About me
Hi there!
I’m Casey. I wear a couple of hats, and I am fiercely passionate about them all! I am a mother and wife, a tattooer, an artist, and a doula.
I started my tattooing career in 2017. In September of 2020, I opened my own studio — Praying Mantis — with my lovely husband. He and I opened a second studio in 2022 called Pearls & Jade, where I tattoo now.
Speaking of my husband, his name is Mike! He is my best friend, taught me how to tattoo, and I am so happy to get to raise our two beautiful children with him. We also have a flock of chickens, a semi-feral barn cat, a goofy chocolate lab, and two silly fancy goldfish (the ones with giant eyeballs). :)
Things I like: cooking and baking (pasta and bread are favorites), reading a ton of books (LOVE romance and fantasy), everything about birth and babies and motherhood, and tending to my many plants. Also love: embroidery, sewing, history, writing, my garden!
A little bit about why I chose the tattoo style I do: I LOVE fine and gentle drawing styles, and I love flowers. I think flowers have so much incredible meaning in so many people’s lives — symbolizing birth and love, commemorating marriages and lives of passed loved ones. I love that I can help my clients celebrate their lives’ milestones, their children/marriages/pets, and the people they love the most.
In 2020, I fell head-over-heels in love with motherhood. The journey of planning for babies, pregnancy, birth, and postpartum captivated me from day one. Every high, every low, every detail of this facet of life took root in my heart, and I knew that working with mothers was in my future. My tattoo work intersects with this passion much more often than I could have predicted, and I’m constantly wonderstruck by the strength and tenderness of all mothers. This is what led to the creation of Teapot Doula Care.
Thank you for stopping by my little corner of the internet and for clicking on this page!