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Hi Friends… My blog has moved to a new home here:  I hope you’ll head on over and ‘follow’ me there to keep updated on what’s happening with us and Timbali Crafts in Swaziland.  You’ll want to go there now…

Our headbands provide way more than a quick fix for summer hair–they help to provide an education for the teenage girls that create them! [Check out pics on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Timbali-Crafts/162156237212379?fref=ts ] The 57 teenage girls that are part of Timbali…

We’ve got some new things happening at Timbali Crafts. I am very excited about our newest bag design in the works right now. I started out designing a diaper bag, but what we’ve ended up with is a really beauitful…

Update, Nov 29 2013 My blog has moved to WordPress and a new download of the ornaments is available here. Enjoy! This isn’t really an artsy-craftsy mommy blog at all (although I do like them), but I am artsy and…

In my last blog I mentioned my friend Gcebile, one of the Timbali women who’s house had fallen to the ground in a recent storm and left her family homeless. Many of you have inquired about helping Gcebile, so here…

A lot happens on a Timbali payday. Yesterday was our first one since getting back from the USA.  It was a good day. Here’s a few highlights: This is a new playground that was put up at the Care Point…

This morning Ellie was eating her breakfast and the sun was shining through the window, hitting something in just the right way so that there was a perfect little rainbow reflected right in her bowl of cornflakes! And that reminded me of…

Merry Christmas from Africa! The phrase “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas” has made its way in and out of my thoughts a lot over the last couple months, mostly because the Swazi ‘qualifiers’ for that statement are…

So, we found out last week that Ellie needs hearing aids. Ellie has always had some speech issues. In the last year or so we’ve seen a speech therapist, had a hearing screening done at school…all saying she was fine.…