ABOUT THE COMPANY

What We Do

At for Mercy's sake, we hand paint high quality, children's furniture in our own original designs. We offer custom bedding and upholstered furniture in custom fabrics, for a totally unique room for your baby or child.  You may choose colors other than those shown, and we're happy to create custom furniture and designs.  When you want something really special, something that you won't see in your friend's house, that's when we can help.

Some of Hillary's designs are now available on fine giclee reproductions and murals by Oopsy Daisy Fine Art for Kids and as digitized designs for embroidery.  Our most recent license is to Wallies for a large mural very similar to Hillary's Princess Fairies castle design.

If you are interested in licensing our popular designs for bedding, gifts, fabric, or accessories, please visit the art portfolio and licensing website. 

The Artist
Hillary James is a native Austinite and has been painting in one form or another since she was twelve years old. Since starting for Mercy's sake in 1996, a few months after her daughter's birth, she's had tremendous success.  Hillary has clients from Hawaii to England and would love to create something special for you or your child.

The Namesake
Mercy is the namesake and inspiration of the company.   Being Hillary's daughter, she thinks it's perfectly normal for her room to be a different color every 3 months and her chest of drawers to have a different design on it almost weekly.  She's very proud of her little brother, Dalton, who keeps asking why we don't answer the phone "for Dalton's sake."

The Director of Everything Else
Cindy Blewett is Hillary's mother and Vice-President of for Mercy's sake, inc.   She has started her own little line of leather wristbands so Mercy's brother, Dalton, can have a company named after him.  See them at Dalton's West.

for Mercy's sake has been featured (not advertised) in numerous print and electronic publications, including those listed below. We've also been asked to supply furniture for movies (Mr & Mrs. Smith, specifically) and television, but most of the time they need the furniture in a week or two and since all our work is custom, we rarely have anything in stock. 

We don't offer schwag, shwag, or swag (i.e. promotional items to celebrities).  If a celebrity likes something we've done, that's great.   But our goal is to create artistic furnishings that will be treasured for years. That can't be done on an assembly line.

Thanks!