Everything for your creative hobby, in one place.

Menmin Made was founded in 2021 by artist Paulina Hoong, a Chinese restaurant kid from rural Minnesota. She taught herself watercolor from YouTube tutorials during the pandemic. A year later, she started selling her Asian-American inspired art on the streets of San Francisco. Her Asian Sauces Tote Bag went TikTok viral, and she gained an amassed following for well-designed tote bags representing AAPI heritage.

Then in December 2024, Paulina fell in love with junk journaling, and immediately ran into the problem every crafter knows: the scissors that vanish, the glue stick that's never where you left, three Ziploc bags of stickers dumped across the table. The mess became too stressful.

She looked for a bag that would hold everything, in order, ready to go. There wasn't one.

The Menmin Multi Bag launched in 2025 and sold out—that's when we knew we had created something special.

What we stand for

We create fun, whimsy, and joy through thoughtfully designed products: for artists, by artists.

Artist-led.

Paulina draws and designs every product herself.

Thoughtful design.

Every pocket, zip and seam is there for a reason.

Peak functionality.

Made to be carried, opened and refilled every single day.

Rooted in culture.

Asian American art that celebrates where we come from.

Independent.

Owned and run by its founder, carried by independent shops, and grown one market and one customer at a time.

Our Home

The Bay Area made Menmin Made.

We got our start selling our art on the streets of Oakland, San Francisco, and San Jose, and the Bay's creative community is still where every idea gets tested first. If you've ever unzipped a sample at our booth and told us what you'd change, you've been part of our product development, and part of the creative community that continues to shape Menmin Made.

All of our orders ship with love from our warehouse in Richmond, California from our small team.

A Note From Our Founder

Paulina Hoong

Artist, product designer, founder

Hi, I'm Paulina.

I started Menmin Made in 2021 because I wanted more joy and whimsy in everyday life. For the first few years that meant painting the things I loved and putting them on totes and tea towels.

Then I fell in love with junk journaling, and everything changed.

I kept losing my scissors and glue stick. My stickers lived in Ziploc bags. Every time I sat down to make something, I'd dump it all on the table and feel overwhelmed before I'd cut a single thing. I went looking for a bag that solved this and couldn't find one. So I decided to build the one thing I couldn't buy.

That's what Menmin Made is now: a stationery studio that solves everyday creative problems. The Multi Bag went through sample after sample, months of back-and-forth with our factory, and a lot of "not yet, try again" before it reached you. I've flown to visit our manufacturers in person to see how every stitch and seam is made, because I think the everyday creative deserves products designed as carefully as anything on a department store shelf, just with a lot more heart.

Thank you for being here. I'm excited to keep making stationery for everyone.

Loved by over 20,000 customers

Artist-Illustrated, Artist-Designed

Every product in our shop was designed by an artist who uses it.

Paulina illustrates every design, sketches every feature, and works through sample after sample until the product is worthy of the person carrying it. When you buy from Menmin Made, you're buying directly from an artist who keeps making things by hand.