User talk:Cranky crafters

Cranky Crafters is a small business in Del Norte, Colorado, owned by Justin Dean and Tessa Mauro. They pride themselves in making and creatinng wonderful local goodies such as beeswax candles and soy candles with wooden wicks, soaps, fun jewlelry like the sand dollar earrings. They also carry consignment by local artists, oil, pAinting, canvas art etc.

The great thing with this store is that everything is made in Colorado, and when slow you might even catch these crafters making soaps or candles while coming in to shop.

The Crafters

Tessa Mauro is a knitter and loves making things such as purses, hair bands, pot holders, coasters, scarves, saches, wine huggers and more. Tessa supports three causes with her scarves, breast cancer, firefighters, and saving the grizzly bear. When someone buys one of these hand knitted scarves, 40% goes to the choosen cause. It takes Tessa about three hours to make each scarf, and even with developing carpul tunnel she still loves making these precious scarves. She also makes hidden art, and is a photographer.

Justin Dean makes amazing jewelry with real sand dollars which you dont see to often in Colorado. He also makes our own Cranky Crafter shirts, which can be custom made for you.

Together these two make beautiful wooden wick soy and local beeswax candles. Scents that are unique and not seen every where, such as Amish Harvest, Birds of Paradise, Tahitian Village, Fire Side, Moonlight Path and many more. Then we have the fun ones you may see more of like Birthday Cake, Brownie, Watermelon and more,, warning smelling these may make you hungry, drool etc.