My goals for 2023 include re-establishing a daily yoga practice (because, among other things, it’s GREAT for stabilizing achy potter wrists!), and doing something (anything) creative every day.
So, I’ve been doing some website design for the last couple of days while my reclaim slakes so I can re-wedge it; and I’ve decided to release a few of my favourite pieces to make room for some new adventures in mud. Check it out!
It’s time for some GIVEAWAYS.
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As I mentioned the other day, the donations in the remaining #100%er #narwhal #ornaments have been made. The ornaments, however, are in need of homes, so… Let’s rehome them!
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Narwhals benefiting Keeping Six, Kyle’s Place, Determination Martial Arts’ community fund, Ladybird Animal Sanctuary, and the cash-in-a-hand fund need homes.
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To enter:
All winners will be chosen and announced at 8pm on FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18.
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This giveaway is not sponsored, endorsed, or in anyway related to Instagram, Facebook, or any other platform you might see it on.
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xo
k
I figured I’d wait until I had all the special orders and other things out the door to sort out donations this time around. I was pleasantly surprised to realized that between November 1 and December 9, 2020, we were able to share quite a bit with the amazing people making our community better, kinder, more compassionate, and more accountable.
We continued to make our 10% “reparations” donation to the Kanyenkehaka kanonhses (Mohawk longhouse repair) project at the Six Nations reservation. They’re about 61% of the way toward their fundraising goal, so if you’re moved to help out, please do!!
I made the executive decision (easy, since I’m it for an executive around here, lol) to take the donations for the cash-in-a-hand fund and donate them to Defund HPS. They’ve been working so hard to raise awareness of the importance of addressing houselessness in Hamilton, especially coming into winter; and have been advocating for the redistribution of the large (multi-year) surplus in the HPS budget toward emergency measures to get people housed now. Not surprisingly, the response from both the HPS and from the “leadership” of Hamilton has been generally poor, unconstructive, and absolutely solution-avoidant.
As for the rest of the cash, here’s where it went:
As always, thank you so much for your purchases. We (literally) couldn’t do it without you!
xo,
k
PS/ if you’re looking for more information about the donees, go here.
From the 1492 Landback Lane Legal Fund Auction facebook page:
“Haudenosaunee Land Defenders who have been occupying their lands at 1492 Land Back Lane to oppose illegal development are facing expensive legal fees after a recent injunction hearing. Join us to help raise funds for these unjust legal fees that disporportionately fall on Indigenous Land Defenders & Communities challenging the theft of their lands by colonial governments and corporations.”
There is still a great need for funds to help defray the land defenders’ legal bills. The brilliant organizers of the 1492 Landback Lane Legal Fund Auction are back for another round after their incredibly successful first event.
We’ve donated a few cups, and there are so many other awesome donations. This is a wonderful way to both support this important cause and get some gifts (for yourself or for folks on your holiday/appreciations list).
Check it out!
xo
k
Other resources:
1492 Land Back Lane information on Facebook
GoFund Me for legal fund donations: https://ca.gofundme.com/f/legal-fund-1492-land-back-lane
Hard to believe that it’s been a whole month that we’ve been doing this, and hard to believe it’s only been a month!
Over the last couple of days, I’ve been sending out the donations that have accumulated as a result of your purchases.
To date, we’ve been able to donate $275 back to the community. There are still lots of pots in need of homes — including the “100%ers” for March for Black Lives, the cash-in-a-hand fund, and Determination Martial arts — so, there’s still lots more good we can do.
In case you’re curious, here’s how the donations broke down this time around:
10% of all sales (including the 100%ers) is directed toward a First Nations-led initiative, and for the moment, that project is the Kanyenkahaka kanonhses (Mohawk Longhouse) repair GoFund Me .
For the rest of the donations, they’re either determined by the purchaser or (in the case of the 100%ers) they’re sent directly to the project/group specified in the listing. (Remember: for more information about the donees, you can visit this page.)
For purchases where folks asked us to “choose for them,” we pooled those donations and distributed them evenly among the 7 project choices.
This is an exciting beginning, but there’s still so much we can do. Please share our site, or our instagram feed; buy some pots; and keep being awesome.
xo,
k
It took a little longer than I’d hoped (due to some disagreements with the clay gods and the laws of physics), but the first round of “100%ers” are ready.
While everything you buy here feeds money back into community initiatives, 100% of the proceeds from these items go back into the community initiative they represent.
The plan is for there to be 100%ers in every update.
If you miss out on the specific pot you want, don’t forget that you can always choose to designate that initiative as the recipient of the donation for anything else that you buy.
Stay tuned for the first report back about donation amounts and destinations!
xo
-k
