Last Minute Holiday Shopping & Christmas Sale

Both Ten Thousand Villages stores in Ottawa are open 9am-9pm today, and 9am-3pm tomorrow (Christmas Eve) - we still have a great selection of fair trade crafts and food products for last-minute shoppers!

We have some specials on our remaining Christmas products:

• Ornaments: buy two, get a third for 1¢ (of equal or lesser value)
• Nativities & Garlands: all 30% off
  

Both stores will be closed Christmas Day, Boxing Day and Sunday December 27th - to allow our staff and volunteers time to relax and enjoy the holidays with their families.

Both stores will be open reduced hours next week:

• Monday - Wednesday: 10am-5pm
• New Year's Eve: 10am-3pm

We will be closed New Year's Day, and will reopen with regular hours on Saturday January 2nd.

From all of us at Ten Thousand Villages in Ottawa, we hope you have a wonderful Christmas and a happy and peaceful new year.

Fortune ornaments

One of our favourite new ornaments for this Christmas season is the beautiful silk 'fortune' ornament from Vietnam, available in cream with burgundy accents and black with gold accents.

There is a hidden secret to these ornaments. Gently squeezing the top and bottom will reveal an opening ... buried inside each ornament is a scroll of paper bearing a fortune for the lucky recipient! Or you can write your own messages to surprise family and friends!

Thanks!

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who participated in our fundraising evening at the Bank St store last week. Enthusiastic Christmas shoppers mean we will be making a donation of over $240 to the Stephen Lewis Foundation. Many thanks for your support!

And thanks to everyone who came out to see Voyageur, the Six String Nation guitar at the Westboro store yesterday. We hope you all enjoyed the chance to get up close and personal with this beautiful creation!

Gone Rural

Great to see positive coverage of one of our producer groups in the country where they work. Gone Rural supplies Ten Thousand Villages with beautiful baskets, placemats and napkin rings. In a time of global recession they have managed to increase their sales by 15% over the past 2 years!

“Everything is connected. The women and their families have a beautiful culture and we hope that we can preserve that part of their culture and also continue to grow, develop and improve the parts of their lives that will contribute towards their sustainability.”

Six String Nation!

Jowi Taylor will be visiting Ten Thousand Villages Westboro on Monday morning with Voyageur, the Six String Nation guitar!

Jowi travels across the country getting the guitar into the hands of as many Canadians as possible, so we encourage you to stop in to see, hold and play this beautiful creation.

10:30 - 11:00 Monday 7th December, at Ten Thousand Villages: 371 Richmond Road.