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What Makes a Bolingbrook Gift Feel Local?

The Bolingbrook mug brings the Promenade and Hidden Lakes into an everyday gift.

A local gift works best when it gives the recipient something to point out. Bolingbrook's shopping and outdoor places belong to different parts of town life, and bringing both into the design gives someone more than a town name on a cup.

Artist Ashley Ann’s hand-drawn process for The Bolingbrook Mug
The Bolingbrook drawing in progress.

See the finished mug

Explore the artwork and find current shop information on The Bolingbrook Mug page. The mug is carried through Wholey Granoly; please check the mug page or contact the shop before making a special trip.

A gift idea with a real place behind it

For someone who grew up in Bolingbrook, the pleasure is recognition: The Promenade Bolingbrook and Hidden Lakes Historic Trout Farm are specific enough to begin a story. Add a handwritten note about the place you remember together. The mug becomes a prompt for that memory, rather than a generic souvenir.

Soli Deo Gloria,Ashley Ann’s handwritten signature

Ashley Ann

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