Little Chapter started because I was looking for something that apparently didn’t exist.
I joined my first book club with a group of women who love fantasy, romance and all the books that somehow turn into a two-hour conversation about fictional men. I wanted to bring something different for us to do while we hung out — something creative that tied into the worlds we loved but didn’t feel like a kids’ craft or something cheesy I found on Pinterest.
And I couldn’t find it.
I kept thinking, why aren’t there cute paint kits made for us? Something you could grab for themed book club or a girls’ night without one person having to pick the craft, make a Michaels run, buy twelve bottles of paint, divide everything into little containers, Venmo request the entire group afterward and then somehow become the proud owner of an entire craft aisle worth of leftover supplies.
I wanted to be able to craft around the things I was actually reading and obsessing over. Fantasy. Enemies to lovers. Slow-burns. Action. Dark Romance. Werewolves, Vampires. Mermaids. Monster romance. End-of-the-world stories where somehow our FMC still has time to meet an MMC while society is actively collapsing.
You know. The important things.
So... I decided to make them.
Little Chapter started with the idea of making creativity easier to actually do. Individual paint kits when you want a little escape of your own and grab-and-go craft buckets for when the group chat finally manages to make plans.
Everything you need is already there.
You bring the snacks, drinks and favorite people. We’ll handle the craft.
But obviously, I couldn’t stop there.
Because if there’s one thing I know about book girlies, it’s that we are basically men with action figures when it comes to our books.
And listen... some of us are still a little shy about admitting it.
I know you closet BookTokers are out there. I was one of you.
Quietly reading the books, watching the videos, understanding exactly what everyone was talking about and absolutely not volunteering that information in normal conversation.
Then eventually you realize there are A LOT of us.
We have special editions, knick-knacks, fantasy shirts, dark romance figures and little collectibles that make absolutely no sense to anyone but us. Our Kindles and water bottles become sticker collections. Our bookshelves somehow need their own décor and we will absolutely rearrange an entire shelf to make room for one more completely unnecessary thing.
Give me a tiny Suriel drinking tea. Give me the weird little sticker that only another BookTok girl would understand. Give me something inspired by the dragon rider book I can’t stop thinking about or the morally questionable fictional man I absolutely should not be defending.
That’s part of Little Chapter too.
Bookish goods, shelf things, stickers and little obsessions for the stories and worlds we never quite leave behind.
And while I was creating all of this for adults who still love escaping into other worlds, I kept coming back to another thought:
I didn’t want the magic to stop with us.
Kids and teenagers already have a lot coming at them. School, sports, friends, social media, figuring out who they are and a phone constantly giving them something else to look at.
And honestly, I think all of us have gotten a little too used to reaching for our phones when we’re bored. We’ve forgotten how fun it is to put them down, get a group together, make a mess, get paint on our hands and actually do something.
I wanted a part of Little Chapter that reminded kids and tweens to do exactly that. Put down the phone. Get your hands dirty. Make something weird. Use your imagination.
That became Little Legends.
I don’t want a 15-year-old girl to feel like she’s too old to paint a princess, mermaid, butterfly or something spooky because someone decided those things hit an age limit.
And the boys? Paint the dragon. Paint the skull. Paint the nutcracker. Paint the gingerbread man bright purple for all I care.
Let the kid paint.
Sometimes escaping reality doesn’t have to mean another three hours of doom scrolling. It can be sitting around the kitchen table with your friends, phones forgotten somewhere on the counter, arguing over paint colors and making something that probably has absolutely no business taking this long.
It can be getting way too serious about your Christmas tree color scheme or deciding your skull needs glitter because apparently that’s the vision.
There doesn’t always have to be a point.
Making stuff is fun.
That’s what I want Little Legends to be — a reminder to create, imagine, wonder and make a little mess while you’re at it.
And somewhere in all of this, I realized that’s really what Little Chapter is about too.
It’s book club that accidentally turns into craft night. It’s finally getting the group chat out of the group chat. It’s painting at home with an audiobook and the rest of the world on mute.
It’s spooky season when you have absolutely no business buying another ghost but somehow need to paint one anyway. It’s Christmas trees, gingerbread men and ornaments spread across the kitchen table in December. It’s butterflies, skulls, mermaids and whatever strange little thing reminds you of the book you’re currently obsessed with.
It’s a mom painting next to her daughter, an aunt doing a kit with her nephew or a bunch of grown-ass women getting way too invested in whose ghost turned out the cutest.
It’s making something completely unnecessary just because you wanted to.
Little Chapter is still very much in its first chapter. I’m figuring things out as I go, buying probably more craft supplies than any reasonable person should own and turning a lot of “wait... what if we made this?” ideas into actual things.
And I genuinely can’t wait to see where it goes.
So whether you’re here for the paint kits, the craft buckets, the girls’ nights, the fantasy worlds, the dark romance, the seasonal collections, the weird little shelf things or because you too have finally accepted that your bookshelf is basically an adult dollhouse...
I think you found the right place. ♡
Welcome to Little Chapter.
"Let's escape the ordinary together"