Greetings!
Happy Holidays 2007!
This year, we would like to take an extra moment to thank our clients, colleagues, friends and family for helping us to have another happy and successful year. Small businesses don't always thrive and we have been fortunate that our hard work and continuous referrals from our amazing clients have allowed us to not only keep doing what we love to do, but to offer more and more services and products to our valued clients.
We recognize every day that we are blessed to be successful women entrepreneurs. Over the last two years, we have been searching for a charity that we could support that would mean something special to us both. Finally, we have found that organization. Please read all about it below.
From our families to yours, we wish you a joyous holiday and a prosperous 2008!
Kelly and Joann
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Helping Women Entrepeneurs in Impoverished Countries
We have chosen to embrace a unique non-profit that is doing great things: Kiva.org
Kiva.org is an organization that allows people to make a small 0% loan to low income entrepreneurs in the developing world (called microfinance). People like ourselves can help provide affordable working capital for the poor -- money to buy a sewing machine, livestock, etc. -- and empower them to earn their way out of poverty.
This holiday season, we are loaning funds to Dany Mamani Yerba. Dani is a hardworking 23 year old entrepreneur living in Juliaca, Peru. For seven years she has worked in the marketing of wool from alpacas and sheep. This loan will allow her to increase the capital she can invest and with the added profits she will help her mother provide for the education of her two younger siblings.
Keep up the hard work Dany!
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Joann's Famous Cucumber Sandwich Hors D'oeuvre
Take this super easy dish to your next holiday cocktail party and you'll be the hit of the party!
Ingredients:
1 8 oz. cream cheese
1 Tbsp. milk
1 Tbsp. mayo2 tsp. dry Good Seasons italian dressing (from the packet)
1 loaf of pumpernickel cocktail bread
dill weed
1 cucumberCombine the first 4 ingredients and spread the mixture on a slice of pumpernickel. Top with a thin slice of cucumber. Sprinkle top with a dash of dill weed. Try not to eat them all before you get to the party. YUM!
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