What’s in the Shop?

UPDATE November 2024:

I did a lot of buying trips this summer and brought back lots of beautiful things! It is such a treat to live in a country where the people still produce beautiful hand-made objects. It feels so valuable. I see machine-made items (and embroidery) coming into the markets more and more but there are still plenty of hand-made things here in Mexico, thank goodness!

I went to Patzcuaro and the villages in Michoacan to get this pottery and the magical, strangely beautiful Pinas! 🙂

I also spent a lot of time in San Cristobal where I got sooooo many super-cool beautiful leather purses of all shapes and sizes. Look at this 70s-feel beauty… So sturdy – will last forever.

Of course, in Chiapas I got soooooo many beautiful hand-made textiles…shawls, runners, capas (those wool ponchos are from Patzcuaro). My shop is full to the brim right now….

 

May 2024

I am carrying a very cute new line: QUIUT! The designer lives in Patzcuaro by Sayulita. They are super comfy…

And I am also carrying the famous Anna Dresses – originally made by Brazillian Anna in Sayulita twenty years ago, now Sandra keeps the beauty and quality alive with her own beautiful iterations.

 

AND, I just got back from Oaxaca and so my shop is full of brand new things! Lots of colourful woven palm pouches of all shapes and sizes, hand-carved gourds for sipping tequila or mezcal or putting sauces in or salt at the table, 100% cotton hand-embroidered blouses, pottery, leather-handled market baskets, hand-painted leather zippy change purses, lots of 100% wool coasters to keep in your purse and whip out on the restaurant or bar table to soak up the condensation of your drink so it doesn’t dribble all over your arm 🙂 (Virgo requirements here!). Lots and lots of goodies…

 

I am also carrying some of Erin’s lovely jewellery line: BETINA ROZA. I love these delicate beaded necklaces. Yum yum:

 

UPDATE: March 2023:

In February I travelled to both Oaxaca and Chiapas and brought back some beautiful objects! The shop is pretty much overflowing now 🙂

From Chiapas I brought gorgeous “capas”, rebosos that can either be worn as a shawl or used as a table runner or even a bottom-of-the-bed runner, a few pompom wooly throws and pillow cases, sweet little brightly coloured candle bundles, intricately embroidered pillow cases, light cotton coloured embroidered blouses and some gorgeous square pashminas/neck scarves in many different colours and patterns.

From Oaxaca I have some 100% cotton beach, morning, or evening kimonos – super simple and really elegant that I sewed a little Moroccan tassel on to the bottom points…along with more cotton dresses and beach coverups. And, ooooh, the baskets that Juanita makes in her village three hours from Oaxaca City are suuuuper beautiful – I have a few of these as well.

And a few one-of-a-kind embroidered dresses that are really beautiful! Come and see what’s new!

Oh and I got in a new shipment of soft 100% cotton Turkish Towels – new colours! And, of course, I couldn’t resist more hand-carved animalito gourds – I just love them.

And these are two of the cactus silk pillows from Morocco. MMmm mmm!

 

I was in Oaxaca in April, 2021 and brought back some more objects of beauty and practicality 🙂

I fell in love with these hand-engraved gourds for water or….tequila! 🙂 I found that many wine corks fit them for a perfect seal so am slowly collecting the corks.

I just got back from San Cristobal in Chiapas and, mmm mmmm, the shop is overflowing with new goodies!

I got some soft, super-comfortable, lovely, dresses for women and girls:

…and also some cool embroidered jean jackets that are sooo comfortable and stretchy and a super-cute short (but not too short!) cut. Long sleeves. Prices range from 1200 pesos to 3400 pesos depending on whether they were machine-embroidered or hand embroidered. Some are from San Cristobal and some from Oaxaca. So sweet!

I’m stocked with gorgeous, embossed (some un-embossed) thick, well-made, leather purses of all shapes and sizes that’ll last forever, too.

I just received my shipment from Turkey: I still have some large, soft, red and navy bedspreads and lots of Turkish Towels for the beach.

On December 22nd, 2021 I received my shipment from Guadalajara of coloured glass bubble lights. Mmmm mmm. I have them in the styles of: Reina, Calavaza and Diamante – in red, cobalt, turquoise, orange and transparent. These classic Mexican beauties start at 1000 pesos and go to 2000 pesos each. (the red glass is the most expensive/rare)|

The shop is filling up poco a poco….

I found more of these luscious Talavera mirrors in Guadalajara….I was so happy they had pretty colours!

My shipment of hand-painted stainless steel enamel ware from India has arrived – yay!!

Tiffins are the three-tiered compartment lunchbox. I love these – they are so handy! Chop up some mango, pineapple, jicama, cucumber and take it to the beach with you. Or cheese, olives, artichoke hearts. Perfect for work lunches, too. Or potlucks 🙂

The cups are my favourite thing to take to the beach for either sunset cocktail hour or afternoon coffee. They are also really perfect poolside cups as they won’t break.

And that bowl is just the best for a great big salad. YUM.