Welcome to Agate Trails of Fellerer Creations
Art and Craft inspired by the beauty of nature.
We apologize that we are still working on our online shopping experience. We have thousands of unique in our store in Moose Lake but as a small family business with very few people to manage an online store, we are working on the best way to ensure that we don’t sell you something that walks out the door with a in store shopper.
At Agate Trails of Fellerer Creations, we are creating one of a kind hand crafted Art and Jewelry inspired by the Beauty of Nature, especially of the Minnesota Northwoods and Lake Superior Agates. We also have a nice selection of hand picked local Lake Superior Agates and other local Semi-Precious Stones plus Beautiful Agates and Stones from around the world. Our website is under construction still and we will be adding more and more products soon.
Our Story
A little shop filled with a lot of treasures all inspired by the beauty of Gods nature & constantly growing in skill & selection.
We are a small family run business in Moose Lake, MN also known as the “Agate Capital of the World”.
Carla has been drawing & painting all her life and had been in art galleries, shows & has taught art, but had been too nervous in her early years to give up working in a “real job” despite constantly feeling a calling to give it all up to be an artist. David was a 49er Operating Engineer & loved building things in his free time. They met in their late 30s, instantly became best friends & married in 2006. David had always been very supportive of Carla’s desire to be an artist, but being that they were almost 40 and childless they had two boys in their early 40’s, Zachary in 2008 & Colby in 2010 so being parents while also building a home became the priority for a while.
2016-2019 Carla was teaching art on a Community Expert License at her boy’s schoo & teaching quick paint classes at a local Moose Lake business. In 2018, David was in a severe car accident that crushed his right leg & he retired in 2019. In 2019 Carla was encouraged by the shop owner that she was doing painting classes for, to set up an art studio and gallery of her own in Moose Lake. They fixed up a small shop and opened it late 2019, only to have it closed by Covid in 2020. That summer of 2020 the shop started leaking, so they found the shop they are currently at. The day they got the key for it, a 5’ x 6’ section of the ceiling fell in at the shop they were moving out of, which pushed them to get everything out in a day. Carla had suffered with knee issues since her 20’s & the push to get everything out fast was more than her knees could take, so 2021 she had both her knees replaced & the new store sat unopened.
While laid up from surgery Carla was experimenting with weaving & making wire trees with semi-precious stones, she had also been looking at jewelry making books, something she had always wanted to do. In 2022 they finally got the store/studio ready to go, but Carla was praying for an answer of how to make the shop a success after such a rough start. David had started polishing agates as they had always loved agate picking & had buckets of agates to polish. The realization hit that they had a store in the “Agate Capital of the World”, but there was no agate store in town. Carla had always loved everything to do with the natural world including a fascination with rocks & gems. She brought up the the possibility of adding rocks & jewelry to the shop & he was on board.