Hi, I’m Lauren, an artist, musician, mother, and the hands behind Maed by Mini.

IMy story has been shaped by music, travel, color, love, and an endless desire to create. I’ve spent years chasing inspiration across the country and around the world — singing songs, building businesses, creating art, and collecting pieces of myself along the way.

When I was fifteen, I saved every dollar I could and sent myself to India for a year as an exchange student. That experience changed me forever. Though creativity had always lived somewhere deep inside me, India awakened it in full color. In the vibrant streets of Surat, surrounded by texture, tradition, and beauty, art stopped being something I admired and became something I had to make. I still remember skipping school to sit in a local woman’s living room, taking art classes alongside preschoolers. That’s where my love for Mehndi began—and where I first realized my hands had their own language.

For years, that language evolved through music, fashion, henna, and eventually polymer clay. I traveled across the U.S. for festivals, markets, and creative work, always searching for what felt most true. Eventually, that search brought me home. In 2019, I returned to Upstate New York, planted roots in my little Eastwood home, started a family, and began building a life centered around love and art.

Today, my work has found its deepest expression in preservation.

At Maed by Mini, I transform life’s most meaningful florals wedding into heirloom art. What began as a love for creating has become a love for honoring stories. I’m endlessly inspired by the idea that something once fleeting can be held onto... not exactly as it was, but as something new, lasting, and deeply sentimental.

Creating alongside my family, and now building a world where my daughter gets to grow up surrounded by art, has been one of the greatest gifts of my life.

Thank you for being here, and for trusting me with the pieces that matter most.