After 3 years of hard work, spending a fortune on buying stock and having a professional website built, two days ago we finally got our site up and running! All we have to do now is sit back and wait for the first order - but we're not holding our collective breath. We'll still be doing the rallies and music festivals as we love the atmosphere and of course the healing areas.
When I look back to the germ of an idea that was inspired by my late husband's pen and ink drawing, of a native american trading outside a fort in the 19th century, then visiting America and bringing back native items and crafts it seems that all our efforts have finally paid off. Selling native american chokers and crafts along with crystals at biker rallies was only the start of a long road that will hopefully lead to independence and full time employment for my husband and daughters!
If anyone is interested in taking a look the url is
http://www.tradingnative.co.uk/index.html
The majority of the items for sale are made by local native craftsmen in India, Tibet, China and the USA, with the sales benefitting the artist rather than the middle men who don't care what working conditions are as long as it makes money to line their pockets. We will not buy anything that we suspect is made by children or women in sweatshops, forced to work in atrocious conditions for a measly few pennies rather than clean healthy premises and fair wages.
Our buying from them directly will benefit our artisans in other countries, with the money they get for the sale of their beautiful craftsmanship will feed and support their own families, as we intended it to do right from the moment we decided to start up our own company. 
Blessings to you and yours - wish us luck!
