Products Produced with Pride and Passion from the Artisans of Wisconsin

It's summer, a time to enjoy being outdoors! Whether you're planning a cookout, sprucing up your yard, traveling, or just enjoying being outdoors, Wisconsinmade.com offers great products to enhance your summer activities. OurJuly/August E-Vents Alert Newsletter highlights our summertime best sellers, thank you gift ideas, and suggestions to help you have fun in the sun!

We are happy to introduce three new special pages at Wisconsinmade.com - Pottery Gifts, Wedding Favor Ideas , and Get Well Gifts. All of our special pages are designed to help you find unique and quality products in the categories that interest you. A link to the Pottery Gifts page can be found when you go to the Artist's Gallery department; and a link to the Wedding Favor Ideas and Get Well Gifts pages can be found on the Food and Beverages page. These special pages also appear in the Store Directory which is at the top of the left sidebar of each page on our site. Or you can go directly to them by clicking on the links above. Enjoy browsing through our special pages and let us know your comments and suggestions.

Summertime Best Sellers

Wisconsinmade.com offers a wide selection of outstanding food products, gift baskets, gift ideas, apparel, and home and leisure items. Because "best sellers" vary somewhat from season to season, we are highlighting some of our best selling products from last summer.We hope these seasonal favorites will be helpful to you.

Top Selling Food - Dairy
- Babcock Hall Ice Cream
- Wisconsinmade.com Cheese of the Month Club
- Wisconsin Delights Cheese and Sausage Gift from Northwoods Cheese
- Wisconsin Pride State Cheese Gift Box from Jim's Cheese Pantry

Top Selling Food - Sweets and Snacks
- O & H Danish Kringle
- Sweetend Dried Cranberries Deli Container from Urban Processing
- Fireworks Popcorn 11" Bowl Popcorn Gift Set
- Fischer's Concessions Salted Brazil Nuts

Top Selling Food - Meat
- Octoberfest Bratwurst Sampler 1 from Bavaria Sausage
- Bay View Pickled Polish Sausage
- Buffalo Meat Barbecue Combo from Nueske
- Sheboygan Bratwurst Sampler

Top Selling Gift Baskets
- American Flag Gift Box from Sweet Gift Express
- Taste of Wisconsin Snack Food Gift Basket from Fruit Ranch
- Nueske Breakfast Basket
- Gourmet Cheese and Sausage Carving Board Gift from Mille Lacs

Top Selling Gift Items
- DHH Designs Wooden Clipboards
- Coasters from Wisconsin Ceramic Products
- Heirloom Home Platters from Cam-Rock Clay Works
- Rowe Pottery Personalized Wine Cooler

Top Selling Home and Leisure Products
- Binoculars from Sportoculars
- Copper Cattail Wind Chimes from Jan Lynn - Artist by Nature
- DVD - In the Red Zone, the History of Camp Randall
- Bucky Badger - A Children's Story from Badgerland Books

Top Selling Apparel
- Gear Wisconsin Arch Windshirt from WI Active Sportswear
- CheeseBob T-Shirts from Joe Engesser
- Classic Wisconsin Arch Tee Shirt from WI Active Sportswear
- Green Bay Packer Onesie, Bib, and Bootie Set from WI Active Sportswear

Wisconsinmade.com specializes in many other specialty food, gift, home and leisure, and apparel products that are favorites any season of the year. Our Gift Baskets, Home and Garden Items , and Artisan Gifts are perfect for any occasion. Gift of the Month Clubs offer cheese, chocolate, ice cream, desserts, and many gourmet foods that can be sent monthly to your recipient.


Outdoor Living with Wisconsinmade.com

Summer is the time for outdoor living! Whether you're grilling out, working in the yard, traveling, or just enjoying the great outdoors, we have some warm weather ideas for you.For your fast and easy meal planning, try some of these delicious food products: Bratwurst from Bavaria Sausage, Nueske, Shebogan and Klement's...Nueske's pork chops, smoked chicken breasts, barbecued baby back ribs, wieners and buffalo meat selections...Neesvig's steaks and quality meats...Saz's barbeque sauces...Wisconsin Wilderness grilling sauce...pickled foods from Forest Floor Foods...and salsas from Seaquist Orchards, Shrooms Kitchen, Cliff's, and Cherryland's Best. For quick and easy summertime desserts, our fresh fruit pies from LMN O'Pies, Sweetie Pies, and Seaquist Orchards are refreshing and delicious.

Why not spruce up your yard with a Wisconsinmade.com lawn or garden decoration...wind chimes from Jan Lynn - Artist by Nature...wren houses from Cam-Rock Clay Works...mosaic garden stones or ornaments from Mayhew Mosaics...stained glass stepping stones from Soozii'z QTZ...stained glass star lawn ornaments from Purloin Studios..and University of Wisconsin lawn ornaments from Accent Corner.

