“I can peer out my kitchen window and watch the world turn green as I work! Livin’ the dream.”
— Rayanne Alm
I have 56 tiny paintbrushes, boil my coffee in a pot, like roping moving things sometimes, shoeing horses, avoiding loud noises and running my truck out of gas,” says Rayanne Alm of Little Smoke Leather Co. in Red Deer County, Alberta, Canada, as an introduction on her Instagram account. Last year, she passed the 10,000 followers mark on her lively dialogue in cyberspace with customers, fellow makers and friends.
Commenters on her page most often rhapsodize about the incredible detail in the portraits of horses and dogs that Rayanne creates on carved and hand-painted leather key tags and hat patches. (She’s also been known to tool and render the occasional landscape, flower, abstract design or cow on a YETI wrap,
