I visited my old stomping ground in New Hampshire to see what country craft stores survived the economic down turn and if any new ones sprung up. Upon stopping at our first shop, it had a lot of the country, folk art and primitive style of crafts that my husband and I love to collect. After spending some time with the owner (we were her first customer of the day), she stated that she wished she knew someone who could make her Mitten Boxes. She has so many requests for them, but no local supplier. Well, for those who know us at My Lovi, it was an opportunity for us to come to her rescue. What are Mitten Boxes you ask…well, they are a shelf that has a pull down door to store “dry” mittens and pegs to hang “wet” ones. Granted you can hang other things on these pegs, because…really…who has wet mittens now a days. This lovely owner did allow us to take a picture of one she had (which mind you, was pitiful) in her store that she was not please with and come up with something better. We went home and designed a very lovely (and useful) mitten box as the initial prototype. The goal is to paint it black (possibly distress it or not??) and show it to the shop owner in the next week or so. See sample (unpainted) below. The question remains, what other gems have consumers been looking for that they just can’t find anywhere? Let me know what you think.
