The Empress Goes South of the Border for Goodwill Treasures

When the Empress ventures out from her empire, she is like Hernán Cortés in her search for precious metals, but without all the massacres and pox-mongering. She doesn't need no stinkin badges, but she needs a different name and a Babelfish program to translate so she doesn't again ask in Spanish for perros del azúcar on her churro. Unfortunately, the Latin that she learned at the back of Miss Harding's class (a penalty box for chronic talkers) does not work in Latin America, so the Emperatriz del Ahorro uses hand motions and divining rods to suss out shiny silver jewelry. 

The Empress could earn her Thrift merit badge and save herself a great deal of money and travel time (airport waiting areas are their own special fluorescent hell) by shopping for beautiful silver jewelry at SF Goodwill, which currently features all of the items shown here, all from Taxco de Alarcón, which means "place of ballgame" (Wiki it!). So get your head in the ballgame and bid on some of these hand-crafted silver items all the way from Southeast Mexico -- they are not just muy' bonita, but each piece has its own epic backstory of how it Came to America, and to its Foster Home at SF Goodwill.

Link to all silver items in SF Goodwill ebay store 

 

http://stores.ebay.com/goodwillsanfrancisco