Our Artisans
Carefully Sourced
The Store Next Door is local, family & woman owned, sourcing from small business that are:
Giving Back
Vegan
Organic
Woman Owned
Cruelty Free
Locally Owned
Eco-friendly
Handmade
“I find joy in discovering beautiful brands and unique products, and only ever choose artisans that I love and would use Myself”
— Ame, The Store Next Door Owner
Browse Our Artisans
All our artisans have a story to tell and we love having the opportunity to share these stories with you.
Food & Beverage
Boutique producer of high-quality artisan food…sauces, oils, vinegars, chocolate. Made here in Sonoma County and award-winning!
Why I Love Them
All of his products are made with love and passion!
The Clif Family Farm is a hidden gem located on the backside of Howell Mountain in the Napa Valley.
The farm is both CCOF certified organic and Food Alliance Certified and is bustling with bees, heritage breed chickens, orchards filled with stone fruit and citrus, abundant vegetable gardens and a seed saving shed to promote plant diversity and sustainability.
Each year their employees contribute almost 700 hours of community service on paid company time and they donate approx. $15,000 to 12 local non-profit partners each year.
Why I Love Them
Their items are perfect for snacking, entertaining, sharing or gifting! Yummy!
A woman led business that makes uniquely flavored popcorn hand-crafted with love in Asheville, North Carolina.
Why I Love Them
I love the unique flavors they create and am yet to taste one I wasn’t obsessed with! The only problem…. try not to finish the whole bag at once!!
Based in Petaluma, Ronda’s Fine Foods is run by husband-and-wife duo, Ronda and Steve. Their delicious Romesco incorporates flavors such as, fresh tomatoes, red peppers, garlic olive oil, and savory spices.
Serve as a dip or spice up your picnic charcuterie board with a crowd pleasing new product!
Why I Love Them
It’s like a perfect marriage between pesto and marinara and it’s SO good on everything!
Founded by native Californian, Scott Tavenner, Savino is an easy-to-use wine preservation system that keeps your wine fresh for up to a week so you can enjoy Tuesday’s wine on Saturday.
Unlike other wine preservation solutions on the market, Savino does not try to control the environment of an opened bottle of wine. Instead, it creates a new, beautiful environment designed to preserve and serve wine.
Savino is manufactured in the USA with the highest quality materials.
Why I Love Them
Award winning genius idea. The fact that they made their wine preservers and martini shakers for both home as well as for the pool/boat makes them perfect for any wine or cocktail lover!
Home baked bread made simple. Just add beer. No baking skills required. They’ve received accolades from Real Simple, Rachel Ray, Good Housekeeping, Wall Street Journal…to name a few!
This family run company handcraft each of their bread mixes in small batches using all natural ingredients.
They do not use any dairy, egg or nut products in their mixes.
Why I Love Them
This is the PERFECT “guy gift” when you don’t know what to buy. A gift of their favorite beer and a few bags of assorted Soberdough mix and you have it! Although a great guy gift, they are really loved by everyone. Oh the aroma and flavor!
Woman-owned & operated by Jeannette Messoria in Sebastopol, CA.
After getting asked to constantly make cakes for birthdays and weddings, Jeannette and her Mom started making cakes officially as a business, and it branched out to all sorts of baked goods as well as award-winning homemade jams, and now during COVID, beautiful face masks.
Why I Love Them
Their mixed berry jam is a firm favorite in our house!
Based in Petaluma, Stella’s Table is a women-owned business that creates Italian-inspired food made with quality ingredients that feed the soul as well as the body.
Why I Love Them
Their salts are really different and fun to use. You can definitely taste the love.
Bean to bar chocolate handmade in Sonoma County.
Inspired by the flavors and soul of Mexican chocolate, husband and wife duo decided to start their own business making chocolate bars in their production studio in Windsor using local ingredients whenever possible.
Why I Love Them
Jeff and Susan Mall have perfected the art of making amazing chocolates. They are very passionate about chocolate making, and their chocolate is FABULOUS!
Home
Beautiful oversized towels printed in the US with all artwork by Avery, a self-taught artist! Avery’s Home Kitchen Towels are made of flour sack material and printed here in the USA. They are 100% cotton, lint free, and are pre-washed and pre-shrunk to help enhance the quality. A portion of each towel sold goes to charity.
Why I Love Them
Love the whimsy of her art and funds going to charity is always a win!
Bamboo kitchenware that’s safe for the dishwasher.
They combine beauty and function with sustainability by using excess raw materials of fast-growing, eco-friendly bamboo that can be harvested frequently without damaging the soil or landscape.
Why I Love Them
Bamboo products that are eco-friendly and useful. LOVE the kids products and the countertop composter is very chic while saving our planet!
