Our Thoughts

As we have been preparing Oceans Mingle we have had the joyful job of buying future gifts for our friends and family so we could take photographs of items to highlight the stores on our site. One hidden delight in purchasing items from these stores is the charming packaging that many of the gifts arrive in. We have received jewelry in hand-sewn purses, colorful draw-string bags, soft colorful tissue paper, recycled curls of paper and the classic brown paper packages tied up with string! We have eagerly read the tags and little notes from t

Sometimes the hardest part of a new project is coming up with a name for it. A name must have meaning, personal connection, and today must also have an available web address. It took several days of brainstorming, mulling over sensible ideas, whacky ideas, nonsense words, and words from different languages to find a seam of real possibilities. Then we hit upon coming up with opposites to what we wanted. We considered the phrase worlds apart which brought us to the idea of worlds together. It wasn't too long before we had shifted from the land t