🌿 Quinn Grayson: The Girl Next Door Who Built Her Dream From Scratch 🛠️✨

Hi loves! I’m Quinn—your friendly neighborhood Renewable Materials Designer with a heart full of sunshine ☀️ and a head full of wild dreams. This is the story of how I went from a broke college kid with a glue gun to the founder of my very own sustainable design studio. Buckle up. It’s a wild ride! 🎢

Chapter 1: The ‘What Am I Doing With My Life?’ Phase

Picture this: 22 years old, sitting on my dorm floor with scraps of fabric, broken furniture and a big pile of self doubt. I was studying design but hated the wastefulness of it all—the fast fashion, the toxic materials, the unsustainable lifestyle that came with a design degree. Just not for me. 🙅‍♀️ I wanted to make good things that didn’t cost the earth. Literally.

So I started taking the trash and making it treasured—old jeans becoming tote bags, broken furniture pieces turned into cool shelving units, my roommates laughed (love u guys 😘) but I wasn’t doing this for them. Because this was my spark my vibe, my passion… 🔥

Chapter 2: The ‘I’m Broke But I’m Happy’ Phase

Post-grad life hit me like a bus. No job, no money, just a smartphone with a burning passion and a maxed out credit card (oops). I was selling my designs at flea markets, throwing up designs on Etsy, and maybe cried in a Starbucks bathroom a time or two. ☕💔

And then—viral moment. A video of me turning plastic bottles into actual cute planters went viral. Brands started sliding into my DMs. Holy. Sh*t.

Chapter 3: The ‘Okay, I’m Doing This For Real’ Phase

With $500 and a prayer, I jumped in. Year one of my studio? A disaster. Suppliers ghosted, prototypes failed, and I did not sleep. EVER. But every long and lonely night paled in comparison to the feeling I got seeing my zero waste furniture in the corner of someone’s cozy home. 🏡💖

Now? I’m living my childhood dream—designing sustainable furniture, partnering with eco brand companies, and finally paying off that damn credit card. 😂

Why Follow Me?

Because I’m just like you—imperfect, fierce, and figuring it out. I’ll show you the glam AND the grind of budding Black+Indigenous Womxn adventure. Plus I have free DIY hacks because why not? 😉

Let’s make the world greener, one design at a time. 🌎✨ XOXO, Quinn