Posted by totinette on 2004-11-19 13:19:28
Post Subject: *Crafting for a Better World!* holiday craft drive
Crafting For A Better World
Portland Super Crafty has set out to save the world, and we need your help! We’re collecting donations of handmade items and craft supplies to give to some amazing organizations around Portland and could use your crafting superpowers. Please help us brighten the holiday and warm up the winter for some less fortunate men, women, and children by giving them the gift of craft!
Types of items to donate:
This is a comprehensive list of what the organizations could really use, but feel free to be creative and send in other items as well!
Donations must be received by Monday, December 15.
Please send your items to:
Torie Nguyen
One Centerpointe Dr., Suite 550
Lake Oswego, OR 97035
Questions? Email us at pdxsupercrafty@yahoo.com. If you live in the Portland area and would like to submit your donation in person, please drop us an email to make arrangements.
*If you would like a receipt for your donation, please include a note with your name, address, and the retail value of the item.
About the organizations:
The Goose Hollow Shelter
The Goose Hollow Family Shelter is a temporary emergency shelter for homeless families in the Portland metropolitan area. They take in anyone who has a child under the age of 18, as well as pregnant women. The shelter currently operates from November to May and is hoping to one day have the resources to stay open year round. In the evenings, they have “kid time” where volunteers lead the kids in various activities, one of which is crafting.
p:ear
http://www.pearmentor.org/
p:ear builds positive relationships with homeless and transitional youth through education, art and recreation to affirm personal worth and create more meaningful and healthier lives.
Community Action Organization
http://www.communityaction4u.org/
Community Action exists to ensure that low-income families have a place to turn for help as they strive to get back on their feet and achieve a better life. They offer the following services: A Kid’s Domain: Before and after school care, Early Head Start/Head Start Preschool, Energy and Emergency Services, Homeless and Housing Services, Opening Doors: Maternity outreach and pregnancy support.
Buckman SUN School
http://www.sunschools.org
http://www.buckmansite.teacherhosting.com
Buckman Arts Magnet Elementary School is one of the community schools serviced by the SUN Program (Schools Uniting Neighborhoods). The mission of the SUN program is to improve the lives of children, their families and the community through partnering with local school communities to extend the school day with a variety of classes and develop schools as “community centers” in their neighborhoods. We are specifically asking for donations for their Winter Craft & Gift-making Night on Wednesday December 15th at Buckman Elementary School. Families are invited to return to school in the evening and create unique handmade gifts for the holidays with the help of parent volulteers and local artists (including the girls of Super Crafty!)
One more organization collecting craft supplies and handmade gifts is La Casa de las Madres, a San Francisco-based group that offers emergency services to women and their children escaping domestic violence.
They have women of all ages there, and children from newborn to age 18, so items of all sizes and colors would be welcome. They would take blankets, scarves, hats, mittens, gloves - all the standard handmade stuff. If you do not knit or crochet, you are welcome to sew any donations. Machine washable is good, so is warm wool, but they are not picky and would take anything. You are welcome to wrap stuff if you want, but please put a tag on the outside indicating what is inside, and the size, etc., and attaching a tag indicating the fabric content, care instructions, and maybe a little pick-me-up message would be wonderful.
They are also looking for donations of art and craft supplies - fabric, yarn, needles, paper, crayons, hooks, glue, markers, etc. NO magazines, they already have plenty.
About La Casa: La Casa de las Madres offers emergency residential shelter to battered women and their children while providing counseling, family-based services and referrals. Our Emergency Crisis Shelter has the capacity to shelter and support 35 women and children per night. La Casa's downtown San Francisco office houses our two 24-hour Crisis Phone Lines, a Drop-In Counseling Center, the Teen Intervention & Prevention Program, and the Community Education & Outreach Program. All services are offered free-of-charge in English and Spanish.
Please send donations directly to the shelter by December 17:
La Casa de las Madres
1850 Mission Street, Suite B
San Francisco, CA 94103
PDX Super Crafty won’t be delivering these gifts, we’re just handling donations for the Portland organizations! Thanks for your generosity this holiday season!
Posted by medea on 2005-05-11 17:01:47
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Are you sure you've been fitted correctly for a bra? In theory, underwire should not bend, break or snap if it fits correctly, since it would lay flat against your skin. You could take the snapped underwire to a sewing notions store and see if they sell underwires of the same size.
My problem with underwires is that they poke out the edges, but that's easily fixed with needle and thread.
Posted by bessiemae on 2006-07-11 09:29:34
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My craft area now is a mess of works in progress. I have 3 quilts in different stages. I carved out space in my smallish dining room. My drawing table is set up in a far corner with rolling vertical drawers tucked beneath. A drawer for glues/and fastners. Drawer for paints/markers/colored pencils. Sewing notions, etc.
