We met when we became neighbors and our 3 kids became instant friends. After just a few months we knew we wanted to go into business together. We discussed so many different ideas and ended up merging them all into one to start Moonlight Makers on February 2nd 2015!

We built our website, bought and renovated our short bus and hit our first festival that May. We have spent weekends in the season going to Events and Shows with the bus ever since! Online orders kept us busy shipping during the week, screen printing on our kitchen counters kept us busy at night. We started drawing more and more designs and launched our brand into the wholesale market.

During Christmas 2016 we hosted a Seasonal Pop-Up Shop in Downtown Asheville and we loved the feeling of having a store! When an opportunity presented itself the following May we decided to Pop Up in the same space for the Summer. We hired our first help and we took our screen printing setup out of our kitchens, our warehouse out of our basements and fell completely in love with having a location and a growing team.

On Halloween 2017 we moved across the street into a gorgeous old photography studio. As of Winter 2022 we have an incredible team, our products are in 2000+ Stores Nationwide, we have 300+ fun designs, 20 different product lines and we now have 6 kids between us! 

Life is busy and full, we love love love what we do and we hope you do too :)

~~~~ Claire & Nicole ~~~~

We often get asked where the name Moonlight Makers comes from :)

We brainstormed non-stop for about 2 days coming up with all sorts of crazy ideas. We really loved words like handmade, asheville and makers/ makery. When we realized that we mainly work after our kids go to bed and because we had day jobs like some of our guest makers "Moonlight" came into the mix we realized we were all moonlighting as makers. The first time we said Moonlight Makers it stuck! 

Our original logo was our 2 houses next to each other but a few weeks later we bought the bus, converted it into a mobile store and the bus became our true and lasting identity!

your purchase is made with love, care, and thought

your purchase is unique

your purchase is personal

your purchase is well made and high quality

you are supporting an artist

you are building a community

you are shopping like your great great grandmother used to

you are supporting local rather than big business

you can avoid the mall

a lot of makers are upcycling – creating goods using recycled materials (which is great because there is too much stuff in the world already)

no one will give the same gift as you

it's fun to see the creativity and excellence of the very talented makers out there

you are supporting the many amazing people out there who are trying to get started with their businesses

it’s great for the economy and the environment

you are helping sustain people who are fulfilling their dreams

Supporting independent makers and artists by buying and gifting handmade is, at heart, a loving act. Supporting each other is the most rewarding gift we can give each other.