Our MINI car club does a Christmas weekend every year, and we usually have a silent auction for charity at our Saturday evening dinner and games night. I have donated a few table toppers for auction in the past, but this year I wanted to do a bit more. So, I began doing internet searches …
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Quilt Retreat Part 2
Up early last Saturday, I wanted to find a way to use the rest of a bunch of jelly roll strips, odds and ends, bits and pieces of patriotic prints. You can see part of the messy pile on my table. I had some larger 12-inch nine patch blocks, and some small 6-inch nine patch …
Safelight Project 2021 Update and Winners
It has been a busy couple of weeks, with shipments and backorders arriving, case stuffing and bag filling for donation. Settle in for a long and picture heavy post. I had enough cases for the first delivery, and set some of those out on a large cardboard flat placed on the longarm to make it …
Safelight Project 2021 Update
We are making good progress to being able to deliver the first 50 bags of the Safelight Project to the shelter soon, hopefully in early June. This year has brought a change to the bags ordered, as the company I have been using doesn't have the same ones I ordered before. So, I spent some …
Safelight Project 2021 Update
It is so fun to go to the PO box these days, lots of things coming in! By far, the most envelopes up to now have had monetary donations. I am excited that we are quickly getting close to our goal of enough to make 100 spa bags. Thank you so much to all the …
Safelight Project 2021
Checking with the Safelight Domestic Violence shelter in town this past week, they are running low on their spa bags. They have lasted a good long time this year due to the reduced capacity of the shelter. By the time we can get this project done over the next few weeks, they will be out …
Oregon Wildfire Quilts 2020
If you've been reading my blog for any length of time, you know that charity work is a big part of our FMCH community. Several years ago, we organized making blocks and quilts to send to California for their fire victims. Then, starting in September of 2018, we spent an entire year making quilts and …
Finishing the Safelight Project 2020
Now that a couple of months have passed since the big delivery to Safelight, I emailed them to ask if they now had space to take the rest of the bags. To my surprise, they said that new shelter resident needs have greatly slowed down, and they hadn't used that many bags so far. Their …
Counting Blessings, and Safelight Winners
Strong storms roared through our area on Sunday night, with driving rain, thunder and lightening. The winds were howling up the coves on both sides of our home for some time, and the noise was frightening. The next day brought the damage to light. We were counting our blessings that we only lost two …
Safelight Project Update
It has been a busy time for the Safelight Project. Lots of packages have come into the post office, and another delivery was made. I hope I get the names and the pictures right, so much has come in I might be a bit off, but know that I really do appreciate and am very …
From My Carolina Home 