The Afrobella Giveaway – The Delights of Dushi Trade
Guess who’s back with a decidedly less controversial giveaway! And we’ve been working on this one behind the scenes for a while.
I first mentioned the beautiful jewelry of Dushi Trade back in October.
Since then, I’ve learned much more about the designer, Leah Nolden. Leah has a a degree in menswear but after disenchantment from working in the NYC fashion industry, she decided to step away
and do her own thing. Hence, Dushi Trade — a jewelry line designed by music, nature, and whatever strikes Leah as being fly!
“I would make feather dangle earrings to match outfits when I was going out to party when I just didn’t have the right earring to make the outfit complete. When I wore the earrings, I would get compliments and inquires on where I got them. After about a year of urging from a couple of friends and again my sister, I decided to get serious and I invested a bit of my personal savings and started Dushi Trade,” she explains.
I love that kind of ingenuity, and when Leah reached out and offered to design a special limited edition Afrobella jewelry set, I was just BEYOND psyched.
That’s it up above — a graceful golden butterfly, a peacock feather, and a wooden circle make up the necklace, and the butterfly flutters in a gold hoop for the earrings, all bedecked with beads in beautiful ocean colors.
And for a special Afrobella/Dushi Trade giveaway, I’ve got one pair of beautiful Afrobella earrings, and one pair of Dushi peacock feather hoop earrings — to be sent to two very lucky readers!
Leah wanted me to ask a specific question of you bellas: If you had a Christmas wish list and could only get one item/ thing (not limited to an material item, could be a trip, a deed, etc), what would it be?
In the interest of turning around these giveaways speedily for the holidays — I will leave the comments open until Tuesday morning, then the comments will be closed and two winners will be chosen. So tell me, bellas — what do you want for Christmas? It could be anything!
** edited Sunday night at 11 p.m. — If you’ve got eyes on something else from Dushi Trade, now’s your time to shop! From now into December 31st, you can utilize coupon code “AFROBELLA†to get 15% off any purchase at the Dushi Trade online store.
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If I could have just one thing I would want to have my grandma come back for one last Christmas. This is the first Christmas without her and its so hard not having her around. I would want just one last conversation and to tell her good bye.
I love those earrings…I need them in my life!!! If I could have one thing for Christmas I would love to have my student loans and all debt that I accumulated in college paid off. Its a struggle right now, but I’m pushing through – I’m praising God anyhow! PEACE & BLESSINGS
i wish for my baby daughter to know her father.i want him to spend christmas with her and develop a relationship from there.
If I could have one thing for Christmas, I would want people to not forget about the well needed help New Orleans needs in its recovery from Hurricane Katrina. As a recent graduate of Xavier University of Louisiana (which is in New Orleans) and a student stuck on campus when the hurricane hit, I saw first hand the damage caused by the storm. It’s been over three years since the storm hit New Orleans and there are some areas (New Orleans East) that still need a lot of help. Please, lets not let New Orleans become America’s “forgotten city”. Any amount of help with the rebuilding projects, whether it may be monetary or through volunteering can help with the city’s recovery.
A massive boutique space with a huge storefront. I’m under twenty, in college, and I started a online t-shirt company two years ago. Now if only I had the perfect physical presence in Nigeria to go with it. *sigh* a girl can dream
My one Christmas wish would be to have all of my relatives who have passed away to be able to come back. I never got to know my grandparents on either side. They all had passed away years before I was born. It would be nice to have the opportunity to meet the people’s whose blood flow through my veins. I think it would also give me a more concrete view of who I am today. If I got the chance to meet my great-grand parents, I would ask them what it was like not having the current freedoms that we as people of color have today.
Peace.
I really want a camera. We have a new granddaughter, and she is growing so fast, I want to make sure I have photos of her at every stage.
Congrats to Leah on her success. My Christmas list is that everyone is working and get their jobs back, be able to feed their families, and LOVE THEMSELVES.
