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Life, Style And Painted Bubbly

St. Louis County Entrepreneur Adds Hand-Painted Champagne Bottles To Other's Big Moments

By day, Madison Herweck is a postpartum registered nurse who relishes caring for mothers and babies. By night, she's an innovative artiste who creates her own style of personalized scroll painting on beverage bottles. 

StyledBubbly (intentionally one word) started when Madison decided she wanted to make her graduation from the University of Missouri Columbia, and the associated photos, a bit more special for herself and her roommates. So, over winter break during December 2021, this Kirkwood native says she began experimenting with hand-painting champagne bottles. "It was the perfect graduation gift. Then I expanded my services and created bottles for all sorts of occasions," she adds.

Painting bottles has become a lovely part of her pursuit of infusing passion into her own life, as well. "I love to keep things bright," she says.

Madison specializes in fully custom orders, for every life event, including birthdays, graduations, engagements, weddings, anniversaries, new bundles of joy and other momentous accomplishments. She believes, "There’s always a reason to pop the bubbly."

She says she typically suggests La Marca Prosecco and Veuve champagne bottles, but she's worked with just about the whole bar cart, including bourbon, tequila and wine bottles. "I've painted on all sorts of shapes and sizes of beverages and glass products."

After clients opt for which beverage bottle, together Madison determines color schemes, design and personalization. "I love adding all sorts of custom flares. My artistic style is perfectly imperfect, I love watercolor artwork and plenty of shading and dimension on my bottles," she explains.

Madison says she's planning to release limited-edition New Year's painted bottles that are black, white and gold, with fireworks and 2023 personalization. "It'll be the perfect way to toast to the new year!" she vows. 

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"I've always had a love for making people feel special, and giving gifts that are personal, those super thoughtful, oh-my-word type gifts."