Fire Up Your Creativity at New Downtown Cranford Business

If you are looking for an outlet for your creativity close to home, husband and wife, Tammie and Todd Crispino are opening, “Fire Me Up Studio” a contemporary ceramics studio featuring paint-your-own pottery, glass fusing, clay projects and more on N. Union Avenue in Cranford this August.

The business is a perfect fit for the vision of downtown Cranford, according to Tammie.

“From the first time we met with the Downtown Business & Economic Development team, we knew this was going to be the home of Fire Me Up,” Tammie said.

Fire Me Up Studio will offer paint-your-own pottery, glass fusing, clay hand-building projects and host art classes and workshops. The studio will also feature Ladies Night and Tween Nights.

Tammie added that the studio will also host open studio hours for walk-in customers and even personalized events and parties.

This will be the first ever business the Crispino’s are opening after years spent in the financial services industry.

Once Tammie’s twin daughters were born, she decided to leave the industry and take care of her newborns and 3-year-old son. Now that her youngest are entering first grade, Tammie and Todd decided it was time to start a new venture.

The idea for Fire Me Up ignited from Tammie’s ceramic activities with her daughters. Once the girls started school, Tammie went took up ceramics as her own personal hobby.

“I think it is a great way to let go and decompress after a long day,” Tammie said.

Even coming up with the name for the studio, was a family effort.

“My husband, son, and daughters all had input on the name and then it was put to a vote,” Tammie said. “We wanted something with a play on words that wasn’t too cutesy but that could invoke the essence of our business with the passion that we have for it.”

Tammie said if there was one way she could sum up the goal of the studio, it is to “Fuel Your Creativity!” She hopes the studio will ignite the creativity in everyone.

Fire Me Up Studio will be opening at 117 N. Union Avenue in August. For more information on the opening day and additional information visit the Fire Me Up Studio website or Facebook page.