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Eat Pray Love… Beads!

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Who knew? The film Eat Pray Love, opening this week in the US, is starting a Bali jewelry fashion frenzy! Our Bali Beaded Jewelry is gaining some much deserved attention – inspired by the beads that Julia Roberts wears in the film. We like these bead bracelets especially! Eat Pray Love Beads!

These bracelets come in 6 colors - a new take on bangle beads!

I love these bracelets! Black or turquoise glass beads with a wooden medicine bead in the center.

These Bali bead bracelets come in 7 colors

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Back to School…

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Well, it is that time of the year. Daylight is waning in the 8 o’clock hour, the college classes are filling up and the kids are feverishly trying to enjoy every last drop of summer. Fall is coming and thanks to the school calendar, it starts even earlier if you have anything to do with a school.

I thought I would show-case some of the items getting ordered in the back to school frenzy. Whether your kid is starting college this year or furnishing their first apartment, Turtle Island Imports has what they are looking for!

Dorm room decor! We have Indian Bedspreads that college kids hang on the ceilings, walls or use to create a false wall for a little privacy from the roommate. They also look cool on the bed and have the added benefit of keeping pizza crusts, pencil shavings and pet hamsters out of the sheets.

We just sold some of our sarongs to a woman who is making a bed-skirt for her daughter’s dorm room. It will hide the items being stored under the bed and bring a little beach energy to to her Midwestern dorm room. We’re hoping for pictures when it is made and will post them here if we get them.

Also cool are the Balinese wood items, especially the flying things. Flying kitties, flying frogs, flying angels and even flying mermaids and dragons. The flying bats are a big hit. Check out our dream catchers and painted mirrors and peg holders and too! All these things are light enough to hang with a pushpin or two, which is useful when the dorm police don’t allow nails and hooks.

Hacky sacks are selling like crazy right now. It has been demonstrated that kicking around a footbag can relieve the stress of college life in a healthy, social way. Our sand hacky sacks are the most popular ones.

We have a great selection of book bags, purses, wallets, backpacks and even a pencil case! One of the nice things about college life is ditching the 47 pound backpacks of high school. Students don’t have to lug text books to classes and lunches aren’t brown bagged. This frees up the hands and benefits the spine greatly! We sell our Guatemalan bags for carrying the bare essentials – water bottle, notebook, makeup, etc. We also have a hemp water bottle holder that even guys can carry around without feeling like they are holding someone’s purse. Our hemp courier bag is popular right now, too.

Our wool and leather mukluk slippers are a nice, snuggy way to keep feet warm in the dorm. Late nights studying call for more comfort than potato chips – mukluks are excellent, affordable and very in right now. They are increasingly popular with dancers too. If your kid dances ballet they will probably have already asked you for a pair, but they are hard to find. We’ve got ‘em!

Turtle Island Imports is owned by a Mom and Pop with a kid in their thirties, a kid in their twenties and one just coming into his last year of high school, so they are plenty experienced with sending kids off to college. Decorating the dorm or apartment is an important part of the rite of passage and can be a nice way for parents and their kids to share in the experience together. Show our website to your kid and let us know if you have any questions.

Happy Autumn and have an easy Back to School!

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