Traverse City Downtown Art Fair

This weekend, Revisions decided to take its craft fair gig down to the Traverse City Downtown Art Fair. After visiting last year's fair during their first wedding anniversary, Torrey and Michele decided to mix a little business with pleasure this summer.

We brought the usual inventory including our newly designed Silver Spoon Ring case rack. We were fortunate to have enough time to get it all together between our last online sales event and the Renegade Fair in Chicago in September.

We've already bumped into a few people who have seen us in Marquette so if you're in the area, feel free to stop by and say hi!

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Fab.com

Fab.com gave us a huge boost in sales these past few weeks. With such a quick leap in production, the task of boxing a couple hundred packages or so fell to all three of us. By the second day, Michele was starting to get a little loopy!

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Exciting Changes!

Hello Everyone! I have some really cool new and exciting changes to announce. This week we made some major changes to both our Etsy shop and our website. First things first, we have now divided Revisions' product line into 3 new brands! To represent these brands, we have created separate Etsy shops for each of the lines.

The Silver Lining
Our original Etsy shop has now become "The Silver Lining." This is where you will find the best spoon rings and silverware jewelry that Etsy has to offer.

                                     Urban Analog
The Rococo Mirror and the Polyhedron Candlesticks are just a few of the products you will now find under our Urban Analog brand. Here we create an edgy and modern take on home accessories.

Eco Elements
Elements of the earth combine in our ceramic jewelry and home accessory line, Eco Elements. Our classic Porcelain Egg Candles and Egg Sprouts are just a few of the products that will now be represented under this Revisions' brand.





Be sure to visit each of our new Etsy shops and mark them as a favorite. This division is paving the way for a ton of exciting changes still to come. With having our brands or lines distinctly defined, we have so much more room for expansion of new products. Stick around to see just what exactly Revisions has up it's sleeve next!

A New Color Option!

Our Phantom Candelabra, a modern design, laser cut acrylic candlestick holder is now available in black! We have been getting several requests for this design modification and it is now available in our etsy shop. Please visit: http://www.etsy.com/listing/65822732/modern-black-candelabra-laser-cut

Handmade with Love

One of the things that truly makes Revisions different is the amount of hand crafted attention to detail we put into our products. Today Michele is putting the final touches on a batch of Incandelescents, fresh from the kiln. Owning a product from Revisions is much more than just another mass produced object. It is a one-of-a kind piece of handmade, everyday art. It's great having a connection and knowing where the things you buy come from. When you support Revisions you are supporting real people just like you. Yeah for handmade!

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New product design for the Chicago Renegade

Here is a sneak peek of a new product we are debuting at the Chicago Renegade...slipcast porcelain canning jar votives. We are thinking of offering them in several "jam" scents and doing three different sizes. Here is a photo of one fresh out of the mold, in the greenware stage.

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Revisions Design Studio's 3rd Birthday

Sometime in the second week of May 2008, Revisions Design Studio was born in the basement of our small apartment in downtown Marquette.  On the path to turning three years old, we had moved to a location which suited the studio's needs, quit our outside jobs, and hired our first full-time employee, Janna.  In short, we've come a long way from simply microwaving a pound of soy wax at a time in our kitchen for a few dozen candles!

Growing our business from the infant to adolescent stage (i.e., employees, separate location, etc.)  took more luck than planning while sustaining Revisions Design Studio at that level is quite the opposite.  For example, one of our largest hurdles was to survive the over dependency on the success of a single product.  

Although the sales of our egg candles eventually put our small home business on the international map as well as provide us with the assets to expand, we eventually became stuck in a cycle of sale and production while slowing on the further creation of contemporary and innovative design.  If this course of action continues, the creativity and inventory of any design store grows both stagnant and stale over time.  Fortunately, we believe we have solved this dilemma at our studio through diligent balance between product design, manufacturing, and expansion.

It has been said that only 50% of all businesses will survive their first 5 years and only 50% of those will survive the next 5 years after that.  So far, we seem to be on the winning side of those odds.  Here's to continuing to run our young company intelligently, creating good design, and bettering the world around us!