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Their Drawings Deserve to Be Seen ❤️

Hi, I’m Karolina, founder of Pastrymade. 💛

A month ago, I joined a 15-day social project in Morocco.

To be honest, I almost said no.

But something inside me told me to go.

During the trip, I visited CHEMESSI, an association supporting people with Down syndrome through creative, practical, and learning workshops.

Then I entered the drawing workshop.

A group of artists were sitting around one table, drawing flowers, animals, stars, houses, and rainbows.

As a mother, I noticed something right away.

There were not enough colors on the table.

Not enough pencils.
Not enough paint.
Not enough paper.
Not enough tools for every artist to create freely.

I asked why!!

The sewing workshop can sell clothes.
The pottery workshop can sell bowls.
The crochet workshop can sell handmade pieces.

But the drawing workshop only had drawings on paper to sell.

People may stop, look at a drawing, and say, “That’s lovely.”

Original artwork created in the CHEMESSI drawing workshop

But a drawing on paper is difficult to sell.

So even when the artists’ work was beautiful, the drawing workshop had far fewer ways to bring support back to CHEMESSI.

That night, I could not stop thinking about it.

The next morning, I went out and bought what the room needed:

Paint, Colored pencils, Markers, Paper, Brushes and A full box of colors.

Then one of the artists drew a rainbow.

Before that day, her rainbow had to stop wherever the colors on the table ran out 💔.

Now she could finally draw every color she imagined 🥹.

No artist should have to limit their imagination because there are not enough colors on the table. 🎨

That was when I had an idea.

What if their drawings could become something families would choose, use, and bring into their homes?

What if their art could become a Pastrymade rolling pin?

A design families could press into cookie dough.
A design that could travel far beyond one drawing room in Morocco.
A design that could bring more support back to CHEMESSI. 🍪

While I was still in Morocco, I contacted Magda in our workshop in Poland.

“Can we turn these into cookie patterns?”

We did. We kept the unusual lines, unexpected shapes, and little imperfections that make every drawing feel alive.

Early artist-inspired rolling pin design concepts

A real drawing by an artist at CHEMESSI, turned into engraved cookies

From a real drawing, to cookies you can bake at home. 🍪

This is our very first collection drawn entirely by these artists. Every design is a real drawing by a real person. 💛

Every pin begins with a real drawing made at CHEMESSI.
Not just a pattern.
Not something made by a designer.
Someone’s own artwork.

And they are not only meaningful, they are beautiful. Picture the cookies: a full rainbow, a smiling sun, a little blue dolphin, pressed into your dough in seconds. A gift that actually means something.

The collection is available now.
Each rolling pin is $35 (large size $49), and 30% of every order goes to CHEMESSI.

Pick the design that speaks to you, and an artist gets paid for the art they love making.

Shop the collection · available now →30% of every order goes to CHEMESSI · Carved in our own workshop · Ships worldwide

Our Promise 🤝

For every rolling pin sold from this collection, 30% of Pastrymade’s net profit goes directly to CHEMESSI. 💛

CHEMESSI is a Moroccan public-benefit association founded in Casablanca in 1991. It supports people with intellectual disabilities, including many people with Down syndrome.

Your support helps CHEMESSI continue its work across the association, while giving the drawing workshop more colors, paper, paint, brushes, and tools to create freely. The more pins find a home, the more colors we can bring back to that table.

This is about valuing their artwork, and supporting the place that helps it grow. 🌸

Cookies embossed with an artist's drawing using a Drawn With Love rolling pin

One roll, and a real artist's drawing comes to life on your cookies.

When you bake with one of these rolling pins, you bring an artist’s work into your home, and you help CHEMESSI give more artists the tools and freedom to keep creating.

Every pin you bring home puts more colors back on that table. 🎨

Because the next time an artist wants to draw a rainbow…

they should have every color they need. ❤️

See all the designs, from $35 →10+ designs · 30% of profit to CHEMESSI

With love,
Karolina
Founder of Pastrymade

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Manuela Dobroschke calendar_today

What a great and emphatic idea, to help this Projekt in Morrocco, even in YouTube habe your own Problems with your fabric. I’m shure that will bring you New clients belassen every decision has a deeper reason. The patterns are so nice, even for baking with Kids. I Trinken Kindergartens and schools could be also New clients. To bake with the Kids, to sell the cookies at schoolevents or in schoolkiosks wäre the. Kids can buy some food. Maybe if you pack bundels of the pins with healthy cookie recipes and make special offers for schools etc. It would be nicht to make postcards of the paintings or little cards to hang them on giftpacks with the cookies, with a QR Code on the card to the describtion of the Projekt on your HP. Even to get New clients.
I will share your Idea and wish you the Best and a lot of sucsess.
You are so heartvoll women
Manuela.

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Nancy Whitehead calendar_today

What a wonderful thing you are doing

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Donna Goodwin calendar_today

Please let me know when the rolling pins will be available!

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Joyce Schroeder calendar_today

What a wonderful idea! I’m glad you are doing this. I had a cousin with Down Syndrome who passed away last year, and this idea speaks to my heart. When will the new designs be available? I want to be certain to place an order. Thank you for helping these artists to be seen.

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Karen Arnold calendar_today

What a wonderful idea!!! Such beautiful drawings deserve to be shared with the whole world! I’m so glad you made the trip and plan to order at least 1 of the rolling pins!

Many blessings,
Karen Arnold

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