About Us
Erin Elizabeth | Proprietoress
Young enough to not be taken seriously by "grownups." Old enough to not mind it much anymore. Daughter and homemaker-preneur. Is known to be loquacious. Garlic lover. Has read "The Man Who Was Thursday" but doesn't understand it wholly. Geek. Sometimes sews over straight pins. Reader of stories to little and big ones. Is a Mac. Has made celebrated chicken and dumplings, and a terrible mess of homemade macaroni and cheese. Waves to strangers. Favorite disciple is Simon, called Peter.
Meet the rest of my family. They're crafty. And cool. 
Daddy & Mama | The Works
Daddy: Mr. Wonderful, fount of wisdom and common sense, expounder of accounting and tax mysteries, craftsman and maker of our show displays, owner of the big gray truck that makes our craft shows possible. Organized. Mama: purchasing agent, typesize consultant, Mother of the Millennium (MoM), chief instructor of delegation: "No hegemony!" laundress, homeschool teacher and kisser of all boo-boos, unfazed driver's ed instructor, editor of thank you notes, articles and term papers.
Emily | Fount of all Quotableness
Like nobody else on earth. Constant tender of vegetables and perennial flower gardener. Digs for treasure in the non-fiction section of the local library. Is teaching herself to make olive oil soaps to expand our product line. Talented cake decorator & pastry chef. Austenite. Classic film epicure. Sewing pattern consultant and the only person who has read 'The Complete Book of Tailoring." Patient sewing instructor to Colleen & Genevieve. Prays for the persecuted church. Reads The Wall Street Journal when she can.
Sarah | Girl Friday, and Jewelry Maven
Princess (in the very best sense). Jewelry artisan, and Erin's chief listener & apprentice. Irish dancer for more than half her life. Ably serves customers from all walks of life at craft shows. Self-designated Sunday morning waffle maker. Her scissors begin the life of nearly every dolly dress & smock at RCCW. Knows where ALL of Daddy's tools are, can work a 10 hour shift with a hydraulic log splitter and play Rachmaninoff on her beloved clarinet. Has read more Dickens than anyone else in the family. Favorite color: pink.
Matthew | Artist and Heavyweight Display-lifter
Easygoing firstborn son. Awesome big brother to half the family. Scented notecard production assistant & muscleman-craft-show setter-upper. Painstaking Sole Proprietor of our Half.com shop. Patiently endures his sisters' lengthy visits to JoAnn's as much as is humanly possible for a 12 year old boy. Is learning to manage our image library. Keeps a watchful eye on exuberant Colleen, who WILL help. Maintains our firewood supply. Favorite book: The Dragon and The Raven by G.A. Henty.
Brendan | Energetic Exercise Ball Bouncer
"Brave bold man, even in his youth." Jealously guards his prerogative to take all packages out to the mailbox. Is deliciously happy to be old enough now to cut stationery paper and business cards. Wants to inherit the former part of the business, "when you [Erin] get married." Enjoys folding laundry whilst listening to audio lectures on warfare. Master re-creator of WWII engagements using his toy soldiers and wooden blocks. Wants to cut fabric, now. Persevering toward his goal of moving onto the 3rd McGuffey reader.
Genevieve | Emmaline Apron Model
Fond of babies, clomping around the house in her cowboy boots and keeping up with her hero, Brendan. Has ironed muslin for aprons, and helped manage envelope printing runs for our scented stationery sets. Apron and regency dress model. Official dolly wardrober for photo shoots. Makes a mean sunny side up egg. Helps bake bread, sweep the kitchen floor and tend her own shade garden of hydrangeas, vinca, rhododendron, creeping phlox and heather.
Colleen | Chubby Assistant
Curly top, smock model and getter-into-things. Enjoys baking cookies (especially when she can crack the eggs) and taking a ride on big brother Matthew's shoulders. Showed an early precociousness in sewing by deftly handing straight pins to big sis, when just a wee thing. Very adept at putting napkins on the dinner table and pressing the Start button on the washer machine for Mama. Her favorite song is "Rock of Ages."
Samalah | Amazing developer behind RCCW.com
Gracious lady. Fusion marketing partner in Orthopraxic Industries, mosaic artist, green tea drinker, budgeting expert, lead graphic designer for WCNZ. A gift from the Lord. Can cook on a woodburning stove and drive a forklift. Erin's best friend. :) Lives in NZ, yet has never seen Lord of the Rings. Thoughtful Berean, and pianist. Fearlessly feminine daughter and office girl for family timber mill & treatment plant. Self-taught programmer. Encourager of her brother Dan. Constant in prayer.
“Of course, I have found out that I could make at least ten times as much money if I had a souvenir shop with items like the Statue of Liberty, from the size of a thimble to the size of a large container for umbrellas, or the greatest bestseller of two years ago, or a toilet seat ashtray with the wording 'Trapp Family Gift Shop, Stowe, Vermont,' printed on the outside.
But from the very beginning I decided that the shop would be a wonderful opportunity to give beauty a chance, so I only hand-pick things which strike me as beautiful and perfect in their realm.”
~Maria von Trapp
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