Enjoying Grace Story Co. is a market-place for Don Shorey's ideas, writing, art business, podcast, stories, and conversations.

Maker’s Hollow is a home and a community of like-hearted families, creatives, and small business folks. 

Photography courtesy of Elizabeth Baxter & Caroline Ruth

 

Maker’s Hollow is full of family-life, lingering conversation, house-keeping, really good food, beauty, tumbling kids, and creative industry.

We treasure real-life conversation—with an eager vision for grace-filled Christian living, generational family life, creativity, home-based industry, and so much more—all with an orientation toward story-telling and story-making.  

Life in Maker’s Hollow is bustling with happy hard work. The music of Cal Morris Music, the photography of Elizabeth and Caroline at Elizabeth Baxter Photography (also partnered with I’m Kristen Photography in the Gardenia Collective), Don’s book-writing and art business, the content creation and film-editing of Grant, the craftsmanship of Bill through Baxter Pizza Co., the rehabilitation nursing of Lisa, and more—all serve others and live to make and share beauty and goodness.

Everything we are doing aims to reach out and engage the larger community of any folks with similar hopes—offering fellowship, encouragement, and (when helpful) counsel and mentorship.

Beyond this local village of Shoreys, Morrises, Baxters, Kupers, and Bollenbachs (Caroline is married!) our expanding network includes movie-makers, writers, artists, pastors, musicians, teachers, photographers, and those doing creative industry in a variety of ways in many places.

The newsletter

Twice a month(ish), I send a note from Maker’s Hollow—thoughts on story and faith and family, updates on the book, an essay worth your time, a podcast episode or two, wit and cleverness—and whatever else seems worth chewing on together. Dispatches from our family and friends as we endeavor to live joyfully and make things worth making. Join us HERE.

The book

I’m writing a book. It’s called The Wonder of Is—a story of shared life and conversations between a grandfather and a grandson, exploring everything that matters, across the seasons of a New Hampshire year. Think Gilead meets the Jesus Storybook Bible, if it were narrated by Gandalf, Mark Twain, and Narnia’s Professor Kirk. Read more about it HERE.

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Don's life

Loving life with my Lisa and our happy flourishing clan. Artist. Wordsmith. Storyteller & Speaker. Wanderer, Wonderer & professional Wool-gatherer. I have never met a mere mortal. I am cheerfully sacrificing normal for the better, the relational & the restful. Read more than you could ever possibly want to know about me, my people, and my plans HERE.

Getting Started

Message me through the inquiry form at the bottom of this page, with any questions you have or to get a House Portrat, Family Tree, or Other Custom Art commission rolling!

We can discuss all of the factors involved in your project, determine pricing, and estimate delivery time.

Pricing for House Portraits & Family Trees

If cost is an issue, please at least contact me!

There is a lot of time invested in each of these drawings, but I never want the price to be an unnecessary obstacle.

Custom House or Structure Portraits

Matted $275

Color portraits add $25 for Giclèe Archival printing

Additional Matted Prints — $95 each

Order through the simple Commissioning Form Below!

Highlight Portraits — A door, a porch, a tree, a gazebo, a doghouse, etc. — starting at $95

$30 for Framing (at cost, minimal profit)

$15 Shipping (in most cases)

More complicated Portraits (public venues, churches, schools, detailed landscaping, etc.)

& Larger Sizes — Mutually Discussed Price

Family Tree Wall-hangings

Order through the simple Commissioning Form Below!

9x9 print — $90

10x10 print — $100

11x11 print — $110

Extra Prints — $25 each

$30 for Framing (at cost, minimal profit)

$10 Shipping

Upgrade to Giclée prints, 200 year Museum Archival quality — $25

Larger Images are available — add $20 for special printing requirements.

The Ideal Photos for the Best Home Portraits

It will be my pleasure to draw the best and most compelling portrait that I am able, from ANY available image you have

— even that tattered, faded, black and white, newspaper-clipping from Grandma's hope chest in the attic —

BUT there is no denying that the better the photos, the easier it is to create a beautiful portrait.

If you are gathering existing photos or taking new ones, consider the following:

5 Tips for Gathering or Taking the Most Useful Photos for a Portrait

1. Choose the Angle of the building that is most beautiful or nostalgic to you or the ones who will own the portrait.

2. Take up-close photos, that show the whole building (porches, roof, everything), but also show the details (even of what is hiding behind trees and such).

3. Take photos from the same angle but from farther back to show the whole profile in the context of its surroundings.

4. Take photos from a low perspective, looking up at the building. The upward angle adds a grander, more atmospheric look to any building.

5. Don't hesitate to send lots of photos! Every one may contribute an important perspective or detail.

 

Enjoying Grace Story Co.

2712 Powell Lane

Tarpon Springs, FL