Showing posts with label donations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label donations. Show all posts

Friday, October 2, 2009

Softies for Mirabel

Meet Marron. He is a new little cutie that came into being last night. He is very quiet and sweet; my girl gave him lots of cuddles this morning.

Marron, along with one of my Little Jellies, is making his way down to Melbourne today to be part of the Softies for Mirabel project. Head on over to the Meet Me At Mikes blog for more info on Softies for Mirabel.

I enjoyed making Marron so much, I can imagine making a whole family of them!

Monday, February 23, 2009

Down Tools

Taking up Robyn Hot Fudge on her challenge, here is a pic of my work room. She challenged us to 'down tools' and snap it as it was. So here it is!

Not that you can probably tell, but I've just had a clean-up (of sorts) of my room, which basically means you can now see the carpet!

The two main projects on the go are a little dress for my girl (one of the items on the back of my chair) and on the table, a half finished dress for me. The dress fabric was given to me by someone very lovely and thoughtful; it is a vintage polished cotton of beautiful quality, she knew I would appreciate it!

You can also see my button jars on the window sill. I love these; the jars are all the same yummy French jam jars with a red and white lid ... my extended family have been eating a lot of jam lately to aid my jar collection (and my need to have them looking all the same!!). Lucky my sister-in-law found some on special!!

Check out Robyn's and also Eliza's from Elven Hair too.

Last week I donated 50% of my Etsy sales to the Red Cross Victorian Bushfire Appeal. Although I only sold two things (making my donation only $19 ), I know that every little bit will help.


(this little cutie made his way down to Melbourne this week)

I am constantly warmed by the stories of generous Australians all pitching in. A year 5 student at my son's school, off her own bat, organised a 'free-dress' day for the entire school to donate funds for the Red Cross. They were able to raise over $900.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Bushfire Appeal

I don't really have the words to write about the shocking devastation in Victoria. My heart aches for all the people who have been affected but it is also uplifted by the heartening stories of help from both Australians and the internationally.

For the next week, I am donating 50% of all my sales on Etsy from both my LittleJellygnite and Jellygnite stores to the Red Cross Victorian Bushfire Appeal.

For more ways you can help, go to the Handmade Help Bushfire Appeal, also info here at Meet Me At Mikes and donations at the Australian Red Cross.