Boldly colored in crimson, pine, and navy, these tree-mendous Colorful Christmas Trees are hand-carved and beautifully patterned to create a unique home decor piece.  Your living space will love the cheerful hues of one or all of these lovely handmade beauties gracing your mantle or tablescape for holiday gatherings.  And you'll love that each tree carries the story of the people behind the product!
 
Every item of our Soapstone collection starts as a huge hunk of stone, mined and hauled form the lushly green hills of southwestern Kenya, before being sawed and hacked by machetes into smaller chunks of soapstone.  Master artisans chisel and carve every piece into its final rough shape, and then more artisans wet sand until it is completely smooth.  Then the hot Kenyan sun dries the soapstone items before different artisans paint or dye them and hand-etch every single message.  So much time and talent, so many hands and so very much love goes into every single soapstone piece.
 
Purchasing just one of these trees or of any of the Kisii Soapstone pieces provides so many jobs and a sustainable, stable income that provides for each woman artisan's family and the education and university fees for their children in a country where employment is too often nearly impossible for women to find.