Food & Wine!?

Our latest feature came out last week! and I'm super excited to share the news that we were featured on Foodandwine.com aka Food and Wine Magazines website! I was BEYOND excited when Abby contacted me about wanting to include our cheeseboard in a feature on the best state shaped items! I have a degree in culinary arts which pretty much means I'm a huge foodie so it was double excitement for me.

I sent in 6 or 7 pictures for them to select from and they picked Mississippi to feature!
 

Here is a screen shot of our slide in the feature.

 

"10 Awesome Things That Are Shaped Like States - State Pride Home Design"
Food & Wine Feature - follow that link to see our cheeseboard - picture number 4 of 10!

We are among some really amazing items! be sure to check them all out!


      That's all for now!
                          -A

Goals & Excitement!

Hi again.... Worst blogger ever award of 2013 goes to me! We had something really exciting happen in December and I didn't even blog about it. Maybe because it is so much easier to do a quick share on Facebook. Maybe because things got pretty crazy around here.. From the day before Thanksgiving (Nov 27th) until December 28th we had at Least one sale a day - Most days had 3-5 sales. There was one Sunday that we had 12 sales! 98% of those sales were for items that we make to order. So on top of our full time jobs things got crazy busy fun and there was no time for anything extra.

When we started 2013 I made one business goal. And it was to sell a certain dollar amount by the end of the year. I am VERY happy to say that we made the goal.... TIMES THREE!

One of my goals for our shop for 2014 is to blog at least 2 times a month. Since it's already the 17th of January.... I best be gettin' a move on with my 2 for January :)

So I'm going to go back and share our December excitment that helped get our name out there.

We got featured in Down East Magazines "133 Maine Made Gifts" guide!!  WHAT!? One of OUR products that WE made is in a printed magazine?

This is the cover of the magazine and the page that our product is on!

Down East Magazine December 2013 issue.

 

 

This is our Maine Slate Cheeseboard that was featured in Down East Magazine. It is made from Maine Slate! yay for keeping things local!

 

 

 

If you click here you can see all of the items feature in the gift guide!

 

Click Here too!!! and you can see all the items that came from Etsy Maine Team Members!! 19 members were featured. yay MaineTeam! You can also see all the pages of the gift guide there!

 

 

Okay, that is all for now. We have another exciting feature coming out sometime soon... and I CAN NOT WAIT to share it! :) Not sure on the date yet but I will be sure to blog it the second I see it!

 

-A

 

Etsy Maine Team Cash Mob Goodies

Back in early February I joined the most amazing team on Etsy - The Etsy Maine Team (EMT)! I've learned a lot for this great team of ALL Mainers! What could be more fun?

This past Friday the team held their 2nd annual Cash Mob. Pretty much you go to Etsy.com and in the search bar type in "maineteam" and GO SHOPPING! Lots of shops had one day sales, I had a 10% off sale and ended up with 2 sales from the cash mob!  (you can type in "maineteam" any day of the year and find Great things that are made in Maine)

The really exciting part is that I went shopping too! :)

I "cash mobbed" eight of my fellow team members. Most everything I got are intended for Christmas present for my family/friends... so I can't show you almost anything.....

BUT I did get something for ME! :)

I am a huge Christmas person so naturally I have A LOT of Christmas ornaments.. I love them.. so I try to limit the number of them that I buy because our tree gets full quick. Since Evan and I have been married I have decided that we will only buy one ornament a year. (okay.. one SPECIAL one.. and maybe a few for good luck?)

This year while I was "researching" everything the Maine Team had to offer and trying to decide who I was going to Mob I kept coming back to this same shop because I desperately want their Mason Jar Chalkboard. I had it in my shopping cart for 2 days before the cash mob with every intention of buying it. The morning of I had a change of heart and decided I really should only be doing Christmas shopping. But then I saw the cutest Christmas ornament in the same shop and you could have it personalized. so I compromised with myself and decided it was a Christmas gift for Evan and I. That meant I could buy it, right?

Anyway, I did! and I got it in the mail yesterday and I LOVE it!
 

 Ta-da! (the cute little tags attached to the business card were a little freebie! how cute!)

 

 

 

This super cute ornament is made by 163DesignCompany, they are out of Pittsfield, Maine. It is a family run business and they are super nice!

 
You should take a look at their shop they have amazing things. I also just found out that they have things for sale at the LL Bean Home Store in Freeport. If you know Evan and I at all... you'd know we LOVE LLBean so I think that is pretty darn cool!

