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Eco-conscious shoppers, new parents and doting grandparents in Atlanta are in for a treat next month.Happy Mango, an eco-friendly baby, pregnancy, and kids boutique, is opening in the Kirkwood neighborhood on Wednesday, March 9, 2016 from 5PM to 8PM at 1996
Hosea L. Williams Drive NE, Atlanta GA 30317.
The
store offers unique items - from bamboo swaddles to furniture that
grows with your baby to non-electric educational toys - that are
eco-concious and comparable to their non-eco counterparts. Happy Mango
allows customers to purchase products that are not only good for their
children, but kind to the Earth.
Owner Phnewfula Frederiksen
(pronounced "new-fa-la") dreamt of this retail concept during her
former career as a music business executive. A graduate of Clark-Atlanta
University, Phnewfula spent 20 years working in promotions departments
at labels such as Interscope and Atlantic Records. However, the birth of
her son in 2008 and her daughter a few years later shifted her focus to
motherhood.
"I
left the music industry in 2015 because I needed to be fully present
for my kids," she says. "The music was no longer a reflection of my
morals, so I quit my job and moved back to Atlanta. I also wanted my
children to be closer to my mother."
Shortly
after her return, Phnewfula launched Happy Mango as a pop-up shop in
the Krog Street Market from October to January of last year, where she
built a steady local following among "tree-huggers" and eco-enthusiastic
parents.
Phewfula
maintains that "going green" isn't as hard to do or as off the grid as
people think. Many of the products at Happy Mango are comparable in
price to traditional store-bought baby items and can usually be
repurposed after their intended use.
"Saving
the planet for your children is the biggest benefit of going green,"
says Phnewfula. "Now that you have brought this beautiful human into the
world, let's keep it in good shape so they don't have to move to
Jupiter!"
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