New Shipment of Ultimate High and Great Sand Dunes

We just received a container of Tessa Ultimate High Clogs and Sandals. They look fabulous - check out the photo to the right - Tessa Ultimate High Black Oil Clogs paired with our own Tessa "Hand Me Downs" Jeans. Our Ultimate High has a heel height of just over 3 1/2 inches - with these clogs in your wardrobe, you will swear that these are your most comfortable high heels that you own. We recommend that you take a look at our web site and place your order soon to guarantee you a size - www.tessaclogs.com/ultimatehigh.aspx. Besides the clogs - do check out the hand sewn designs on our recycled Tessa "Hand Me Downs" Jeans - do the green thing, wear fashion made by Tessa herself - www.tessaclogs.com/tessahandmedowns.aspx


Here is another shot of our Tessa Ultimate High in our sandal format. Jeans, skirt or shorts, our Ultimate High will look fabulous however you wear them. Sizes you ask, we have the sandals available from a women's 6 up to a women's 12, so we should have a size for just about everybody.


Besides the business of work we try to be as much involved with all of our children's activities. Well - our middle daughter had a climbing competition down in Albuquerque (which is about a 6.5 hour drive away - long car drive with 3 kids) where we just got back from. It truly was a gorgeous drive this time of year, tons of snow in the high country with the trees and grass in the valleys beginning to go green. On the way down south, we decided a side trip was in order to one of our National Parks - the Great Sand Dunes in southern Colorado.


We are blessed here in the state of Colorado with many National Parks, Monuments and Recreation Areas. If you have time, please, take time to visit these places when you can. It is a wonderful experience to visit these areas and see the history - just wonderful. Getting back to the Great Sand Dunes - I can only imagine that this is what the deserts in the middle east must be like - mountains and mountains of sand - a giant sand box! We made some great memories here and will leave you with a photo to tempt you all.



have fun, do what you love, life is short - enjoy Tessa Clogs

The End is here

Skiing has come to an end - Vail ski mountain is now closed - a sad time for those of us that like to slide on the white stuff. You can definitely see that the town is a ghost town now. Now is the time to get projects done like cleaning and web site work. Not the most exciting stuff but it needs to get done.

I love skiing. There is nothing better. A ski day is a great day at work, it is a hug from your family, it is that nice bottle of wine, it is hitting that sweat spot on your tennis racket or golf club, it is life. Everybody - have fun, do what you love, life is short - enjoy.

I will leave you with the title from one of my favorite bands - the Specials - Enjoy Yourself, It's later then you think - the years go by as quickly as you wink,

Tessaclogs hits the catwalk in Sweden

Here comes some pics from Höllviken Sweden were Tessa Clogs were shown off at a Fashion Show at the end off March.

The Ultimate High Sandal looks great with shorts and skirts alike.

Bright Yellow patent in our Moa Sandal and every little princess dream , gold sandals

Ultimate High Clogs in the color Nut

The Ultimate High sandal looks beutiful on and accentuates your legs

Spring is in the air !

Gold Mimmi Sandal a classic for little girls

Mimmi Sandal in silver and green

Swedish Clog Cabin - HQ for Tessa Clogs WorldWide - steps from skiing

Check out Swedish Clog Cabin - our retail location in Vail, Colorado of our Tessa Clogs - you can get an idea how close we are to Vail's ski slopes - cheers

Magic, Wholesale and Lifestyle

We or maybe I should say Tessa and Malin went to the Magic Platform Show in Las Vegas and came back from the show with some new customers. We are always trying to spread the word of Tessa Clogs around the USA by going to shoe show but it actually works best for our customers to tell their local businesses. Tell your hip local stores to give us a call so they can begin to sell Tessa Clogs. We always enjoy our customers that are able to visit us in Vail but not everyone can make it out here to visit. So for those that live where I spent my childhood, Omaha, Nebraska, we would ask that there must be some store in the area that needs a wonderful shoe line to sell. So tell them about us here at Tessa Clogs.











At the Magic show we were showing off our new Spring, Summer and Fall 2011 Tessa Clogs. We are very exited about offering our Ultimate High Sandals and Clogs in a range off new nubuck and pull up colors. If you take a closer look at our Ultimate High, you will now see a more refined stylish look with our decorative nails. Another new model to check out is our Tessa Lena High Heel Peep Toe. This model had a great reception at the Magic Show with many orders being placed. This is a great sandal for those that want a high heel for every day or more dressed up occasions. As always, we have our Tessa hand painted clogs in new designs - this is a classic staple that everyone should have at least one pair in their closet. For all of our wholesale accounts, if you would like to try some of our Spring styles or need to reorder for an April delivery, we would need an order by next Wednesday, March 9th. We always want to guarantee deliveries, but the only way we can do that is to make sure that we have a warehouse full of what you want and need. Let us know if you want more information regarding incentives about new orders and also our Tessa Snap Straps trial packs.So please, take a look at your inventory, look at some of our new exciting models and leather and get in contact with us. We would love to help you put an order together. Let us know how we can help.

