Posts tagged 'holiday'

Whether Mom lives in the PA Wilds or it’s one of her favorite places to visit, give her a unique gift that shows her appreciation for the Pennsylvania Wilds! These gifts are straight from the heart, and they also support local artisans who live here in the PA Wilds. Give Mom something she can treasure with these sweet gifts.

Online shopping makes buying the perfect Christmas gift easy! You can order heartfelt gifts made in the PA Wilds, and they can be delivered right to your home (or someone else's) before the holidays. However, it takes time for the elves to package these special presents and deliver them. Make sure that you're ordering your holiday gifts early enough so that they arrive before Christmas.

Abbi was born and raised in New Jersey, where most of her family still resides. Holiday traditions have been established in NJ, which puts Abbi on the road two days before Christmas Eve and has her returning back to the PA Wilds on Christmas Day in time for dinner. As much as she loves spending time with family and friends, it can be a little hectic to celebrate the peak of the season while on the road, so it helps to plan ahead and plan for surprises.

Lucia, part of the PA Wilds Center for Entrepreneurship staff, offers some tasty tips for Thanksgiving and how some of the products at ShopThePAWilds.com can help you have the perfect holiday dinner.

Freshly baked pie, handmade ornaments, twinkling lights, decorating the tree, wrapping the perfect gift for a loved one, and family- that’s what the holiday season means to me. The holiday season invokes many feelings: excitement for time spent with loved ones, and sadness for those who are no longer with me. As I navigate the season, I try not to sweat the small stuff and truly enjoy special holiday meals, mugs of hot chocolate, and snuggling up under my cozy handmade blanket (an amazing gift from a friend last year).

Despite the cold temperatures and long nights, winter gives us so many reasons to celebrate in the Pennsylvania Wilds. However you may be celebrating this season, we wish you and yours a very happy, healthy, joyous time!

Jo Wolfe, a Community Connector at the PA Wilds Conservation Shop at Kinzua Bridge, admits that Christmas shopping for friends and family was a challenge for her. She was seeking to just find a perfect gift instead of finding perfect presents that are also representative of what she values:  nature, artistic beauty and her community.  The Pennsylvania Wilds Marketplace is now her “go-to” holiday shopping destination.

This holiday season I'm giving my friends and family experiences, snacks, and good reads! I'm excited to not only find great gifts all in one place but love knowing that I'm supporting small businesses and makers that I know in the PA Wilds! Here's what is on my list this year for some of my friends.

Although many people in the United States think of Labor Day as the unofficial end to summer or just a fun day to grill and hang out with friends one last time in the warm weather, the holiday actually began in some of the darkest days of America’s industrial history. When you buy a product from the PA Wilds Marketplace, you can feel proud knowing that these products were dreamt of, designed, crafted, printed and created by artisans who are happily making a living here in the PA Wilds.

Online shopping makes buying the perfect Christmas gift easy! You can order heartfelt gifts made in the PA Wilds, and they can be delivered right to your home (or someone else's) before the holidays. However, it takes time for the elves to package these special presents and deliver them. Make sure that you're ordering your holiday gifts early enough so that they arrive before Christmas.