For the last two weeks, Kim and Ibu Wenny have been making trips down to the market on Fridays in order to buy fabric. If you like going to fabric stores, then you would love shopping around the different stalls and stores that make up the tapestry of an Indonesian market. However, if you don't like fabric type stores; you know, if you get a headache the minute you set foot into a Michaels or some equivalent, then you might want to have smelling salts on hand. Let's just say that I'm very happy to have Kim involved in this aspect of the learning center.
The fabric they are buying will be used to make pillow covers and ethnic bags. So far, we've been able to sell quite a few pillow cases, just in Indonesia. Now, Ibu Wenny wants to branch out into these bags. The two that were made as examples have already been purchased.
We're trying to make a bunch to be exported (that is, hand carried by friends to the US and Australia, and sold to their network of friends) over the next couple of months. We'll be bringing as many as we can stuff into our suitcases when we return to the US in June.
