Yesterday was Memorial Day, which is the unofficial kickoff of summer and in my mind summer is about cookouts and time spent at the park! And of course, what goes better with cookouts and picnic but dessert!!! So this summer when visiting friends and family why not share some delicious fair trade chocolate muffins! I […]
This week for How Tuesday check out our video about attracting birds to one of our popular Wool Felted Birdhouses. How to: Attract Birds to your Fair Trade Birdhouse from Seven Hopes United on Vimeo. We chose the Mushroom Worm Felt Birdhouse for it’s simple design and colors thinking that the finches in our backyard […]
Did you know that by buying locally more money stays in the local economy? Perhaps, that is an obvious statement, but really consider the impact of buying locally. According to a 2009 Time Magazine article, The New Economics Foundation, an independent economic think tank based in London, compared what happens when people buy produce at […]
It’s ice cream season!!! And what is better with ice cream than a little (or a lot of) fair trade hot fudge. The idea of making hot fudge (fair trade hot fudge or otherwise) seemed daunting to me until I found a super easy recipe in Gwyneth Paltrow’s cookbook “My Father’s Daughter” . I made some changes […]
The Great Gatsby has been one of my favorite novels since I was required to read it in high school. F. Scott Fitzgerald captures the human spirit in all of its complexity and lays it out in a beautifully crafted story. Although the book was published nearly 100 years ago the essence of the story […]
