Wandering Mud is a production e-commerce site built for a Raleigh-based ceramic artist. The site needed to feel handmade and approachable while handling real inventory — product variants, cart state, and checkout — reliably.
I built it with Next.js (App Router) and connected it to Shopify's Storefront API via GraphQL. Product data, inventory, and variant information are fetched at request time so the catalog always reflects real stock without any manual syncing. Cart state is managed client-side with full add, remove, and quantity-update flows.
The design was built from scratch in Tailwind CSS to match the artist's aesthetic: warm tones, generous whitespace, and photography-first layouts. The result is a storefront that feels hand-crafted without sacrificing reliability.