Misty fruits wishes you a vibrant and sparkling year 😉

French crafts and end-of-year gifts

The end of the year holidays are fast approaching, and for most of us, the race for gifts begins ... with often this question: what am I going to be able to offer to my loved ones?
Do your Christmas shopping at local artisans, do you like it?

The current trend, which consists of consume locally and more responsibly, is accentuated by the particular pandemic context in which we live.
The atmosphere is unprecedented at the end of 2020; nonetheless, we crave a festive Christmas (maybe even more so than usual) and buying the presents gives us a taste of celebration.

However, the maintenance of the Christmas markets, more or less famous, being strongly compromised or even prohibited, the meeting with the craftsmen will be done differently this year.
Indeed, like many companies, French artisans have had to reinvent themselves to promote their products.

Give a gift of French craftsmanship: the "plus" 

In artisan, there is "ART" :
In general, a craftsman makes his products by hand, favoring, as far as possible, local raw materials and traditional tools.
They offer multiple objects - textiles, decoration, gastronomy, etc. -, use various materials - leather, wood, lace, wool, etc. and use a variety of processes - pottery, ceramics, weaving, embroidery, basketwork, etc.

Quality objects

Handicraft products are in the majority of cases quality objects, full of creativity, original or more traditional.
They seduce by their uniqueness, authenticity and durability.

Focus on human relationships

A craftsman is sometimes someone you know, who works a few miles from home.
He wishes us to share his passion for his profession, takes the time for warm encounters.
Endowed with great skills, his precision work contributes to the maintenance of French traditions and heritage.   

Local development actors

Craftsmen greatly contribute to making “Turn” the local economy, sometimes even circular.
They participate in the economic development of our territories by using raw materials from terroir, by making the people of the sector work.

Responsible manufacturing

By favoring short circuits, by controlling waste - the raw materials that can come from recovery - artisanal productions help to reduce the carbon footprint.
Eco-responsible, even fair, this way of working has significant repercussions on a ecological point of view.

Buying a product made by a French craftsman, has it become a civic act?

What about Christmas in all of this?

The turnover achieved by artisans is often dependent on seasonality and calendar events.
As a result, the Christmas period is usually conducive to increased sales among artisans. Indeed, it is customary to offer or to treat oneself with gifts at the end of the year.

Products fromlocal crafts are excellent gift ideas: there is something for all styles, all budgets, all desires.
Clothing and accessories, toys, jewelry, food and drinks from our regions, cosmetics, decorative objects, etc. will make everyone happy!

How to meet the artisans and take advantage of their offers?

Craftsmen traditionally exhibit their products in markets (including Christmas markets), in pop-up shops, at trade fairs, etc.
Many of them also offer tailor-made products, personalized to order.
Nevertheless, with the digital development, many companies have chosen to sell their objects "remotely" by creating their online sales site or using a MarketPlace. This phenomenon has grown since spring 2020, with confinement making face-to-face sales less obvious for many players.

Thus, with a Online Store, they increase the visibility of their products during the Christmas holidays but also throughout the year.

• These 100% leather boots are made with pretty ribbons from size 16 to 23.
• They envelop little feet with great softness, providing them with warmth and comfort.
• Powder pink in color, like all Misty Fruits models, they are hand sewn in a small French workshop (Lorraine).

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Misty Fruits selects high quality leather from prestigious skins manufacturers in France and Italy.

“We choose leather with strict standards: we have REACH certification: no toxic product, no azo dye, no chromium VI or PCP. "

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To please her and make her dream of stars and a magic wand, we have imagined and created, just for her, a pair of personalized slippers where her name is associated with her favorite character! 🧚 ⁠
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Do you want to offer an original and personalized gift? ⁠
See you on this link ➡️ https://cutt.ly/3gbCrzO or directly in the Misty Fruits workshop in Thionville!

It is with great pleasure that I took the time to exhibit some pairs of Misty Fruits in the Exmeda shop in Thionville center.

You can therefore look at them, touch them, choose the color of the leather, see the patterns ... You can also find many objects "handmade" by Lorraine artisans.

Joe will welcome you in a good mood 😉

The end of year celebrations are approaching, Misty Fruits has imagined a classy and stylish model for our little loves.

A sober and timeless model, our gentlemen can run freely with this new model of soft leather slippers! You can find it on this page: "Little Gentleman" leather slippers.

What a pleasure to receive an email and detailed explanations of the expected model!

It is with passion and patience that we work in collaboration with our customers: choice of colors, atypical customizations, favorite character & #8230;

It is in our workshop that we lay out your ideas and painstakingly produce the slippers you have imagined.