Peace and Pawprints was launched in 2015 but it was conceptualized long before that date. My name is Paige and I am the lady behind the tote bags. Over the past twenty-four years I have been honing my skills as a formally trained teacher, mindfulness practitioner, and artist to help spread my message of peace, love, joy, and kindness to the world.

In my shop you will find a wide variety of tote bags. All of these bags are unique in that they are customized with inspirational quotes and positive messages. I believe that what you put out into this world comes back to you and to that end I am dedicated to spreading my message of love. We all carry many things that are unseen. Over the years as both a teacher and an animal rescuer I have learned this difficult fact. We are all fighting hidden battles and a little kindness can truly make or break a person’s day, week, month, or year. By creating inspirational bags I can offer little reminders to maintain that positive attitude and hopefully encourage you to find the good in all people, ourselves included, so that you may continue to live a life rooted in kindness.

The women who connect with my bags are my kindred spirits. We are the teachers, the educators, the spiritualists, the mindfulness practitioners. We are the students that silently contemplate the weighted words of Pema Chodron, Thich Nhat Hann, Tara Brach, and Ram Dass. We are the ones who follow positivity, practice peace, and meditate with purpose. I am grateful for you and I am hopeful that you will find a small token of peace here within my shop to share with the world.

-Paige