Our first summer of Strong Camps would not be possible without the help and generosity from some outstanding Raleigh community members. So many individuals and small businesses have donated time and resources that will hopefully make our camps fun, energizing, and instructive. Two very special community members include Lea J. Alston and Jenn Hales.
Lea J. Alston is the owner of Scentsuosity, a small, local business that sells a variety of handmade natural body care products. Alston makes all the products herself and only uses the best of natural ingredients such as essential oils, mineral salts, and herbs. Because Full Circles focuses on the importance of green living, entrepreneurship, and health, we thought she would be the perfect person to organize with and showoff her expertise to our campers. She warmly offered to volunteer her time during all three of the Strong Camps. We are now planning workshops that will highlight the environmentally friendly aspects of her products and help campers realize they too can make green products. During the Strong Self Camp, topics of hygiene and health will be emphasized and campers will hopefully get the opportunity to make their own natural lip glosses. Finally, during the Strong Neighbor camp, Alston will talk about her own experience as an entrepreneur and give the girls insight for the future. We are very much looking forward to spending time with this wonderful community member that is sure to be a favorite with the campers!
For more information about Lea J. Alston and her products you may contact her at 919-229-9139 or at scentsuosity@gmail.com. Her store is located at 300 Blake St. Raleigh, NC 27601– Downtown in City Market. Her website, which is great for looking at all of her products, is www.scentsuosity.com.
Another one of our awesome community members who has offered to donate their time is Jenn Hales. She too is a small, local business owner and her fine arts studio, Patina, is also located in downtown Raleigh. We hope to utilize her creativity and artistic skills during the Strong Home Camp by making flower bombs, also known as seed bombs. These little bundles of seeds can be made easily with just a few basic ingredients and we hope that this will be a fun interactive project for the campers. They will learn about how to help grow more plants in their communities and also how to make and sell their own products. The seed bombs/flower bombs can be thrown in abandon or bare lots in order to produce green space since the seeds in the bombs are hearty and thrive in barren environments. We hope to sell them online and around the community. Jenn has also given us great ideas about how to make our own paper and other ways of artistic expression. She is just what we were looking for to enrich our campers’ experiences and help them find their own artistic expressions while being green in the process.
For more information about Jenn Hales and her studio you may contact her at 919-656-8713 or at PatinabyJennHales@gmail.com. Her website is www.JennHales.com and she can also be found at the Downtown City Market.
We are very happy and excited that we can have so many wonderful community members and hope that our community will keep growing!
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