

Pictured are the Rauh sisters and their mom, Stacey Rauh, entrepreneurs of the Cotton Thistle Boutique in Lakewood.
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LAKEWOOD — A new store has opened in the village of Lakewood.
The Rauh sisters — Jenna, Sara and Anna Rauh, and their mom, Stacey Rauh — opened Cotton Thistle Boutique in the coronary heart of the village in November. The boutique delivers a large selection of apparel and accessory objects and is situated at 102 Chautauqua Ave.
“Our opening weekend was a lot more than we ever dreamed it would be,” Stacey Rauh explained. “It was quite hectic and we had fantastic feed-back from folks.”
Stacey said her daughter, Sara, had been subsequent boutiques on the internet all through the COVID-19 pandemic and introduced them to her family users.
“We like to store and we acquired some items from on-line spots, and we frequented (a keep in Warren), and we mentioned, ‘If only we could do this sometime,’ with my daughter’s hair salon,” she explained. “She owns Slash Loose Hair Salon. We claimed if a setting up at any time came up wherever we could blend a modest boutique with the hair salon, we’d love to do that. We were being just like, ‘How enjoyable is this?’”
The Rauhs found a setting up, and the boutique has appear to life with the salon shortly to comply with. Stacey Rauh mentioned the salon will be moved into the exact constructing as the boutique in the coming weeks.
The hours for the boutique stay flexible, and the group has been putting up them on their Fb site, generally opening on the weekends.
“We put it on Fb for the weekly hours,” Rauh stated. “We also set a indication on the doorway as of suitable now just due to the fact we have all these factors heading on elsewhere. But, with the vacations, we’d like to be open as a lot as we can.”
The Rauhs mentioned they are satisfied to have their boutique situated in Lakewood, particularly with the the latest completion of the Chautauqua Avenue job.
“We knew it was likely to glimpse wonderful when it was performed, so we believed it would be a fantastic location,” Stacey Rauh explained. “We imagined it would be a good area. We’re all from Lakewood. We’re just rookies type of doing it for the really like of it and for the reason that it’s like our hobby. It’s definitely a little something that we can do with the four of us girls with each other.”