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Owners Brandie Mayes and Julie George-Carlson love
to share their story: Edith & Edna began as an idea to showcase
traditional arts and crafts in a retail setting. What emerged is a
shop that celebrates the craft world and features one of a kind and
small run original artwork. We offer many modern handmade products
by crafters around the world.
Our mission is to bring everything from
the online craft world to our brick and mortar shop. We believe everything
in our shop, and every artist represented here, has a story. We want
to support people who make their living by creating. Our customers
know that we have a strong commitment to social and environmental causes
and our products reflect that commitment.
Our success can be attributed
to the efforts and the hard work of the entire team at Edith & Edna.
Our staff members are dedicated, creative, and fun loving people that
know how to inspire our customers. Edith & Edna would not be successful
without them.
WHAT’S IN A NAME
Edith & Edna is named for six of the mothers of the greatest
generation, all of whom are related to Brandie Mayes and Julie Carlson,
the owners of Edith & Edna.
When we started talking about our
idea of having a shop where everything is handcrafted, we both started
talking about the women in our lives that greatly influenced us.
When we found out that we had so many Edith’s and Edna’s
between our two families, we knew that was going to be the name of
our shop.
The women who inspired our name:
Brandie’s Family….
Edna Frances Flemming Place (great-grandmother)
Edith Flemming Place (great aunt)
Edith Mock (paternal great-grandmother)
Julie’s Family…
Edith Fickeissen Carlson (mother-in-law)
Edith Mehr Fickeissen (maternal grandmother-in-law)
Edna Austin Carlson (paternal grandmother-in-law)
OUR
FLOWERS
Inspired by Chicago fiber artist Danny
Mansmith, the Edith & Edna flower is a gift to each customer who makes
a purchase in our shop. Danny is the original creator of the flower and he sent
us four of them as a little token of appreciation after we placed our first order
with him. We loved the idea of the recycled magazines so much, that we decided
to start making them as dressing for the shop. They have evolved to become a
symbol of the great things you can do with recycled materials.
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