"...But Most of All, I See Beautiful"

We have new soft-as-bunnies tees in our See Beautiful store, but that's not the big news. The big news, the beautiful news, is a story of beauty and vulnerability and strength by Sarah Naomi who's modeling this shirt. Sarah is a teacher (as are all our models). Sarah is full of grace and bravery and a love of lifting others up. It's fun to unveil new products for See Beautiful, but it's infinitely more beautiful to see how Sarah has seen beautiful:

"Like many young girls, I struggled with self esteem, self worth and self love throughout my adolescence. I've looked back at old journals from high school and see pages upon pages filled with things I hated about myself.

...A few weeks ago I was invited to model new merchandise for See Beautiful. I nervously joined, put on a brave face and tried my best. Tonight she sent me the photos and I don't see the little girl who hates everything about herself. Instead I see happiness. I see joy. But most of all, I‪ #‎SeeBeautiful‬."

~ Sarah

You can get your shirt here, but you can leave your love and join Sarah in this See Beautiful Community when you follow in her footsteps. That's way more important than the tshirt.

http://seebeautiful.com/clothing.html

Breathe it all in. Love it all out.

Breathe it all in. Love it all out.

Together we give when you receive. That's what love is all about. Choose the Humanitarian See Beautiful Giving Initiative of your choice and help create more beautiful in the world. Live to Give.

You can feel the love here: http://seebeautiful.com/jewelry.html

Breathe

Give yourself permission to take time to breathe, to give, to love, to see beautiful, and be present. Our handmade, eco-friendly reminder also creates a lot of beautiful while you breathe. Select the giving initiative of your choice and change the lives of those you support from Eastern Congo with Mavuno, to Atlanta with BullsEye Rescue to Arusha, Tanzania with Glorious, to Utah with Little Lambs, to Oklahoma with Journey of Sarah, and so much more!

Get yours here: http://seebeautiful.com/jewelry.html

Love Lifts Us Up Where We Belong

"We rise by lifting others." 

~ Robert Ingersoll

This piece of art on reclaimed wood is now available to you. You can lift others with love with your purchase too, as you select the See Beautiful Humanitarian Giving Initiative of your choice - from Tanzania to Congo to Oklahoma to Utah - love is lifting a lot of people. We're seeing & creating a lot of beautiful together. Thank you!

Learn more here: http://seebeautiful.com/home--gift.html

New Goodies Unveiled: The Inspiration Set

New to our collection of eco-friendly products that give back to the See Beautiful Humanitarian Giving Initiative(s) of your choice! Buy one, or rock them all. Either way, the best part of these amazing hand-stamped inspirational bracelets is the beautiful they create in the world.

Bam Jam Back Again

Our AMAZING Bam Jam speakers are FINALLY BACK IN STOCK!! It's the all natural speaker with no wires, no batteries and completely sustainable! Created in a bamboo cooperative, Bam Jam gives jobs and supports a local community in Haiti! Even better, choose the See Beautiful Giving Initiative of your choice at check out and create a lot more beautiful!

S U R V I V O R

Our SURVIVOR scarves made by the beautiful women at Colors may just be the most beautiful accessory to sport this month...and every month. Choose the giving initiative of your choice at checkout to create even more beautiful!

http://seebeautiful.com/scarves.html

Give New Hope - Get Yours Here

After sharing conversation, hugs, laughter and holding back tears with the children we support at the New Hope Center, I can assure you, this is not a bag; this is an investment in the life of an amazing child living in Eastern Congo. Their joy expands the world, you can expand theirs.

Give new hope, and get yours here: http://seebeautiful.com/bags.html

Handmade in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo by the beautiful women of ShonaCongo. Learn more about their beautiful work here.

STUCK on Seeing Beautiful

The more you practice seeing beautiful, the easier it get to see it. Ya know? 

Get your own set of stickers here: http://seebeautiful.com/more-beautiful.html

The Hoodie to Rival All Hoodies

Cool weather knocking at your door? Welcome it in with comfort in our "soft as bunnies" See Beautiful. Always. long-sleeve hoodie. Enter the See Beautiful Giving Initiative of your choice at check out and make it a beautiful purchase with a purpose too!

