This wooden hand painted mobile features seven hippos. Each hippo measures approx 3 inches. The mobile is approximately 20 inches from the disk to the lowest piece.
Hippo Mobile
The mobile is hand made and hand painted by artisans in Bali and imported to the U.S. from a fair trade company, ensuring fairness and respect for village craft producers.
What???!!! You don’t have a hippo mobile in your home? Fix that right now by buying this one!
Here is a delightfully silly hippo decorated in colorful paisley with a fluffy pink feathered boa wrapped around her neck. She wears blue dancing shoes and is overall a charming and whimsical piece.
Fancy HippoMiss With Pink Scarf
* Measures 4 1/2″ x 3″ x 2-1/2″
* Crafted of glass
* Created by December Diamonds
If you really need another hippo ornament (hey, who doesn’t?) click here to make this yours.
This wooden hand painted wind chime features a mother and her calf. The large hippo measures approximately 4 inches. The chime is approximately 14 inches from the top to the lowest piece.
The wind chime is hand made and hand painted by artisans in Bali and imported to the U.S. from a fair trade company, ensuring fairness and respect for village craft producers.
Hippo Wind Chime
About the Artisans:
Since 1993, Mitra Bali has been actively participating in Bali’s economic and social development by working to empower a large group of handicraft producers. One of Bali’s great sources of potential are the skilled hands its citizens that create bountiful quantities of crafts and souvenirs for the tourists. World-renowned male and female craft producers contribute greatly to the development of Bali’s tourist industry. The presence and contribution of the tourists, who purchase these products, has lead to a growing number of work opportunities for artisans and craftspeople who have suffered from the prolonged crisis in Bali. However, there is a downside to this development of the tourist industry, the reality of which is somewhat different from the common perception of Bali as a sacred, island paradise filled with prosperous artisans. In actuality, only a small portion of the benefits of the industry are ever enjoyed by the village craft producers. Instead, it is the owners of the rows and rows of art shops lining the streets of certain tourist centers who profit from tourism in Bali. The hard work of the artisans, who are vital and at the heart of the industry, is not recognized and it is only the middlemen who reap the benefits. Craft producers rarely receive a fair deposit before starting their work, and they seldom know to whom or to which country their products have been sold or traded, or at what price. These problems all arise from a single cause: The model of trade and business policy that prevails today is not fair or just, in terms of the relationships between the craft producers and the employers or middlemen.
Mitra Bali is actively involved in assisting marginalized craft producers to understand and develop a fair trade model. Their strong belief in fair trade is realized in our organizations’ structure and its business style: there is clear dialogue, equality and a sense of mutual respect throughout the production process. The producers always receive fifty percent of the total payment up front; they are paid promptly, the payment being a percentage of the suitable and fair sale price, which is calculated together with the craft producers. Mitra Bali also has regular free training workshops on design and product development, which disseminate educational and enlightening information, including ways to help producers develop their businesses. Mitra Bali has an environmental program replanting albesia (blalu) trees as a sign of our concern for the fate of Bali’s natural environment, which is being demolished by investors hungry for land.
If you absolutely must have a hippo wind chime, buy it here.
The painted wood hippo hooks are great fun decorative pieces, perfect for a child’s room or even a guest bedroom. Hang one in your kitchen and toss a hand towel on it. Put one inside your hall closet to hang a purse, umbrella, or jacket on so you’ll always get a smile each time you open up that door. Or mount one on your bathroom door to hang your bathrobe on.
Crafted by hand of albesia wood, the hippo is lavender in color and measures about 4 1/4″ by 4 1/2″. The hook is made of metal and is quite large, able to capture a multitude of items. The hippo is mounted with a screw that you provide. Albesia wood is a low density wood which is relatively easy to carve and is commonly used to make wooden sculptures.
Wooden Hippo Hook
The Wooden Hippo Hook is a fair trade item created by hand in Indonesia.
From the Living Wage Fair Trade website:
Living Wage links fair international trade with cultural exchange and socially responsible travel. This model, introduced for the first time as a comprehensive concept, uses transparent fair trade to connect the disadvantaged producer directly with progressive store owners and consumers. Advocates and economic development experts independently confirm the existence of a fair wage, appropriate work conditions, environmental protection and cultural preservation. Your participation in this new Fair Trade Movement has a direct, positive impact on improving the quality of life for those living in developing countries. It also supports small-scale producers and the middle class at home and abroad. In fact, the Fair Trade Movement directly challenges globalization institutions that intentionally or unintentionally continue a starvation-wage world trade system by demonstrating a viable alternative. Fair Trade works right now, it’s not some dream. We set western domestic standards on all imports and demonstrate that a standard based trade system is the solution to environmental destruction, human trafficking and world poverty. We can work together to change the unfree-unfair trade system. Go to LivingWageFairTrade.com to learn more.
