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Patch Picks: Innovative Businesses

Discover these businesses that are finding their own niches.

Patch runs a weekly feature called Patch Picks, highlighting choice local businesses, destinations, services, organizations, and more, hand-harvested by either us or you, the reader!

You’ll find useful lists to help you, your family, friends, and significant others find the best places for everything from Sunday brunch to New Year’s Eve celebrations, pumpkin patches, date night destinations, florists, girlfriend nights out, kids’ party places, parks and more.

Check out these creative and innovative local businesses that offer organizing services, gardening advice, gift baskets for children, medicinal and culinary herbs and an indoor adventure for all ages.

Master The Details, LLC is a family-owned company based in Broad Brook that specializes in personal assisting services. Services offered include party preparation, wedding planning, catering, floral arrangements, house staging and home decorating. Owner Donna Masters also makes cakes for weddings and other special occasions. Find out more at masterthedetails.com or call 860-967-1472.

Cathy T’s Landscape Design, owned by Cathy Testa and based in East Windsor, offers personal landscape and garden design at homes and businesses, container gardens assembled at your home or by hosting a container garden party, and garden club presentations. Testa holds an AAS degree in Horticulture with a concentration in Floriculture from the University of Connecticut and obtained her Master Gardener certification in 2010. During her studies, she managed a private nursery for a design install business in Bloomfield. After gaining first-hand experience, she started Cathy T’s Landscape Designs. She was recently featured on Channel 3’s Better Connecticut to showcase her container garden parties. Find out more at www.cathytesta.com or call 860-977-9473.

Tell Me A Story, literary gift baskets for children, encourages creative play based on books. Each basket includes at least one book and games or stuffed animals connected to the book, with different themes and age ranges. The Enfield-based business was started by Christie Michaud and baskets can be ordered online or found at Paper Reeds in Somers and Daisy Doos & Dudes in Wilbraham, Mass. You can order signature baskets, custom baskets or use the build-a-basket option online at www.tellmeastoryct.com or call 860-763-0576. Local delivery, within 30 miles of Enfield, is free.

Gayle’s Thyme Herb and Spice Shoppe, at 316 Hazard Ave., Enfield, offers medicinal, culinary and magical herbs. The store has essential oils, aromatherapy items, tinctures, candles, books, soaps, salts and clays for bath and beauty. Classes also are offered, through Asnuntuck Community College and at the store by owner Gayle Nogas, including aromatherapy, making your own spa products, herbal gardening and blending and use of herbs and oils. Find out more gaylesthyme.com or call 860-763-5206.

Billing itself as New England’s largest indoor family fun entertainment center, Nomad’s Adventure Quest includes laser tag, black light mini golf, a climbing wall, indoor bounce houses, mini bowling lanes and bumper cars. There also are video and arcade games, basketball courts and a restaurant on site. The center, at 100 Bidwell Road in South Windsor, is available for birthday parties and corporate events. Find out more at nomadsadventurequest.com or call 860-290-1177.

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