P.S. Our models are never air-brushed. Pictures are never altered. Photoshop ain't got nothing on the beauty of the amazing women, like Illy, featured on our website.

Get yours HERE.

I Fell Off the Wagon...

...the Blogging Wagon, that is. It is really easy, too easy really, to get sucked into the quick-picture-sharing of social media and pretend that the words that back up the images you've created don't matter.

Your. Words. Matter.

A lot has been happening with See Beautiful lately and while I am living it, I can't expect others to grasp this daily life and the long term goals without sharing it. So, I didn't really fall off the wagon, I stepped off of it and into the grass and dug into creating beautiful. Here's some of what we're doing, and how you can join us, to create beautiful as part of our community:

In a few weeks, See Beautiful will come to you from Africa. We're headed overseas with Kula Project to do some pretty incredible things; what's even more thrilling is that you can be a part of this journey. You can help send children to school and improve play therapy for children at the New Hope Center in Eastern Congo, provide coffee trees for 48 women in Rwanda, and while I'm away, you can do something spectacular in your own backyard by providing 250 diapers to a family in needs all with the swipe of a few keys on your keyboard.  There is no shortage of beautiful in this world, but there is infinite beauty still left to create. Thank you for all you do to make See Beautiful such an incredible Community of people connected by a common thread to make this world a better place.

GOMA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: The New Hope Center, with whom we've worked for the past three years, is in need of new/gently used soccer balls for their play therapy with children. If you'd like to donate a soccer ball for us to hand-deliver, please let us know!  Additionally, we send and keep 53 children in school each month. To send a child to school, simply purchase any of our products benefiting the "New Hope" Collection. You receive a beautiful product, children receive new hope.

KAYONZA, RWANDA: We are so proud to support Kula Project in raising $3,000 to provide (get ready for this beautiful) 1,000 coffee trees for 48 women to create sustainable income to provide an education for their children. The female farmers have named their group, "Fight to Live." They are creating beautiful every day and you can provide them with the very coffee trees that will keep their fight alive. Shop our "Fight to Live" Collection and provide the very coffee trees we get to plant alongside these 48 beautiful women in October.

ATLANTA, GEORGIA: One in 3 parents must choose between purchasing food or diapers for their family. Our new See Beautiful Giving Initiative to bring a truckload of diapers (literally, a GIANT truckload with 300,000 diapers) is special because we have partnered with an incredible non-profit, Helping Mamas, that is supporting families in need, right here in our home-state of Georgia.  With every purchase of our special edition "Stronger Together" bracelet (or any of our products where you select "Helping Mamas") you will provide a family with a YEARLONG supply of diapers (250 diapers)!

A Boy and His Dog (and How You Can Help)

When you purchase a YOU ARE A LIGHT bracelet, you not only receive a beautiful product, you support Team Tripp and his wonderful service dog, Jericho. Proceeds from this sale provide the much needed health insurance Jericho needs as he'll always by his trusty buddy, Tripp's, side! Pretty beautiful, right?

MORE BEAUTIFUL: We'd love to meet this goal for the family by the end of the week, so if you're starting your holiday shopping early, take advantage of our buy one, get one free, offer Monday through Friday of this week for the YOU ARE A LIGHT bracelets!!! Also, choose TEAM TRIPP from any of our Giving Products and know you're supporting his family there too!

The Bam Jam Speaker

LIMITED OFFERING!! The all natural speaker that lets you amplify the beautiful music you jam out to!! Created in a bamboo cooperative, your Bam Jam speaker provides jobs and supports a local community in Haiti!! 

No wires! No batteries! Completely sustainable! 

Plus, you choose the See Beautiful Giving Initiative of your choice at check out and create even more beautiful. Get your Bam Jam Speaker HERE now.

