Newest Employee

Thanks to the new Put Illinois to Work program five ACCESSORIES was recently able to hire Asaca as our newest employee. Our mission is to create income generating programs for individuals, donate a large portion of our sales to worthy charitable causes and foster the use of sustainable material in fashion.

In the photo above Asaca is displaying her first completed Off the Street picture frame. Asaca has 4 children ages 4 to 12 and has adopted her sister's child.

Confessions of an Over-Worked Mom Giveaway

Ellen at Confessions of an Over-Worked Mom is hosting a giveaway of our Flower Bracelet. She has also generously posted about five ACCESSORIES on her other blog called The Socialite's Closet. Please help us support her by visiting her blogs, leaving a comment or even entering her giveaway. Thanks!

Click Shoes Trunk Show

We want to keep you abreast to our busy spring season, so here is another event that we will be attending:

Click Shoes Trunk Show
April 22, 2010

4 pm to 8 pm
3742 N Southport Ave
Chicago, IL 60613

http://www.clickshoes.net/

Fair Trade Bazaar at Roosevelt University

We will be at the Roosevelt University Fair Trade Bazaar on Thursday, April 22, 2010 from 10 am to 3 pm 430 S Michigan Ave.Chicago, IL 60605. Hope some of you can make it! We actually have three different events on the 22nd, so you definitely have your pick of events that day! We will post event details in the upcoming days and weeks ahead, so stay tuned....

Helping others with five

Help others.... it just takes five

Wouldn't it be great if you could help generate income for someone in need just by purchasing a unique and trendy handbag?

At five ACCESSORIES, we are making that easy for you. Through the purchase of a handbag from our Honduras Collection, you are helping to support women and their families who participate in a Honduran fair trade cooperative.

Dilma is 28 years old and has 5 daughters. Her income from making recycled potato chip bags has been used to purchase medicine and provide health care - including hospitalization - to her children, who have often been sick. Dilma has also purchased a mattress and patched her leaking roof, all of which she hopes will improve her family's health. She now aspires to save enough money to send her children to school.

Many uses for coconut trees....

A Thai farmer from a rural province south of Bangkok has found yet another
use for the versatile coconut. Not only does its flesh provide food, its
trunk supply wood, and its juice make a delicious drink, but now Kitti
Maneesrikul is using its oil to fuel the family truck.

Here is another way to resue the coconuts...... check out five ACCESSORIES's new
cream coconut handbags. Five dollars from the sale of this bag
goes towards keeping at-risk-children in school in Bali, Indonesia.