busy busy

Things have been crazy lately...but have been going great. I have been traveling a lot, meeting a lot of people, and picking up some really innovative ideas, but have not been updating Juballer. I traveled to Atlanta a couple weekends ago for the annual Specialty Coffee Exposition and World Barista Championship. Although I traveled solo for this trip, I had a lot of fun and learned a lot. Hopefully I will be able to attend next years in Anaheim. I have several posts that I have been working on but haven't published yet. That tends to happen more frequently than I wish.


I did want to share a website that I stumbled across. I have been in contact recently with a group in Colorado called Cold Orange Media. The site speaks for itself, and I think they do great work. They pointed me to a website of a group they have been working with for a few months now. I am still learning more about them, but they seem to have a mission similar to that of Jubala's. Light Gives Heat has two projects, SUBBI and EPOH. The SUBBI project works with a group of 60 women in a village of Uganda paying them a sustainable income to make handcrafted jewlery to be sold in the states. The pictures on the site tell the story themselves and bring back some great memories. I am interested to learn more about the EPOH project. According to the site this is a project with a different village that creates bags, scarves, and textiles. I love people with passion!