Sewing machine is portable and fits nicely under the drawing table when not in use. A large portfolio holds my larger, fancier hand made papers. Smaller papers( scrapbbok), cardstock, and stickers are held in check within a plastic accordian file. Ott light clamped to table.
Quornflour sent me a lovely collection of tiny boxes, just right for fastners, beads, etc. Being boring, keep oft used pens, knives, etc. in a platic cup.
Bulletin board on wall behind the drawing table keeps bits of trims, inspiration, etc.
Big items, like pillow forms, batting, bolts, are kept in a cedar chest or plastic bins in basement. Craft books/magazines and linen/hand dyed or DMC threads are kept in a bookcase, next to a chair with good light.
Posted by fairgreenlady on 2005-09-29 13:57:48
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Oh, and for snaps, you could sew by machine or hand a strip of snaps rather than individual ones. Those are easy to find in the sewing notions and trims.
Posted by sewing stars on 2004-06-24 13:30:34
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Well, having just moved into a 2 bedroom apartment, my boyfriend and I (both being artists) decided to sleep in the living room, and use the bedrooms as studio spaces.
I painted my space a beautiful butter yellow, and tried to organize as I un-packed the insane amount of supplies I seem to own.
The trouble I find is that I am lazy, and I like looking at my supplies. So when I am making stuffed animals I tend to make piles of colors of fabrics/ furs while deciding which one I want to start with, and then not putting back the pile because I want to the make the next one I picked out too.
In the new place, however, I discovered that shelves are essential. (I didn't have them in out last apartment) I have my supplies in those plastic containers organized sort of generally by art supplies, sewing notions, threads, stationary, computer paper, etc. I have a place for my piles to hang out ontop of a plastic container until I am done.
I wish I could be a neat freak about it (and so does my boyfriend), but I think I might just be messy by nature. Not that I couldn't change my ways, but it is slow process!
Posted by Sewlittletime on 2006-04-18 12:32:12
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I agree with acebeader on the shelving. You can do a lot with customizing individual storage containers placed on the shelves, and switching things around as your collection of craft stuff grows.
Examples: I used to keep my acrylic paints in shoebox-sized containers w/ lids. I finally took the plunge and bought a revolving rack for them when my collection of paints got too big to fit in the 2 boxes.
Again w/ the shoebox-sized containers for organizing my sewing notions. I bought 4 of the large sterlite drawer units to organize it all. I have labels on the front of each drawer, indicating what supplies are in each drawer. I use cardboard as dividers within each drawer. I need to buy more of those, 'cuz they seem to suit my needs the best.
Good luck!
Posted by Athos on 2005-01-03 14:27:15
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i keep my yarn and fabric in large clear tubs from ikea. stationery, finished projects, spa stuff, and the like are all in train cases. mostly refinished train cases. small sewing notions are in a clear organizer with lots of little compartments. craft paper is hung on the wall with binder clips and hooks, smaller pieces are filed in an accordian file or stacked in the bottom drawer in my filing cabinet.
ink and small paper notions, as well as random stuff for projects are all in my refinished ikea small drawers (which i think i posted in my blog).
in my old house, i used my old dresser for craft stuff, but because it was solid wood, it actually didn't hold very much. i want to get a sewing box. actually, i was thinking about designing one and making it myself, though it might be too much work.
Posted by amanelle on 2005-11-09 08:18:48
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In inheirited a lot of sewing notions and buttons from a Great Aunt (including her 1960s Singer sewing machine. They are all vintage. I also have a huge tin of vintage buttons from my grandmother and great-grandmother. I would love to pass on a few things for creative energy. PM me your address and I'll package up a few things.
Posted by Becky65301 on 2004-05-18 17:02:46
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I have several!
The two that come to mind first- a cross-stitch called "the queen of cross-stitch" that looks like a queen playing card but with sewing notions on it. I think I have about 2 square inches done, and it's like 11 x 14 finished.
The other thing is I bought a cheap paper-making kit about 3 years ago that's still in the bag. But I want to do it!
Posted by kazoogrrl on 2004-05-18 13:39:07
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Looks good! I fixed one up for marvy for Christmas. I stained all but the front of the drawers with a magenta stain, then painted the fronts with chalkboard paint, so she can write what's in each one. Then I filled it with small sewing notions.
Posted by nicegirl512 on 2004-05-25 18:49:48
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Looks good! I fixed one up for marvy for Christmas. I stained all but the front of the drawers with a magenta stain, then painted the fronts with chalkboard paint, so she can write what's in each one. Then I filled it with small sewing notions.
Chalkboard paint, that is so brilliant. I bought some at Ikea and they are awaiting my inspiration (after I move).
Where would one find magenta stain? I love the verdigris green stain from home depot, but am painting the walls lime green and fear it might be too much green. Magenta, on the other hand, that might work...
