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Our art tells a story of the Maine coast, a place known for its breathtaking natural beauty and rich art culture.
Welcome to Coastal art co., where the rugged beauty of Maine’s coastline meets the world of art. Based in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, our mosaic pebble artist, Sherry, and frame maker, John, combine their talents to capture the essence of our extraordinary coastal surroundings.
At Coastal art co., Sherry, mosaic pebble artist, takes pride in her meticulous craftsmanship. Each mosaic pebble art piece is lovingly handcrafted using a diverse selection of carefully sourced pebbles from local beaches and coves. These pebbles, shaped by nature, come together to create intricate and distinctive designs, ensuring no two pieces are ever alike.
John, our master frame maker, enhances each piece made from repurposed wood. This touch of rustic authenticity not only complements the art within but also adds a unique and timeless charm to each creation.
We’re not just in the business of creating art; we’re in the business of bringing the Maine coast into your home. Our hope is that our work brings as much joy to your life as it brings us to create it. When you invest in a Coastal art co. piece, you are investing in a piece of Maine’s coastline, a piece of its culture, and a piece of its heart.
Thank you for choosing Coastal art co. to share in our love for Maine’s stunning coastal beauty.
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There are a LOT of good skin products out there, on the internet, on the skin-care shelves. There are quite a few opposite-of-good ones too. And some are just treading water (or oil), doing not much harm or much good – their best feature’s usually the price.
The Skin Stuff’s not one of the bad ones.
It’s not neutral either.
So…it’s one of the good ones?
Nope. Not really.
If we’d been willing to settle for “good” enough, we’d have made it like everything else — followed a formula (you can find them on the internet), maybe changing up an ingredient or two. That would have taken months, maybe weeks…not the years we put in.
Our path was different – you can read about it on www.TheSkinStuff.com.
UNIQUE.
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From a sunny studio in Westbrook, Maine, Carly Cooke creates heirloom quality jewelry with old-world techniques and attention to detail. Specializing in wedding jewelry and custom pieces, Carly can help you shop for the perfect gift or work with you to create one-of-a-kind jewelry that will check all the boxes of beauty, quality, and durability. Everything is handmade with fair environmental and social integrity in mind.
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We make our leather handsewn shoes by hand, utilizing traditional skills, passed down by family for four generations. Our current styles all feature a traditional handsewn moccasin construction, completely surrounding your foot in leather. We sole our shoes with rubber outsoles, or leather handsewn soles. This means our moccasins are resoleable allowing for years of wear of your favorite pair. We aggressively seek out the best quality materials that we can get, as close to home as we can get them. We strive to source all materials domestically within the United States. We are proud to make it our business to support other US based manufacturers and are proud to do our part to build a strong community of makers here at home.
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I started making chocolates for gifts when my husband, son and I moved to Maine from Colorado in 1999. We didn’t have extra money to buy Christmas gifts for family, so I made up recipes and sent them as our family gifts that year. In 2000, we bought an old house in Limerick which had 2 kitchens. I turned the second kitchen into my chocolate kitchen and started experimenting with new recipes and chocolate treats. Getting a box of my chocolates as a Christmas gift became a “thing” with our family and friends. One year a good friend of mine told me she didn’t understand why I wouldn’t sell them, that it would be an awesome business. It was a huge decision to enter into the business side of the creative world as I had gone to art school and not business school in college.
After 10 years of making and giving away what I made, I started to get serious about sourcing the finest chocolate in the world and finding local places to buy cream and other essentials to making truffles. I found an online school that had a course in how to run a business specific to making and selling fine chocolates. I knew I would only sell my own recipes and only what I myself could make by hand. This meant I had to figure out how to produce delicious chocolates and sell them within their fragile fresh tasting window so my customers could always have the best chocolate tasting experience. I also wanted to buy the finest imported couverture chocolate available. This meant spending a lot of money on the chocolate itself and then using Maine dairy products to create the ganache and truffle basis for all my recipes. I am incredibly fortunate to have a wonderful dairy farm in Dayton- Harris Farm- who provides a rich cream that goes into every recipe that uses cream and Kate’s butter that makes up every truffle. Also, a talented bee keeper in Cornish who provides amazing honey and my next door neighbors who produce Hilltop Boilers maple syrup, from which I created a Maple caramel specifically made with their darkest syrup.
I went through the process of inspections and licensing the second kitchen in 2012 and this became the commercial kitchen where I still produce every single chocolate by hand. I turned the 1806 cape portion of my rambling old house into a small shop open seasonally on the weekends.
I was asked to join the Snowflake Trail in 2012, a weekend in November where a group of businesses in Limerick, Newfield and Limington all open on the same days. It is a group of hard-working business owners all making something amazing in this small corner of Maine. It was a crazy first weekend for me and I sold over 7000 chocolates and gave away 3000 samples. After that people started coming to my tiny shop and looking forward to my new ideas and creations.
