HOME & COTTAGE
COTTAGE LIFE BOUTIQUE The Island is all about the cottage lifestyle— relaxing on your backyard deck with a cold beverage, searching for sea glass on a red beach just before sunset, By Alana Lauren Photos Story Thorburn
or curling up under a quilt-covered daybed on the sleeping porch during a thunderstorm. It’s a feeling and a state of mind.
C ottage Life Boutique is like gathering all those feelings and memories and offering them up to enjoy, no matter where home might be. The boutique opened in June 2021, amidst a lull in the COVID-19 pandemic, and customers flocked to it. “We opened, and we knew what we were going into. But I knew we would be a welcoming venue for Islanders and tourists alike,” Marsha Doiron says. “We had a great season and ended up open full-time until Thanksgiving. We closed and re- opened on weekends leading up to Christmas at that point.” Doiron has been an entrepreneur for a long time. She has worked doing her own gift baskets, run a bike rental shop, and operated the largest motorcoach company in Atlantic Canada with her husband, and has plenty of hospitality experience. She brings quite a pedigree to her current role.
“I love hearing how our products allow people to have a peaceful state of mind. I love talking to people and hearing their stories.”
- Marsha Doiron
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www.pei-living.ca SUMMER 2022
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