From the beginning, my vision was never simply to make beautiful mahjong sets. It was to build tablescapes: rooms with a strong point of view, designed with an artist's eye, made to draw new players to the table through elevated design alone. I wanted every set we created to feel like a work of art, with enough presence to turn a game night into an occasion.

What I did not expect was what would happen once people sat down. I watched business get conducted across those tables. I watched memories form between women who had never met before that afternoon. I watched conversations happen that might never have happened anywhere else, because a shared game gave strangers a reason to stay in the room. I realized quickly that I was witnessing something far bigger than mahjong. I was witnessing a movement.

I want to be honest with you. Building a category defining brand from a kitchen table, both literally and in every other sense, has meant learning in public. Somedays correcting course, sitting with doubt on nights when the vision felt bigger than the resources to build it and lessons that only came from getting it wrong first.

What carried us through was never certainty. It was the women who chose us before the tiles were perfect, before the packaging was right, before we fully knew what we were building toward. Thank you for that trust. It is not lost on me, and it is the reason this Haus stands a year in.

This year, we were also featured Mahj the Mag in both their in the Charleston issue and the New York issue, Flamingo Magazine, and featured in People and The Wall Street Journal.

Additionally, I had the incredible opportunity to join the ladies of Tile Talk on a recent podcast worth a listen!

A year ago this was an idea and a kitchen table. I still get a little chuckle thinking that I was going to launch the Haus from my garage. Our clients quickly proved from day one that we needed more space. Currently, we are preparing to relocate our warehouse to a new location to increase capacity.

I am personally grateful for every friend, colleague, and client who had joined us to help tell our story and join us around the table.

Today our Haus is filled with love and adoration for the community who helped us build a vision into reality, and it is yours as much as it is mine. Thank you for sitting with my incredible team. Here is to the next one.

With gratitude,

Founder & Luxe Strategist, Mahj Tile Haus