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Meet Atia from Afghanistan

Atia was born in Kabul, Afghanistan. It was there that she learned embroidery and crochet from a friend at the age of 33.Atia moved to the United States in 2015. When we asked her what brought her ...

Preview Party: The Recap

Photo credit: Sarah Marcella Creative A few times a year, my jobs (yes, I have multiple) require me to throw a professional party of some kind. They range from intimate and luxurious to big and lou...

The Launch of our First Collection: The Kickstarter Campaign

Thirty years! Can you believe it? When I was Christen’s age, I had been living in West Africa for a couple of years and was just beginning to understand what it meant to work and live cross cultura...

You’re Invited!

We just sent out this invitation via email to a handful of the people who have expressed interest in our collection. If for some reason you are local to Alexandria and did not receive this email, ...

Doxuntu: Part Three of Three

For the final piece of this mini blog series on the women in West Africa who have inspired me personally over three decades and who inspired our first collection, let me introduce you to Alyce. T...

Doxuntu: Part Two of Three

Khady came to work for us immediately upon our arrival in Senegal. She saved me! She learned who I was and what I needed. She met my needs and the needs of my children. I was young and inexperien...

Doxuntu: Part One of Three

Sometimes it just hits me. I am not in Africa. I am looking at a lush beautiful backyard (not the desert scrub that was Senegal) and I have everything from running water to air conditioning and an ...

Truth Be Told

Truth be told, it was fun! A couple of weeks ago we participated in the annual General Assembly of theCooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF). We have a good bit of tenure with CBF–over twenty two y...

An Unexpected Colleague: Eva Reumann

One of the things I love most about owning a small business is getting to meet a diversity of people. After several years of working in a corporate setting, I began to resent the monotony. Going...

Kickstarter Campaign, Postponed

Wednesday is June 1. June 1 was supposed to be the first day of our Kickstarter campaign. June 1 will not, however, be the first day of our Kickstarter campaign. June 1 will be another day of hard ...