Just a couple of addendum's to my gift guide. Just doing my part for the black Friday/ local Saturday weekend shoppers.
Music for the City: Austin musicians giving back to Austin = awesome. There are now two albums to choose from. The first album benefits Austin Children's Shelter and Safeplace. The new album (which for some reason is unavailable online, but available at local stores like Waterloo) benefits Mobile Loaves and Fishes.
Love41: Love41 works to support one of my all time favorite organizations - Africa New Life. Africa New Life has done and continues to do amazing and life changing work among the people of Rwanda.
Rwanda baskets: Another way to support the people of Rwanda is buy one of these incredible baskets. They come in as many shapes and sizes as you can think up a use for.
Divine Chocolate: Chocolate that you can feel good about buying and giving. Divine chocolate is some of the only chocolate in the world made completely without forced labor. In addition, the workers at the co-op farm own 45% of the company! These chocolate bars make great gifts to give out to neighbors. They are available online and at Whole Foods stores.
Thanks everyone for shopping kindly this year. This is such an important part of what Christmas is really about.
I recently read about this toy shop in Austin called Rootin' Ridge (http://www.rootinridge.com/index.html). I haven't done much research, but they seem like a wonderful place to get homemade wooden toys.
ReplyDeleteyes, I think they are in the 26 Doors shopping area. I have looked in their window and seen all the amazing wooden trains and rocking horses but never been inside. I might have to check it out!
ReplyDeleteI'm kinda obsessing over the idea of divine chocolate-- mostly cause I love chocolate, but also because this is the perfect excuse to buy chocolate... because basically, if I buy it, it means it's helping the company that doesn't use child labor, so it's keeping kids safe, right? RIGHT?!
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