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Viva Las Vegas!

Friday, June 4th, 2010

The biggest trade show of the year is always The National Hardware Show in Las Vegas. Thousands of people in the hardware and lawn and garden industries descend on the glitzy Las Vegas strip for 3 show days at the Convention Center.

Womanswork Booth at the National Hardware Show

The Womanswork booth looked very inviting with its company branded directors chairs, its displays brimming with garden gloves, sun hats and Garden Wheels, and our famous video playing in the background (our video was produced and shot by an emmy-nominated director Joe Locarro).

We stayed at The Marriott Grand Chateau which was a nice, smallish non-casino hotel. Just our style. We got around the city on the Monorail, which gives you a birds eye view of the city as you glide from one casino hotel stop to the next.

Monorail in Las Vegas

Las Vegas grows on me a little each time I go, but I am always glad to leave the clanging sound of slot machines behind and come back home.

25 Years as a Woman-Owned Small Business!

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

Early Catalog Cover for Womanswork

This year marks Womanswork’s 25th year in business. We thought, what better time than now to say thanks to our garden glove fans with a little give away contest? 

The Womanswork Story.

But first some background on us. Womanswork was started in Maine in 1985 because there were no good work gloves designed to fit women’s hands. A little black and white (and sepia) catalog was sent to a growing list of women who needed a good work and garden glove. The logo “Strong Women Building A Gentle World” was written and became the rallying cry stamped on the back of each pair of gloves. 

What’s different about Womanswork gloves is that they are all designed by women, so the fit, the features (such as machine washability), and the designs and colors are all geared to what women like.

Dorian Winslow, Womanswork owner

High-Performance-Garden-Glove

I’m the owner of Womanswork and I like to stay in touch with our customers through email, phone calls, face-to-face at trade shows, and now Facebook and this blog. The feedback we get helps us make our garden gloves and other products better all the time.  

Thanks for 25 Years!

Thank you gift--Chocolate hearts

The other day we were putting together little packages of gourmet chocolate hearts in a Womanswork mug and sending them to a handful of our favorite wholesale clients, mostly garden center owners and managers. It occurred to us that, while we can’t possibly say “thanks” to all of our customers in this way, maybe we could say ‘thank you for 25 years’ to our wider audience of fans in a different way.  So that’s what we’ll do. Stay tuned for garden glove contest details.

Our production line of thank you gifts