But Zach and I had a really great Thanksgiving and nice time off just on Black Friday, and we just kind of had a chill day.

So today I am posting this thing all together in, like, one quick day, so I will keep this brief.

But I just wanted to bring up some companies and brands that are very much more smaller scale because today is shop small Saturday.

Of course, it's great to shop locally if you can, but I wanted to bring up just some shops that I absolutely love to shop from and a few that I also want to recommend.

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So yeah, let's just get started.

The 1st 1 is Dallas Stars designs.

She actually is from Minneapolis, Minnesota, which is really cool because my husband he grew up really close to there.

And so I love Minneapolis.

Absolutely great city.

Okay, so, back to the clothes I love the fact that all of her pieces are made to order and there's a range of sizes, and that's really great, because I'm petite So whenever I can find things that I don't have to tailor, that's just a kn added perk.

All of her products have really nice materials, and everything's just very timeless in the way that it's made.

So I have a few pieces from her that she sent me that are silk and I love it.

And I also buy a cute little scarf to from her very classic, you know, to say cute is actually, you know, an understatement because it's just so well done and high quality.

Also, her packaging is absolutely gorgeous, so I would definitely recommend it as something to get for, like, Christmas time, the next brand.

I've mentioned a time or two before, which has been cotton.

So Cotton's really great because it's Egyptian cotton and it's ethically sourced from Egypt.

And actually 100% of their sales this weekend on Lee are going toward rebuilding to primary schools that are in Egypt, which is, you know, where all of their farmers are, so they're really trying to lean in and help that area.

The brand has been just absolutely amazing.

Whenever I've gotten their products overall, I just think that cotton is a very great brand for basic, so very soft things, of course, because it's Egyptian cotton.

And overall, I've really just fallen in love with a brand.

If you've been following this channel for any time at all, you'll know that I love Pamela card jewelry.

I were almost exclusively every day, and so I really have just loved the fact that everything is handmade Bye on old process called Lost wax Casting Hamlet card, her jewelry is actually something that she found inspiration from A.

She would travel the world and go to different museums, and she'd find images off like old coins and mosaics and then make jewelry to be inspired by that.

So I, of course, fallen in love with that.

Everything is just beautifully gold, and it's a great thing to get for an heirloom piece.

So if you're going to shop for someone that you really want to buy something special for, then I would definitely look into Pamela Cars jewelry.

I've mentioned this next one in a couple of different videos, but J.

Hannah is a great brand for jewelry, but right now I've only delved into her nail polish is for nail polish is our beautiful.

I've actually wearing one of them Right now.

I think the color is called Himalayan Salt.

So I've got two colors, that one.

And then I've got a very sheer sheen glitter that's really beautiful.

It's like just almost a queer coat, so I'll leave links down in the description to those as well as everything else.

But yeah, I've just been so in love with her brand, and it's definitely on my wish list on her jewelry pieces.

Next, I have to bring up my solo even though there are, Ah, very fast growing company.

It's really their practices that have made them that way.

Actually, a couple of years ago on the Forbes website, you can read about how they are a small business from Nashville that is competing with some big guns and fashion, and I just love the fact that their practices are so well done.

They celebrate the people who've made shoes in their traditional style that they've been making in hand producing through generations.

So it's just very great to be able to celebrate how that has taken place and to bring more money into those economies in places like Peru, where those people are now sending their kids to college, I can go much more in depth in another video that I did.

It's all linked that for you guys if you want to know more about it.

Another in Nashville brand is Elizabeth Suzanne and I've warned her stuff for about a couple of years now and has been so cool to see how much it's grown in that time.

And, of course, I was kind of late to the ballgame because she has been around for about, I think, 56 years off the top of my head.

And she has a small company that's based out of Nashville, that is, You know, everything.

Everybody's paid well, and everybody's really happy by what I can tell in that hole factory.

And it's just everybody is.

They're working together on making these pieces.

Everything's made to order.

She also has a range of sizes and really high quality fabrics.

I feel like her linens and silks are just top notch.

Nice is windblown jewelry.

The girl who owns it is someone who has been a really great friend to me for years.

Actually, when I knew Rachel, when she was little, and we were both like on the trampoline.

So we go way back.

But it's been really cool to see how she's gotten into developing jewelry and just you can see how she's sitting at her desk, and she's like making this jewelry by hand.

It's just so cool.

So is now.

She's built a business out of it.

I think she's got a team of just a few people, and it's just really cool to see how this whole thing has transformed.

And everything is super affordable, too, because a lot of the pieces are brass.

So if you wanted to get a few necklaces and hand them out at Christmas time, that would be so good.

Or like even a co worker would be such a great option to buy things from Rachel's story.

So this past summer I've done feature Fridays, and they were for artisans, so I wanted to kind of highlight those a couple of them again that were just so amazing to fold makes absolutely beautiful jumpsuits and tanks that I've gotten, so I will leave a link to that and then also I'll leave a link to Rachel Hera, and she makes beautiful linen shirts, and I just have loved wearing those.

So I will leave links to those again, just absolutely incredible for if you want to shop small.

So I have just a few more companies that I've really had on my radar once.

I have not necessarily shopped from yet myself, but one is noble carriage.

I really want to shop there for Christmas time.

For my nieces, they have stuffed animals as well as close and was really great about them.

It's not only their aesthetic, but everything that they sell.

There is, you know, just aggregating a bunch of different artisans who make these things.

And they're all like stuffed animals and clothes that are organic.

And they have a really high standard for the fabrics and products that they put into everything, like they don't want the baby's skin to interact with anything that might be harmful, so they have a very high standard.

Next schoolhouse is really great if you want to look for lighting for your home in honestly of all of their home items, air just so cool.

They used to have this old schoolhouse building, and that's where they got their name from They still to this day just have everything under one roof, which it takes a lot of impact out of trying to ship things back and forth.

It's just all local, so that's really cool.

Next is joinery, So definitely looked there.

If you want to get anything for your home, I think everything has just such a beautiful aesthetic that I could have my house for decades.

So thank you guys for listening to this video.