02/17/2026
Today is officially one year since I opened the doors here at 189 Main Street. One year full of all things snacks and design. It was a dream I couldn't ignore driving past this empty, historic little footprint along Main Street since we moved to Port Washington. Maybe not the savviest business or personal decision to jump into retail while also struggling to be an independent designer but it has been incredibly soul-fulfilling to be able to have a space to show off the work I do and the work of so many other incredible founders and makers. A space to launch other new ideas. A space to have conversation. A space to play. I'm forever grateful to Danielle and Parker for the support and motivation. The initial encouragement of Snaxshot helped to get me over the scary edge. It's incredibly unpredicatable and hard to know what the future holds but for the present I'm happy to carve out a little space here in the community to try and grow. Thank you everyone who has supported or stopped by to check it out. I recently caught up on Jason Diamond's most recent writing and it shot straight through my creative heart, here's a tidbit of that:
"Turning your passion into a career, no matter what it is, will always have the boring, mundane, and downright challenging moments, and right now is one big rough moment for so many of us that might last a long time. If that’s the case, then the only thing to do is keep going, continue creating, do it whenever you can, but do it because you want to, because the world is crap without creations. I usually hesitate to say something is a revolutionary act, but in these cruel, uninspired days, the simple act of making and enjoying yourself, is a small, necessary revolution."
