following portion of daytime Blue Ridge
is sponsored by I'm here upcycle gifts
with our friend Joe Stanley and I'm so
excited to be here to finally show
everybody how cool this place it it's
great to be in studio but it's wonderful
to have you guys here in my place thank
you for coming I mean it's the coolest
place so how long have you all been here
and been open I have been here at Towers
for almost two years I've been in this
space for about 18 months
I started as a little pop-up shop and
fell in love with being at Towers it's a
great place to be and then I made my
permanent home here so that's that's not
very long and you're doing really well
you won one two three four awards four
wars so tell us what awards you I won
platinum for best upcycling repurposed
and vintage I won gold for best local
gifts gold for best place to buy local
art and silver for best home decor which
leads us right into you can find so much
here at upcycling guess those are well
deserved award so what type of things do
you all have here we have we really do
try to have a little bit of everything
and make things unique but also L in the
same vein we have home decor we try to
have unique chocolates we have glassware
we have jewelry but everything tries to
have a unique story to it a unique spin
to it something that you won't find
elsewhere in the valley yeah okay so
you're gonna show us around a couple
spots absolutely so where are we at now
now we're in sort of our garden outdoor
section one of the fastest growing
scenes in Roanoke is our micro breweries
and we carry this very unique copper
finish stainless steel growler it's
double walled insulated you won't find
this model anywhere else and one of the
unique things that we carry with it is
the
wax cotton insulator micelle so you're
going hiking or you're going to a
festival for the day this is the perfect
thing to carry with it that is very cool
and then you also have gardening stuff
we have lots of gardening stuff we have
these wonderful bags large canvas totes
that come with the tools with it there's
room to put the plants the seeds all the
other tools you have there yeah just
some unique things that you can that are
great for you but they also make great
gift items yes okay so this section is
all local offers yes it's our Blue Ridge
book corner it's one of the sections I'm
most proud of because in in growing my
shopping and growing my business many
people gave me opportunities to share my
wares and the things I did so I try and
do that for other folks and we have a
very rich literary scene here in the
valley so I have a whole section
dedicated to local authors and local
books that have been published one of my
favorites is by author MH Bradford this
is the second book we premiered his
first moon gorgeous moon this is his
latest wild styles and it's a great book
about endangered species and the
wonderful things the accoutrements that
they wear that makes them diverse and
you have these amazing bowties yes talk
about these well I make all the bowties
myself and you aware of them I wear them
as well it started out with making them
out of quilting scraps and I still make
a lot of them out of quilting scraps but
I also have to admit that if I'm out and
I see a nice fabric I find the fabric
and make make them out of that it's fun
because you get to make them out of
unique fabrics that you don't
necessarily see elsewhere I love the bow
tie out of the baseball's
if someone's out there and they see a
fabric they like it only takes eight
inches you can buy eight inches of the
fabric and I can make you a custom bow
tie in no time he'll do that yes
absolutely I love to do that I love
making the custom bow ties oh that's so
cool so they can just bring them to us
bring it into fabric and we can make you
the
hi I love that well this is great thanks
so much for having us out here and
showing us well it's been great thank
you