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Meet The Team | Andie

Meet The Team | Andie
Meet our operations assistant, Andie. She is a bright ray of light in the shop and our go-to gal for book recommendations and reviews. Prior to joining us at Elsie Green Andie was living and teaching in Lyon, France. Continue reading

Meet the Team | Laurie

Meet the Team | Laurie
Meet Laurie, our Founder and Creative Director.  Laurie spent many years as a corporate executive, but much prefers working on the shop displays, editing photos, and shopping the French countryside for treasures.    Continue reading

Meet The Team | Terra

Meet The Team | Terra
What makes Elsie Green special is our people. We've got a few former corporate executives, a floral designer, a former interior designer,  a vintage collector, a teacher and a high school senior. But we're all shopkeepers at heart, manning the packing table, giving our signature brand of extraordinarily personal service in the shop, traveling the French countryside looking for pretty things, and playing with the merchandise all day. Continue reading

Meet The Team | Michele

Meet The Team | Michele
Meet Michele, our Operations Manager who keeps the packing table humming, helps with design projects, and lends her impeccable taste to displays in the shop.  Michele always has a book recommendation ready, and shares the Elsie Green team's quirky taste in music.  Continue reading

EG Gal's Guilty Pleasures

EG Gal's Guilty Pleasures
Sometimes a passing comment or question in the shop can develop into a lengthy conversation about a variety of topics. That's what happened today when a comment about a film one of the gals had just watched on Netflix turned into an hour long conversation filled with laughter and confessions about guilty pleasures we normally don't divulge. Read on to find out about a few of our EG gals small self indulgences that came to light. Continue reading

Meet the Team | Katie

Meet the Team | Katie
Meet Katie, our Intern and newest team member. She works on the packing table, getting all your orders pretty and ready to ship for you.  She's a high school senior, lover of jigsaw puzzles, and an avid traveler. Continue reading

Meet the Team | Sepi

Meet the Team | Sepi

Meet Sepi, our Marketing Assistant and newest team member. She manages our editorial partnerships, our social media channels, the blog and will be working on a fun secret project with Laurie this year. She's an avid home cook, food lover, traveler and San Francisco explorer. Read on to get to know her better and stop by the Concord shop to say hi. 

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Letter from the Founder

Letter from the Founder
In the past few days, we've received some kindly worded but blunt criticism of our marketing.  To continue business as usual feels tone deaf to our customers.  I see that.  And to use my small business as a platform for my personal beliefs seems opportunistic to me.  Since I have never done that, I feel starting now is inauthentic.   Continue reading

Water Babies

Water Babies

m not big on fortune tellers, and quite frankly I am afraid of Tarot Cards.   But I do believe strongly in the personality types defined by astrological signs.  I'm an Aquarius. My grandma was an Aquarius. My brother-in-law, my nephew and my niece are Aquarians.  I share my birthday with Darren Criss and Cristiano Ronaldo.  I like to think we all have some things in common.

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