Thursday, August 25, 2011

Meeting Friends, Noonday Collection

Living where we do, we are lucky to be in a vibrant community where many families are adopting from Uganda, Ethiopia, and Rwanda and I was blessed last weekend to spend the evening with some wonderful women  getting to know new friends, talking about our adoption journeys and seeing the amazing artistic work shown by Noonday Collection.


Noonday Collection provides jobs by creating a pathway out of poverty for women. Buying goods from Noonday Collection creates a stable income for the artisans and means a family is less likely to abandon their child. Noonday Collection has grown to showing jewelery, accessories, and home and gifts in their trunk shows from Uganda, Ethiopia, India, Peru, Guatemala, and Ecuador.

I bought one of their best sellers. I saw it on the website before the trunk show and knew I was going to purchase it before I went. Here is my lovely. The Embira Seed bracelet is only $20.


You see the little reddish bead there...mine is green and I LOVE it! I have worn it every day since I brought her home. This is Noonday's best seller made in Uganda by some amazingly talented artisans. It's made from embira seeds and those paper beads are unique to each bracelet. I tried on 5 or 6 bracelets until I found thee perfect one for me.

Enough about my one true love because I do have another one true love I didn't dare buy because I'm saving for, um, oh that's right OUR ADOPTION.  Anyway, this is the other lovely called the Dainty Necklace made in India....



She's sells for $24! What a bargain! Who could believe such a gorgeous little necklace could go for only $24?

I could have bought one of everything but I refrained, thankfully. One little splurge and now the belt is tight. But you, feel free to check out Noonday Collection. You know you're going to buy accessories anyways, so why not buy something that has a story, that is super cute and that you know is supporting women and children directly to gain a better life for themselves.