Brighton has designed a limited edition peace charm bangle bracelet as a way to show support in promoting world peace. Brighton’s Peace charm bangle features removable charms so that others can be added to truly make it your own. For each Peace Charm bangle bracelet sold from January 15 – February 14, Brighton will donate $5 to a peace supporting organization.
The Little Traveler is a leader among Brighton stores and is the only Platinum Heart Brighton retailer in Illinois. Pick up your Peace Charming bracelet in our Brighton Room, filled with jewelry, watches, bags, leather handbags and more!
Brighton has selected these organizations to receive funds from the sale of Brighton’s Peace Bangle.
PHYSICIANS FOR PEACE
Physicians for Peace is an international, humanitarian, nonprofit, medical education organization dedicated to building peace and international friendships in developing nations with unmet medical needs and scarce resources.
WOMEN FOR WOMEN
Promoting Peace in the Home- Promoting leadership to ensure violence prevention efforts are implemented and are developed for victims of abuse and violence against women and children.
USA CARES
Supporting Those Who Sacrifice for Peace- Supporting our military personnel and their families as they make the selfless sacrifice of service to our country-leaving their homes, families, friends and lives to defend the ideals of a nation.
ACTION AGAINST HUNGER
Ending Hunger to Create a Climate for Peace- Engaging in the fight to end hunger that endangers the lives of children, women and men in situations of war, conflict, natural disaster and poverty.
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power… the world will know peace.”
-Jimi Hendrix
NEW at The Little Traveler! In our gourmet department you can now find Honey Wheat Beer Bread Mix and Whole Wheat Pizza Beer Crust Mix by the Original Seefurth Family. You can often find Chef Tom Seefurth right here in our store giving our customers great ideas for using the wonderful baking mixes that make it easy as pie to bake your own homemade pizza dough or honey wheat bread dough, no recipe required. To make it even easier for you — these products are available at our on-line store!
The Honey Wheat Beer Bread Mix is made with 100% stone ground whole wheat flour and makes one loaf of bread. Simply add beer, honey & olive oil and mix by hand. Ingredients: 100% stone ground whole wheat flour, baking powder (monocalcium phosphate, sodium bicarbonate, cornstarch), sea salt.
The 100% Whole Wheat Pizza Beer Crust Mix makes two 12″ pizza crusts. Add beer & olive oil and mix by hand. Ingredients: 100% whole wheat flour, baking powder (monocalcium phosphate, bicarbonate of soda, cornstarch from non-genetically modified corn, sea salt.
Saturday, December 19:
Explore the wonderful world of Brighton Charms where you can record your life’s memories with thoughtful pieces such as necklaces, bracelets and key fobs. On December 19, our experts will help you design your own bracelet as we preview all the new releases right here in our Chicagoland store. You’ll love the adorable reindeer, snowmen and penguin charms. The best thing about Brighton Charms… not only are they colorful, whimsical, and affordable collectibles… they are made to fit all the other charm bracelets and charm necklaces out there. This is the perfect opportunity to create a heart-felt one-of-a-kind gift.
Department 56 began as part of Bachman’s, a premiere retail florist in Minneapolis. Bachman’s used a numbering system to identify each of its departments. The number assigned to wholesale gift imports division was, you guessed it, 56! In 1976, the department began to take shape as you know it today with the introduction of six hand-painted, lighted ceramic buildings, the beginnings of the Original Snow Village®.
From the Original Snow Village Series
This Snow Village was all inspired one Christmas evening when a group of friends went out to dinner at a small country inn nestled in a quiet river town. The lights sparkled on the new fallen snow, inspiring the visitors with Christmas memories. To preserve the magic of the moment, the idea for a miniature lighted Christmas village was born.
Now headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Department 56 is the premier name in giftware and collectibles, including hand-painted porcelain bisque Snowbabies™. But the company is still best know for its charming hand-crafted lighted villages, which have been expanded to include not only The Snow Village Series, but The North Pole Series, The Dickens’ Village Series and many more. Festive fall displays are also possible now with Dept 56 Halloween buildings and accessories.
From the Legends of Sleepy Hallow-een series
Create stunning, memorable displays that reflect your style and imagination. From small town America to the streets of New York to Victorian England, the magical North Pole to spooky Sleepy Hallow, Department 56 villages are thoughtfully created using hand-craftsmanship and the highest level of architectural detail to achieve authenticity. And what better place to put together the village of your dreams than our very own Little Traveler building in the picturesque village of Geneva, Illinois?
Each year, certain Dept 56 products are retired. See which village items retire at the end of 2009.