Okay I know it sounds corny, but if I could have anything I wanted for Christmas it would be to get another dog. Sounds silly, but I don’t want to get another one unless I’m sure that I can afford the vet, food, and toy bills that come along with it. So I guess my wish would be enough money to take care of another dog. My current greyhound weighs almost 90 lbs and if I got another it would be a big dog as well. It takes a lot to feed those bad boys. I love love love my current doggie to death. He has become my best friend, and to get him a pal would be great.
I feel like I have plenty and I can get whatever I might need, so what I really want for Christmas is something that seems impossible but would be so amazing. I want the wars to stop in Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan, the Congo, Gaza, and everywhere else that people are destroying each other, and I want the soldiers and the civilians to go home and be able to heal and live the rest of their lives wiser and freer. This has been weighing on my mind a lot, so if I could have anything for Christmas this would be it. Merry Christmas to you, Ms. Bella, and to everyone.
What with the recession and everything, I would like to have a full time job in order to help support my mother more. We struggled to pay the rent recently and it made me feel bad that I didn’t have the money to help her. We had to ask for a loan from family members. We were already late with the rent, and I prayed and prayed that we wouldn’t be late this time. Thank God someone came through for us. I hate that I’m underemployed right now. I have nothing to give this Christmas :/
This is a an actual christmas list:
I’m the youngest of 8 and I remember my parents were not always able to get us gifts for christmas. So, every year for christmas my wish list is in lieu of a gift I always ask my friends and family to pull angel off the christmas trees in the mall and purchase a gift for a child. This something that is very near and dear to my heart, I’ve been doing this with my son since he was about 2yrs so that he could how give to others in need. There’s nothing more heart breaking for a parent than to see the disappointment in their child’s eye on christmas day. Now that I think about it, I wish I had Oprah’s money so that I could pull every angel on the tree.
My one Christmas wish is my everyday wish… to have a better sense of self, so that I can be the best possible me and contribute meaningfully to society.
Thank you Afrobella for the opportunity and Blessings and much Success to Dushi Trade…
Beautiful jewelry!
My one Christmas wish would be to receive a head-to-toe style makeover. As a 20-year old recent college graduate (I walked on Friday–woo-hoo!), it’s slowly beginning to sink in that my current style just won’t cut it in the professional and ultra competitive job market I am about to enter.
While I take pride in all the effort I put into achieving my academic and career goals, I realize that I overlooked developing a personal style along the way…unlike most of my friends, I still don’t really know how to dress for my body type, or different kinds of makeup and hair looks for professional work settings.
So yeah, it’s a little overwhelming as I pop the college ‘bubble’ and transition into a different world…but luckily I have the help of Afrobella’s blog and a few weeks to reflect the inner confidence I feel onto my outside appearance:)
I would love to have my health back for Christmas. I’ve been suffering from debilitating migraines and an inoperable tumor AND aneurysm since October 1st, 2007. I’m scheduled for some kind of craniotomy on Jan 14th…they’re going to shave me bald, and then chop my head open, in a surgery with a 43% failure rate…I’m optimistic. I’m hopeful. I’m praying. I want…I just want my health back.
At my university there’s an alternative spring break trip to Jamaica for a week. Not to do the typical, out of control college spring break activities, but to “tutor and mentor children in Jamaica, build a playground for a local school and possibly even help on an organic farm.” http://clce.gmu.edu/alt_break/trip_sites.html
My number one Christmas wish would be to have the $1000 it costs to take this trip, visit the country where my family is from, and give back! Unfortunately, I’m already paying for tuition, books, car payment etc. So, sadly, this tempting option is out of the picture.
Love the jewelry afrobella
If I could just have one thing for Christmas, I’d like to be a mom. Before my diagnosis of a syndrome no one’s ever heard of, I took the ability to usher and nurture life into this world for granted, not realizing that sometimes things are not to be. I cringe to see negligent, uncaring mothers who don’t realize that motherhood is indeed a blessing. I come from a line of strong, resilient, and resourceful women from the MS delta, so I long to impart those characteristics on a child of my own.
As a Career/Life Coach my Christmas wish is that more people invest in their own development by working with me to identify their passion, realize their potential and work toward fulfilling their goals so they benefit from change rather than become a victim of circumstance.
