Feel Good Friday

Taaluma has seen its fair share of Italy, thanks to you. From Tuscany, where OLIVE the views are postcard perfect...

Jack and I are in Indonesia scrambling to prepare for the sheer insanity of Shark Tank.

2014 saw some wild places checked off the Taaluma Bucket List.  Travelers took their totes to:

1) Wander through gigantic redwoods in California

As the saying goes, one man's trash is another man's treasure, and wacky international fabric is no different!

When a new fabric arrives, we lay it out to admire it in all its glory...

There are two parts to the turkey-eating holiday called Thanksgiving. The "thanks", and the "giving". So today we're giving twice as hard!

We went on our first Taaluma field trip that didn't require our fabric-hunting eyes. This time, we went to the small town of Sukawati, Indonesia and connected with artisans who received microloans from YOUR totes.

The journey began in West Africa.  After crossing 8,005 miles of ocean, this crazy cotton landed in our hands in Virginia.  It went through the Taaluma transformation from international fabric to travel backpack, and became the Ivory Coast Tote. But the real mileage was yet to come...

It was an 11pm start to the climb of a lifetime. 6 hours up one of Indonesia's highest and holiest volcanoes...

When we think rice, we think plain, bland, and boring.  Like a side dish of white rice.

But in a land where there are 5 words for what we call "rice,"  it's obvious there's something more to it.

Traveling can invoke some serious fears.

For some, it's flying in what could pass for a toy airplane...

It's a fast paced world out there.

But in Laos, we took a slow boat, to a slow village...

We're adding a new color to the crayon box.  So move over fire hydrant red, Taaluma Rouge is here to stay!