The Paper Market’s: A Sole for A Soul GIVEAWAY (TOMS Shoes)
Mother’s Day is less than a week away and we’d like to give you or your mom a new pair of TOMS shoes.
It’s a good fit for Mother’s Day because, just like moms nurture our souls, TOMS feeds the souls of many too. It’s as a sole for a soul sort of thing.
TOMS does this by donating a pair of shoes to a child in need each time you make a purchase from TOMS. In fact, since 2006, TOMS has donated over 150,000 pairs of shoes to children from poor villages in underdeveloped countries around the world, and the company planned to give out over 300,000 pairs in 2009.
“It’s more about putting other people ahead of you,” says a supporter in a TOMS YouTube video. Now that sounds a lot like Mom too.
You can pick up your new pair of TOMS shoes at The Paper Market in Kennett Square, an eco-boutique selling products that leave little or no impact on the environment. The stylish goods include organic, tree-free paper products produced by fair-trade co-ops across the globe that help local craftspeople improve their standard of living. There are also hand-made boxed stationery sets, photo albums, journals, picture frames, wine bags, and wedding invitations all adorned with natural pigment dyes.
And of course, there’s the shoes. The Paper Market sells both TOMS and Simple shoes.
“Each brand is about blending sustainability with style,” says The Paper Market owner Doug Harris. “Wear a pair to express your values.”
Or, give a pair to express your love. Enter our sole for a soul contest right now.
Many thanks to Doug Harris at The Paper Market for his generous support and contribution. Please note: Any TOMS shoe available at The Paper Market valued at $65 or less qualifies for this giveaway.
Definition of a Mom: Anyone who tends to the needs of others. This includes animals, gardens, children, loved ones, the disadvantaged, the earth. If this describes you or someone you know, you qualify for the sole for a soul giveaway.
For Locals Only.
Here’s How to Win:
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Here’s How to Enter:
Leave your contact information: Name (first name only is fine if that suits you) + a valid e-mail address (which will is not seen by others).
We will contact the winner by email. The contest is open until 7:00 a.m., Wednesday, May 5, 2010. Any entries received after that time will not be accepted.
Winner will be notified by May 6th. Only one entry per person. You must be able to select your TOMS shoes from the Paper Market in Kennett Square. Multiple entries will be discarded. Contest open only to U.S. residents with a U.S. mailing address. Winner will be selected using Random.org and notified by e-mail.
R-P Nursery Garden Goodies Giveaway (herbs + solar stake)
With the help of R-P Nurseries in Kennett Square, we’re celebrating the 40th anniversary of Earth Day this week with a giveaway of garden goodies to brighten your outdoor space and make it a little greener.
After all, R-P Nurseries is into “making your world greener, one plant at a time.”
And they’d like to give you a basket of delicious green herbs. Three plants, in fact, of your choosing, just in time to flavor up your spring dishes. Toss in a solar garden stake that’ll light up your walkway, patio or garden beds after being charge by the sun during the day, and your landscape is definitely a bit greener. Brighter too.
At 150 years old, R-P Nurseries is the oldest family run nursery in the U.S. They opened in 1866 as The Rakestraw-Pyle Company (a.k.a. Willowdale Nurseries) when William Rakestraw and Josiah Pyle founded the company that over the years grew from tree experts to landscaping and grounds specialists.
Then in 1984, William Rakestraw’s great-great-great nephew, Richard Pratt, and his wife Kathy, took over renamed it R-P Nurseries. That same year they added a gift shop, and a year later they opened the Garden Center, where you can pick up a selection of plant material and flowers from natives to exotics. And they still sell a large variety of hard-to-find trees.
And lots of herbs: parsley, thyme, chives, for example. Win this basket and you can have some too, along with a wrought-iron solar stake in the shape of a flower. Just enter our garden goodie contest and make your landscape a little bit greener.
Many thanks to R-P-Nurseries for their generous support and contribution.
Here’s How to Win (for locals only):
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Here’s How to Enter:
Leave your contact information: Name (first name only is fine if that suits you) + a valid e-mail address (which will is not seen by others).
