Our Story

How TVM came to be... 

I'd love to tell you some romantic story about how we'd been dreaming about this since we were little girls... 

But it went a little more like this:

Text convo over dinner...

Mel L.: Our vinyl place is closing!

Mel R.: Noooo!  We should buy it!

Mel L.: I wish!  Wait... 

A few days (and a whole lot of research) later - we signed the paperwork and The Vinyl Menagerie was born!  In our everyday lives, we are friends, we are crafters, we are entrepreneurs, we are parents, and now - we are partners!  And we couldn't be more excited to share that with all of you!

 

Why Menagerie?

Well...  A few years ago, while planning a road trip, we started a group chat on Facebook to discuss all the details.  Dave (who struggles with staying on top of all the threads) named the group "Menage à Quatre" - to make us laugh (and to help him easily find the chat...)  But it stuck!  Soon it became part of our everyday to "write that in the ménage" or "tell the ménage" something.  

So when it came time to name our new venture - we ran with it!  Mel L. actually came up with the name - and we all love it!  

Especially after Mike pointed out the definition: a strange or diverse collection of people or things.  This seriously couldn't be more on point lol.

We're all very different people with hugely diverse skill sets.  Which I'd like to think is an asset when running our business!

 

But it's really so much more than that...

We've all been friends a very long time.  We won't tell you HOW long - that'll just age us!!  But I will share that in the last few years, our friendship has grown into something quite magical... 

We are game night friends.  We are road trip friends.  We are the friends who celebrate life's big wins together - likely over a glass of wine.  And grieve losses too.  We are impromptu "I'm making dinner - come over!" friends.  We love each other's kids - and fur babies too.  We are the kind of friends you don't have to clean the house for.

We have each other's backs - always.