Michigan Summer Stuff
Get ready for summer! Michigan Made Products and Gifts offers something for everyone…from car detailing products, to summer apparel, outdoor fun stuff, body products that makes your skin look and feel good. The Beach Glass Soap products are sure to please any girl. The Beveled Glass Sun Catcher are available with a variety of Michigan theme images. The EZ Vane Weather vanes are available a variety of collegiate, holiday, seasonal, and other designs and include choice of mount. The Vacation Journals are great to take along on your vacations to capture moments, memories, and information. Fling-A-Ring is a great game for the whole family – at home or take it with you camping! Sweet Stick Campfire Roasting Sticks with fanciful designs and quirky sayings are great for roasting marshmallows and hotdogs over an open fire that has a beautiful silhouette fire-pit ring or custom fire-pit ring. Keep your drinks at arms reach and off the ground with Xtremetal’s Beerstix – available in ground or patio style in a variety of designs. The birdfeeders are sure to please the birds and adds decoration to your yard. Speaking of the yard – the Yard Guard Lawnmower Attachment makes mowing the yard much easier. Summertime is the time for ice cream – try the different flavors of ice cream toppings such as Cherry Fudge and Traverse City Cherry Dessert Topping. When you’re out hiking or biking – don’t forget to take along the B’Nut’s Trail Mix – a great all natural healthy snack that provides lots of energy. Planning a trip to Mackinac Island? The Mackinac Island Adventures Booklet is a booklet of information that answers many of the everyday questions about visiting and living year round on Mackinac Island. And let’s not forget our furry friends – they’d appreciate the Unbreakoball ball to play with in your back yard while looking great in their dog bandana or harness coat that keeps them cool! There’s so much more Michigan made products – check them out for yourself below and shop our Michigan summer gifts today!
Natural treasures of the Michigan landscape are the raw materials for Chuck and Pat Lightfoot’s 
Flower gardening is another keen interest of the Lightfoots. Their two-acre yard includes 14 flower gardens featuring mostly perennials such as lilies, roses, and butterfly bushes. To enjoy her hobby year ’round, Pat began pressing flowers and adding them to a variety of items such as 
The exquisite creations of artisan Debra Groat raises the meaning of “natural beauty” to a whole new level – the raw materials of her necklaces, earrings, bracelets and other 
Debra discovered the jewel-like quality of rare seeds and beans in 2003 when her brother grew and dried some of them on their family centennial farm in East Central Michigan. “I was astonished by their intricate beauty,” says Deb. “The seeds were gorgeous; opening each dried pod was like finding a treasure.
; from the caramel and cream of the Paint Dry bean 
to the azure and silver of the Hopi Blue Flour Corn. . . . .each reflects genuine, innate, organic beauty.
Debra uses over 20 different seeds and beans to craft her jewelry items. Each item, of course, is entirely hand made, and therefore each is unique. Although Debra may make several items in the same design, each is intrinsically different because there is no “mass production” whatsoever. Each seed and bean “jewel” is distinctly its own creation, having been planted in the moist rich earth, nurtured by the sun and rain, harvested, dried and shelled by hand, and then lovingly fashioned into pieces of wearable art. In addition to her in-stock pieces, Debra will gladly work with you to design and create an item or a set which is distinctly your own.
