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have four full-time and six part-time employees. A family business, their two older sons and their nephew help out in the woodshop.

Bailey grew up in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, and moved to Duluth to obtain her teaching degree at the University of Minnesota Duluth. She and her now husband, Nathanael, fell in love with the area and decided to stick around to raise their family.

After teaching for a few years, Bailey took some time off work to care for her four kids, now ages 14, 15, 17 and 19. She later worked as a music director for a church, as both faith and music are important facets of her life.

One night, not long after leaving her music director position, Bailey awoke to a moment of fervent clarity that she needed to dedicate herself to pursuing her passions. After that night, she started pouring herself into her woodworking, singing and songwriting, and began a “mommy blog.” Just like the pieces of wood that make up her mosaics, everything started falling into place.

Bailey’s Instagram following began to take off around this time, and she now has over 35,000 followers on just her artist page.

“I just have the nature to encourage and influence people to do things, so I am grateful to have that opportunity for people to watch our story and see what God has done,” she said.

In terms of Bailey’s creative process, she describes herself as a “disaster,” while her husband is more organized. Before moving to their current space, they worked elbow-to-elbow in their home garage.

Bailey prefers to work in the moment with what she has on hand rather than plan out her designs.

“I work best when I don’t have a plan because a plan feels constricting to me,” she said. “So I usually look at what lumber I have next to work with and then I decide what I want to do with it.”

Take a giant pile of scrap wood sitting in her shop, for example. The wood had been on top of the roof of their building since before they purchased it. Bailey described the beautiful grain and the exposed deepred cedar where the boards had splintered open.

“It doesn’t get that way when you buy it off the rack at Menards or Home Depot,” she said.

Bailey starts every project with these reclaimed pieces, using new wood if she decides to add color. Her smaller pieces are generally composed of her own scrap wood from bigger designs, so she creates very little waste overall.

One of her more recent series was the “Zenith City Collection,” featuring wood from the oldest house in Duluth, built in 1867.

Bailey encourages other makers to hang in there, despite the challenges.

“Do what you love to do and give it your all,” she said.

To learn more about Bailey’s work and keep up with the Collective expansion, go to baileybuilds.com or visit the store at 5725 Grand Ave., Duluth. D