Meet Grace and Pepper
May 2nd, 2010 § 1 Comment
A few people have asked me in the last few weeks, “how did you choose the company name?”. So, I thought I would introduce everyone to Grace and Pepper. I experimented with a few different company names, some that had obvious links to organics, some to our mission statement, some geared towards sustainable organic living, but nothing seemed to have the right amount of grace or the proper dash of spice that excited me.
It wasn’t until I turned my search inward, literally to our lives and our home that the light bulb went off. If you know me, it’s not because I’m graceful, although I have been known to be a bit spicy. It’s not because I aspire to be something that I’m not, or cook with a lot of pepper.
At the time I founded Grace & Pepper, there were 2 girls that instantly captured my attention, my heart and my devotion. I was lucky enough to meet both girls when nobody else wanted them. Grace was really shy, nervous and had these big gorgeous eyes that melted me in the split second it took her to catapult herself into our truck. Pepper was a loud mouth spice ball that liked to talk, and talk and talk, was obsessed with running and believed anything on the counter was her’s in one silent stealth like move the second my back was turned.
Grace was a stray found roaming the streets of East LA all alone, and Pepper was left sitting at San Diego shelter by her owners who didn’t want her anymore after being tied up in a backyard for 8 years.
Knowing these two personalities, I wanted to create a company that fulfilled my passion for organic skin care and the plight of homeless, neglected and abused animals in the world. It only seemed right to name our company Grace & Pepper.
Grace has now turned 2 years old, and spends her days with her new BFF Abby who was someone’s backyard breeding dog we also rescued from the brink of death after being mauled by her kennel mate in a Riverside CA shelter. Our spicy little Pepper girl passed away on September 11th, only 5 short months after being Knighted. She died of stage 5 Leukemia. We miss her everyday, often “see” her chasing after her favorite ball and know she is resting in fields of grass with my Lexie girl. RIP Pepper and Lexie.
So very true of all the girls! Lexie having the perfect amount of both Grace and Pepper in her personality and all the other girls Abby, Grace, and Pepper having dashes of each. Of course the founder of such a fab company Melanie having more Pepper and Grace than she takes credit for has created the amazing organic products that provide us with the ability to look graceful giving us just enough spicy pepper attitude! Way to go girls.