so it's not often where I tape a video
and post it all in the same day but Zack
and I had a really great Thanksgiving
and nice time off just on Black Friday
and we just kind of had a chill day so
today I am posting this thing all
together in like one quick day so I will
keep this brief but I just wanted to
bring up some companies and brands that
are very much more smaller scale because
today is shop small Saturday of course
it's great to shop locally if you can
but I wanted to bring up just some shops
that I absolutely love to shop from and
a few that I also want to recommend at
the end I'm dying so yeah let's just get
started
the first one is Dallas dodge designs
she actually is from Minneapolis
Minnesota which is really cool because
my husband he grew up really close to
there and so I love Minneapolis it's an
absolutely great city ok so back to the
clothes I love the fact that all of her
pieces are made to order and there's a
range of sizes and that's really great
because I'm petite so whenever I can
find things that I don't have to tailor
that's just an added perk all of her
products have really nice materials and
everything's just very timeless in the
way that it's made so I have a few
pieces from her that she sent me that
our silk and I love it and I also bought
a cute little scarf too from her very
classic you know to say cute is actually
you know an understatement because it's
just so well done and high-quality also
her packaging is absolutely gorgeous so
I would definitely recommend it as
something to get for like Christmastime
the next brand I've mentioned a time or
two before which has been cotton so
cotton is really great because it's
Egyptian cotton and it's ethically
sourced from Egypt and actually 100
percent of their sales this weekend only
are going toward rebuilding two primary
schools that are in Egypt which is you
know where all of their farmers are so
they're really trying to lean in and
help that area the brand has been just
absolutely amazing
whenever I've gotten their products
overall I just think that cotton is a
very great brand for basic so very soft
things of course because it's Egyptian
cotton and overall I've really just
fallen in love with a brand if you've
been following this channel for any time
at all you
that I love Pamela card jewelry I wear
it almost exclusively every day and so I
really have just loved the fact that
everything is handmade by an old process
called lost wax casting pamela card her
jewelry is actually something that she
found inspiration from as she would
travel the world and go to different
museums and she'd find images of like
old coins and mosaics and then make
jewelry to be inspired by that so I of
course fallen in love with that
everything is just beautifully gold and
it's a great thing to get for an
heirloom piece so if you're going to
shop for someone that you really want to
buy something special for then I would
definitely look into pamela cards
jewelry I've mentioned this next one in
a couple of different videos but J Hana
is a great brand for jewelry but right
now I've only delved into her nail
polishes her nail polishes are beautiful
I'm actually wearing one of them right
now I think the color is called
Himalayan salt so I've got two colors
that one and then I've got a very sheer
sheen glitter that's really beautiful
it's like just almost a clear coat so
I'll leave links down in the description
to those as well as everything else but
yeah I've just been so in love with her
brand and it's definitely on my wish
list some of her jewelry pieces next I
have to bring up new solo even though
they are a very fast growing company
it's really their practices that have
made them that way actually a couple of
years ago on the Forbes website you can
read about how they are a small business
from Nashville that is competing with
some big guns and fashion and I just
love the fact that their practices are
so well done they celebrate the people
who've made shoes in their traditional
style that they've been making in here
and producing through generations so
it's just very great to be able to
celebrate how that has taken place and
to bring more money into those economies
in places like Peru where those people
are now sending their kids to college I
can go much more in depth in another
video that I did so I'll link that for
you guys if you want to know more about
it another Nashville brand is Elisabeth
Suzanne and I've learned her stuff for
about a couple of years now and it's
been so cool to see how much it's grown
in that time and of course I was kind of
late to the ball game
she has been around for about I think
five six years off the top of my head
and she has a small company that's based
out of Nashville that is you know every
everybody's paid well and everybody's
really happy by what I can tell in that
whole Factory and it's just everybody is
there working together on making these
pieces everything's made to order she
also has a range of sizes and really
high quality fabrics
I feel like her linens and silks are
just top-notch nice is windblown jewelry
the girl who owns it is someone who's
been a really great friend to me for
years actually when I knew Rachel when
she was little and we were both like on
the trampoline so we go way back but
it's been really cool to see how she's
gotten into developing jewelry and just
you can see how she's sitting at her
desk and she's like making this jewelry
by hand it's just so cool so now she's
built a business out of it I think she's
got a team of just a few people and it's
just really cool to see how this whole
thing has transformed and everything is
super affordable too because a lot of
the pieces are brass so if you wanted to
get a few necklaces and hand them out at
Christmastime that would be so good or
like even a co-worker would be such a
great option to buy things from Rachel's
story so this past summer I've done
feature Fridays and they were for
artisans so I wanted to kind of
highlight those a couple of them again
that were just so amazing to fold makes
absolutely beautiful jumpsuits and tanks
that I've gotten so I will leave a link
to that and then also I'll leave a link
to Rachel Hara and she makes beautiful
linen shirts and I just have loved
wearing those so I will leave links to
those again just absolutely incredible
for if you want to shop small so I have
just a few more companies that I've
really had on my radar ones that I have
not necessarily shopped from yet myself
but one is noble carriage I really want
to shop there for Christmas time for my
nieces they have stuffed animals as well
as clothes and what's really great about
them is not only their aesthetic but
everything that they sell there is you
know just aggregating a bunch of diff
artisans who make these things and
they're all like stuffed animals and
clothes that are organic and they have a
really high standard for the fabrics and
products that they put into everything
like they don't want the baby's skin to
interact with anything that might be
harmful so they have a very high
standard
next schoolhouse is really great if you
want to look for lighting for your home
and honestly of all of their home items
are just so cool they used to have this
old school house building and that's
where they got their name from they
still to this day just have everything
under one roof which takes a lot of
impact out of trying to ship things back
and forth it's just all local so that's
really cool next is joinery so
definitely look there if you want to get
anything for your home I think
everything has just such a beautiful
aesthetic that I could have my house for
decades so thank you guys for listening
to this video I hope that it was helpful
and that you're having just an
absolutely amazing Saturday and I'll see
you guys next time
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