Anthony and Yami run Pastreez, an online macaron store, selling handmade French macarons in California and all over the US. Growing from strength to strength, they are shortly launching a second product, crepes. They’ve also recently expanded into online learning by offering macaron making classes as well as recipe ebooks on their website. It all…
Jen and Ali own Cheese Etc, a small cheese shop just outside of Reading, 50 miles west of London – a local hub for their community. Before they bought Cheese Etc, Jen was a sports therapist and her partner Ali was a coach. Jen knew nothing about cheese to start – it was a sharp…
Tea Traders are a specialist tea shop set up in 2017 by Paul and his partner, Nick, in Carmarthen, Wales. They are all about trying to engage people with different specialist teas by encouraging them to explore a whole range of tastes. Paul and Nick wanted to offer something different to their community. Noticing that…
Hellen started Small Stuff in 2016 to sell ethical children’s products in Sheffield, UK. Small Stuff was built on her belief that we need to start minimizing overconsumption and to fill a need for a sustainable alternative for new parents. When Hellen gave birth to her son in 2016, her eyes were opened to the…
Charlotte never thought about owning a business when she opened Raffia Store in her early twenties. But when she nearly lost her business, she knew: this was her calling. Nearly losing the business has reignited her passion for what she does. But from the age of 14, all Charlotte wanted to do was work in…
David was born in London into a fifth-generation pearl trading family that had a reputation spanning the South Ocean, Australia, and the UK. He evolved the family trade with the times, expanding his family’s wholesale business into online, retail, and TV shopping, with his own business, Aquarian Pearls. But when he was young, David just…
Jody loved wine but had never really considered it as a career choice. So, before starting Seattle based Elsom Cellars, she built herself a successful career in the construction industry. She loved her work in the Seattle office of a large construction company. She’d often need to travel to the head office in San Francisco….
Dan Sedlacek had a passion for making things. This, combined with his love for hiking and a desire to honor his grandmother’s memory, pushed him to leave his stable career as an engineer and build Uphill Designs. Throughout the years, his passion helped him to persevere with his dream of handmaking and selling high quality,…
Growing up with an engineer as a father, Robyn Bradley was encouraged to have an analytical mind. Robyn’s shop, Handmade in La Conner, Washington, is the result of a lifelong curiosity for how things work. Her love for aesthetics, combined with her passion for crafting things led her to grow her hobby into a successful…
When a stressful career-related health crash sent Kellie Phelan on the search for more meaningful day-to-day, she discovered that her passion for making things by hand fulfilled her local community’s hunger for learning new skills. She started teaching people how to bake, grow food, knit – and set up a DIY school for adults: The…