Meet Suzanne Zahr, the owner of an architect-led Design/Build firm on Mercer Island, and Josiane Flaubert, founder of PICHA, a visual content provider specializing in Afrocentric imagery.
Special Thanks to the MInext campaign, sponsored by the City of Mercer Island & the Mercer Island Chamber of Commerce for, for featuring locally owned, small businesses like ours, as we rebuild after the impacts of COVID-19
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Wikipedia defines Small Business Saturday as “an American shopping holiday held during the Saturday after Thanksgiving” between Black Friday and Cyber Monday. It is a day set aside specifically to encourage Americans to make holiday purchases from small brick and mortar businesses in their area.
Whether online, curbside, safely in-store, or highlighting your favorite small business on social media, you can help make an impact on your community by shopping small this Saturday. Check out MInext to learn more about Mercer Island business owners ‘behind the mask’.
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Established in 2020, O.SH!TT is born from one mother’s frustration, anger and a desire to scream out loud over the devastation caused by the pandemic, race/gender inequities, ongoing political corruption and the climate crisis, to name a few. Heartbroken, she sought solace and an opportunity to safely check-in, blow off steam and trade survival secrets with fellow moms she admired and trusted.
By simply creating the time and space, O.SH!TT invites all caring, beautiful and intelligent women to self-organize in small groups, garner strength and inspiration from one another (even in respectful disagreement), amplify their voices, and create a safe harbor of humor, hope and empathy in pursuit of a brighter future.
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If you’re anything like me, the past few months you’ve been spending a lot more time at home. Also, if you’re anything like me, the home that you have found yourself spending that time in now happens to be your office, school, exercise gym, art studio, sourdough bread bakery…As we are all now acutely aware, the Covid-19 pandemic has changed every facet of our lives, including the relationship that we have with our home environments.
Being at home 24 hours a day, seven days a week, our homes are now being asked to be something that they were never designed to be: functional multi-purpose spaces that accommodate numerous activities simultaneously and seamlessly. And in its current form, my home is failing at the task. We just didn’t foresee needing two dedicated work spaces for adults, as well as room to play and learn for two kids… and that’s not even mentioning the fourth pet we adopted early in the pandemic. With work-from-home and school-from-home guidelines in place for a seemingly indefinite time, it is time to make our homes the multi-tasking spaces they have the potential to be.
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