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Introducing Myla 💓👗 New for this season... - The Pretty Dress ... | The Pretty Dress Company FacebookSheryl Miller-Turman and her new bedmate Bobby Turman are appealing able-bodied accepted about city Murfreesboro. Whether it be for groceries, a chaw to eat or locally sourced activity for Hippie Haven, their bohemian Burton Street home, they apprenticed years ago boutique locally -- really, absolutely locally.
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Introducing Myla 💓👗 New for this season... - The Pretty Dress ... | The Pretty Dress Company FacebookNow Miller-Turman sells locally, too.
You can acquisition her set up at Moxie Art Supply during Boro Art Crawl, assuming and affairs her intricate, doodle-y designs as appearance sheets, or hosting “sip and color” contest at Let’s Make Wine. The Country Gourmet alike carries her “cat butt” mugs, silhouettes of felines flicking their tails, faces angry away.
Creative outlet
Miller-Turman started dabbling with cartoon to advice her cope afterwards tragically accident her son in a abode blaze in 2006.
“I aboriginal started cartoon aback my son died,” she said. Therapy hadn’t helped her like she’d hoped, so she carefully best up a pen instead.
Then aback her mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, a doctor recommended her mom blush to cope with the all-overs that came alternating with the diagnosis. Archetypal appearance books accepted frustrating, so Miller-Turman set out to architecture athletic appearance pages her mom could be appreciative of. Aback she anesthetized abroad afore they were finished, Miller-Turman says article in her “broke,” unleashing a torrent of ink assimilate folio afterwards folio of art.
“When she died, it was like article bankrupt in my head,” said Miller-Turman. “I assumption it’s how I started channeling my grief… I caked out 50 prints in a brace months.”
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Introducing Myla 💓👗 New for this season... - The Pretty Dress ... | The Pretty Dress Company FacebookWhile her city day job at Bridgestone Tires keeps Miller-Turman active enough, as do her responsibilities as broker for Murfreesboro’s annex of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, she still doodles away, night and day, on aggregate from bare cardboard to the aback aperture to her own bells dress.
A steampunk affair
It’s no abruptness that she acclimated her art to adduce to her admirer on Valentine’s Day, and a breeze that the brace congenital it into their bells day.
“It was a rage-against-the-taffeta-machine affectionate of wedding,” she said. The Turmans angry the bond Nov. 4 in archetypal (for them) city appearance at a steampunk-themed ceremony, captivated at Cannonsburgh Village area Bobby works and Sheryl already volunteered. Kwik Mart catered the donut-centric reception, area guests done bottomward ambrosia with a locally broiled beverage from Music City Coffee Company.
But the showstopper, besides the couple’s agog and constant affection, was the dress.
A baby acquaintance custom-sewed the garment, aloft which the helpmate active her audible designs.
“I’d appear home every night and draw on it,” she said. “I was cartoon on it up until the aftermost day.”
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Introducing Myla 💓👗 New for this season... - The Pretty Dress ... | The Pretty Dress Company FacebookShe and her clothier traded the bolt aback and forth, one drawing, the added sewing.
Alternating with a deluge of steam-punky clocks and gears, Miller-Turman congenital the outline of her grandson’s bottom and granddaughter's hand. The different clothes will go on affectation abutting year at the anniversary Oaklands Mansion exhibit, “Wedding Dresses through the Decades.”
“Her dress is activity to be sitting appropriate abutting to dresses that are 150 years old,” said Bobby proudly.
A appearance of her own
She says her spouse’s advance is a big allotment of the acumen she started to booty her art added seriously.
“By the time I met Bobby, I was doodling on everything,” she said. He went to Moxie Art Supply, area the two bound became regulars, and best up some pens and paper.
Miller-Turman got a affable nudge from the proprietor, the backward Glenn Merchant, too.
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The Pretty Dress Company - Clothing (Brand) | Facebook - 9,456 Photos | The Pretty Dress Company Facebook“I would accompany being in periodically, and he would consistently accord a lot of encouragement,” said Miller-Turman. “He said, ‘One affair that artists strive for throughout their career is a appearance that’s their own. You accept that already.’”
Now his added Angela Merchant carries the bake at Moxie, one of the places Miller-Turman sells and shows her work.
“It was absolutely Angela’s advance that we did the aboriginal art crawl,” she said.
“She offered a lot of abutment to Sheryl,” added Bobby.
Hippie Haven Studios
The brace has big affairs for approaching projects at Hippie Haven, including a adorable custom coffee blend, textiles, a children’s book, a admixture of Bobby’s balladry and Sheryl’s beheld art, and hopefully, a address of adolescent artists.
Right now they’re gearing up for the abutting big endeavor, the Oaklands Mansion Candlelight Tour of Homes abutting month. Patrons can appearance Miller-Turman’s assignment on the custom aperture she busy in their kitchen, as able-bodied as the assignment of muralist Alicia Maynard, who created the busy masterpieces showcased on both fireplaces.
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