Mary Lake-Thompson

Mary is the designer and vision behind all of the products Mary Lake-Thompson Ltd has to offer. She oversees everything from initial design concept to the end product. In Oroville California Mary really began her career as a commercial artist. In the early 80's, Mary was lucky enough to land an art show at a gallery called The Nut Tree, also located in Northern California. It was here that she sold 60 paintings and was the true start to her career. She began to sell prints to local galleries and went door to door, up and down California, selling these prints out of the trunk of her car. After the prints proved to be successful, she began a greeting card company, using her own artwork on the cards. Along with Richard, she began attending the New York Stationary show where she picked up licensing contracts, one of which was C.R. Gibson. She designed baby books, address books, diaries, paper napkins etc. Eddie Bauer was the next to approach her to design and produce gift baskets for them, which included soaps and lotion. It was after this order, that Mary got the idea to turn her designing skills into doing packaging of her own. From this point her company has designed and produced soaps, towels, aprons, bath products, drawer liners, sachets and most recently, napkins and hats. Mary has been able to use her own unique designs on all of these products as well as using reproductions of handpicked vintage art. 
 
Mary Lake-Thompson Ltd is now a large small company, sometimes employing more than 50 people at high times of the season. Mary and Richard still reside in Oroville, where they own 2 buildings in the downtown area. One is actually a historic landmark building, where Mary runs her own retail store and has a design studio in the back. The other building, otherwise known as “The Factory”, is exactly that. It is in the factory that all of the products are hand made by very capable employees. This is also where all orders are shipped out and all storage is kept. 
 
All off Mary Lake-Thompson Ltd.'s products are designed, printed, packaged and shipped in the USA.
Products (Total Items: 10 )
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Mary Lake Thompson Birdhouse Gift Basket
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$150.00
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Mary Lake Thompson Fresh Cut Soap
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$8.50
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Mary Lake Thompson Garden Soap
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$8.50
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Mary Lake Thompson Handy Man Soap
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$8.50
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Mary Lake Thompson Herb de Provence Soap Bag
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$7.00
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Mary Lake Thompson Lobster Gift Basket for 1
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$72.00
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Mary Lake Thompson Lobster Gift Basket for 2
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$92.00
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Mary Lake Thompson Lobster Towel Set of 2
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$16.00
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Mary Lake Thompson Snipper Lavender Sachet
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$12.50
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Mary Lake Thompson Summer Soap
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$8.50
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