11/30/2022
It has been way too long since I introduced myself, and we have plenty of new grazers following along! 💕 This one’s going to be a long one!
My name is Sherri, I am the Creative Director & Owner of Grazie Board Co. 👋🏽
I started this business a little over two years ago as a creative outlet during the pandemic. 🦠
I’d been working as a Meeting & Event Planner at a travel agency and when COVID hit, everything stopped. I was laid off on Friday the 13th. 😬 A couple of months later my department was dissolved completely, so there was no job to go back to. 🤷🏻♀️
I started working at a law firm with my admin experience. I appreciated having a job and a salary when jobs were hard to come by, but I was severely missing my creative outlet.
So I started Grazie. 🧀 The company name is a play on words. I was “crazy bored” without a creative outlet, and used “grazing” tables and cheese “boards” as my solution. So “Grazie (crazy/grazing) Board (bored/board) Company” was born. A lot of people pronounce it the Italian way for thank you (GRAH-zz) but it is meant to be (GRAY-z). I have always run Grazie in addition to a full-time job! 😅
Now, over two years later, I have been working for a year back in my field as a Meeting & Event Manager and loving every minute of a much busier full-time schedule and still running Grazie!
Along the way, I have paid two of my good friends from the law firm as help, been featured in Hour magazine, Detroit Eater, and with a handful of local influencers, grown tremendously in my skills, and have spent many a Friday nights cutting cheese while singing along to Meghan Trainor.
My husband is my biggest supporter, he was the one that suggested I start Grazie.
My favorite colors are pink & yellow, I am a night owl,🦉a soda drinker,🥤a born and raised Michigander, 🧤and an Enneagram 8.
I love cheesy Netflix Christmas romcoms, 👩❤️👨 baking, 🥧 craft cocktails, 🍸 traveling, 🏞 and online shopping. 💸
If you’ve made it this far, you’re the real MVP! So tell me a fun fact about yourself in the comments so I know that you got to this point in my ramblings and so I can learn a little about you! 💛