08/12/2026
Last week, we made our big announcement and tried to paint a picture of WHAT The Clothesline Mercantile will be. We are trying to slowly answer the important questions. Eventually we will get to the WHEN and WHERE, but for today let's get to know WHO is behind the scenes working to bring this store to you.
We, April and Theresa, are sisters who grew up in the 70's and 80's where childhood memories are eating homegrown food that came from our garden and our pasture, sometimes with cream flakes floating in our Cheerios! We lived outside with our bare feet running as wild as our imaginations and yes, we drank out of the garden hose, (IYKYK) well, April still does! Our fondest memories are being at our grandparents' homes, one was on a lake, the other a farm. Like most kids we enjoyed being with our childhood friends,
uncles and cousins.
As adults, we went our separate ways and raised our families and got together for holidays, dinners at our parents, and some Sunday night card tournaments or game nights. We are very different people with different goals and priorities, but there has always been some kind of aligned thinking. For example, we have a lot of the same tastes in many types of things. Many times through the years we show up at a family meal, one of us looks down and says, "I have those shoes." Is this typical sister behavior? We don't know, but things like that happen to us a lot. It is the similarities in taste that help us work together and agree on what should be displayed at The Clothesline Mercantile.
Recently, in the last year or so, we have taken up antiquing. We have been on several excursions as far away as our friend's house in Pennsylvania. One thing we love about antiquing is how it takes us back to our childhood. It is so exciting to find the dishes our grandma had, or a clock mom had. We love to go thrifting and antiquing! It has brought us together better than most anything could.
Thats just a little bit of who we are, but it goes with what we would like to offer: a little bit of nostalgia, clean living with clean ingredient products where you can use your imagination to make it smell to your own creativity, all while you shop and have a sweet treat! We don't even mind if you stop in on other days just for a marshmallow Coke!
