Cheese N' Tomatoes Quality Crafts

10/05/2024

Meet us at the Rexburg market until 4 today :))

08/09/2024

Get our journals and other products today at Sunset Fest in Idaho Falls from 2-10!

07/31/2024

Inside look at the Travel Journal

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07/30/2024

For those of you who are interested in our Travel Journal, we offer a budget option which is printed and shipped by Amazon. It comes at a fraction of the cost of the handbound version, but it is still well made. If you're interested, here is the link.

This Travel Journal is a must have companion for any trip in the United States or around the world. This journal features pages and maps to record your trips and activities for you to try out during your travels. It's a great keepsake to be able to look back on your experiences and enjoy your mem...

07/23/2024

This weekend we attended the Island Park Festival! We might have had an anxiety ridden night beforehand, but we were excited driving up to sell our products. We had put a lot of effort into them, coming home from our day jobs to eat some quick food and get right to work before falling asleep to start school and work early the next morning.

Although we did our best, changed up our strategy, greeted people to gain their attention, and had much support from our dad and brother (in laws), we had quite the discouraging first go around. After two days of sitting for nine hours, only a handful of our products sold. I think back to a quote from the series The Office, when Ryan, an intern, is doing one of his first sales with Dwight, a more experienced salesman. They end up not making the sale. Ryan tried to find what they did wrong, how they could have done better. Dwight says to him that sometimes there isn't a lesson to be learned, sometimes there is just failure. Although I don't personally agree with this entirely, I think there is truth in it. We plan to learn from this experience anyway and are trying to keep heart that we did our best and it's okay that we did not reach our goals.

We do want to say, though, that every one of the people who came in to buy our products made an impact on us. Their excitement, their personalities, what we learned about them, will not be forgotten or dismissed. We love our customers and love learning about them. Thank you! :)) Again, we are grateful for our customers, thank you for your support!

- Tomato (Sarina)

07/11/2024

This year we began our business to share our love of handcrafted work with others. We've been working diligently to prepare for our first festival ever. I've been binding books, my wife has been designing templates for our wood products, and I've been cutting out the wood by hand. We look forward to displaying our products and receiving feedback on our work.

The products we've designed so far includes our travel journal, dual entry journal, and our wooden Idaho signs/mantle pieces. The travel journal features activities and general entries in the front. The rest of the book consists of 9 trip entries that allow you to record your memories from your travels. Our dual entry journal features regular lined pages, but in the middle of each page is a dashed line which allows you to break each page into 2 entries, or you can write through the whole page for a single-entry experience. Finally, our wooden Idaho signs are cut by hand, stained, and sanded smooth, with text engraved by hand using a rotary tool. All of these products are made with care.

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