Copper Willow

Monday night was the grand re-opening of Copper Willow Paper Studio! Their focus is on presenting the finest eco-luxe letterpress invitations on handmade and cotton linter papers; pressed on-site, by hand on vintage machinery.I was also able to have a few words with several of the founders of other eco-friendly businesses:Susan Thiedt of Fold Paper Flowers who creates arrangements and bouquets out of invitations and save-the-dates. Given a photo of your bouquet, she can replicate your wedding bouquet so that you will have life-long memorabilia of your wedding day.Lindee Daniel from Puridee designed these beautiful gowns which are made from peace silk rather than commercial silk. She mentioned that a percentage of each purchase is directly donated to Central City Community Outreach, a grassroots organization.Laura Fillipowicz of La Bella Gem has created marvelous pieces of jewelry out of other recycled pieces. She is able to take pieces of jewelry which have been handed down through the family and give them new life, in order for women to be able to wear their sentimental jewelry with their own special style and taste.Anna Mkhitarian of Annatarian creates lovely dresses and gowns from dresses brought to her that the customer no longer wears. Anna re-designs the dresses to fit the current style and taste of the customer. Her purpose is to create couture attire from items coming straight out of our own closets.

We would like to give a round of applause to these wonderful entrepreneurs who have taken the initiative of following their passion while looking out for the greater good of the world.