How SLUGS fleece boot liner came to be….
The newest chapter to my SLUG tail starting off 2014 I have quit my day job and have been accepted as a crafts person/vendor at Pike Place Market here in Seattle!! I will be working my booth/table at least 3 days a week and you can adopt a pair of SLUGS from me in person at Pike Place!! This has been a dream for over a year and now it is happening.
I began selling SLUGS Fleece Boot Liners on Etsy in 2009 in a friend’s Etsy shop and started my own Etsy shop WithTheRain in March, 2011. Between Etsy, local festivals and wholesale orders I have sold over 5,000 pairs and shipped them all over the world: Germany, Australia, Hawaii, The Netherlands and Brazil, just to name a few.
After I moved back to Ketchikan, Alaska from Seattle, Washington, my mother bought me a new pair of rain boots and plain black boot liners to prepare me for the weather I had grown up in as a child and a young adult. I loved them so much that I found myself living in them! I was telling anyone who would listen to me how great they are, and so functional for our rain forest climate. I thought I could make my own boot liners, adding a touch of my own style with cool patterns, colors and one funky button. The funny part at the time was I didn’t even know how to sew and I didn’t have a sewing machine. I asked my grandmother if she had a sewing machine I could use, she did but it was child size, one you would just use to hem something with. My first pair of SLUGS turned out great considering the use of such a tiny machine! My mom who has always supportive, bought me my first sewing machine and I was on my way.
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In the news:
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Etsy Featured Seller back in 2011:
https://blog.etsy.com/en/featured-seller-with-the-rain/
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Our daughter Charley Paisley is one of the 12 under 12 King 5 Evening for doing good for the market community. Raising over $1,000 for the Pike Place Market Foundation in 2019.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.king5.com/amp/article/entertainment/television/programs/evening/kid-fundraiser-pike-place-market-jewelry/281-5eea82c1-3f9e-43c1-8fad-5df11126ea19
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Love from the Pike Place Market Foundation:
https://pikeplacemarketfoundation.org/story/79934/
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https://pikeplacemarketfoundation.org/story/103857/
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Seattle Magazine:
http://www.seattlemag.com/article/gum-wall-clean-stormy-weather-and-more-news
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Seattle Times:
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/pike-place-market-mentors-advise-crafters-on-staying-afloat-during-coronavirus-shutdown/
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Seattle Met Magazine:
https://www.seattlemet.com/news-and-city-life/2020/06/the-pandemic-took-its-toll-on-pike-place-market-businesses
https://www.seattlemet.com/style-and-shopping/2020/10/pike-place-market-masks-covid-19#.X4YIxXZswC5.facebook
