Remember the Pandemic? Oh, wait, we’re still in it? Crap. Well, remember back in the very beginning when we were locked down and living our best lives making sourdough starters and learning new languages on DuoLingo? Or Rosetta Stone? No judgment. Yes, that glorious time. Well, while you were doing that, Maylin Luke was starting a business. She just didn’t know it yet.
Let’s start at the beginning. Pre-Pandemic. Maylin got married. Real beautiful, fairytale stuff.
Through said fairytale affair, she received a gift card to the inimitable (never used that word before but pretty sure I nailed it) Ruibal’s Garden Center. She lived in an apartment at the time so not a lot of landscaping needs, you know? Instead, she bought a cement planter and loved it. The cement planter piqued her interest and she started snooping around online. “And then Instagram did it’s creepy thing and started serving me ads for silicon molds…” (Best quote ever.)
Never one to turn down some clickbait, Maylin ordered the molds, but the company never sent them. She then let out an audible sigh, ordered some off Amazon, received them and shoved them in the pantry. Never to be touched again. Until…Shutdown 2020. In January she remembered she had them (so technically pre-Shutdown) and she started tinkering around. She’d make a pot, post it on Instagram and people loved her stuff.
A friend shared a planter Maylin made and the local news crew took an interest. They were doing features on People & The Pandemic & The Hobbies That Hatched and they wanted to interview Maylin. It was a real oh shit moment. She needed a name. She didn’t have a website or anything, so she was brainstorming with a friend and said, “You know I want it to be like PLANT BITCH or something.” The friend suggested Resting Plant Face. It was perfect and it stuck. Another friend gifted her a logo and now, it’s her full-time gig. She makes all the planters by hand.
She uses all kinds of molds (including ones intended for candy) to create custom planters you won’t find anywhere else. But she doesn’t JUST do planters, she has Kiss Me concrete incense burners, peace out hand statues, dominos and little marbled letters. AND she just added the tiniest tombstones for when you (inevitably) kill a plant. Hey, it happens.
Maylin said her Spooky Collection is always a hit and so is her Out West Collection, but if you ask me – and you didn’t – I love her Butts. Because it lets me make that statement. And they’re really awesome, too. In real life they’re called the Cheeky Planter or Cheeky Statue and they come in many, many finishes. I bought two and one of my greatest joys was yelling, “I’m off to pick up my butts.” I personally drove to get my planters because I wanted to say hey, but don’t be fooled, Maylin ships nationwide.
Now if I can bring it all full circle, I’d like to point out her planters are the perfect gift. (And the inspiration came from a gift!!) They’re handmade, hand-painted and unexpected. Plus they’re for plants which give us oxygen so you’re basically giving the gift of life. High five the heck out of you. You can shop the entire Resting Plant Face Collection here or follow along on Maylin’s adventures here.
