Lakewood Ranch Main Street's Latest Addition

With business booming in The Rhinestone World custom shirt-design business, owners Matt and Laureen Vassallo think the time is right to bring their bling to Lakewood Ranch Main Street and are opening a storefront there, called Shirts and Stones.

Customers will be able to choose from about 3,500 designs loaded into a computer, then pick from dozens of colored rhinestones and have them adorn men's or women's shirts, handbags, car decals or just about anything else.

Their original business grew so big they needed a 4,000-square-foot warehouse on Lena Road to headquarter The Rhinestone World, their online distributor selling rhinestones, supplies and starter kits and offering instructional videos to more than 6,000 clients worldwide.

Shirts and Stones should be open by the end of the year.

Source: Bradenton Herald (December 6, 2013)