We love picking out the perfect gift for someone we love. It’s what “Gifting Thoughtfully” is all about. This year, instead of a check, consider giving the special graduate in your life a gift that speaks to her personality and unique sense of style, while spreading hope to the artisans who created it. Each gift arrives with an artisan story card which will remind her of this great big world she is about enter and the importance of giving back. The Minimalist: Kham Necklace She loves the simple things in life and when it comes to her jewelry believes less is more. You’ve always admired her cool, effortless style and ability to look flawlessly unplanned in her carefully curated wardrobe...
Today marks the 15th annual World Fair Trade Day — a worldwide celebration of Fair Trade as a tangible way to promote safe, healthy working conditions, protect the environment, and empower the world’s most vulnerable communities to build strong, thriving businesses. (read more at wfto.com). Our Fair Trade, handmade pieces are made from a variety of sustainable and upcycled materials and each one has a beautiful story about an artisan who hand-crafted the design for I Thought of You. When you buy Fair Trade products, you ensure that each artist is fairly compensated for their time, labor, and talent, thus empowering our artisans and their communities. You also help provide them with basic human rights, like clean water, food,...
sonder n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk. We’re all busy. But what happens when you find that you’re becoming too busy with your own life that you aren’t finding time for friends and family that you care about? It’s not selfish...
Our mission is to expand the global marketplace of hardworking people in developing countries. Human Rights Day is Monday March 21, and we thought there was no better time to to continue a conversation that matters so much to us. Many people are familiar with the concept of Fair Trade but are unaware of the important principles it stands for. Our entire business model operates on this one simple concept. Artisans paid up front so they have no out of pocket to produce our products. Many small makers in developing countries cannot afford to front the capital for products before they are sold. We remove this barrier so they can focus on their craft without worrying about...
