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Uno Alla Volta Completes The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

28 Thursday Aug 2014

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On Tuesday afternoon, Uno Alla Volta gathered together to raise awareness for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and we had some fun doing it! Our team completed the Ice Bucket Challenge with flying colors… and lots of ice!

Many of us have donated to a variety of ALS foundations close to our hearts, while Terri Alpert, the CEO and founder of Uno Alla Volta, will be making a personal donation on behalf of our company to Amanda’s Angels.

Since it is a challenge, we have nominated our friends; King Arthur Flour®, Gardeners Supply Company®, Bright Cloud Marketing and UncommonGoods to complete the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge with their teams and to donate as well.

If you would like to donate or for more information on ALS, please follow the links below to a couple of the many fantastic foundations for this cause:

http://bit.ly/AmandasAngels

http://www.alsa.org/

Partners In Creation

28 Thursday Aug 2014

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We are so proud to bring you this issue – our strongest autumnal offering since our beginning in 2002.

And what a labor of love this has been for everyone involved. For our artisans who bring to life each individual work with their hearts as well as their hands. For our merchants who collaborate with our artisans to create products just for you. (The vast majority of the treasures you will see here are available no where else in the world!) For our creative team who bring our handcrafted treasures to life in the two dimensions of ink on paper (or pixels on a computer screen).

I have always considered myself to be a student of the creative process. Creativity is how many of us experience and express our own individuality. It is, I believe, one of the fi nest ways to fulfill the human potential.

Yet for all the wonders of individual creativity, I have recently discovered that when one can bring together people with very different gifts and meld their strengths and common vision, the result is often just shy of miraculous. So what is my labor of love? Bringing together
these incredibly talented creative forces and watching a whole evolve that is so much greater than the sum of its parts!

 

Terri S. Alpert
Founder & CEO
T.Alpert@unoallavolta.com

The Joy of Discovery

11 Monday Aug 2014

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Traveling for me brings the joy of discovery – the joy that comes from experiencing new cultures, and of meeting new people and learning of their stories. Right now, while you are reading this letter, I am on a trip of an entirely different kind.

Every August since 2004, my husband, my two kids and I travel to the Outer Banks of North Carolina, where we join my sister, her husband, and her three children. There is a rhythm to our days and we follow the script set many years before.

The ritualistic sameness provides a high contrast background, making visible that none of us is quite the same person who was here ten summers ago – or even last summer! And, so it is that I delight in discovering each of my loved ones anew.

During long quiet walks in the sand, I reflect on the person that I’ve become over the last year. And, I make commitments to myself – necessary ones – so that when I return in one year’s time, I will be able to experience the joy of discovery when I encounter myself on the beach.

 

Terri

In Celebration Of Liberty

04 Friday Jul 2014

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What is liberty if not the freedom to reach for the best within each of us? And, what greater blessing can there be in life than appreciating the privilege to assist in some small way in creating the opportunities for others to become the best they can be? We have such deep respect for each of the artisans with whom we collaborate. It is such an honor to facilitate their work.

What joy we had developing our new “Stars and Stripes” collection with Weronika, Jacek, and their son, Jacek Jr., in their buzzing workshop in Boleslawiec, Poland. To think, just a few decades ago, this family and their colleagues lived in a political regime that lacked even the most basic personal liberties, and now they are thriving as entrepreneurs, as artists, and as human beings. Here in America, Uno Alla Volta celebrates the “little guy” (or more often “little gal”) every day. So many of our artisans are Americans, in their second careers. Following exits from the corporate world, they are finding fulfillment and sustenance with the work of their hands.

Know that you, my friends, are bringing about these blessings, one purchase at a time.

 

Terri