While We Were Feasting

While we were out stuffing our faces at the homes of our family and friends (and even hosting in our own festive abodes), the founder and director of The G.R.E.E.N. Foundation, Ernesta Wright, was out feeding and giving gifts to the homeless. She forewent the dinner invitations from two different family members and headed to Los Angeles to help some of those who are less fortunate.

"They were so grateful! One woman said, 'Thank you so much for doing this for us!'" Ernesta said yesterday.

The G.R.E.E.N. Foundation, is a non-profit organization that provides a number of services. The organization’s acronym stands for Gathering Resources to Educate and Empower through Networks. Among many of it’s services, the organization provides economic empowerment workshops to assist other non-profit organizations as well as provide health education forums and workshops to educate communities on breast health; anti-tobacco; HIV/AIDS and other preventative diseases.

A portion of the proceeds from La Poe Bags goes to support The G.R.E.E.N. Foundation. To find out more about The G.R.E.E.N. Foundation go to http://www.thegreenfoundation.net and to find out more about La Poe, go to www.lapoebags.info.

La Poe's First Restock

Business is picking up for us here at La Poe, despite the doom and gloom forecasted for this year's holiday season for retailers. Fortunately we are a new business so we have nothing to compare it to. Lucky us. So things are looking up...I'm excited, all of La Poe's clients seem to be excited as well, and with the eddie of happiness swirling around in the air, we decided to slash a few prices on our site as well (www.lapoebags.info).

In our restock of inventory, I found this super cute patten leather, nose-in-the-air number. I'm hard pressed to find a purse that a woman at any age would love to have, but this one comes pretty darn close. And seeing how we absolutely have to be creative this Christmas (well most of us), this handbag would make one very merry gift.