Pictured are the Rauh sisters and their mom, Stacey Rauh, homeowners of the Cotton Thistle Boutique in Lakewood.
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LAKEWOOD — A new store has opened in the village of Lakewood.
The Rauh sisters — Jenna, Sara and Anna Rauh, and their mom, Stacey Rauh — opened Cotton Thistle Boutique in the heart of the village in November. The boutique offers a large selection of clothing and accent products and is located at 102 Chautauqua Ave.
“Our opening weekend was far more than we at any time dreamed it would be,” Stacey Rauh mentioned. “It was pretty occupied and we had great opinions from people.”
Stacey said her daughter, Sara, experienced been following boutiques on the web through the COVID-19 pandemic and launched them to her relatives associates.
“We like to store and we purchased some things from on the net areas, and we visited (a retailer in Warren), and we mentioned, ‘If only we could do this someday,’ with my daughter’s hair salon,” she claimed. “She owns Cut Unfastened Hair Salon. We explained if a creating at any time came up exactly where we could incorporate a tiny boutique with the hair salon, we’d adore to do that. We were being just like, ‘How exciting is this?’”
The Rauhs located a constructing, and the boutique has occur to daily life with the salon quickly to follow. Stacey Rauh stated the salon will be moved into the similar making as the boutique in the coming months.
The hrs for the boutique continue being adaptable, and the group has been submitting them on their Fb site, typically opening on the weekends.
“We put it on Facebook for the weekly hrs,” Rauh said. “We also put a signal on the door as of ideal now just since we have all these matters likely on in other places. But, with the vacations, we’d like to be open as substantially as we can.”
The Rauhs claimed they are delighted to have their boutique positioned in Lakewood, specifically with the current completion of the Chautauqua Avenue challenge.
“We knew it was going to glimpse awesome when it was finished, so we assumed it would be a very good location,” Stacey Rauh reported. “We imagined it would be a good place. We’re all from Lakewood. We’re just rookies variety of accomplishing it for the really like of it and since it’s like our hobby. It’s surely some thing that we can do with the 4 of us women with each other.”