Give your table a sustainable touch with Christmas cloth napkins from our exclusive selection.
Can Messy Hair Be Trending?
Is it just us, or is the new summer hair trend for 2020 messy hair? Not only is it hot and sticky across much of the lower 48 (guaranteed to make hair go ick), it’s also pool / lake / beach time and few of us are completely avoiding the water even as we stay …
Introducing the Aila Carpet Bag Collection
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 …
Choose Reusable Napkins
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 …
Spring 2020 Napkin Collection by Mara & Maria
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 …
What Women Carry: Purses Contents Today & Yesteryear
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 …
Share Encouragement: Galentine’s Cork + Tapestry Giveaway!
Words are powerful. They can make the difference between someone giving up or instead pushing on through hard times. As Proverbs 25:11 says, “A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.” It’s a beautiful thing to speak the truth that someone else needs to hear. Think back to the …
Cork Bag Autumn Giveaway!
We’re super excited about this cork bag November giveaway – as our customers know, we’ve been hard at work trying to make all of our bags as sustainably as possible. It’s a challenge, right? There’s so many products made in China that are unavoidably part of our purses (read more about our boycott China initiative …
We’re Moving Away from China
So we’re in the middle of a big change as we seek to create purses and accessories that are made in the most sustainable, fair trade way possible. Other than the fair trade group we partner with in a mountainous province (read about the Embroidery That’s a Lifeline project), we’ve become very concerned about sourcing …
How to Organize Your Large Purse Tote
Have you ever been standing in the parking lot at Target, digging furiously in your large purse for the keys while the kids get more and more impatient? Yeah, we’ve been there. We love our big Wayfarer Carpet bags & totes. But truth be told, they CAN turn into a black hole once purse …