Women in Pajamas Custom wine labels · Est. at a lake house

We turn pictures into portraits, and portraits into wine labels.

Send a photo of you or your friends. It comes back as a hand-painted portrait label to add to your favourite bottle of vino.

We are not a winery. We have no interest in becoming one.

Women in Pajamas
Painted portrait of Tanis
The Knowing Smile
Vintage 1976
No. 001
Label no. 001 · Tanis

Our story

Six women, countless years of friendship, and an undisclosed number of wine bottles.

It started at a lake house. Six women, a table of blank canvases, and an instruction to paint someone else in the room from memory. Nobody was told to make it accurate.

Nobody managed it anyway. The paintings came home in the back of a car, and somebody said they belonged on bottles.

  1. 01
    Send the photograph.

    Or dare paint one yourself. Pajamas are encouraged.

  2. 02
    It gets painted.

    Not well. Perfection is so last year.

  3. 03
    The label arrives.

    Printed, cut, and ready to stick on the wine of your choice.

  4. 04
    Share.

    Laugh, tease, and share with your nearest and dearest.

Women in Pajamas
Painted portrait of Tanis on a bottle label
The Knowing Smile
No. 001

We provide the label, the bottle is your business.

The original six.

Every one of these was painted by hand. Elusive, abstract, and unlikely to help you pick anyone out of a crowd. Perfection was never the assignment. Authenticity deepens with age, which is also true of the wine you are about to put this on.

Women in Pajamas
Painted portrait of Tanis
The Knowing Smile
Vintage 1976
No. 001
Women in Pajamas
Painted portrait of Monica
Poppy Jacket
Vintage 1976
No. 002
Women in Pajamas
Painted portrait of Becky
Woman with Coupe Glass
Vintage 1976
No. 003
Women in Pajamas
Painted portrait, lot no. 004
The Optimist
Vintage 1976
No. 004
Women in Pajamas
Painted portrait, lot no. 005
Portrait in Reserve
Vintage 1976
No. 005
Women in Pajamas
Painted portrait, lot no. 006
The Blue Hour
Vintage 1976
No. 006

Occasions that deserve a bad painting.

  • Fiftieths
  • The lake house trip
  • Bachelorettes
  • Book clubs that are not really book clubs
  • A friend who has everything
  • Christmas, if your family is like that

Coming soon… or not

Six labels exist. Leave an address and you will hear from us when there is a seventh.

Women in Pajamas
Painted portrait of Tanis
The Knowing Smile
Vintage 1976
No. 001
No. 001

The Knowing Smile

1976. Fifty years of great ideas.

Tanis, I wish you the best birthday in Morocco. You are a tricky person to buy for, so I thought I would run with your hilarious and wonderful idea and secure these domains for you. They are yours to build or leave as a funny toast to women in pajamas. I feel very lucky to be able to assist you in all your ventures.

Happy birthday.
From Olivia and Logan