AngelCraftsShop – Page 25 – trippingdifferently

January 3, 2015January 3, 2015

Your Purchases Helped…

It’s time again for a look at how your purchases helped grow the adoption grants of some precious orphans.

In October, ADDIE was my Orphan of the Month. Unfortunately, no purchases were made in October so we were not able to contribute to Addie‘s grant. BUT… don’t worry… Addie will be Orphan of the Month in January, so please do make a purchase during this month and help grow Addie‘s adoption grant! Please also be praying for Addie‘s forever family to step forward for her – she has only 9 months before she ages out of the adoption system.

In November and December, i took part in Reece’s Rainbow’s Angel Tree Fundraiser. It is a big fundraiser for over 200 of the special needs orphans listed on their website. The goal was to raise US$1000 for each of those children. Everyone gets to pick one child to warrior / root / fundraise for.

Jasper has aged out! Please pray for him and his future.

My Angel Tree child was JASPER. My son and i have prayed for Jasper for over a year now, hoping and praying a family will come forward for him. These last 2 months was our last push for Jasper‘s family to come for him.

Your purchases in November came up to US$30. In December, they came up to US$48. And then there were the sales at the Christmas Market i took part in, which brought in US$147. So in 2 months, your purchases have contributed a total of US$112.50 to Jasper‘s adoption grant.

Unfortunately, Jasper has aged out of his country’s adoption system. Which means he would not be able to make use of this grant money.

However, it is not wasted – by no means! His grant of almost US$9500 was gifted to 2 boys who are also listed with Reece’s Rainbow. They are Erich and Benji. Both of these boys have just months before they age out too. Erich has 5 months and Benji has 7 months! So please do be praying for these boys, pray that their forever families would see them and step up for them asap! Click on their names to find out more.

Do also be praying for Jasper as he is only 14 and has to manage this wide world all on his own. He may be able to stay at the institute for a while more but i do not know what happens to him after that. i have been told that sometimes these special needs orphans get sent to another institute if they are thought to be unable to manage the outside world. Otherwise, he would be turned out into the streets with little education/skills to fend for himself. i will be praying that God watches over him always. Pray with me.

Thank you all so much for all your support in 2014!

i look forward to your continued support in 2015! Come and shop!

syc

December 23, 2014December 23, 2014

#happyhandmade ninety-three… Angel Crafts Shop…

This will be the last posting of #happyhandmade from me for the year 2014! And i have chosen Brown Crafts! i like the colour brown; it brings to mind earth, warm soil, things growing in soil, wiggling earthworms, ants etc… a feet-planted-on-the-ground feeling.

Here are my picks from #happyhandmade ninety-three (please note that pictures are copyrighted by the creators of the items and i’m using them just to direct you to their shop – click on the pictures to see more):

Do you like the colour brown? Or does it remind you of dirt?

syc

December 18, 2014

Much Happened…

Yes, much has happened in the last couple of months. i would like to share everything but that’s too much. So i will just share three things!

First, i am so proud of my boy and his class!

A couple of girls in his class learnt about Star-Week (Sternewoche) at Unicef. And the people benefitting from Star-Week’s collection will be refugee children from Syria. Now that hit home because they have a new classmate this semester who is a refugee from Syria! So these girls suggested to the teacher that they do something for Sternewoche. The class took it on like champs. They worked hard coming up with suggestions and then making all the items for sale, and dropping flyers in letter boxes.

On Saturday, 29th November, 2014, starting at 8.30am, the kids set up a small stall outside the butcher’s in our village. They took shifts and sold their wares – framed geometric patterns made from cock pieces and painted, paper-stars, cookies (which the mums helped to bake), stickers and more.

And guess how much they collected… check out the picture below!

Yep! CHF1600!! i am so proud of them all and of their teacher for agreeing to let them do this and putting in all that extra effort to help them with the crafts and getting the police permissions etc… and there was even a small write-up in the local papers! Here’s a little write-up on the Unicef website in English about how these Syrian children will be helped.

Wonderful!

Now the second event i wanna share is about Angel Crafts Shop – my online shop where i fundraise for special needs orphans.

Angel Crafts Shop went to its very first public appearance – at Living-in-Luzern’s 1st Christmas Market!

It was hard work – i crafted and crafted for weeks to have enough stock. Thank God my dear friend who supports my cause was able to send the crafts he made, just in time!

It was a good event – people came, browsed and some bought. i was able to tell a few about the orphan situation and the great need which exists.

i had fun meeting some ladies i haven’t seen in a while – ladies whom i used to see often at different fairs when i was an Usborne Rep.

Check out the stand!

Last but not least – possibly the biggest news to date – we bought an apartment! Yep, our very own home!

We signed the papers and got the keys a week ago! Look at those lovely keys!

It’s a 3-bedroom place with an open concept kitchen-dining-living area, on the ground floor of a 1930s building but newly renovated inside. It has a little garden behind and a covered garage next to it. Here are a couple of pictures from the estate agent’s website: