About Earrings and Company
People of all ages love to stop in at our store in the heart of downtown Freeport. Now in our fifteenth year, we have become known locally and away as a premier source of beautiful, affordable, American-made jewelry. Located a stone's throw from LL Bean, we have customers who visit us year after year and say they come to Freeport to visit Earrings and Company and LL Bean... in that order!
Earrings and Company was opened by Sheila Menke in 1993, after 30 years of varied retail experience and a desire to follow her passion for artisan crafted jewelry. Under Sheila's fourteen years of ownership, Earrings and Company grew from a small and eccentric shop to the Freeport-icon that it is today. In late 2007, Sheila reluctantly retired and trusted ownership of the business to friend and Earrings and Company website manager, Carrie McBride.
Carrie is a so-called "corporate refugee." After seventeen years in the corporate business world, she moved to picturesque Freeport, Maine on a whim and got involved in the vibrant lodging industry. Carrie purchased, operated, and sold a 48 unit cottage complex and a quaint B&B along US Route 1, coastal Maine's arterial road packed with bed and breakfasts and summer cottages, lobster shacks, ice cream stands and world-famous shops. Enthralled with the beauty of the region and the excitement of the summertime, Carrie was more than thrilled when asked to manage the Earrings and Company website, and then again when the opportunity to own it appeared.
As a life-long dabbler in creative endeavors all all sorts -- weaving, embroidery, knitting, photography, beading -- Carrie has the deepest respect for the artisans behind Earrings and Company's diverse designs. She's also proud to be leading a business that is a big piece of Freeport's famous downtown shopping district. Carrie aims to source yet more brilliant and original handcrafted jewelry from artisans throughout the nation, and bring more and more fantastic and diverse creations to a store already brimming with spectacular designs.
Earrings and Company is proud to support small independent jewelry artists, and you can expect even more of what we've become known for in the years ahead! Whether you visit our store during the bustling summer months, during the sleepy days of winter, or from anywhere on the globe via the web, we welcome you to a store that offers a vast selection of earrings, necklaces, bracelets, pins, rings, watches, jewelry boxes, and more. As diverse as our selections are, we promise to keep everything in our store beautiful, handmade, American-made, and affordable. Thanks for visiting!