I’ve posted this song before, but this video has a very cute animation done by a 13-year-old named Chad Hylton.
If you like Chad’s work, check out his YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/HyltonProductions. Good work, Chad! Let’s see some more hippo stuff!
Three smooth soapstone hippos come packed in a wooden crate stuffed with crinkly paper. Hand carved in Western Kenya, these stylized hippos come in beautiful colors with African design motifs across their broad backs and sides.
A Crate of Hippos make quick and easy gifts for family, friends, and co-workers. Each crate is packaged in shrink wrap for safe shipping and is wrapped with a colorful bow for immediate giving.
A Large Crate of Soapstone Hippos
These hippos were produced under the Fair Trade Movement where artisans are paid a fair price in advance for their products and work in safe working conditions. Fair Trade provides the framework for empowering the disadvantaged of the world to make a fair living and provide for themselves and their families.
What is Soapstone Anyway?
Soapstone is a natural stone that is mined from pits. Artisans carve the hippos then smooth rough edges with sandpaper dipped in water. Paint in African motifs is applied in brilliant colors. Soapstone feels cool and smooth to the touch and not at all soapy!
Hippos vary slightly in size but range from 2 1/2″ to 3″ long and 1 1/2″ to 2″ high. Soapstone tends to be fragile but chips can be smoothed with water and sandpaper.
If you can’t live without A Large Crate of Soapstone Hippos, buy it here.
This musical hippo pull toy will send your baby right to sleep with its tinkly sound. For safety, place him on a nearby nightstand, not in the crib itself. Made of soft cotton and plush fabric, he is soft and charming.
Musical Hippo Pull Toy for Baby or Child
Best of all, he’s on sale! Snag him here.
Our cable bracelet is the new European style bracelet that fits most collectible large hole beads like those from Biagi, Pandora, and Troll. The silver plated alloy rope chain has a magnetic copper clasp and is easy to operate. Simply open the magnetic hinge to add beads.
Cable Style Silver Plated Bracelet for Pandora, Biagi, and Troll Large Hole Beads
You can fill the entire bracelet with hippos or choose decorative accent beads to your liking. We start your collection with this silver plated walking hippo bead. See our Large Hole Beads section for more selections. Buy our cable style silver plated bracelet for yourself or your favorite hippo fan!
Plaid Hippo Magnet
Our plaid hippo is sassy and irreverent, cackling with laughter. The 2″ x 3″ magnet is professionally printed on a flat magnetic backing and reads, “PLAID: It’s no laughing matter.”
Our exclusive collection of magnets make charming gifts for friends or coworkers. Tuck one into a holiday stocking or add it to your refrigerator collection!
Our magnet is a Hippo Mojo Exclusive which means you won’t find it anywhere else! Get it here.
Horace the Hippo will be a fanciful addition to your holiday tree or hippopotamus ornament collection. He is from American designer Abigail Pfeffer from her exclusive collection at Tannenbaum Treasures. Horace is a handcrafted glass ornament, mouth blown and hand painted by European craftsmen. Horace measures about 5″ high and comes individually boxed, ready for gift giving. Horace is not the cheapest ornament around, but he’ll bring many years of happiness to your hippo friend or fanatic.
Horace the Hippo Glass Christmas Ornament (This photograph is copyrighted by Hippo Mojo LLC, 2010, and may not be used elsewhere for any purpose)
Since their founding in 1983, Tannenbaum Treasures has been exclusively in the business of importing the finest holiday decorations from Europe. Their products are hand-made in Germany and Poland. Tannenbaum Treasures has developed an extraordinary collection of exclusive new designs. Created by American artists, these designs are sold under the name Abigail’s Collection®. These designs are influenced by the finest in European tradition but are also distinctly American in their appeal. They represent a young, fresh approach to the noble tradition of hand painted glass ornaments. Crafted by the best Polish artisans, Abigail’s Collection® ornaments have met with critical approval and are fast becoming among the most popular ornaments among serious collectors.
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