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!

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.

Buy a few hippo hooks for yourself here.

Tiny Hippo Earrings

These cute ceramic hippo beads are hand painted gray with red and white details. They dangle from silver lever-back earrings with coordinating accent beads. These earrings go with every outfit and make a wonderful gift item for your favorite hippo fan.

Buy them here.