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Hello and Happy Sunday morning to you! Hope everyone is enjoying a wonderful weekend. We had have so much rain this past month. So its awfully nice to see the sun blazing early this morning.\u00a0 The silver lining is of course how green and lush everything looks out doors but the gloominess, I am over!<\/p>\n

It was a combination of being a stressful week (lots of navigation and contemplation about the tariffs that have taken over every business owners life) filled in with a few highlights- getting our porcelain container being a big one! Getting to see an out of town friend and this weekend, getting together with good friends then I will be babysitting Phillip for the full day<\/em> on Sunday…getting my rest now:)<\/p>\n

We are gearing up to receive our biggest chinoiserie tole shipment ever on Tuesday and this one is AMAZING. Has the most beautiful items on it to date. All presale orders will start shipping out Wed and we expect to have them all out no later than Friday. We will hold an arrival sale the following Tues. And, yes,there are a few pieces I already have my eye on to bring home. Hard to believe Memorial Day is next weekend…..believe it or not my manufacturers have already been in contact with me about our CHRISTMAS collection. I need to push a pause button. OK onward to my post this weekend…..<\/p>\n

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1 A WONDERFUL CAUSE FOR A DEAR FRIEND <\/strong>I have a friend who is a rare breed in today’s world. She has 3 young kids and wow, is she ever raising them right! She believes in hard work, elbow grease and keeping them as far away as possible from “screen culture” that has taken over the minds of our youth.I am in absolute awe of how she is raising her kids.\u00a0 She took them out of school for half a year last year,\u00a0 home schooled them and traveled the world so they could see the world and experience the world through the lens of other cultures and people. It was an eye opening experience for all of them.<\/p>\n

I love and admire how she has taught and instilled manners in them, its always “hi Miss Tina” and thank you and please are a regular part of their daily vocabulary. Kudos to Jimeale! She has them busy running lemonade stands and a “golf cart cleaning service” to earn extra money towards a HUGE trip they are planning to help those in need in Africa.<\/p>\n

So this summer she is taking them to Africa, and together they will volunteer at an orphanage desperately in need of day to day essentials, with the hope that they will purchase 3+ water tanks to insure running clean water in the off months.I am in awe and truly inspired.<\/p>\n

If you are feeling inspired and possibly\u00a0 inclined to helping them raise money for this wonderful cause, I am including a link below as well as a short video from Annabelle (her eldest daughter). The experience she will be giving her children is nothing short of life changing. Wish my own sons could tag along:) Every contribution big or small brings them closer to reaching their goal. Thank you and brava Jimeale!<\/p>\n

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An excerpt from a recent email from Jimeale aka supermom-<\/p>\n

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“That would be wonderful !!! We are literally going for boots on the ground !\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n
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I am trying to keep the kids grounded and have a full understanding of how some kids live vs palmetto bluff !!!\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n
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The orphanage has 29 kids and we added another 4 and possibly more with our $<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n
Adding 4 water tanks so now looking at putting laundry in for them so they don\u2019t have to wash clothes in the river\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n
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The kids sleep on thin mattress (unsure mattress is the right word) on concrete\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n
No windows etc\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n
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William is trying to hook up starlink internet so we can start helping them with educational programs online and connecting them to western world<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n
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We have arranged at school birthday cards and postcards to start sending to them\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n
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We are going to take all the kids on a field trip when there also. Have never done that !\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n
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It is going to be very sobering for sure. No hot water and no running water. But I know my kids will relish in helping them\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n
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We will take so many photos and videos”<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Click here for the Go Fund Me page.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n