Today we’d like to introduce you to Louanne & Sara Woznicki
Hi Louanne & Sara, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
We are real life sisters who are a year and a half apart in age. Growing up, our differences shone through, but in adulthood, we bonded through our shared love of travel. We lovingly call our trips ‘Sister Trips’ and have ventured to Austin, Las Vegas, Toronto, Louisville, New Bern, Joshua Tree, St. Petersburg, Palm Springs, Milwaukee and more together. While we might live in two different states, our love of travel is what connects us most.
That was our inspiration for our new small business, Woz Here Co. — celebrating our love of travel. Plus, we both like unique travel souvenirs from our Sister Trips — Sara’s big on coasters and Louanne collects Christmas tree ornaments. That’s how we landed on creating hand drawn watercolor designs of our favorite travel destinations that we print on magnets, stickers, mugs and more.
Our first line in the series is called our Hometown Line, and features where we grew up, where we live now and where our family lives. That’s how Aiken, South Carolina came to be one of our first designs. We grew up spending summers down there, watching larger-than-life fireworks and playing flashlight tag.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
One of the biggest hurdles we face with Woz Here Co. is really just the time we can commit to it. We both work full time and run our business as a side hustle. Plus, we founded a company on our shared love of travel, which often means that the travel we plan itself gets in the way of us being able to commit to our business. However, we constantly push each other and check in with each other to make sure we’re prioritizing what needs to get done so we can spend our time doing the most high-value work.
Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
Our goal for Woz Here Co. is simple — we want to make unique, hand-drawn travel mementos that will make you smile when you think about that trip you went on. Louanne is our resident artist and hand draws the city designs in pen, and then punches them up with bright, fun watercolors. She then adds more pen to make the designs pop. We specialize in custom city designs, but have also partnered with a local dog rescue to create dog and cat stickers, so we love to partner with anyone who likes our style!
We’re most proud of the partnerships we’ve able to build in a short amount of time. Our biggest accomplishment to date has been partnering with a local store in downtown Aiken to sell our stickers and magnets in store.
Our unique style sets us apart from other sticker companies. Plus, the sticker designs are personal to us. For example, our family are big golfers, so we added golf clubs to the Aiken design since there are so many golf courses that our family loves there.
What are your plans for the future?
We’re excited to continue to grow our wholesale business and get our products into more stores. And of course, we’re looking forward to continuing to launch new city designs.
Pricing:
- Stickers: $4
- Magnets: $5
- Tote bags: $25
- Mugs: $20
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.wozhereco.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wozhereco/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wozhereco
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@WozHereCo
