NOOK & CRANNY GIFT SHOP GRAND RE-OPENING

Nook & Cranny Gift Shop is now open for its 3rd season!! We've been promising to expand our offerings and finally we have done it.

We have partnered up with local artists to bring more variety to the shop, giving our customers more gifts and handmade crafts to choose from.

First we welcome Jenny Lynn. She is a jewelry designer from Burlington. Her style is bold, elegant. and simple. The colors really bring a brightness to the shop!!

For more information about her jewelry please visit her etsy shop. Or view her profile on Facebook.

We also want to welcome local artisan, Cathy, who lives right here in Isle La Motte. Cathy is also a jewelry designer. She uses materials from nature in her designs, such as stones, wood, shells, and arrowheads from her own backyard.

Cathy's style is earthy and spiritual. She is also experienced working with leather and wood.

You can reach Cathy by telephone @ 802-928-3111.

Lorraine Reynolds of Williston, is our third artist and vendor selling crafts at Nook & Cranny. She is a mixed media, collage artist; transforming the mundane into mystical and the everyday into extraordinary.

If you love mixed media/altered art, be sure to pick up the July/Aug edition of Somerset Studio featuring a section on "sisters" - where you will find two submissions by Lorraine. Congrats to her!!!

You can find more crafts and inspirations in her Etsy Store or her Blog.

Finally, we are pleased to announce that we are carrying Lake Champlain Islands, a picture-graphic book about the history of the region, by our friend, local crafter, and author, Tara Liloia who also lives here in Isle La Motte. She will be visiting the shop the first weekend in August for a book signing, so be sure to make your calendars.

Nook & Cranny is busting at the seams with new gifts, crafts, and unique items. You will find beautifully crafted journals, home and garden decor, along with our quarky and fun crafts like scrabble word magnets, holiday ornaments, and gifts if your four-legged friends.

Whether your looking for a gift for a family member or friend or just a little something for yourself, make sure to stop by Nook & Cranny. A store that full of character and charm, bringing you unique gifts and ideas to make you smile.

If you can't make it out to the store, as we have limited hours. Only Saturdays and Sundays through Labor day, 11am - 4pm, and during the week by chance, you can always find us online in our ETSY Store.

If you're crafters like us. Remember we opened our closet doors to share our craft ideas and extra supplies. Visit our supply shop, A Closet of Treasures, for your scrapbooking, journaling, and collage art needs.

Emma Bean Designs

Emma Bean Designs is branding idea we developed to help differentiate some of our products and allow us to sell in competitor stores, without confusing the Nook & Cranny name.

Under the brand name of Emma Bean Designs we sell all our greeting cards, both photography and collage, as well as any crafted pet supplies and stuffed toys - everything that Emma Bean loves!

Many people ask who Emma Bean is and assumes it's either mom or me. Sometimes we fill them in, but most of the time, we leave it up to their imagination. Emma Bean is my dog and she is the inspiration behind these crafts. The things she loves best are the following: treats, stuffed toys, and exploring the world via car rides (or as she knows them by "dog rides"). Hence everything that Emma Bean Designs stands for.

The secret is out!

Craft Date

Mom and I are getting together tomorrow for another day of crafting. While we have been very diligent this season about getting things done, I still get anxious that it all won't be done before our grand re-opening of the store by June. I don't know where the time goes!! We are really refocusing our efforts this year to create a more shop-able store, to bring in gifts from outside crafters, and promote our store more. With this, comes more work, and it's only the two of us! Luckily we enjoy the work and even find more pleasure in delighting people with the atmosphere of our little shop and our unique crafts. While we LOVE to strategize and generate new craft ideas, we must FOCUS. Hopefully mom gets on task- she likes to go on craft tangents and will just begin to build something grand and the next thing you know, 3 hours have passed and nothing on the to-do list was crossed off. We joke that you can't pressure an artist into crafting when they're not in that frame of mind. This is true of mom! :) So long as we are both crafting, all of it will come together, even if it's in the last hour. Nothing like pressure to get your fingers crafting!!

NOOK & CRANNY GIFT SHOP ISLE LA MOTTE VERMONT

Here is a picture of our staircase display in our store. Everyone who comes into the store just loves this display and ask where we came up with the idea. We're planning to open in early June, hope to see you then!

While you're here, you can take a scenic tour of the island and see some picturesque views of the Adirondack Mountains.

Nook & Cranny Gift Shop

467 West Shore Road

Isle LaMotte, VT 05463