I’m way behind, cuz I’m still posting ’bout St. Louis, where I was during T-giving weekend.
Still, St. Louis held some real surprises. I checked out The Loop on reader recommendations, and lo and behold, found a cute fair trade shop right on Delmar!
The store: Plowsharing Crafts. The plus: All fair trade goods, with free fair trade coffee readily brewing for customers. The minus: Rather crunchy.
I sorta wanted the store to take a tip from the awesome Ten Thousand Villages store in Pasadena, putting the sleek and sexy goods up front and not focusing on the odd woven stuff so much.
Then again, I can’t say I know the aesthetic tastes of the average person living in St. Louis.
And in any case, there were some cute whimsical things I wanted, like this eyeglasses holder that makes me smile. Those are my bro-in-law’s glasses perched there :)
Perhaps most importantly, Plowsharing Crafts had some very yummy coffee from Just Coffee, Equal Exchange, etc. Fair trade chocolate bars, hot chocolate, teas, and the like were also present :)
