Hey, friends! As part of our World Refugee Day celebration, we’re giving away an organic tote bag or coffee mug featuring some of the original art created by Charlotte area artists. As part of the giveaway, we’re going to provide $1.00 donation per entry to Carolina Refugee Resettlement Agency. How do you enter? Two ways: …
World Refugee Day is June 20th, 2020. We’re honored to be a part of shining a spotlight on the brave men and women who have had to leave all that they know in order to establish life somewhere else. This process of finding a new home is not just like moving down the block. It …
We’re pretty excited about our new collection of cloth shoulder bags, nicknamed the “Aila”. Based off of our classic Wayfarer carpet bag, we’ve replaced the leather handles with cloth and will soon be offering this bag in both large and medium. Each Aila comes with a coin purse, made by Faireb. Greet the day in …
“The World Turned Upside Down” was the name of the tune the British band played as Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington, thus effectively ending the revolutionary war. The politics of the world had been upended and things never returned to the previous status quo. Somehow, this fife and drum tune feels like a rather modern …
Happy April! Here in North Carolina, we’ve been chugging along under shelter in place orders. Not fun, but necessary. Since most of the rest of y’all are in the same boat, we decided to send a free gift with each cotton napkin set order. For each set of napkins you order, we’ll throw in a …
While making our home tables a little more festive with cloth napkins, we might as well do some fancy napkin folds too, right? We’ve compiled 4 ways to fold cloth napkins, along with the much needed picture tutorials. If you’re good at origami, then folding napkins in fancy ways is a breeze, and you probably …
So much of home design these days is all about short-term, wasteful and disposable stuff. How many times have you seen half-falling apart Ikea products on the curb, waiting to be tossed? Piles of paper napkins after a BBQ? It doesn’t have to be this way, at least not with napkins! One of our goals through …
We’re Persona Grata Goods. That name – as we explain in our About Us write-up – means “Person Welcome”. One of our key missions is that refugee women are welcomed and and supported as they transition to making the United States their new home. But our mission is bigger than that. We believe that women …
Give your table decor an update for spring with our lovely vintage look napkin sets, made by Mara and Maria from Syria! All of these sets were made from donated fabrics. Delicate purple flowers, bright sea green batik, contrasting mint greens & yellows – each cotton napkin set features coordinating prints for a shabby chic …
Recently, one of the women on our staff was cleaning out her purse. Earrings, kleenexes, mints, earbuds – lots of stuff had gathered. It took a while to sort the necessary out from the trash. Women of today are busy and their purse contents reflect that reality. While our carpet purse design is definitely geared …
