Shop Small, Shop Local, Shop Handmade
Itās the busiest shopping weekend of the year. Whether youāre out in your community, traveling to a large city or staying home and shopping online, weāre all inundated with sales, specials and giveaways. Happy day after Thanksgiving, right? While youāre doing your shopping today, I would encourage you to keep one very special thing in mind. This is Small Business Saturday, a day that we point the spotlight on small, local and handmade shops. They are the businesses on our Main Streets, run by our friends and neighbors and relying on our support to make them successful. They may not have a nationwide following or billion-dollar backers, but they do have us - and this is where we step up. Owning our own handmade business, Stuff From Trees, we know how important loyal customers are. We do all we can to spread our name, share our talents and sell our products, but itās the people who love us and support us 365 days a year who keep us doing what we do. Itās their purchases that help u...