Trollbeads Trunk Show December 9 – 10: Special showing of one-of-a-kind beads. First come, first served. Get a 5th bead FREE when you purchase four beads.
Trollbeads, created by eighteen Danish and internationally renowned jewelery designers, are so much more than pretty bracelets or necklaces. They are functional art, finding inspiration from mythology, astrology, fairy tales, fauna, flora, cultural diversity, and even familiar, everyday things. Looking at the Trollbeads collection is more like viewing an art gallery rather than shopping for jewelry. Trollbeads have won international artistic recognition and have recently been exhibited at Sculpture Objects & Functional Art in Chicago and New York.
Because each person’s story is unique, the Trollbeads gallery includes a wide variety of unique and interesting beads, charms and pendants for individuals to create beautiful and meaningful bracelets and necklaces, starting with the highest quality of raw materials, including sterling silver, 18 carat gold, Italian Murano glass, natural pearls and precious stones. Add to that the variety in design, from symbols to flowers to animals to zodiac signs and you’ll understand that truly, each piece of Trollbead jewelry is as individual as the person wearing it.
I come to your
Christmas Walk every year and absolutely love it. I come with my sister, cousin and a friend from kindergarten (I am 57 years old, so that is a pretty long friendship). We get there around 2:00 on Friday and leave when you close the doors on us. We love it. We
walk, talk, shop, eat and just love looking around. The Little Traveler is an experience in itself. You don’t really need to go anywhere else. All your shopping can be done in one place. The house is spectacular and we love searching in every room. We look forward to it every year. Thanks for making the holidays so special for us.
-Judy
Local author David Algrim, resident of Geneva, IL, is known for interactive children’s books where kids have fun with such things as pull tabs and scratch-and-sniff to learn valuable lessons. His collection includes Wake Up Papa Bear, Oops-a-Daisy and his latest, Don’t Touch, It’s Hot. All of these and many other children’s books can be found in our toy department. In addition, you can purchase any of David Algrim’s books at our on-line store.
In Wake Up, Papa Bear, toddlers get their chance to tickle Papa Bear’s toes, poke his nose and pull his ear when he falls asleep in Little Cub’s bed. How can they wake up the sleeping bear?
Oops-a-Daisy is an interactive lift-the-flap board book for toddlers that helps them out in social situations by letting them know it’s okay to have a clumsy day, or in the words of our heroine: “Oops-a-daisy!”
Don’t Touch, It’s Hot is an interactive children’s book filled with interesting textures to touch and scents to scratch-and-sniff. It’s a fun way to teach young children about what’s hot in the kitchen.
Ingredients:
1pkg Cream Cheese (8 oz.), softened to room temperature
2 Tbsp Sour cream
2 tsp Curry powder
1/2 cup Raisins
1/2 cup Dry Roasted Peanuts
1/2 cup Green Onions, chopped
1 jar Wisconsin Wilderness Cranberry Chutney*
Directions:
Using a mixer combine cream cheese, sour cream and curry powder. Stir in raisins, peanuts and onions. Shape into ball, cover and chill for at least 1 hour. Spoon 1/2 jar of Wisconsin Wilderness Cranberry Chutney over ball and serve with Crunchmaster Multi-Seed Crackers.*
December 1st,2009
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Remember those elegant hankies grandma always produced at exactly the right moment? And the white gloves you wore to church on Christmas and Easter? Rekindle that tradition with our elegant embroidered hankies and soft white gloves for girls in our linen department.
December 1st,2009
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Dear Little Traveler,
Greetings from South Florida!
Though I live in a vacation capital, for the last few years I have spent my vacation in Batavia with visits to my brother and sister-in-law. And I just want to share with you how the highlight of those visits has become a day spent in Geneva at The Little Traveler– and I do mean a pretty full day. Our day always takes on the same delightful pattern: we shop our way to the middle of the store, stop to energize at The Atrium Cafe for lunch, continuing shopping our way through the rest of the store.
These enjoyable “day trips” have actually taken on the status of family legend where the mantra, “Don’t buy anythng that won’t fit in the suitcase,” is featured. It seems that with great regularity I not only fill my suitcases with your little treasures but I fall in love with a large treasure that requires a very large box that must be shipped home! A chandelier, a wall decoration, and a statue have all made the trip from The Little Traveler in Illinois to my home in Florida.
Let my family tease me. I’ll be back for more treasures… and I’m glad that you ship!
Thanks for the fun! See you next year.
Fondly,
Trish Kornblatt, Boynton Beach, FL
Trish will receive a $50 gift certificate as a token of our thanks for this lovely letter. Send your letters to Almanack Editor, 404 S. Third St., Geneva, IL 60134.
