"Sock" puppets for the kids

ajkemaloya
June 5, 2008
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We have been extremely moved by all the children who surround us on a daily basis. We have become accustomed to running workshops with interruptions of baby sounds and children playing. We took some time out of our routine to handmake sock puppets (without socks!) for the kids.

First stop: Antigua

June 2, 2008

Antigua was the perfect place to spend our first night in Guatemala. Despite the never ending rain from two tropical storms, we couldn’t wait to wander around town and discover

Experiments and Inspiration

July 5, 2009

Last year in June, in San Lucas Toliman, we worked with a much larger group of women then the group of women that is currently assembled under the name of

A Final Snapshot

June 30, 2008

Our month-long stay in San Lucas ended with the inauguration of Ajkem’a Loy’a’s newly redesigned store. Here it is – the new logo handpainted on the facade, courtesy of Elias

Summer 2011 in San Lucas Toliman

September 17, 2011

We created a new class in the Design & Management program in the School of Design Strategies to run in Fall 2011; Small Business Enterprise: DEED. The goal of this

Sewing and pattern making

January 16, 2009

Every morning from 9am to 12 pm, I work with Mayda in the shop of Ajkem’a Loy’a,Â designing the shape, making the patterns and sewing the prototypes for the track

And this is how the storefront turned out…

July 22, 2008

Before and After shots from the inside coming soon…