This month marks one year for Face of Grace Pure Skin Care at its downtown Port Townsend location. Esthetician and Face of Grace Owner Julie Hoffman will celebrate this anniversary with an open house scheduled for June 22^nd.

Julie’s decision to open a retail space and move her practice downtown was a good one, as it increased visibility and business. She recently received a regional excellence in the industry award from Eminence Organic Skin Care for Most Overall Growth in 2012.

“This community has been very good to me,” she said. “I have a wonderful loyal clientele, and new clients are finding me every day.”

Joining the Chamber, Julie says, goes hand-in-hand with building a strong business. She is excited to participate in Chamber activities and promotions and share ideas with other members. Read More

This summer will mark our third year living in the Pacific Northwest and the second season for Olympic Camping and Vacation Rentals.  We hadn’t intended to move here and were literally captured by the area.  We were about half way through a 12 month road trip in a motor home when we headed to Port Townsend to visit friends whom we had met while living on Maui.  Though it turned out that they didn’t live here anymore, we never left and the road trip came to an end.  Within 2 weeks we were bidding on a house in Port Hadlock and figuring out what we were going to do here.  Having owned and managed vacation rentals before and seeing the amount of tourism that there is here, offering vacation rentals again was an easy decision.  We enjoy helping visitors have a great time while they’re visiting this beautiful region. Read More

Did you know that Crossroads Music has been in Port Townsend for 16 years offering “Quality Musical Instruments For All Levels?”  Not just a “pick and string store,” Crossroads Music has become the destination store on the Olympic Peninsula for North American-made instruments including locally hand-crafted instruments such as guitars, ukuleles, resonator guitars and banjos.  They are a full-service musical instrument store. Crossroads Music offers on-site music lessons, expert repairs, quality rental instruments, CD duplication, PA systems and more.

Dan Gessner and Sarai Lopez moved from California to purchase Crossroads Music from George Rezendes and Lindsay Hamilton 8 years ago.  Dan’s passion for music came at the age of 10 with the guitar and now owning a musical instrument store has been a most rewarding experience for him.  Sarai always dreamed of being an entrepreneur and her skills in business management and Dan’s passion for music make them a great business team.  Dan and Sarai want their customers to feel that Crossroads Music is their store, too.  If a customer wants them to carry a special item that they like to use they will gladly stock it for them. Customers’ suggestions have helped create an excellent selection of books and accessories.  If you don’t find what you’re looking for, just ask and they can order it for you.  Read More

The Bartlett House Cottage is located in Port Townsend’s historic Uptown district, where guests enjoy sweeping views of the Cascades and Olympic mountains from the cottage and private yard on the edge of the uptown bluff.

On clear days, Mount Rainier provides a stunning backdrop to an already beautiful sight.  Ferries, sailboat regattas and every-day water traffic entertain guests from their secluded vantage point.  The walk to both the uptown and downtown shopping districts is easy and ideal for those who want to enjoy Port Townsend’s wonderful shops, Saturday market, restaurants and theatres.

The Bartlett House Cottage is a single room vacation rental located at the rear of the Bartlett House, overlooking Port Townsend Bay and the historic Downtown.  Built in 1883, The Bartlett House is on the National Register of Historic Homes and is one of the town’s attractions where many community events have been held including Centrum, the Jefferson County Historical Society and the Port Townsend Film Festival.  Read More

Tourists and locals of the Victorian seaport of Port Townsend need look no further than World’s End for a shopping adventure. Nautical and Victorian influences venturing into pirate and steampunk effects can be discovered at this clothing, accessories, and gift store. While customers often turn to bygone models of inspiration in their style, they nevertheless want to dress of-the-moment—vintage but modern, yesterday today. They want to turn heads that wear smiles. World’s End understands whimsical practicality.

Owner Joyce Janetski set out to bring the spirit of Port Townsend’s historic waterfront into the shopping experience. A native of the Northwest and alum of the University of Washington, Joyce and her husband, Joel, retired to Port Townsend after raising their family in Utah. Joyce’s vision of a shop worthy of the town’s reputation does not disappoint. As one customer said, “This place really picks up the vibe of Port Townsend!” Read More

On October 21, 2012, World Apple Day, Finnriver Farm & Cidery in Chimacum invited residents from across the North Olympic Peninsula to bring over their buckets, bins and boxes of ‘funky’ backyard apples to our farm.  We were interested in the complex, bittersharp flavors that characterize many wild and antique varieties and also in getting our community involved in the apple harvest.  The high tannins in many ‘wild’ apples make them unsuitable for eating, but ideal for a more traditional farmstead cider.  Since these apples are not commonly available commercially, we wanted to discover what our local apple resources are and find out what sort of cider they would make.  We were surprised and delighted when a heap of friendly folks brought approximately 2,000 pounds of motley apples to the farm.  We fermented this backyard harvested fruit over the winter and blended with organic Washington dessert apples to create this year’s Farmstead cider, offered now in a 22 oz. bottle, at 6.9% alcohol, for sale around the region.  The cider is semi-sweet and offers an earthy taste of frontier farm cider tradition.   Read More