We want to leave you with a picture take a few months ago by our middle daughter who is 9 years old. It was a cold day skiing but the mountain was absolutely beautiful.





Thanks for reading

FINALLY - A NEW ENTRY, Frustrations, Hair Cut and Magic

Hello Everybody - sorry for taking way to long to get another entry into our blog. We were hesitant to get an entry in being that we wanted to get the design of this blog similar to our new web site. Well - finally after a few days of work, we were able to make something similar to our current web site.

Speaking of new web sites - after 9 months of part time work on it, we are close to being able to say we like it and are complete. You may have noticed that we have an information side (that has wonderful designs with some slide shows playing) and also our shopping side. After getting the site up live in October/November, we recently noticed that our site visits where less then years previously. But being busy with work and family at the holidays we did not look into it too much. The middle of January after the holiday rush, we sat down and finally noticed that search engines were not finding us! Ouch! After a 12 year presence on the internet and having just about every search engine find us, we were now completely unfindable in the www world. What Happened!

Long story short - accidental decisions that we and our web designer made, changed our old shopping cart address with over 200 pages on it from a tessaclogs.com address to a new address. Makes sense, when we made the information part of our web site, this was now at the tessaclogs.com address and only having 14 pages vs. previously having 200+ pages. We are just venting - change is always difficult with us because of situations above. But if you are not changing and evolving, you will not make it in this world. So, if you are reading this, great, you found us - so thank you.

Hair Cut - probably not a big deal, but I, Christopher Manning of Swedish Clog Cabin / Tessa Clogs of Vail, have had hippie hair for around 20 years. Looking back, it was just easy. I never had to get a hair cut, when I did, usually a friend would trim it up for me. Tessa, my wife, always liked long hair so I never had any reason to cut it. If you knew me in my first 20 years of life, being a swimmer, I always had short hair. Why the change from short to long to short? Well what do all of us guys do, we try to make ourselves attractive to women. If my wife likes long hair, well, I'll just keep it long . After 20 years, I started to think maybe it was not the long hair any more. So, on a bike ride from Swedish Clog Cabin to our home in Minturn, I pulled off the bike path to a local barber. Here is the new doo -

We are headed again to the Platform Shoe Show taking place during the Magic fashion exhibit which is the foremost global gathering of fashion brands and industry insiders. This is the second time we are exhibiting at it. If you are a retail store looking for a fantastic line to bring in to you store please stop by, say hi and while we are at it, we can write up an order of Tessa Clogs for your store.

With the new look of our web site we are also trying to get with it and go social. We are now on facebook and you can find us by search for Tessa Clogs - this is all new to us so if you do not find us - we will try to help you.

thanks for reading -

Desigual, New Web Site, Friends and Family

Hello Clog World Family and Friends

We just got in a bunch of winter clothing from a company called Desigual. They are having a big push in the USA right now so you may have seen it but if not we are working on getting it on our web site. You can check out the Desigual that we are carrying here. We are using our youngest daughter to show this cute black tunic - the cost on this is $54 and SUPER CUTE as you can see. Desigual carries clothing for boys, girls, men and women - it is hip bohemian Swedish fun. We know - yes - it is from Spain - but with the look - we need to give it an honorary title of Swedish - hope that is OK with eveybody.

We are working on a new web site - take a peek here. We started this project back in May 2010 and will have it up and running in the next few weeks. It is a lot of work but will be worth it. I will ask in advance for patience being that when it does go live I'm sure that we will be having some bugs and problems that will need to be fixed. The hope is to have a more fresh and fun web site that shows the lifestyle that we have and live here in the mountains of Colorado and beaches of Sweden.

GREAT NEWS - our wonderful friends and partners from Sweden - Fam Gullberg - are coming out to stay over the Christmas Holiday. If they get a chance to read this - we need your wish list so get them sent in! In this photo, we see that Tessa and Mimmi do not always work but do take some time to have fun. We will definitely get photos up here on the Clog Blog with the future adventures of the Swedish/American MinturnHoliday 2010-11. Stay tuned


On Labor Day - our family took a couple hour hike up the mountain (round trip it was close to 4 hours) to a place called Fancy Lake. A gorgeous day with great company (besides the little complaining, scraped knees and tears) and beautiful views. This hike is in the Holy Cross Wilderness Area. All girls made it up the hill with LOTS of Jelly Beans for fuel (and bribes). We kept telling the little ones that this is just training for a future trip to Disney World. If I remember correctly - Disney World is a lot of walking so lets get them in shape now or at least for the ski season.

thanks for reading and hope to hear or see from you all soon!