Women For Hope

Women for Hope wanted to offer some products to help our customers with “Going Green.”    We are happy to announce our first product line with a Green focus - Skeeda reusable grocery bags.    Now we have all seen the bags at many of the stores, but they are usually made from nylon or some other form of plastic, which in some ways defeats the purpose, as the whole point is to reduce the amount of plastics in landfills.  These type of bags take even longer to decompose than the basic plastic shopping bags.   Also, most of these bags are made in China or in other overseas factories, which increase the use of petroleum to bring them to the US.

Now, Skeeda bags are a whole different story!   They are made from 100% cotton heavyweight material and they are made in the USA, by a women-owned company (as with all products offered by Women for Hope Not only that, but they are stylish!   They come in lots of fun fabrics, and have long handles so you can carry them over your shoulder.   They are nice and roomy - hold at least three times as much as a plastic bag does.   They are also machine washable - they do advise to line dry though.    And…best part - they are only $15.00 each!   

They are so cute and roomy, I have been using them for other things, like a run to the library, throwing in a change of clothes to take w/ me to work, and they are fabulous at the Farmer’s market!   So, check them out and buy a few.  What a great gift they will make for the holidays!

 ’Til next time - Pam

We are sooo excited to announce the introduction of our new bath and body line.    This line is made from such wonderful ingrediants such as shea butter, soy oil, & aloe vera.   It makes your skin so soft and smell delicious!   We had lots of fun testing the products out and we can’t believe how nice they are.    They are made for us by a family run business out of Tennessee which gives their creator, Cassandra, the ability to work from home and work with her children.  

We currently have the following items available for order - Handcrafted Body Bars (which are made of natural ingredients which do not irritate your skin) Cleansing Gel - this is some nice stuff…a little goes a long way and can be used as liquid hand soap or in the shower or bath!   (Try the Herbal Sage Leaf in the kitchen..yum!)  Hand and Body Lotion - a light lotion that makes your skin super soft…I love it!   Body butter…this is the nicest body butter I have ever tried.   The Perfectly Peppermint is great to pamper those tired tooties!   Sugar Scrub.  Finally a sugar scrub that isn’t all oil and sugar.  They add goat’s milk to give a nice creamy texture.   And it leaves your skin so super soft!

We have a nice assortment of scents too including Black Raspberry and Vanilla, Oatmeal Milk and Honey, Green Tea and more.

 Check out our new line at http://www.womenforhope.com/bathandbody.html

Stay tuned for more product updates!

 Pam 

We are excited to annouce that we are helping to put on the 2nd Annual Benefit Dinner for Ann Arbor’s Take Back the Night.   The dinner will be held on March 1st at Weber’s Inn in Ann Arbor.   Tickets are $35 each or $65 a couple and include a nice dinner and entertainment.  We are also going to be hosting a Silent Auction, and 100% of the monies earned will go to fund TBTN - which is being held on April 10th.  You can check out more about this on the new website www.tbtnannarbor.org!

We are also going to be exhibiting at the local Vagina Monolouges performance which is benefitting Turning Point of Macomb County (the crisis center I first went to during my recovery.)  We will be selling our jewelry and have some Sweet As You Please soy candles for sale too..and the 10% donation will be going to Turning Point.    The event is being held at the Emerald Theater in Mt. Clemans.   Tickets are $25.00 each and can be bought at Turning Point, at the Emereald Theater Box office and at ticketmaster.com.   Here is their myspage page with more details. www.myspace.com/vdaymacombcounty2008

We are excited to be involved with these groups and using our mission to help others.   So if you are in the local Metro Detroit/ Ann Arbor area, I hope you check these events out!

 ’Til next time,

 Pam

Hopeful Happenings - Women For Hope’s Summer 2007 Newsletter We are excited to announce our latest newsletter is up on the web!  We have certainly been busy adding new jewelry to the site and even sprucing up the site a bit.  

 The newsletter covers some of the happenings of the summer, including meeting with Angela Shelton - she is such an inspiration!   It also officially announces the addition of our new jewelry styles and our latest charity - The Detroit Tigers Foundation.

 We also talk about September being Gynecological Cancer Awareness Month.   Look to both the blog and the information section for articles and such on this topic.   We are also going to be donating an additional 5% for a total of 15% of the proceeds from our Ovarian Cancer and Uterine Cancer Awareness Jewelry items to CancerCare during the month of September.   Stay tuned for updates.

 So check out our latest newsletter…and let us know what you think!

Till next time - Pam

Hello all,

We have just added a blog to the site.   Please bear with us as we get things situated!

 Thanks and hope and love to all!

Pam and Tom