Seasons Greetings and Happy New Year...

Seasons Greetings & Happy New Year (a few days early)!!  Another Holiday season is coming to an end and in looking back I realized I haven't written a blog in almost a month.  I guess it's safe to say that our first year operating a "retail" business over the Holidays was quite the experience.  We knew it was going to be busy but we had our world rocked by all the orders.

What a great gift to us!  For the month of November and December every day we had multiple orders come in.  Since all of our products are handmade (by us) and most of our copper engravings are personalized, we spent a lot of time in the workshop.  Both our copper engravings and wine racks were sent across the country for the season.  We were very excited to receive our first two orders for a new wine rack we just started marketing!  It's called Antiqued 8 Bottle Ladder Wine Rack and you can see in the picture below it has a great cottage feel to it.  We made our first one during the summer but hadn't taken pictures of it up until November.  We also added another new item to our wine racks, the Tuscan Decor 16 Bottle Copper and Wood Wine Rack and had our first order come through for that as well.

What a year!  We started our business with one product and had no idea what the interest would be.  We've since added three different kinds of wine racks and countless different copper engravings.  Each new product re-ignites our excitement and gets us thinking about new ideas again.  We have had a great first year and have loved seeing people across the country put up our handmade products in their home.  Maybe one is on your wall right now...we consider a privilege to be a part of your home!

I hope your 2011 was great and your 2012 is even better!

Antiqued Wine Rack

16 Bottle Copper & Wood Wine Rack

Closeup of 16 Bottle Copper & Wood Wine Rack

Merry Christmas from Tessa

Someone Has Something Extra to be Thankful for...

Can you believe Thanksgiving has already come and gone?! We had so much to be thankful for; including all of you who participated in our drawing for a free wine rack!  It was fun to read the things each of you are thankful for.

I hope that you all had a fantastic Thanksgiving holiday last week.  My wife and I, along with our new baby girl - Tessa, traveled to my aunt and uncle's house to celebrate Thanksgiving with my dad's side of the family.  We had a great day and there was plenty of GREAT food, including some of my favorite Lebanese selections, pictured below:

Kibbeh Balls...I probably ate the
equivalent of what's pictured here.

Tabbouleh!!  So good!

OK, so I could talk about food all day long, especially Lebanese food.  If you have never tried it before...you MUST!  It is extremely good and fantastically healthy for you.

On to the results from the drawing...  ***DRUM ROLL***

And...the winner of a free wine rack is...Bethany Loney!!  Congratulations to you (we will contact you)!!  For the rest of you, don't fret, we will have another drawing before you know it.  ;-)  Just keep up with us and who knows, you may be coming home to a free gift??!!  

Until next time...

-Tom