Hello!

I’m Lana, the maker behind the handmade items you see. I make one of a kind quilts to be loved and snuggled. And because I love to always be creating… I also paint florals and landscapes, create pumpkins with vintage velvet and other textiles, and put together the occasional assemblage jewelry collection, and I can’t leave out my paper whimsies!

Much more of my work can be seen here: https://honeysucklelane.com/

I am a self-taught artist who loves nature, history, and simple pleasures. I hope to remind others of these joys. It is also my desire is to reflect the beauty and the blessings of the Lord in my designs.

My handmade items have appeared in Better Homes and Gardens Holiday Crafts, Romantic Homes, Stampington's GreenCraft, Early American Life, Victoria, Create & Decorate, Craftworks, and Arts & Crafts. I have been a Pattern Partner for National Nonwovens.

Besides being a work at home artist, I am a wife, Mom, and Nana! I live on the Cumberland Plateau on the border of middle and east Tennessee and the central and eastern time zone... also part of the Southern Appalachians. It's a beautiful rural area where I have lived all my life.

I am very honored that my work has been featured in several publications:

Better Homes and Gardens Make It Yourself 2012
FOLK, 2011
Better Homes and Gardens Holiday Crafts, 2011
Romantic Homes, February 2011
GreenCraft, Winter 2010
Early American Life, February 2007 (article featuring my puzzle purse valentines)
Early American Life (listed in several Directory of Traditional AmericanCrafts)
Create and Decorate, April 2006
Create and Decorate, February 2006
Create and Decorate, Holiday 2004
Create and Decorate, December 2004
Create and Decorate, August 2004
Create and Decorate, June 2004
Create and Decorate, April 2004
Create and Decorate, February 2004
Create and Decorate, December 2003
Create and Decorate, October 2003
Create and Decorate, September 2003
Craftwork Home & Garden, June 2003
Victoria, August 2002
Arts & Crafts, December 2002
Playing with Books by Jason Thompson

My other business names are Simple Joys Paperie and Lana Manis Designs.

Thank you, Etsy, for letting me share my antique pincushion collection on your blog: http://www.etsy.com/storque/read/the-collectors-handmade-pincushions-12777/
(I think after several years, these blogs by Etsy are no longer available.)

Feel free to contact me via my Etsy shop,
or email me at lanamanis {at} gmail.com.

~ Visit my blogs ~
http://www.lanamanis.blogspot.com
http://www.honeysucklelane.blogspot.com

~ Visit my Instagram page ~
https://instagram.com/LanaManis