Bay Pottery is a family-owned handcrafted stoneware business and was started by Joseph and Rheba McMichael back in the late 60’s during the arts movement of the time. They are located in the Chesapeake Bay area.
Why I Love Them
The pieces are well-made, useful and gorgeous! Love the color choices.
A woman-owned company that hand-makes, and designs, 100% cotton kitchen towels in small batches in the USA. She also donates a portion of sales to numerous non-profits.
Why I Love Them
Love the whimsical designs and that the company gives to non-profits.
At the heart of CATSTUDIO are its founders: Carmel and Terrell Swan. They create pillows and dish towels celebrating what is loved about geographical areas.
Their geography pillows are embroidered by hand on 100% organic cotton, taking over 40 hours to embroider just one. Each pillow is even signed by the artisan who embroidered it.
The dish towels are made of hand-loomed cotton and hand silkscreened in 12 colors. Complete with a hand-stitched border, each towel is wrapped ready to gift in an eco-friendly reusable pouch.
Why I Love Them
Their map designs of regions are so thoughtfully made and beautifully capture the essence of that area.
Forever Green Art is a woman owned small business.
Their handmade, small batch produced soy candles and wooden bowls are made from raw wood and are gorgeously rustic. Their hand-carved wooden heart bowls are a favorite!
Why I Love Them
The small bread bowl with a candle is a double bonus as once the candle burns down, you have a wooden bowl to use for jewelry, keys, snacks, whatever.
Founded in 2016, Homesick makes organic and handmade candles.
Homesick candles are hand-poured in the US using a natural soy wax blend with 100% organic cotton wicks and custom fragrance oils to deliver a long-lasting, great-smelling burn.
The candles are cruelty-free, non-toxic and contain no lead, plastics, paraben, phthalates or synthetic dyes.
Why I Love Them
They have names and scents that bring us back to places that mean something to us. Lovely scents and sentiments.
These candles are hand poured in small batches with simple ingredients: American grown soy wax, phthalate-free premium fragrance and essential oil blends and cotton wicks.
They use soy wax because it is clean burning, Eco-friendly and has a longer burn time than paraffin wax. They purchase everything for their candles right here in the USA.
Why I Love Them
Such popular candles!!! Locally made yummy smelling candles and diffusers.
Be Made, Inc. is run by a creative and imaginative mother daughter duo.
Each bottle of matches is handcrafted with the upmost care and attention to detail by their family.
Why I Love Them
Fun, colored matches to go with candles for gift giving… what???
Cutting boards handcrafted in Petaluma by husband and wife, Rob and Amy Mills.
Why I Love Them
The boards are perfect for charcuterie or for use as a cutting board…although they might be too pretty to cut in to.
Beautiful nightlights, handmade from recycled window glass.
PamPeana supports Fair Trade standards for labor, environmentalism and social policy relating to production and distribution of Fair Trade goods as well as USA made products. PamPeana operations positively impacts the lives of over 70 families outside the USA and over 20 families within the USA.
Why I Love Them
The nightlights add a perfect glow to any room!
Paris Pillows
Paris started “Paris’ Pet Pillows” as a fun way to raise money for the Sonoma County Humane Society in 7th Grade.
She created handmade pet pillows that she would customize with client’s pet names on them. They were an instant hit!
She has now she has morphed her “Paris’ Pet Pillows” business to simply “Paris’ Pillows” focusing on creating multiple every day, and holiday, designs on cute door hanging pillows. Her entrepreneurial spirit shines through every design!
Why I Love Them
The cutest hand-sewn door pillows EVER! The perfect gift for anyone.
Hand-poured, small-batch, cotton wick, natural soy candles with pure floral scent in wood cheese molds accented with real pressed flowers on top. Plaid Rooster Co is a woman-owned small business, based in America.
Why I Love Them
SO pretty!
Creates décor and gifts that are memorable and one-of-a-kind. It is ranked as one of the top 25 fastest-growing women owned businesses in the world.
Giving is part of the corporate strategy at Primitives by Kathy. They have donated tens of thousands of dollars to various charities, founded an employee run non-profit that provides social opportunities to those with disabilities. In addition to charitable partnerships, Kathy is an active participant in mentor programs for young women.
Why I Love Them
These will make you laugh out loud! You will find one for everyone you know.
Husband and Wife duo, Karen and Jonathon started their business in their first year of marriage in 1992. Inspired by a trip to France in which they became captivated by the scent of lavender, they started the Kiss Me In The Garden bath and body collection.
All their products are made fresh daily in small batches at their own factory in Northbridge, California.
The products are paraben-free, phthalate-free, earth friendly and not tested on animals.
Why I Love Them
These handmade, eco-friendly lotions, soaps and other lovely items are great gifts. I’m partial to the “Words of Wisdom” shea butter balms… can’t pick a favorite scent as they are all fabulous!