Originally, I sold my chocolates in prepackaged boxes we made up every Friday. After a year or so in business, two lovely customers, Joy and Julie, mentioned to me that they had favorites and could I make up a custom box, or have a case to choose from when they came in? So, I drove to Pennsylvania to purchase a beautiful, antique, glass case once used to display cigars. I came up with a picture card system so customers could choose a card with a photo and description of the chocolate they wanted in their box. From that we make up their personal selection from the case. This is still how we display the chocolates, in a much larger antique glass case but everyone can select their own box from 35-45 kinds and little picture cards go in the box so they know what each chocolate is.
During the pandemic in 2020, I decided to move my shop into a fantastic old building on Main Street in Limerick. The owners gave me carte blanche to gut the interior and make the space my own perfect chocolate shop.
From the beginning my goal was to show people that fine chocolate is special. I have tried to make it accessible to everyone no matter if they can only afford a couple dollars for a treat or much more. I take pride in making every single chocolate by hand knowing that my careful selection of ingredients and fine attention to details will bring joy to my customers.
The best part of what I do is seeing my customers excited to come in and choose their own box of chocolates. Smiling and laughing and bringing family or friends to the shop to share my little shop in Limerick. It’s a special place.
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Hi friends! Welcome to Proxima Design Cat Toys! We are a small Maine business, specializing in handmade, joyful cat toys for every kitty play style! We use only the best, long lasting, potent organic catnip in our toys to please your feline friends. We aim for quality construction and durability in our designs so you come back for more because you and your cats love the products, not because you need a new one! Give one of our felt food shaped toys a try! Great size and weight for chasing and carrying. We also carry durable reinforced cotton kicker toys in a variety of patterns! Does your kitty like crinkle material? We’ve got several toys that crinkle, including our Catnip Crinkle Mats! Discover our brand new line of 3D Printed toys! Ring Things, Crazy Caps, and even glow in the dark varieties, Glowbe Chasers and GLOW Ring Things! Yes we wholesale!
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Stubborn Cow Glass is located on the coast in Downeast Maine.
We provide custom design and fabrication services for stained glass panels, lamps and windows rendered in both the Tiffany foil and traditional leaded methods. We create our products using a large assortment of art glass (Youghiogheny, Uroboros, Bullseye, Wissmach, Oceanside (formerly Spectrum), and cabinet glass.
The online lamp and panel galleries represent selected pieces of our work.
Our shopping page has selected works for sale. If you would like to purchase something in one of our galleries that you do not see in the online store, please contact us. Our work is available at Gifts at 136 in Damariscotta, Artisans & Antiques in Winter Harbor, Harbor Artisans in both Northeast Harbor and Southwest Harbor, and at Pemaquid Craft Co-op in New Harbor.
We partner with ArtWaves in MDI to teach classes in their facility. Check their schedule by clicking here.
We would love to work with you on your one of a kind project.
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Our proprietor, Jim Lynch, founded Dahl and Company in 1980. He partnered with his mother, Jessie Warrington, and together they named the company after Eva Dahl, the family matriarch and Jim’s beloved grandmother. Over the past 40 years Jim has brought myriad products to the public including, but not limited to, bespoke furniture. Along the way he has honed his woodworking skills to a fine point. That, combined with his insistence on sustainability, makes him a master at his craft. Jim often finds inspiration in traditional pieces. He likes to bring a modern aesthetic to old designs, resulting in pieces that are not only functional, but also beautiful.
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I grew up in Maine and loved the outdoors and animals from an early age. While always artistic, I chose to study wildlife ecology instead of art in college and spent almost two decades working in non-profit land conservation. Despite my career choice, I continued to draw and opened my Etsy shop in 2009 to share my work beyond just family and friends and started to participate in art festivals and shows in 2012. My focus shifted over the years and in January of 2022, I came full circle and made the leap to focus on art as a full-time career.
It turns out that choosing a career in conservation provided amazing inspiration for my art practice. I was lucky enough to spend a lot of time on woodlots and farms throughout Maine and New Hampshire. At the end of each field day, I would have filled my phone with of photos of wildflowers, veggies, and critters to bring back home to my studio to draw.
My pets too are endlessly entertaining and were the original inspiration for my drawings in the first place–hence the name “3 Legged Dog Ink”. My first Vizsla lost her paw in an accident when she was a pup, but spent the rest of her life hiking and adventuring with me everywhere I went. When she was an old lady, I started drawing large portraits of her and developed my current drawing style. I now have a second Vizsla (with all 4 paws this time) and two cats: a brother and sister pair. They’re all ridiculous and adorable and provide lots of inspiration.
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We are a worker-owned coop making artisan tempeh that is sourced from organic soybeans grown in Maine. We developed a proprietary fermentation process that eliminates the use of plastic bags in the fermentation process, so we are the most sustainably made tempeh in the U.S. Tempeh is a delicious, fermented plant protein that is nutrient dense, packed with protein (16 g), and full of fiber, calcium, iron, and all the B vitamins. It is versatile to cook with (absorbs flavors like meat) and made from just 3 simple ingredients: soybeans, vinegar, and starter culture.
