Posts Tagged ‘fair trade’

Earth Day – April 22

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

Earth Day will be celebrating its birthday on April 22.  In honor, we have created a wonderful display highlighting all things green and good.  We are featuring Bottlehood, a local recycling company that takes wine and liquor bottles and recycles them into vases. 

earth-day-display

And what fun vases they are.  Every time we get new ones in it’s such an adventure.  Some of the Tequila bottles are the fanciest.  If you need a fun gift idea, try flowers in one of these vases.  You won’t get anything but compliments.

bottlehood-display

As you see they come in all sizes.  Here is another photo.

bottlehood-display-1

Besides fresh flowers which are a great idea for Earth Day, we are also promoting our fair trade items.  These all come from Exotic World Gifts

There is pine resin jewelry from India, notebooks with paper made from recycling cotton rags, recycled glass key rings from Africa, jewelry made from the nuts of the tagua palm tree and beautiful shawls from Thailand that are handmade, naturally dyed.  Our first photo showed some of the beautiful handcrafted bowls from Bali.  Stop by and check it out.

Exotic World Gifts

Monday, September 28th, 2009

We have decided to carry some Fair Trade Gifts from www.exoticworldgifts.com  This company strives to reduce poverty, restore balance in nature, and promote peace by giving artisans around the world a chance to earn fair wages and improve their lives and communities.

Here are some photos of some of the items we are carrying.  Each has its own fabulous story. 

Soapstone hearts and animals from Kenya, also a pine needle basket from Central America.

 

Shopping bags from the tsunami victims.

 

Beautiful and fragrant cinnamon and mahogany bowls from Bali.  Check out the “chain” dragon from Vietnam on the left side.

 

Bamboo and coconut bowls also from Bali.