I also pray that we all have a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year. http://www.stepwiseassociates.com
What I want for christmas is what I want everyday and receive everyday…for my family to be blessed and happy. We are actually moving from SC to central NJ next weekend so our Christmas and Kwanzaa isn’t (and has never been) about the gifts or money spent. We will be celebrating starting a new chapter in our lives and being thankful for all of our years in SC being so close to our families and friends who we will miss. Each of our 2 daughters will recieve a gift each to represent this move and holiday season and my husband and I are just going to celebrate being together and having so much that others are sometimes w/o. Just be thankful for all that you have b/c so many are losing their jobs, houses, cars, etc. God bless and have blessed holidays and a new year/beginning!!!
Firstly kudos to afrobella! flyness indeed! and now what i want for christmas…hard to say considering i havent received a present since the clinton administration. But my wish until the day it comes into fruition is for my brother to get the help he needs to continue physical therapy and eventually walk again. Next april will make it 8 years on his back, and i want more than anything for him to walk again.
Hi bellas and fellas. I really don’t get into the retail aspect of christmas, but I do appreciate anything that could be done to bless another person during the holidays. If someone would be able to bless me, I’d want some help in the effort to finally be able to meet my biological parents. I was adopted at birth, and I have not been able to get much helpful( or true ) information on my birth parents at all. All I know of them is that I was destined to be tall like my father ( he was supposedly 6”4 and I’m 6″2) and I shared the same smile as my mother. So this year, I would love to be able to meet my birth parents and introduce them to my husband, my son, and the wonderful people who raised me. Happy holidays everybody.
I feel funny when asked a question like this because I can never think of anything I would want for myself. However, if I could have one thing it would be for my mother to have a home of her own. Probably something simple, like a townhouse with space for a garden. Just her own little space in the world to call her own. That’s all I want.
I’d like peace of mind right now. The strengthening of one’s mind combined with a positive outlook and a course of action opens up many options. Also I’d like to go to Barcelona & Costa Brava Region!
I want for my husband and I retain the ability to be loving and continue to laugh together in the face of financial difficulties. I know they say that most marriages end because of money woes and so I’m just thankful that we haven’t turned on each other or way from our family while in the trenches. I also want health for myself and my children.
If I could receive on thing off of my list, it would be for a big contribution to my fundraising efforts for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
http://pages.teamintraining.org/nca/natl09/tmays
If I could have anything for Christmas, it would be to have God heal my home. My parents are currently going through a divorce, bankruptcy, and my mother has lost another job. My three little sisters are still at home, one other is college, and it’s hard to focus on my work and still be of help while I”m away at school. I pray for a healthy, happy, safe and loving home.
First! Those earrings are beautiful! Very Unique!My Christmas wish….so many things to consider…The one thing I would want is financial freedom! All the things in my heart that I WANT to do…I would be able to do….Not just for my family. If it was possible I would help everyone one that I came in contact with. Mentally, emotionally, financially…I just want to help!
Might seem like a silly Christmas wish but I would love a passport. I’m too stubborn to purchase my own. But I would sure appreciate it if someone gifted me the money instead of it coming out of my own pocket.
My Christmas Wish list..hmm it is so very easy to say what I want for christmas.. This friday I am graduating with my bachelors degree ( after 8 years) and all I wish is that I can see my mother. You see my mom died 10 years ago from breast cancer when I was 15 and I would love to be able to hold her just one last time. I want her to be there at my graduation knowing that I made her proud. I would love to be able to just lay my head on her shoulder. I think if that was even possible which I know is not..I would thank the Lord.
I would love a trip to Washington, DC for the Inauguration!
Thanks for the post today and the bargains. I am making almost all of my gifts this year but it’s good to know about deals even when I will not take advantage this time around.
If I could have one thing for Christmas, it would be a combination of lifting my mother out of the apparent funk she’s in, therefore motivating her to take better care of her health. I’m so afraid for her all the time, and I know nagging doesn’t work. So yeah. A happy mom is what I want!