Hi! I’m Shawn, and Cry Baby General Store is my shop.

I’ve called Louisville home for more than a decade and can’t imagine living anywhere else. Cry Baby is my love letter to this city, and my way of ensuring Shelby Park never runs out of toilet paper. My partner Nate is one of the folks behind our Shelby Street neighbors Toasty’s Tavern as well as New Wave Burritos. We live and work in the neighborhood and could not be more grateful to do so.

Inside our little blue gem of a building you’ll find soft blankets and Turkish towels, cute candles, oddly specific bumper stickers, soap that smells as good as it looks, handy tools, menstrual supplies, googly eyes, chopsticks, rolling papers, stationery, and plenty of other goods to furnish your home and care for yourself. Many of the brands we carry are also small businesses, so when you shop at Cry Baby you are directly supporting those makers and suppliers, taking big box stores, mysterious warehouses, and inhumane labor practices entirely out of the equation.

Maybe you’re not here for any of that stuff, and that’s cool too! We also offer chain stitch embroidery. You can learn more about that here.