One time, Nicole Dinardo got a call from Oprah. Okay, it was Oprah's personal chef but the story's better if you pretend the television mogul herself phoned Nicole. Anyway, Oprah's personal chef wanted a custom painted KitchenAid mixer made up for Oprah—and he wanted Nicole to do it.
This wan't the first celebrity who came calling for the Arlington, Washington-based artist, and it certainly won't be the last. Un Amore—her painting business that's focused mostly on KitchenAid stand mixers—has attracted the likes of Gwen Stefani, Ree Drummond, Khloe Kardashian, Guy Fieri, Drew Barrymore, and Beyonce. But anyone can contact her for an order.
"I have to have done thousands," Nicole laughs. "I used to number them all but I stopped, I think I stopped at like 500." She's made a sort of specialty out of pretty floral designs, made popular by the mixers she's painted for Ree Drummond; they're riffs on the background's of the chef's super popular cookbooks. You could request literally anything though—a family photo to be created, a graphic wallpaper-esque pattern, anything.
Freak over her designs (below), then scoot on over to her shop to request a mixer of your own.
