Sheryl Zentner of Any Spun Thread styled the window display. Thanks Sheryl!
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Our first event!
A big thank you to all of the vendors and people involved in organizing our first ever event. It was such a special and warm evening, on a rainy Vancouver night. And thanks to everyone who stopped by and took a little something home with them to remember us by....
Friday, December 10, 2010
From our vendors
We're getting excited for Saturday night! Hope to see you at out first market at Kafka's.
2525 Main Street
at Broadway
at Broadway
from 7 to 11pm
with $5 drinks
So much amazing stuff....
handmade leather tanned with veggie-based ingredients... like tree bark!
brushed stainless steel earrings and cuff from Crass and Sugar
clocks! and cute kids bulletin boards from Double Trouble
white sky vintage
Jen's Feather Creations
see you there!
Galit Mastai
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
The Shanti Uganda Society
We are pleased to welcome the Shanti Uganda Society, a non-profit working in Uganda who run programs for women about holistic health, birthing, nutritional health, living with HIV/AIDS, as well as income generating initiatives. Some of these programs include...
Beading and Textile groups
Safe Drinking Water Initiative
Community Garden Project
Birth House and Learning Centre
Midwifery Education
Volunteers from Shanti Uganda will be selling amazing handcrafted beads and textiles made by the women from these programs.
From Shanti Uganda. org
"Our women's group hand makes beautiful traditional Ugandan beaded jewelry and textiles and 100% of the proceeds from the sales goes towards Shanti Uganda. Each piece of fairly traded Shanti Uganda jewellery was handmade with love by one of the 22 women in our Women’s Income Generating Group. The jewellery was created by hand-rolling a long strip of recycled paper over a pin to create the hole, then varnished and fastened with a clasp. Each piece is unique and proceeds go directly to the women to help them accomplish their goals. The Shanti Uganda Society has carried out training programs for members of our Income Generating Training Program. Each woman is HIV positive and is a grandmother taking care of multiple grandchildren, a widow, or experiencing extreme poverty. Upon graduation, the women receive a certificate, the supplies needed to begin her craft, and ongoing support and education. Your purchase helps the Shanti Uganda Society improve the physical, emotional and spiritual well-being of communities impacted by war, poverty and HIV/AIDS in Uganda. "
Please consider making a donation to help support Shanti Uganda's work... click here to donate.
$10 - Supports 4 Prenatal Classes for one Mother
$15 - Pays for one Birth Kit
$20 -Supports one Midwife for a day
$30 - Supports one week of laboratory services
$50 - Supports the Birth of one Child
$75 - Supports the Livelihood of one Member of the Women's Group for an entire Month
$100 - Supports one Midwife for a week
$200 - Pays for Medical Supplies for one week
Erinyes Designs
The nimble knitting fingers of Erinyes Designs' Karen Mcathy.... check out her Etsy shop here. Lace and cables, merino and cashmere... this is serious knitting... serious luxury.
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Profile on Jody Kramer
Jody Kramer is a local Vancouver lady who spends her days in animation-land. I visited her in her little studio above the Gene Cafe and she whipped up the cute drawings for the Little Something logo (see the blog banner above). Thanks Jody!
Check out Jody's amazing animation work! Home is Where the Food Is is about local food, made for the 100-Mile Diet Society.
from The Juki Museum
The Visit was made with the NFB, directed by Lisa Jackson, and edited by Hart Snider. It's about a UFO landing on the Ahtahkakoop Reserve in Saskatchewan. The audio is from a real documentary interviews with Barry and Kimowan Ahenakew.
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