Hopes & Dreams

They are the hopes and dreams of children living in Eastern Congo. They are sometimes tear-soaked, often laughter-filled drawings from little hands. They represent new hope and strength and love. They may look like simple enough beads to the naked eye, but now you know. You know these symbolize a future full of love that every child on earth deserves. This is what we work for - to create beautiful for them all. ‪#‎seebeautiful‬

Naturally, you can get your Drawing Beads HERE.

Strength for Today; New Hope for Tomorrow

They're back in stock and even better, every purchase of our New Hope tanks sends/keeps a child living in Eastern Congo to school for a month. Get you some!!

AND (drumroll, please) new color, same beautiful giving! It's soft as bunnies too!

Fight to Live

FIGHT TO LIVE Collection
supporting The Kula Project

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Every product you purchase from our Fight to Live Collection, provides a coffee tree AND the means to run the coffee plantation for the 48 Rwandan women who own it.

The women. The farmers. Their future coffee plantation.

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Believe. Do. Cuff Set $30

i fight for life Cuff $15

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Select "Fight to Live Kula Women" from any of these products and your purchase also provides a coffee tree and the means to run the coffee plantation for the 48 Rwandan women who own it:

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Shantel. Beautiful woman. Coffee farmer. Fights for life.

 

 

48 women.
1,000 coffee trees.
1 coffee plantation.
Infinite beauty.

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Anonciatta. Beautiful woman. Coffee farmer. Fights for life.

Their name is TURWANE K'UBUZIMA (tour-wan-ey koo-boo-zima), which translates to "Fight to live."

They are survivors of the genocide in Rwanda.

They saved and put their money together to buy a plot of land.

They organized themselves as a Co-op to be able to have a better chance of partnering with health NGOs to get the proper medicines.

They are an inspiration.

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Flordina. Beautiful woman. Coffee farmer. Fights for life.

They heard about Kula Project, and their leader asked Kula to help them turn their land- which is currently being worked to prepare for the coffee trees - into a coffee plantation with 1,000 coffee trees.

They want to grow coffee because they know it will produce income long enough for their children to complete school.
They embody a will to "fight to live."

They are incredible.

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Mucsaniabo. Beautiful woman. Coffee farmer. Fights for life.

They have contracts with their co-op that state that should they succumb to their disease, their children will still get the income to pay school fees.
Your purchase helps them fight for life and provide a future for their children.
You can help them create more beautiful in the world. Clearly, they're already pros at seeing beautiful.

Every single one of these women is stunningly beautiful.

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Want to support this See Beautiful Giving Initiative, but don't need the products? Just pop on over to The Kula Project and make a donation there. Note that you'd like to support the Fight to Live Women!

"Life" as you Know It Is about to Look more Beautiful

This is Maisha.
Her name means "Life" in Swahili.
She's in 2nd grade and will stay in school thanks to your support of our New Hope Collection.
That smile makes our life quite a bit sweet too.
Irresistible, you know?

Beat the Heat

If ever there was a tank to beat the heat, this is it; sustainably-sourced, ethically-made and "soft as bunnies": See Beautiful. Always.

Get your See Beautiful. Always. Tank and show us how you're seeing and creating beautiful!

Seeing Beautiful In Serving Others

These past several weeks have been chocked full of seeing beautiful! We have celebrated the funding of not one, but TWO, See Beautiful Giving Initiatives!

$350 Donated by See Beautiful

$1500 donated by See Beautiful

When you purchase an item from See Beautiful you help create more beautiful in the world! Thank you for helping us fund these incredible projects!! Our See Beautiful Community is always leaving us inspired. So in this moment, see beautiful and celebrate for these young kiddos!

Want to support one of our amazing See Beautiful Giving Initiatives? Visit HERE and get yourself some beautiful goodies that create even more beautiful in the world.

Strength for Today and New Hope for Tomorrow

Sustainably sourced and ethically made, our New Hope Tanks are "soft as bunnies" and dish up the inspiration you need to see beautiful, while also serving a greater purpose than simply clothing. A true "purchase with purpose," your purchase sends a child living in Eastern Congo to school for one month. Perhaps that means you need one in every color? We think that's a good choice.

Snag your very own New Hope Tank - they're flying off the shelves (which means kiddos are lining up for school!).