About Us

For Laurie, Love Amy came about all at once and also after years of deep love and forging connections. I've loved books and classical literature from the moment I was able to read, and I started my art journey around the same time. I gravitated toward drawing and photography, and photography quickly took over as my passion.

I owned a photography business for 17 years, photographing everything from weddings and engagements (flying into the reception on a small airplane with the bride and groom, and capturing a surprise proposal at a Chateau in the French countryside were highlights) to photographing babies being born (going from videoing the birth of my niece to catching her due to the birth happening before the midwife arrived was a highlight here!). 

As the oldest of five girls, Little Women has always had a very special place in my heart. Old books and stories of love and strength and friendship have settled deep into my heart, gently brushing against the emotional vulnerability that for many many years I pushed down and hid. I kept it shielded, not realizing that vulnerability was the key to unlocking creativity and connection.

After moves internationally and changes to our family and jobs from 2014-2020, I found myself pregnant with a surprise fourth boy in late 2022. I decided to put photography on the back burner, and that turned into deciding to leave the business for now. In spring of 2024 my husband and I decided to pursue a job with a non-profit in Amsterdam, NL, and began the support raising process (more on that at www.bridgesams.com). This business gives us a way to help sustain our lives here in the US as we support raise and also helps us save toward moving in Summer 2025. 

Through years of therapy and introspection I've begun to understand how to feel my emotions again, and how to be vulnerable and genuinely open with others. I've learned how to be soft and strong at the same time, and to make space for others as they figure life out. For Laurie, Love Amy was created in September 2024 during a moment of clarity: I could be vulnerable about my love of the good, beautiful stories of my childhood and allow myself to feel fully (in front of others) the love that they held. It was created during a leap into the unknown - I decided to make what I wanted rather than creating for any specific audience - with the faith that if anyone else sought this connection to story, they'd find their way here.

That brings us to today! I'm still striving for transparency, for vulnerability, and for clarity. I'm learning as I go, but my hope is that maybe you'll see something in the shop that sparks joy in that hidden part of your heart- the one that maybe you left behind as a young child, like I did. And that you'll remember how to be both soft and strong, open and safe.