I still plan on getting myself that mason jar chalkboard in the future :)


That's all for now, I can't show you my other amazing treasures but if you want to shop local without leaving your house head over to Etsy and type "maineteam" in the search bar.


see ya!
-Alana

Angel Falls. Rangeley, Maine

I work full time at a local bakery. Weekends are busy so I always tend to work weekends. Since summer is over and most of the tourists have gone home things have slowed down a little bit. My boss decided to switch things up with the schedule and give everyone a chance to have a weekend day off every few weeks. This past weekend I got Saturday AND Sunday off! On Sunday we decided to go on an adventure! We got up early and headed off the Rangeley, Maine with our 2 best friends to do a little hiking. Evan googled cool places to hike into and came up with Angel Falls. It is said to be one of the biggest (if not biggest) single drop waterfalls in Maine.  After a long drive down a dirt road and about a mile hike in you come to this Gorgeous waterfall! Here are a few pictures from our hike!....

Evan had fun climbing up some small trees.

 

Heather & Justin hiking

 

Angel Falls, Rangeley Maine.

 

Angel Falls, Rangeley Maine

 

Evan and I at the base of Angel Falls.

 

Evan & I at the base of Angel Falls

 

Do you see where Evan is?

 

Hiking back out

 

 

On the way back out we met up with a couple hiking in with their dogs. We stopped to chat with them for a minute. They told us that when you are hiking in if you head off to the right of the waterfall you can actually climb to the top of it! Something we are going to try next time we make it there! They also said that one of their daughters had her senior pictures taken at the waterfall, how cool is that!?

Have a good day!! -A

We're still here!

I told you I'm bad at blogging!! :) we just celebrated one year on Etsy yay! 27 sales and our product are in 2 stores! Pretty good for also having full time jobs with not much extra time to put into this business! We are learning to juggle them all! We had a very productive night on Friday and are starting work on some new products! I will share them soon! Ttyl -A

Hi!

Just wanted to post some random rock and life pictures!

 

granite business card holder being used!

 

 

a Biscoff ("airplane cookie") smore! So amazingly good!

 

 

"small" ice cream cones from Dormans in Thomaston, Maine.

 

 

4 one of a kind (at the current time) Slate State Clocks! Michigan, Florida, North Carolina & Virigina. Sent out as Groomsmen gifts for a wedding!

 

Forget-me-not 

 

 

Hope your summer is starting off great!

 

-A

Retail Store Adventures

Hi!

 Just wanted to share with you where you can now find some of our products in local towns!

Yesterday Evan and I went on a little adventure over to Ellsworth to drop off our first round of goods to a pop up store on Main Street in Ellsworth! It is a adorable space and located in the Gallery Grand (the big theatre in downtown). The store is called Magenta Magpie, it officially opens tomorrow! They will be open May 3rd - October 26th. As of right now we are only keeping our stuff there until the end of June. If things go well we will stick around until the end! So if you find yourself in Ellsworth stop in and check all the great items they have, all Maine made items from lots of different artists!
   you should also like their facebook page: Magenta Magpie Facebook

 

The store is just to the left of The Grand!

Granite coasters, fire starters & business card holders (we also dropped of Cheeseboards - not pictured)

Granite coasters getting boxed up to head to Magenta Magpie

business card holders & Granite State of Maine

After we left Ellsworth we scooted over to Bangor to drop off another box of goodies! This box went to downtown Bangor on Central Street to The Rock & Art Shop. Talk about a fun shop! oh my goodness! We had such a fun time looking around in here. If you haven't been in there I Highly suggest it! 

   We dropped off a big box of Maine Slate Coaster Sets! A unique product that we are only selling thru them at this time! They also got Maine slate Cheeseboards.

 They actually have 3 locations. Bangor (open year round), Ellsworth (re-opening mid June) and they just opened another one in Bar Harbor (13 cottage street)! I was told that most (if not all) of the slate coasters would be heading to the new location in Bar Harbor!

       Check out their facebook page here: The Rock & Art Shop Facebook

 Maine Slate Coasters

Slate Cheeseboards

I Had to buy this while I was there. Cupcakes/Cake stuff just always has to come home with me :)

Its a painting done by a guy in Portland, Justin Richel "Sweet Square"

Talk to ya later! thanks for stopping by :)

 -A