Welcome to Hoosier Handiworks

We are a family of five (Melissa, John, Johnny, Alex and Peggy (aka Gigi) living in NW Indiana.  We proudly make all of our items out of our family home.

Melissa largely manages the business, designs products, and produces them.  Her background is in business management and she previously worked at corporations in Chicago as executive management.  After the birth of her second child, she "retired" from her career to stay at home with her children and homeschool.  This business was borne out of her passion for business and her desire to provide personalized products that she herself had a hard time finding locally as special gifts for her loved ones.

Peggy is Melissa's mom and has been her business partner throughout various projects over the last twenty years.  She is a creative powerhouse and uses different mediums to create dozens of items.  As we continue to grow and branch out, we anticipate many of our new items coming from her and she produces products for sale at America's Antique Mall in Highland.

John troubleshoots our machinery, helps with IT and setup/teardown at our local events around his regular, full-time job.  He is a "can fix anything that breaks" kind of dad and we rely on him whenever anything is not working perfectly!  He also uses his engineering background to try to find more efficient, reliable ways to produce products.

The kids help by taking care of small tasks (like running supplies back and forth to the adults), applying shipping labels, unboxing supplies, and by providing the adults with endless entertainment while we work.  We believe it is very important to teach our children the importance of hard work and how to operate a small business efficiently and responsibly, so we give them any small, safe task we can think of to involve them. 

We look forward to serving you!

From our Home to Yours

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