Holiday Shopping Guide: Female-Owned Businesses
It’s time to get a jump on your holiday shopping and we love shopping from small businesses. As a small business owners ourselves, we know first-hand how much it means when someone purchases something from us. We put together a list of amazing female-owned businesses to shop from this holiday season! Many of the shops are also offering Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales - yay!
Shopping from these shops is the perfect way to support women and to support small businesses - both of which are so important. Check out these shops, I’m sure you’ll love them as much as we do!
Coco & Pine
Coco + Pine is an Etsy shop that creates fun, sassy hand printed tees. The shop is run by Courtney Smith and is based outside of DC. I am obsessed with Coco + Pine tees…I have four! I have the live fast, pet dogs tee, the don’t fck with me tee, the crybaby tee, and the ross tee. The tees are great quality and super comfy!
Black Friday: 30% off everything! (11/29-12/2)
As a stay-at-home mother of twins, Erin Condren developed some major cabin fever and started searching for a job that would allow her to work from home with her kids. Erin says, “With a tight budget and an active imagination, I began making note cards for friends, as birthday gifts, new baby announcements and hostess gifts. My friend encouraged me to sell my designs at a "shopping party" at her home in June 2004 and the rest is history.”
Erin Condren created the best-selling Lifeplanner™️ that is proven to increase both productivity and time management! The Lifeplanner™️ is completely customizable and personalizable, making it a great gift this holiday season. Personalize your planner with your name and with interchangeable covers. Even create a cover using your own photos!
The Lifeplanner™️ also makes a great gift as 2020 is right around the corner - it’s the perfect time to get a new planner and set your goals and plans for the new year. Plus, the journals, stickers, pens, and all other accessories make great stocking stuffers!
Capsul Jewelry was founded by Tina Cheng, a former jewelry industry executive. After becoming a mom, Cheng wanted a way to capture her daughter’s adorable handwriting and sweet little voice. After seeing first-hand how toxic some jewelry manufacturing processes could be, she founded Capsul.
Capsul uses the latest 3D-printing technology to design each unique piece of jewelry with your own handwriting, the sound wave of a voice, or a special name, date, or place. The mission at Capsul is “to always deliver premium custom jewelry made in the most socially responsible and eco-friendly way possible.”
Glassybaby is a hand-blown glass company that was founded by three time cancer survivor Lee Rhodes. While undergoing chemotherapy, Lee was overwhelmed by the amount of patients who were unable to afford their basic needs due to the treatment expenses. The core mission of Glassybaby is to help alleviate the financial struggles of cancer patients.
Roses n Rosé is a San Diego based skincare company founded by Chante Joanne, who also had a huge role in the start up of Girlcrush Collective! Roses n Rosé products are all natural and cruelty free. I personally love the rosewater face mist and the Rosie Cheeks coffee body scrub!
People I’ve Loved was founded by Carissa Potter in 2011. It started as a stationary line but now carries a wide range of prints and home goods such as totes, pins, socks, and more. People I’ve Loved’s mission is to “bridge the gap between people by helping them have authentic and sometimes difficult conversations.” Their unique style is raw and beautiful. The designs exhibit the authenticity and range of emotions that aren’t always easy to express.
Be sure to check out the holiday cards, they are so fun. And between the prints, the hats, the journals, there’s something for everyone at People I’ve Loved (and the pins make great stocking stuffers)!
Naomi Singer has always been a creator, but she has a real passion for clay. Creating her beautiful ceramic pieces is not only her obsession, but also her way of meditating. Each piece is made with her own two hands, making each piece unique and beautifully imperfect.
When Singer is not spinning the wheel in her ceramics studio, at her job as a high school art teacher, working on her freelance web design projects, or teaching children and adults to paint and draw at the art studio that she co-owns!
Her ceramic pieces are designed to bring joy and happiness to those who receive them. With over 300 items in her Etsy shop, there’s something for everyone on your holiday shopping list!
Mini Friday
Black Friday: 60% off entire shop!
Mini Friday is a children's streetwear store based out of Atlanta, Georgia dedicated to providing quality pieces that are genderless. Why do girls have to wear pink with princess themes and boys have to wear blue with sports themes? Kids are unique individuals and deserve to look as cool as they want and be celebrated for their individuality.
Mini Friday embraces current trends in the fashion world and translate them into stylish items for your minis to explore their personal style. Get on their VIP list at shopminifriday.com to receive the exclusive 60% off Black Friday discount directly in your email.
Inspired women on a mission.
Zenned Out jewelry is a tangible, powerful, and wearable reminder to become engrossed in what you love. Like a meaningful tattoo you can take off and switch out, Zenned Out jewelry will remind you of how divinely inspired you truly are. We make clean, thoughtful designs with deep, spiritual messages that are not overtly obvious. Rather, we create tasteful pieces as unique as you are that hold a profound meaning for you- and only you.
Born from the heart of a true creative visionary and Femme-Preneur, Cassie Uhl established Zenned Out as means to inspire women to foster a lifestyle in which purpose and passion are fully aligned. It is for this reason that Zenned Out is a women-run empire, where each piece is handcrafted by a woman who holds the same hopes and dreams deep within her heart that you do---to create from deep within, to connect with other goddesses from every corner of Mother Earth, and to be a source of inspired energy to others through her passions. Made to be more than a way to adorn yourself. It is meant to help pave a gilded pathway to open discussion about topics of spirituality, and create a space in which you can fully express your beliefs, hopes, and inspirations.
At Zenned Out, all of our handmade products are made in Tempe, Arizona. We value keeping our craft local, small, and purposeful, so we will continue to make our products right here in the United States. We believe that by valuing craftsmanship and keeping money inside the U.S., change can happen. We are the alternative to mass production, we believe in the lighter side of gift giving, and making a difference in people’s lives. At Zenned Out,we want to give you the purchasing power that makes you feel good- not guilty.
Zandra Beauty
Zandra Beauty is a beauty brand founded by 19-year-old Zandra Azariah Cunningham. She has been fascinated with entrepreneurship since she was 9 years old, when her father refused to buy her lip balm, forcing her to create her own.
Throughout her teenage years, Zandra made it her mission to create products that smelled good and kept skin soft without irritating it. She was set on giving girls a natural alternative to all the commercial products with unhealthy ingredients.
Today, Zandra offers natural bath + body for the educated + empowered girl on the move! She says, “I believe that young ladies should be confident in their own skin and learn what beauty is from the inside out. My hope is to inspire youth to take action and make things happen for themselves and their communities. I aspire to create natural products that promote healthy skin care regimens and motivate you daily.”
The healthy products and fun branding make Zandra Beauty products the perfect gift for the women in your life!
handmade jewelry for upbeat people
Jill Makes is a handcrafted jewelry and accessory company run by designer, Jill Foreman. Her focus on designing pieces with a modern, artful aesthetic has inspired a unique, colorful jewelry and accessories line. The fun pieces are assembled and painted by hand with many of the pieces offering personalization.
Jill is also a wife and mom to two sweet boys - Bennett & Qunicy. She Ioves making things by hand, sunflower seeds and can't pass up a good vintage sports jacket.
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"Our purpose in life is to uncover exceptional design from all over the world and bring this to savvy consumers who won't accept anything else."
Mariam Naficy founded Minted in 2007. The daughter of a development economist, she grew up in 5 countries in the Middle East and Africa. Having seen interesting art and design in her travels, as well as the art created by her own family members, she was intrigued in 2007 by the idea that there was hidden creative talent around the world whose work was not accessible to consumers and that the Internet could help surface. Her founding question: could crowd-sourcing design build an e-commerce company that stayed in tune with its consumer audience forever?