Located in O'Fallon, Missouri, just 45 miles west of St. Louis, Elk Meadow Designs is dedicated to bringing its customers unique products that we handcraft in the USA.

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 2025 Schedule
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Lake St Louis Farmers Market
Located at the Meadows Shopping Center in Lake St Louis Every Saturday From April thru October
Look For Us At The Market On the Following Saturdays:
April 5,12,19
May 3,10,17, 24, 31
June 14,21
More to come....
 
2025 Art & Craft Show Schedule
April 4 thru 6 -- Festival of Arts & Craft Show - Grayslake, Illinois
April 12&13 -- Wamego Tulip Fest, Wamego, Kansas
April 26 & 27 -- Franklin Streert Festival – Franklin, Tennessee
May 1 thru 3 -- Pella Tulip Festival – Pella, Iowa
May 23 thru 26 -- Stewart Flea Market – Louisville, Kentucky
June 6 thru 8 -- Troy Strawberry Festival – Troy, Ohio
June 28 & 29 -- Lakeshore Art Festival – Muskegon, Michigan
August 15 thru 17 -- Festival of the Little Hills - St Charles, Missouri
August 30 thru September 1 -- Frankfort Fall Fest - Frankfort, Illinois
September 6 & 7 -- Art in the Park at Pekin Marigold Festival – Pekin, Illinois
September 19 & 21 -- Backwoods Festival - Thornville, Ohio
September 27 & 28 and October 4 & 5 -- Prairie Peddler Festival – Butler, Ohio
​October 11 & 12 -- Ohio Sauerkraut Festival - Waynesville, Ohio
October 16 thru 19 -- War Eagle Fair - Hindsville, Arkansas
October 24 thru 26 --  Christmas Made in the South – Concord, North Carolina
November 1 & 2 -- O'Fallon HS Band Boosters Craft Fair - O'Fallon, Illinois
November 8 & 9 -- Edwardsville HS Band Boosters Craft Fair - Edwardsville, Illinois
November 8 & 9 -- Union Middle School Craft Fair – Union, Missouri
November 14 thru 16 -- Callahan Promotions Arts and Craft Show - Des Moines, Iowa
November 22 & 23 -- Crestwood Sunset Hills Rotary Arts & Craft Fair at Lindberg HS - St. Louis, Missouri
November 28 thru 30 -- Belleville Fall Arts & Craft Fair - Belleville, Illinois
December 6 & 7 -- Oakville HS Band Boosters Craft Fair – Oakville, Missouri
December 12 thru 14 -- Christmas Gift and Décor Show - Louisville, Kentucky 

 ELK MEADOW DESIGNS
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​Creator & Handcrafter of Tapestree Family Trees      

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​​Founded in 2012, Elk Meadow Designs has been handcrafting unique products that Celebrate Family for over 10 years.

​Elke Griffin and George Mitschele teamed up to create a Company focused on designing and producing innovative products that make people happy.
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Inspired while shopping for ornaments for their Christmas tree, Elke and George set out to create an "Everyday Tree" designed to celebrate life throughout the year rather than for just a few short weeks over the Holidays. 

Together they created the Tapestree, a unique handcrafted copper display tree which was originally designed to hold ornaments, large hole beads, and charms that often hold sentimental value.

Over the course of development Elke discovered small photo frame charms that fit perfectly on the Tapestree and the Tapestree Family Tree was born. 

Soon after, we developed a proprietary software program that quickly and easily resizes any digital photo to fit the photo frames charms.  

The name Tapestree is inspired by, and is a play on the word, Tapestry - which is a large fabric display that often tells a story of a significant event.

What is more significate in life than family?  

While our flagship product, the Tapestree Family Tree, is the only product available online, you can see our other products when you visit us in person at an art and craft show near you.

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Return Policy

​We stand behind our products.

If your Tapestree is damaged during shipment please take pictures of the outer box and the tree and email them with your name and order number to elkmeadowdesigns@gmail.com and we will replace your Tapestree immediately at no cost to you.

If you are not satisfied with your purchase you can return it to us within 30 days using the shipping box you received it in. Once we receive your return in the same condition as when we shipped it we will refund your purchase price. 

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Contact Us -
If you have a question about our products or our resizing tool please e-mail us at support@thetapestree.com or
 call us at (520) 705-7100 between the hours of 8:30 and 4:30 Central Time.

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