Daisy Mae Designs

10/29/2026

Thirty years of ranch life. Summers with her sisters. A whole lot of memories on one map. 🗺️💛

Gladys shared that her family’s North Dakota ranch is now Cross Ranch State Park, along the Missouri River between Sanger and Hensler, and she spotted those familiar places on our cutting board.

Thank you, Gladys, for sharing the story behind your map. Hearing what these places mean to you is one of my favorite parts of what we do.

10/28/2026

Big news, Columbus friends: We’ll be set up on Sunday, November 15 at Not Your Mama's Craft Market!

It’s downstairs at the former Forever 21 store at Polaris mall. You’ll find us inside!

10/28/2026

The Postmarked Mail Club October Edinburgh envelopes have been opened, so now I can finally show you what was inside! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✉️

💌 The letter. This one was all about why Edinburgh’s map looks like two different cities stitched together. The Old Town grew up along a ridge shaped by an ancient volcano and a glacier, and the New Town was drawn out on paper as a tidy grid in 1766. Plus the story of the loch that was drained and became Waverley Station. (I’ll admit, I walked right over all of it with my son in the rain and had no idea.)

🗺️ The postcard. Pulled from a vintage city plan, with the New Town in pink and the Meadows and Holyrood in green.

✨ The sticker sheet. Engravings of Edinburgh Castle, Arthur’s Seat, Calton Hill, the Palace of Holyroodhouse, and Victoria Street, the kind you’d find tucked in the pages of an antique guidebook.

🎁 Two mementos. Every envelope gets a little piece of the city, and since Edinburgh was our very first stop, I tucked in a second as a thank you to everyone who joined at the beginning.

📖 A bookmark cut from that same pink and green city plan, running from Holyrood down past Waverley Station and Princes Street Gardens, finished with a little lace tassel. Perfect for a rainy afternoon with a good book.

👓 A lens cloth printed with an old map of Edinburgh and the Firth of Forth, for your glasses, your phone, or wiping the drizzle off your view.

Thank you to everyone who has sent photos of where you’re reading your letters. Couches, coffee shops, one very cozy cat lap. I love every single one. 🧡

November’s envelope is already being packed, and its destination is a secret until it lands. Join by Saturday to come along on the next stop: https://daisymaedesigns.net/products/postmarked-a-monthly-mail-club

Kristy

10/24/2026

Chicago has one of the best street layout systems in the entire world.

If you look at a map of the city, you will see that it looks like a giant piece of graph paper.

This layout is called a grid system, and it makes finding your way around the city incredibly easy.

Everything starts at one single intersection in the middle of downtown Chicago.

That intersection is where State Street meets Madison Street. People call this spot zero-zero. State Street is the line that separates the east side of the city from the west side.

Madison Street is the line that separates the north side of the city from the south side.

The secret to understanding Chicago addresses is a simple math rule.

For almost every part of the city, eight hundred address numbers equal exactly one mile.

This means that if you travel eight hundred numbers in any direction, you have walked or driven exactly one mile away from the center of the city.

For example, if you go to Chicago Avenue, the map shows that it is located at eight hundred North.

This tells you that Chicago Avenue is exactly one mile north of Madison Street.

If you keep going north to North Avenue, which is at sixteen hundred North, you are now exactly two miles north of the center.

The red vertical lines on the map show the major streets that run north and south.

The blue horizontal lines show the major streets that run east and west.

You can use these lines like a giant ruler to measure distances.

If you start at Halsted Street at eight hundred West and travel over to Ashland Avenue at sixteen hundred West, you know you have traveled exactly one mile west.

There is only one funny rule you have to remember about the system.

On the South Side of the city, the first few miles are a little bit shorter because the streets were built before the official grid system was made.

Roosevelt Road is at twelve hundred South instead of eight hundred South.

Cermak Road is at twenty-two hundred South, and Thirty-First Street is at thirty-one hundred South.

But once you get past Thirty-First Street, the math goes right back to the normal rule.

Every eight blocks after that is another mile, like Forty-Seventh Street and Fifty-Fifth Street.

Once you learn how to read these street numbers, you will never get lost in Chicago again.

10/21/2026

Five new towns just joined the cutting board family! 🗺️

🇺🇸 West Point, New York
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Wales
🌳 Walnut Creek, California
🌊 Virginia Beach, Virginia
⚓ Norfolk, Virginia

Some of my favorite little details are hiding in these. The West Point board has cadets marching right across campus, and the Norfolk board marks the spot where the Monitor and the Merrimac battled in 1862!

Which one is your favorite?

10/20/2026

Holiday market season is here, and I’d love to see your faces! 🎄

Come shop gifts with a hometown story, meet the maker, and maybe check a few names off your list while you’re at it. Here’s where you can find me:

📍 Wed, Nov 4: Girls Night Out at Oakland Nursery Columbus

📍 Sat, Nov 7: Mark Twain Craft Bazaar at Westerville North High School: https://www.facebook.com/events/1098826989493393

📍 Sun, Nov 15: Not Your Mama's Craft Market at Polaris: https://www.facebook.com/events/2096194391270908/2096194397937574/

📍 Sun, Dec 6: The Great Ohio Christmas Cookie Festival, The Ohioan: https://www.facebook.com/events/930337009524675

Grab your best friend, your mom, or your shopping buddy, and come say hi. I’ll have cutting boards, kitchen towels, pillows, and so much more ready to go home with you.

10/16/2026

We decked the halls (well, the stalls) at Pickwick Place! 🎄 Our flocked tree is full of vintage map ornaments, and the whole booth just got a fresh restock of pot holders, cutting boards, pillows, oven mitts, and more. Come wander through, find your hometown, and maybe pick out the ornament that ends up on your tree this year.

10/13/2026

Shelley looks like she’s ready to go to Hawaii to deliver these totes 🌺

10/13/2026

Most of our orders leave the studio in a box with a shipping label. This one left in my car. 🚗

We’re so happy to welcome David & Mary’s in Lewis Center as our newest retail partner, and they’re just 3 miles down the road! There’s something extra special about hand-delivering an order instead of taping up a box. I got to carry everything in myself and meet the team.

Every piece is designed and made right here in our Ohio studio, so seeing them land in a shop in our own neighborhood made my whole week.

Stop by David & Mary's and say hi to your new favorite kitchen goods!

Still wondering where we’re at? Daisy Mae Designs sent us this AMAZING dish towel sample with a vintage Lewis Center map. We couldn’t help but add our mark to it. We’re north of Lewis Center Road and south of Shanahan Road on US-23/Columbus Pike.

Should we stock this dish towel for the holidays?

Also check out the other great Daisy Mae Designs we’ll be stocking soon!