If you're planning any getaways - for a day, a weekend, or longer - our travel guides and guides to outdoor activities provide great ideas for exploring the Badger state and surrounding midwest locations. While you're enjoying the great outdoors, don't forget to take care of yourself. Wisconsinmade.com offers a large selection of personal care products...homemade spa products from Bellascent...natural skin care products from Claire Soaps...lotions, scrubs, and soaps from Solessence...herbal massage oils, body scrubs, and soaps from Garden Spirit...organic body oils and polishes from Trillium Organics...handmade bath soaps and oils from Sensations in Suds...natural soaps from Soap by Mom...moisturizing soaps from Naturally Lather. Whatever your plans, we hope you have a safe and happy summer.

Thank You Gift Ideas

Thank you gifts are always in season. If you're looking for a way to thank someone for summertime hospitality, Wisconsinmade.com offers a wide variety of Thank You Gift Ideas. Some of our unique thank you gifts include:

- Thank You Sugar Cookies from K-Delights
- Sweet Thank You Gift Box from Sweet Gift Express
- Thank You Gourmet Fruit Gift Basket from Fruit Ranch
- Gourmet Gold - A Classy Thank You Snack Gift Basket from Creatively Yours
- Homemade Sugar Cookies Thank You Card from Cookies from Scratch
- Chocolate Temptation Customized Thank You Chocolate Assortment

Say "thank you" with a Wisconsinmade.com Gift Certificate, too - a great way to let your recipients choose something for themselves from the great state of Wisconsin!


New Artisans and New Products

We welcome these new artisans to Wisconsinmade.com:

The Silly Yak Bakery features a variety of bread and bakery selections. All are gluten free products.

Stacey Kannenberg of Cedar Valley Publishing is the author of two award winning children's books.

GoMacro produces organic macrobiotic cookies and snack bars, nutritious and sweet desserts that are delicious and healthy.



We welcome these new products from familiar Wisconsinmade.com artisans. Please check them out here or on our New Gifts Page:

K-Delights - Graduation Sugar Cookie Gift Tin and Happy 4th of July Sugar Cookie Gift Tin...LMN O'Pies - Homemade Pie Variety 3-Pack...Bergamot - Wisconsin Badger Picnic Backpack, Milwaukee Brewers Credit Card-Money Clip Holder, Milwaukee Brewers Wall Mounted Bottle Opener, Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Key Tag, Green Bay Packers Wall Mounted Bottle Opener, Green Bay Packers Credit Card-Money Clip Holder, and Green Bay Packers Key Tag...Stained Glass Creations by Dawn - Stained Glass Tulip Picture Frame and Stained Glass Jewelry Box...Nueske's - Breakfast Pantry, Gourmet Braised Pork or Veal Shanks, and Smoked Chicken Breasts...Garden Spirit - Herbal Bath Salt Gift Pack...2B Etching - Personalized Etched Glass Anniversary Plate...Trails Media - 2008 Wisconsin Scenic Wall Calendar...Willow Creek Press 2008 Calendars - Farms and Barns, Just Cows, A View from the Porch, Just Us Chickens, A Lake View, Seasons of the Whitetail, Loons, and A View of the Garden...Rowe Pottery - 2007 Miniature Collection...Mt. Sterling Cheese Coop - Goat Milk Mozzarella Cheese.

We introduce these new books:

- Design Your Natural Midwest Garden by Patricia Hill
- BoomerTime by Bill Conn.

Kudos to Wisconsinmade.com and UW-Madison Racing Team

We are pleased and proud to announce that Wisconsinmade.com is an award recipient for the Make Mine a Million $ Business program. This program is designed to inspire and assist women entrepreneurs. As an awardee, Wisconsinmade.com will receive mentoring, financial, marketing and technology assistance to help us grow into a million-dollar enterprise. With this assistance, our goal is to bring more quality products, more efficient services, and more technological advances to our e-commerce specialty food and gift store. Congratulations to Wisconsinmade.com and thanks to you, our loyal customers, for your continued support and encouragement!

Wisconsinmade.com congratulates the University of Wisconsin-Madison Racing Team who are the 2007 Formula SAE International Champions. Sponsored by the Society of Automotive Engineers, this is an engineering competition in which college students design, build, and race a formula-style racing car. Wisconsinmade.com was a sponsor of this championship team. Congratualtions to the UW Racing Team!

Affiliate Programs

Wisconsinmade.com welcomes the Wisconsin Mortgage Bankers Association to our Affiliate Program joining AAA - The American Automobile Club of Wisconsin, the UW Alumni Club from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, and the Friends of Wisconsin Public Television. If you belong to any of these organizations and have paid your membership dues, you may qualify for discounts on some of your purchases from Wisconsinmade.com. Check with your organization for more information.

We are always looking for ways to improve our Web site and Newsletter. If you have suggestions, please let us know - our customers are our best source of ideas! Thanks, and have a great summer!

Linda

Linda Remeschatis
http://www.wisconsinmade.com/
Products made with Pride and Passion in Wisconsin

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