Win $2500 in Consciously Curated Products – Including a $400 Faerie’s Dance Gift Card! – ENDED

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It’s our biggest giveaway ever! We’ve teamed up with FindKeep.Love and 5 other companies with conscience to offer an amazing $2500 gift package that will get you into a “Zen State of Mind.”

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Enter to win gift cards and prizes for sustainable, eco-friendly clothing, inspiring jewelry, gardening supplies, functional bags, skincare solutions, and toasty warm socks.

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As a bonus, every single person who enters the sweepstakes will get a special offer directly from us! Shhh… the special offer is a secret, but enter the contest and you might get a little something extra for your organic lingerie drawer.

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June 22 – July 8, 2018 – We’ll be on Vacation!

The Little Mermaid in Copenhagen, Denmark

Running a business with your life partner has so many wonderful benefits.  However, the single main drawback is being able to go on vacation together when just the two of you are working the business.  While we were still located in Los Angeles, I had some friends helping out.  So Glen and I were able to take a 2-week vacation together and have my friends watch the business.  That was in 2011.

Since then, we closed the business once for one week to go to a wedding in Florida.  We’ve had one week of vacation together in the last 7 years. 🙁  Don’t get me wrong, we both get away a good amount.  We both went to Los Angeles this year to visit friends and family.  Glen went in January, and I went in March.  Last year I went to the Berlin Eco-Fashion show and met with Swegmark in Sweden.  We planned a one-week cruise together, but some logistical issues required us to postpone the cruise.  So I had an amazing 10 days in Europe on my own, and he stayed home and watched the business.

We make a concerted effort to get away for 3-day weekends as much as possible.  Since we ship via the post office, we generally take every postal holiday off.  But when you own your own business, burn-out is a thing.  To keep that excitement and positive attitude going year after year, you really need to sharpen the saw.

So we are closing the store for two full weeks.  This is the first time in nearly 13 years in business that the shop will be “closed” for that long.

We’ll be closed from June 22 – July 8, 2018

So what does that mean?

  • The website will be up and working, and orders CAN be placed during the entire period of our absence.
  • We’re offering an AUTOMATIC 15% discount for the entire time we’re away as a thank-you for your patience.  No coupon need!
  • Orders will ship in the order they were received staring July 9.  All orders will ship by July 11.
  • We will have no e-mail or phone support for the entire period from June 22 – July 8
  • Refunds and exchanges will be give priority and processed FIRST upon our return on July 9

I am confident that our wonderful customers will be supportive during this time, and the discount is just an added bonus. 🙂  If the store does well during our absence and everything runs fairly smoothly (i.e. no one initiating expensive chargebacks while we’re gone or getting frustrated with the delays), then we are considering making this a permanent thing.

We’re even considering closing for two weeks every year.  Since this particular vacation coincides with our regular yearly anniversary sale (the ONLY time all year that bras go on sale), we’re even considering making the two weeks at a different time of year for 2019 and running two yearly sales instead of just one.  That’s all still just ideas, though.

In case you’re wondering where we are going, we’re taking that postponed Baltics Cruise from last year, and then spending a week in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Thank you!

PS – We will resume our bra video series upon our return.  We still have 3 episodes left.

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Eco-Fashion Warehouse Sale & Sustainable Living Showcase

Have you been wanting to try on one (or a whole bunch) of our products in person?  Your opportunity is here!

The event will run from 11am – 5pm on Saturday, August 26, 2017.  We’ll be doing raffle prize drawings every 30 minutes starting at 11:30am.  You must be present to win a prize, so be sure to leave some time for your visit with us.  You could easily get into 2 or 3 drawings while you try on clothes and meet with these other wonderful Portland-area women business owners.

Dr. Kayla Luhrs will be there to help you develop a wellness plan for conscious living.  

Amanda Bishop will show you how to make your own cleaning products using common household items and essential oils. 

Angela Stevens will chat with you about buying and selling real estate, or how to green the home you currently own.

 

Our warehouse is located minutes from this years Street of Dreams site.  We’ll be raffling off tickets to Street of Dreams at noon, so be sure to come early and check it out.

We’re also giving away 25 “Goodie Bags” to the first 25 people who RSVP either on our Facebook Event Page or by calling us at (971) 255-0752.

