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Friday Giveaway!

Posted on: Aug 24, 2012. By: In: Hill Country Hill Tribers With: 82 comments

We have been working feverishly to finish up the last of the details before our new product launch on August 28. We cannot WAIT to show you the beautiful things are artisans have made all summer. We’ve had several giveaways this week that will be up till Monday, August 27: Go to Sarah Bessey’s blog to win a scarf by Pwe Loe, D.L. Mayfield’s blog to win a necklace by Nang, and Amy Lepine Peterson’s blog to win earrings by Huang.

Today you can enter to win earrings made by one of our newest artisans, Christine. Christine has been in Austin for a little over a year. She and her husband met in Burma.

Unlike many of our artisans who never attended school, Christine is very educated–she has a degree from a Burmese college in Mathematics. She is a quick-study and has become one of our most fluent translators. She lives in the same apartment complex as Huang, who has taken time at night and on weekends to teach Christine how to tat.

These earrings were one of our artisans’ simple and brilliant ideas–we love the way they go with anything.

To enter to win these earrings by Christine:

Leave a new comment on this blog post with each item above to get the extra entries. The giveaway ends Monday, August 27 at 11:59 p.m. CST. If you don’t win, watch our website: August 28 at 8:00 am CST, the new products will go live and you’ll be able to buy the scarves and jewelry made by Christine and her friends.

You must be a U.S. resident over 18 years old to enter. Only four entries allowed per person.
 

UPDATE: Congratulations to Michelle Wong, winner of these beautiful earrings. Thank you all for your spreading the word about our new products. We had the single best Etsy sales day on Tuesday!

Mother/Daughter Hilltribering

Posted on: Aug 13, 2012. By: In: Hill Country Hill Tribers With: No comments
Friday was the kind of day that makes me grateful for the crazy life we’ve landed in. It might be unusual that my children are learning to say “How are you?” and “Thank you” in a variety of Burmese dialects as well as the Spanish that’s around them in Austin, but this hodge-podge life is ...

Artists at Work

Posted on: Aug 1, 2012. By: In: Hill Country Hill Tribers With: No comments
There is a family of Karenni women who are some of our most artistic and reliable weavers. They all have “Meh” in their name so we just started calling them “the Mehs.” My friend Ginny and I have been meeting at the central apartment where the oldest aunt and grandmother live. We go once a ...

Refugee Rendezvous

Posted on: Jun 19, 2012. By: In: Hill Country Hill Tribers With: No comments
They come from across the city and they’re ever-moving. To gather all of our artisans in one place is not an easy task. We made phone calls, asked all the translators we could find to come, figured out bus routes and van routes and carpools, for this: Our first ever Refugee Rendezvous. (My favorite thing ...

At the Airport

Posted on: Jun 13, 2012. By: In: Hill Country Hill Tribers With: No comments
We went along the night Dr. Salai, our Burmese translator, was finally able to meet his wife at the airport. They have been wrestling for months trying to get all the paperwork to come through. Both Dr. Salai and Apwa Khin, his wife, are in their 80s. They have been apart more than four years. She is ...