We’re so excited to celebrate the incredible small businesses who are our local sponsors in the Twin Cities. We only invite businesses to work with us who we already respect and adore, so we mean it when we say:
These are our go-to Twin Cities businesses for realty, books, outdoor design, and sweet treats!
If you need any of these items, please consider supporting them the way that they support us, women, and storytelling in the Twin Cities!
Melanie and John Willy - Realty team with 41+ years of combined Twin Cities buying and selling experience.
Below is a little about the amazing Willy Team, in their own words!
MELANIE AND JOHN understand there is a difference between PROVIDING A SERVICE and DELIVERING SERVICE.
In the real estate industry, there are HUGE differences in the quality of professional service between agents and brokers.
We simply offer more marketing and exposure of your home, a constant stream of current market information and communication, leading edge technologies, a more complete buyer representation plan = an overall SUPERIOR buying or selling experience for our clients.
P.S. The Willys sold my (Galit’s) home in 11 days! 11! Having personally worked with The Willys, we recommend them so, so very highly — honest, personable + quick service and so incredibly knowledgable. We felt like we were in the best possible hands every step of our process!
Red Balloon Bookshop - 891 Grand Ave, St Paul, MN
Red Balloon Bookshop
Below is a little bit about the history, story, and pure joy of RED BALLOON BOOKSHOP, written by its owner!
Red Balloon has been connecting children, teens, and adults in the Twin Cities area with great books and great authors for over 40 years. Carol Erdahl and Michele Cromer-Poire opened Red Balloon Bookshop in 1984, just four doors to the east of our current location.
When they were looking for a name, someone suggested “Red Balloon,” and the imaginative french film with the flying balloon had just the right appeal.
By 1989, the business had expanded and needed a new space, so Carol & Michele created a new building and moved the bookshop to its current location. Thanks to a series of very fortunate events, Holly Weinkauf became the new owner of Red Balloon in August 2011 when Carol and Michele retired.
Red Balloon continues to inspire children and adults with a great selection of books, toys, and gifts, through author and illustrator events, and by offering a fun and exciting place to connect with other readers and book-lovers.
Because of their love of reading and fun, Red Balloon Bookshop is dedicated to serving our community with books, gifts and events that inspire, inform and entertain, helping children of all ages – and adults! – live imaginative and rich lives.
Contact Red Balloon Bookshop today.
P.S. Red Balloon is not only the perfect place to find a gift for the reader in your life (one more #hinthint), but their story times and author events are truly not to be missed. Make sure to check them out!
ABOUT THE SHOW
Now affectionately known as LTYM, Listen to Your Mother is a series of live, on-stage readings across North America.
The mission of each LTYM show is to give voice to motherhood – the good, the bad, the ugly, the sad, the hilarious, the golden, and of course, the beautiful – in the form of original stories read live on-stage by their authors.
We're beyond thrilled to host the 20th LTYM Twin Cities show and celebrate 13 years of storytelling in the Twin Cities!
We’ll see you at the show!
