JAMESTOWN — Having unique items to sell at The Melted Crayon Gift Shop was important to owner Lori Hare when she opened the store two years ago in the Maple Mall.

Hare said she sewed and did embroidery when she initially operated her business, then known as The Melted Crayon, out of her basement at home. She became a Pride of Dakota member and sold her products at Pride of Dakota stores and vendor shows.

She started thinking it would be nice to have a place to sell her items other than only at the Pride of Dakota stores and shows, but she didn’t have enough of her own product to open a store, she said.

“So I started talking to other Pride of Dakota members and asking if I would open a store would they be interested in having their products in my store also,” Hare said.

She said she’s a

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