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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Like many stationery brands, <a href="https://tinyandsnail.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" title="Tiny and Snail">Tiny and Snail</a> is a family operation. Sisters Leah Nixon &; Grace Nixon Peterson launched this brand in 2017, with both designing their initial 13-card signature collection, paint stroke by keystroke.</p>



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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><br>But everything flipped upside down in an instant when Leah, AKA Tiny, was crushed under a telehandler at her day job, building homes for Habitat for Humanity. Leah&#8217;s right leg was amputated and she is paralyzed from the armpits down.</p>



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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><br>Out of this life-altering tragedy came a miracle … Leah was still able to paint! Yet rather than soldering on stoically, Tiny and Snail is both informed and inspired by the catastrophe.<br></p>



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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">&#8220;We didn&#8217;t realize it at the time, but we were building a life raft that could keep us afloat with hope, purpose and an income after Leah&#8217;s accident,&#8221; Grace and Leah explain in Tiny and Snail materials. &#8220;It&#8217;s been a brutal, beautiful journey. We remain so grateful for the gifts of life, art and sisterhood.&#8221;<br></p>



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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">With a mission of creating artful keepsakes to help bring light to a weary world, Grace and Leah have built <a href="https://www.instagram.com/tiny_and_snail/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" title="a thriving, powerful community around them">a thriving, powerful community around them</a>, one devoted follower at a time. It&#8217;s very hard to not be inspired by this sister act, who are forging their own maker path as they remind us all of the potential of a single card to infuse the mail with magic, one magnificent painted envelope at a time!<br></p><div class="inline-post clearfix"><div class="see-also byline">See also</div><div id="block-wrap-46943" class="block-wrap-native block-wrap block-wrap-23 block-css-46943 block-wrap-classic columns__m--1 elements-design-3 block-ani block-skin-0 tipi-box block-wrap-thumbnail ppl-m-1 clearfix" data-id="46943" data-base="0"><div class="tipi-row-inner-style clearfix"><div class="tipi-row-inner-box contents sticky--wrap"><div class="block block-23 clearfix"><article class="tipi-xs-12 clearfix with-fi ani-base tipi-xs-typo split-1 split-design-1 loop-0 preview-thumbnail preview-23 elements-design-3 post-4612 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-off-the-press tag-flywheel-press tag-kramer-drive tag-ladyfingers-letterpress tag-legion-paper tag-national-stationery-show tag-near-modern-disaster tag-page-stationery tag-pressbound tag-real-card-studio tag-sakura tag-sue-jean-ko tag-the-social-type" style="--animation-order:0"><div class="preview-mini-wrap clearfix"><div class="mask"><a href="https://thepapernerd.com/more-nss-mailers-part-2-of-2/" class="mask-img"><img width="100" height="100" src="https://i0.wp.com/thepapernerd.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/photo-5.jpg?resize=100%2C100&;ssl=1" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/thepapernerd.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/photo-5.jpg?resize=150%2C150&;ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/thepapernerd.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/photo-5.jpg?resize=200%2C200&;ssl=1 200w, https://i0.wp.com/thepapernerd.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/photo-5.jpg?resize=293%2C293&;ssl=1 293w, https://i0.wp.com/thepapernerd.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/photo-5.jpg?resize=75%2C75&;ssl=1 75w, https://i0.wp.com/thepapernerd.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/photo-5.jpg?resize=390%2C390&;ssl=1 390w, https://i0.wp.com/thepapernerd.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/photo-5.jpg?resize=585%2C585&;ssl=1 585w, https://i0.wp.com/thepapernerd.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/photo-5.jpg?resize=900%2C900&;ssl=1 900w, https://i0.wp.com/thepapernerd.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/photo-5.jpg?resize=24%2C24&;ssl=1 24w, https://i0.wp.com/thepapernerd.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/photo-5.jpg?resize=48%2C48&;ssl=1 48w, https://i0.wp.com/thepapernerd.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/photo-5.jpg?resize=96%2C96&;ssl=1 96w" sizes="(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px" /></a></div><div class="meta"><div class="byline byline-2 byline-cats-design-4"><div class="byline-part cats"><a href="https://thepapernerd.com/category/off-the-press/" style="color:#b79b0d" class="cat">Off The Press</a></div></div><div class="title-wrap"><h3 class="title"><a href="https://thepapernerd.com/more-nss-mailers-part-2-of-2/">More NSS Mailers! (Part 2 of 2)</a></h3></div><div class="byline byline-3"><span class="byline-part date"><i class="tipi-i-calendar" aria-hidden="true"></i> <time class="entry-date published dateCreated flipboard-date" datetime="2014-05-16T16:09:59+00:00">May 16, 2014</time></span><span class="byline-part likes-count"><a href="#" class="tipi-like-count " data-pid="4612"><span class="likes-heart"><i class="tipi-i-heart-o" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="tipi-i-heart" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="tipi-value">0</span></a></span></div></div></div></article></div></div></div></div></div></tipimidc>



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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><br>Music Credits: “Your Treasure is Your Self”; written and performed by Sharon Glassman; Courtesy of Sharon Glassman/Smile Songs. <a href="https://smilesongs.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" title="smilesongs.com">smilesongs.com</a></p>



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