We will contact the winner by email. The contest is open until 7:00 a.m., Wednesday April 21, 2010. Any entries received after that time will not be accepted.
Winner will be notified on the week of April 26th. Only one entry per person. Multiple entries will be discarded. Contest open only to U.S. residents with a U.S. mailing address. Winner will be selected using Random.org and notified by e-mail.
Giveaway: Garden Bon Bons
By Margaret Gilmour
For Valentine’s Day, we’re sharing our love for truffles. We’re wild about the handcrafted kind. That’s Garden Bon Bons, of course.
These little darlings aren’t to eat, they’re for play. They’re candy that you’ll cherish planting atop soil and watch grow…either next week on your sill, or, later, outdoors in a pot.
Created by Moulton, an online store passionate for one-of-a-kind, quality garden tools and accessories, these bon bon balls of clay are made of organic compost and a seed, each one hand rolled with care before getting bundled in a package for you give to your sweetheart, or to keep for yourself.
Seed balls are a centuries-old, sustainable planting technique, the Native Americans typically using coin-sized balls of clay, compost soil and seed. The compost provided much-needed nutrients for seeds planted in poor soil conditions, and the clay kept insects and small animals at bay.
But these garden bon bons are even better: They come wrapped with love, topped with a bow. All for you, our devoted readers. You simply:
• plant them right away, or store them like any other seed;
• place atop a pot of soil (the clay and compost provide the bon bon with nutrients), no need to bury them; and
• add a bit of water to the bon bon and soil, just as you would any seed, and give it plenty of sunshine and adoration.
Love these truffles, and they will love you back:
Italian Herb Selection Garden Bon Bons
Eight garden truffles in this herb collection, two each of Basil, Parsley, Chives and Thyme. Think of all the meals you can flavor up.
Herbal Tea Selection Garden Bon Bons
There are eight garden truffles in this handcrafted herbal tea selection – two each of Borage, Chamomile, Lemon Balm and Stinging Nettle. Delicious fresh or dried and tossed in salads or teas. (more…)
BAGGU Giveaway
By Margaret Gilmour
We love BAGGU.
We love that they’re reusable, stylish and versatile, and we believe that you would love to own BAGGU shopping bags just about as much as we would.
And because we love the new BAGGU 5x collection so much, we decided to give it to you:
• Five standard-sized BAGGUS all wrapped-up in a compact drawstring storage sack. Great for all your shopping needs, big or small. Plus, they’re colorful, strong and, well, just plain fun.
Oh, BAGGU makes a great gift too.
Here’s to BAGGU! And here’s to you!
Here’s How to Win:
Simply leave a comment on this post. A simple “Hello” will do.
Here’s How to Enter:
Leave your contact information: Name (first name only is fine if that suits you) + a valid e-mail address (which will is not seen by others).
We will contact the winner by email. The contest is open until 7:00 a.m., Thursday, December 17, 2009. Any entries received after that time will not be accepted.
Winner will be announced the week of December 21, 2009. Only one entry per person. Multiple entries will be discarded. Contest open only to U.S. residents with a U.S. mailing address. Winner will be selected using Random.org and notified by e-mail.
Special thanks to BAGGU for their generous support and contribution. 
The Paper Market selling Simple and TOMS eco-shoes
By Margaret Gilmour
What if every time you bought a pair of shoes, a new pair was given to a child in need?
That’s exactly what Blake Mycoskie, founder of TOMS Shoes and former “Amazing Race” contestant, decided to do when he started his company in 2006.
The idea hit Mycoskie while he was traveling in Argentina and noticed that many of the local kids were barefoot. Since walking is a standard mode of transportation there, the children’s feet were bruised and battered.
Rather than give out a bunch of shoes that would help only some of the Argentineans just once, Mycoskie set up his company with a sustainable business model allowing him to give one pair of shoes away for each pair they sold.
This meant TOMS (short for Tomorrow) could donate shoes and grow their business at the same time. And that’s just what Mycoskie did. (more…)
