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Tibetan Butter Sculpture Exhibition

The Tibetan Children’s Educational Foundation , a US based non profit, is pleased to present Lama Paljor from Sikkim. India. Tibetan monk Lama Paljor is visiting the US on a 2 month fund raising tour. He will be entertaining us with a traditional TIBETAN BUTTER SCULPTURE demonstration at China Woods , OCTOBER 27th from 5 – 8pm.

This art is believed to be around four hundred years old. Monk artists use butter and dyes to create beautiful images of flowers, animals and dieties as offering to the buddhas. It is believed that by making such offerings a positive collective karma is created which overcomes epidemics, hunger, war and other negative effects ushering peace and harmony in the world.

Depending on the size and elaborateness of the offerings, butter sculptures can take a day or several days. Unfortunately, Lama Paljor’s busy schedule on his American tour will not allow him to do a full butter sculpture at any venue. This demonstration event will be approximately 3 hours and will include an introduction to this art, the motivation and history behind its creation and insight into the techniques that artists use.

Lama Paljor has been recognized by His Holiness the Dalai Lama for his humanitarian work in educating the under served poor children of the Sikkim Himalayan region. The Sukhavati Educational Hostel was funded and built due to the efforts of Lama Paljor , TCEF supports his work by an educational sponsorship program, connecting you in the west to the children with great need in Sikkim.

Please join us and meet Lama Paljor a truly goodhearted monk with a sense of humor, and dedicated to service for the poor. Did I mention this wonderful demonstration is FREE!

For more information please call China Woods at 406-550-2511.

The fab Paula and Aizada return! Saturday and Sunday, April 9 and 10. Much will be revealed about Kyrgyzstan and Ubekistan. Also, lots of felt products for sale.

Brand Spanking New Shipment!

We just received hundreds of new lovelies from our last trip to Asia. The warehouse is packed with fabulous things. Come see!

25% OFF EVERYTHING!

We're having our first sale in 9 years! We have a new shipment arriving, and we really need to move some inventory.
5 DAYS ONLY! MARCH 10 - 14, 11-5 PM.

Welcome to the Year of the Rabbit!

We resume regular hours today following our January hiatus. Fortuitously, this day is the beginning of the Year of the Golden Rabbit.

We note, with some relish, that people born in the Year of the Rabbit love beautiful furniture, and that they have a gusto for antique hunting.

On that note, we are offering 15% off any item in the store today, February 3, through Sunday, February 6. You don't even have to be born in the Year of the Rabbit. Hurrah!

We look forward to seeing you.

The winner of our fab furniture giveaway this year was Colton Martini. Isn't he adorable?

Annual $888 Furniture Contest Now Open

Register now for our annual $888 furniture giveaway. Registration is open until February 14, 2010. Register at the store website, chinawoodsstore.com.

China Woods is one of Google's Favorite Places!

China Woods is one of Google's Favorite Places. From Google: 'Over 100,000 businesses were identified as Favorite Places, representing less than 1% of the 28 million U.S. businesses. The list was determined based on the popularity of a business' Local Business Center listing, as determined by how many times Google users looked for more information about a business, requested driving directions to get there, and more. Google users "decided" based on their actions, and we sent the decals.' Apparently, a properly equipped phone can scan the bar code on the decal we received, and bring up Google's listing for our business.

Here's our Christmas tree. We found this wonderful piece at one of the Tibetan stores in Chengdu.

Our new container finally arrived yesterday, following a overly long stay with United States Customs in Seattle. Here are a few pics of the truck's arrival, and the unloading of the container. It takes four strong young people, and several older supervisors, about two hours to unload a standard 40-foot container.

International Choral Festival

China Woods is a sponsor of the International Choral Festival in Missoula on July 15-18. Many wonderful choirs are coming, and we hope everyone will partake.

Susan at the panda preserve in Chengdu, China.

Lantern on high

Photos of a lantern from Indonesia on top of a dome house in Missoula. The contractor on the project was our friend, Morgan Suter. Morgan was kind enough to allow us to photograph his gorgeous tattoos for a recent ad campaign. You can see those pictures on our website.

These are lights in our kitchen and living room. They were originally sinks. We converted them into these marvelous lights with the help of our friend, Lynn Redding.

Flags

We have a new shipment of prayer flags from Indonesia. They're available in a plethora of colors, and in five and seven meter lengths. For those who are metrically challenged, that is about 16.5 and 23 feet, respectively. Shown are the seven meter flags.

Here's a brief video of the flags blowing in the wind.

Stupa In Winter

This is a picture taken by one of our clients. The piece is from Java, and is made of lava rock.

Valentine's Day

Here's our Valentine's Day ad that will appear in the Missoulian on February 6. Jewelry boxes are on our website here. We purchase our pearls in Hong Kong, and they can be found here.

China Woods Open

We're opening the warehouse after taking January off. Our regular hours are Thursday through Sunday, 11-5 pm.

Here's two bathroom remodel photos. Sinks are Indonesian copper, while the cabinets are antique Chinese.