 

Here is a (partial) list of the prizes on offer for our raffle:

  1. 2 individual tickets to Street of Dreams
  2. PrAna Bag
  3. PrAna Eco Yoga Matt
  4. Maggie’s Bee Socks
  5. Maggie’s Scarf
  6. Swegmark bra of your choice
  7. Blue Canoe logo tee
  8. From War to Peace Make Art Not War Necklace
  9. Earth Creations Fingerless Gloves (multiple colors)
  10. Earth Creations Infinite Scarf (multiple colors)
  11. Spun Bamboo men’s Boxer Briefs
  12. dōTERRA Essential Oil Starter Kit
  13. Cottonique hair accessories.  (Also in Goodie Bags!)
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Berlin Ethical Fashion Show, Green Showroom and Swegmark Organic Bras

Funkhaus Berlin Interior

New York, London, Milan, and Paris have the largest Fashion Weeks around the world, but a number of other cities are touting more sustainable fashion weeks.  Green Fashion Week is a non-profit, traveling, sustainable trade show that has already made stops in Los Angeles, Milan and Abu Dhabi with its next showing in Rome and Naples in November.  And Ethical Fashion Show Berlin has become a sustainable Fashion Week staple.  It runs concurrent to the Berlin Fashion Week with a clear focus on sustainability, and partners with Green Showroom, an eco-fashion resource for retailers.  This summer Ethical Fashion Show Berlin has made a permanent move to a larger venue… and Faerie’s Dance will be there to check it out!

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Funkhaus Berlin on the banks of the Spree River is the new home of Ethical Fashion Show

A confession… after 12 years working in the fashion industry, I’ve personally never been to a professional fashion show.  In truth, I still get more excited by spreadsheets and graphs than runways and high heels.  YES, I love what I do for the positive impact it has on the world.  (In case you weren’t aware, EcoWatch claims Fast Fashion is the second most polluting industry in the world, second only to oil.)  But rekindling passion for your work is never a bad thing, and one of the things I’m very passionate about is travel.

Naturalmente by Schweikardt Moden will showcase at Ethical Fashion Show Berlin

So this year I’m going to do a little work-related traveling.  Faerie’s Dance will be attending the Ethical Fashion Show Berlin, checking out new lines at the Green Showroom, meeting up with Occidente at Panorama Berlin and finally flying to Sweden to discuss organic cotton bra designs with Swegmark.  Of course, since I’ll already be in Sweden… My partner and I will be taking a much needed vacation together as well, spending a week on a cruise through the Baltics.

We are training assistants to “watch the store,” and will be shipping orders and processing returns and exchanges during the entire trip, from July 1 – 20th.  However, customer service will be limited to e-mail only, with no phone service at all during that period, and we will not be able to offer expedited shipping for those 3 weeks.

Be sure to follow us on Facebook to get updates from the show.  I look forward to celebrating our 12 year business anniversary on July 22, 2107, upon my return.

 

 

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Come See Us at Portland’s Better Living Show March 29-30

We’re going “live”!  If you live around the Portland, OR area, come visit Faerie’s Dance – along with other sustainable companies – at the Better Living Show on March 29 – 30, 2014 at the Portland Expo Center.  Admission is FREE.  Take a moment to touch and feel some of the wonderful fabrics we’ve been writing about lately.

We’ll be part of the Semper Fashion Eco-Fashion Show and you’ll have the opportunity to see several of our styles on the runway.  There’s a changing room, so you can try things on, too.

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If there’s something you’ve been wanting to check out, let us know in advance and we’ll be sure to bring it.

This is our first expo in Portland, and I’m pretty excited about it.  I look forward to meeting some of you in person.

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Please Nominate FaeriesDance.com for the 2011 Green Business of the Year

Last year we were so excited to be in the top 10 nominee’s for Green America’s Green Business of the Year Award.   While we didn’t win, the recognition and added business exposure just from the nomination were immensely helpful and appreciated.  We’ve decided to throw our (organic cotton) hats into the mix and see if we can get into the top 10 nominees again for a chance to win Green Business of the Year for 2011.

We may be a small business, but we’re big on green initiatives, and we’re still trying to help everyone “go green right down to their skivvies.”  This year, we’re particularly proud of adding Cottonique to our line up of lingerie brands to help people with chemically sensitivities.  We’ve also been recognized by both MCS America as an apparel resource and by Alicia Silverstone in her blog The Kind Life.

So please, please follow the nomination link to fill out a very short survey. Use Faerie’s Dance as our business name and FaeriesDance.com as our business location. Tell your friends as well – Facebook, tweet or e-mail them – every vote counts.

Thank you! Your support is greatly appreciated. 🙂

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October 1st is World Vegetarian Day – Go meat-free for a day

Celebrate World Vegetarian Day next weekend with great food and fun.  Even if you’re a carnivore, October 1st is a great day to try a local vegetarian restaurant.  Check out happycow.net to find vegetarian restaurants in every US state as well as most countries around the world.  Angelinos will appreciate Vegetarians in Paradise, a website that offers up reviews of vegetarian restaurants in and around Los Angeles.  Or try your hand at your own vegetarian creation using one of VegNew Magazine’s thousands of recipe ideas.

world vegetarian day

Folks living in San Francisco can enjoy World Veg Festival next weekend, October 2-3.  While Bostonians will want to check out the 15th annual Boston Vegetarian Food Festival at the end of the month on Halloween weekend.  The Phuket Vegetarian Festival in Thailand is arguably the most elaborate vegetarian festival in the world.

Even the greeting card companies are getting involved.  123Greetings.com is offering up a free World Vegetarian Day e-card with music and veg-wishes.

Bon Appetit,

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