{"id":1576,"date":"2021-06-03T16:36:59","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T16:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=1576"},"modified":"2021-06-03T16:40:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T16:40:29","slug":"da-vee-designs-a-new-gift-boutique-opens-at-the-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/03\/da-vee-designs-a-new-gift-boutique-opens-at-the-mall\/","title":{"rendered":"Da-Vee Designs: A New Gift Boutique Opens at the Mall"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1577\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1577\" style=\"width: 261px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1577 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Verna-Smith.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"196\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1577\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Verna Smith<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Sojourner\u2019s Truth Staff<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You need stuff? This little shop around the corner has stuff!<\/p>\n<p>Some great stuff and just about something for every occasion \u2013 African art, jewelry and clothing, to name a<\/p>\n<p>few items. Do you need a bit of home d\u00e9cor? Or even more importantly, do you need a gift for someone \u2013 a special someone, a special occasion?<\/p>\n<p>Or perhaps you might want to sample some African tea or coffee or experiment with some of the spices and cooking oils when you uncover some recipes from Benin or Togo.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1578\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1578\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1578 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/David-Stovall-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/David-Stovall-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/David-Stovall-188x250.jpg 188w, https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/David-Stovall.jpg 261w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1578\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Stovall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>David Stovall and Verna Smith opened Da Vee Designs last Friday at Westland Franklin Park Mall to kick off the Memorial Day weekend and the shop immediately drew a crowd of intrigued Mall shoppers. And with good reason. The shop is chock full of goodies \u2013 from Africa and from local artists and artisans.<\/p>\n<p>Candles, soaps, incense \u2013 all kinds of home d\u00e9cor and art. Father\u2019s Day is coming on pretty soon and we have a pretty good idea just where to start looking \u2026.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1576 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/03\/da-vee-designs-a-new-gift-boutique-opens-at-the-mall\/img-1748\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"261\" height=\"199\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG-1748.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/03\/da-vee-designs-a-new-gift-boutique-opens-at-the-mall\/img-1750\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"261\" height=\"196\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG-1750.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/03\/da-vee-designs-a-new-gift-boutique-opens-at-the-mall\/img-1754\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"261\" height=\"196\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG-1754.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/03\/da-vee-designs-a-new-gift-boutique-opens-at-the-mall\/img-1761\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"261\" height=\"196\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG-1761.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/03\/da-vee-designs-a-new-gift-boutique-opens-at-the-mall\/img-1764\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"261\" height=\"196\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG-1764.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sojourner\u2019s Truth Staff You need stuff? This little shop around the corner has stuff! Some great stuff and just about something for every occasion \u2013 African art, jewelry and clothing, to name a few items. Do you need a bit of home d\u00e9cor? Or even more importantly, do you need a gift for someone \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[58],"class_list":["post-1576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1576"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1588,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions\/1588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1576"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=1576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}