love. What's your Etsy Love Story?