An Update from P. Dail and Sara's Travels!

On Monday evening, P. Dail and Sara were in Denizli, Turkey and had just returned from 2 days at the Mediterranean of which one day was spent sailing around on a cruise boat for about 8 hours... it's a "tough life", noted P. Dail!

Here's the rest of P. Dail's tails from the trip so far:

We spent the first 5 days in Istanbul and saw all the famous sites as well as spent 2 days looking for new items. When we return tomorrow, we're going to the city where the new jewelry I describe later in this email, the Osmanli jewelry, is made. We'll take pictures of the workplace then.


Ali Bozkus - we bought jewelry from him we are bringing with us in Istanbul


Ali Kara - we bought some incredible new scarves from him that will be home around June 8. His family makes them. Family business is located in Bursa, Turkey.

All these next ladies were found at a wonderful Saturday morning Women's Bazaar that runs from about 10 to 4 each Saturday in Denizli. A friend of ours had told us about this and we went. These three ladies were who we thought we could best work with and thus we selected items from them.


Dilek Kaban is the artisan standing next to Pdail. Makes incredible items including hats, shawls, etc.


Sara and Pdail meeting and inspecting and selecting


Behice Ustuncus - SHE IS A HOOT!!! Awesome shawls, new really different scarves, and other things you'll have to see to understand.


Behice again


Gulistan Ahat - new line of fabric purses

OK, we're off to Istanbul tomorrow and leaving for India on Wednesday. Hopefully we'll find some more folks. We think we have 5 or 6 good new families/groups in the above listing.

Take care....we're "suffering" well on our trip.

Makes you want to plan a vacation for next week (and stop in to Beleza soon after their return to check out the goodies), doesn't it?!