What's VOYAGE SAN ANTONIO? "We started in Los Angeles, with our flagship publication VoyageLA. After generating our first million page views in LA we knew our content was resonating with the community. We’ve since grown to a handful of other amazing cities with the help of an amazing network of friends, associates, local insiders and influencers, PR firms, local bloggers, artists, creatives, entrepreneurs and other professionals. OUR MISSION & EDITORIAL ETHOS…
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I was interviewed, months ago. And I forgot to ever follow-up with the publication! Oops! So..... here's a great article, all about the handmade movement, from Gifts + Decorative Accessories' September issue! (I'm quoted quite a bit. And I love some of the highlights!)
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I kept a secret for almost two months! A BIG secret!!! San Antonio Magazine reached out to me the first week of January, with a note about how impressed they were that I found ways to connect with people despite all that 2020 brought, that I pulled together this community of makers, and that we outlasted covid. They wanted to give Handmade on Main an Editor's Choice award in their…
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http://voyagehouston.com/interview/meet-amy-bierstedt-scratch-farm-boerne-just-outside-san-antonio/ "Today we’d like to introduce you to Amy Bierstedt. Amy, let’s start with your story. We’d love to hear how you got started and how the journey has been so far. Our changes began about eight years ago. We started raising chickens. We planted a garden. We caught rainwater. I was learning how to cook (really cook) with wonderful from-scratch recipes. I stopped purchasing…
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I'm still doing it! I'm saying YES to things, before I say no. Even scary things. I've sucked it up... to appear on morning shows, to submit my products to HEB, to being a magazine cover story. To even writing my third published article! But this one was really easy. It was all about the importance of supporting and shopping handmade! {SO thankful for this opportunity with Kendall County Woman Magazine.}…
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Check out the March issue of Boerne Business Monthly!!!!!! {A look at my passion for local biz, small businesses, and shopping handmade... the reason behind From Scratch Farm... what's going on at the new Handmade on Main co-op... some details on the Boerne Retailers' Style Show & Shopping Event... and the first announcements about National Handmade Day!} https://issuu.com/boernemag/docs/march2020_boerne_business_monthly_online
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It all started with a surprise direct message and e-mail! Our salve was an Editor's Choice winner in San Antonio Magazine's BEST OF THE CITY contest! Eek! So we followed it up with: some happy dancing a quick meeting with Kathleen Petty, Senior Editor at the magazine a celebratory social media post an IGTV video with Macaulay Hammond, the magazine's Business Development Manager and Thursday night's Best of the…
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This was big, you guys! As difficult, trying, exhausting, rewarding, exciting, and fulfilling being an entrepreneur is. So was writing this article! But it's done... and I love it! To learn more about Handmade Seller Magazine, to subscribe to their issues, to apply to be featured: Website Facebook Instagram
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Can't tell you how excited I am that we're included in a handful of HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDES and FAVORITE THINGS LISTS this Christmas season!!!!!!! Two lists are with people that we've been working with for years, so it wasn't a surprise. But three were out of the blue. And they had the sweetest things to say in their posts (and in their private messages to me about their…
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It was really fun to be interviewed for the first time! But it took me forever to see the final product! In early March, the very sweet Nancy Foster, came out to the shop to visit for a while. She got the quick tour of the shop. And she snapped a pic of awkward me. Then, not only did I have to wait until the May issue was…
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