Meet the Maker

🎨 Meet the Maker: Behind the Varmints with Lois

Before the Rock Varmints were parading across passports and posing for adoption photos, they were just a glimmer in the mind of Lois—a visionary with paint-stained fingers, a sharp eye for emotional resonance, and a knack for turning stone into story.

Lois doesn’t just make Varmints. She creates them. Each one is hand-painted, one-of-a-kind, and infused with personality, whether it’s a glitter-drenched cowboy or a minimalist rebel who refuses accessories on principle. The process is part ritual, part rebellion: selecting the right rock, imagining its backstory, and layering on color, texture, and attitude until it practically demands a name.

But Lois’s magic goes beyond the brush. She's built an entire Varmintverse—complete with care guides, adoption certificates, and gritty logo stickers (soon to come) that feel like relics from a forgotten roadside curiosity shop. Her work blends playful storytelling with practical design, making each piece feel personal, collectible, and just a little bit absurd (in the best way).

When not painting or formatting whimsical passports in Word, Lois refines product descriptions, riffs on generational humor, and dreams up new characters to join the parade. Her creative process is collaborative, iterative, and always fueled by joy—even on the days when “werds” stop making sense.

So if you’ve ever adopted a Rock Varmint and wondered who gave it its glittery soul or cowboy swagger, now you know: it’s Lois. And trust us, she's got more varmints on the way.