One of my most successful venues is the New Zealand based, handmade-only website Felt.co.nz.
Recently the grand and beautiful city of Christchurch - located in Canterbury, in the South Island of New Zealand - suffered dreadful damage from an earthquake that measured 7.1 on the Richter Scale.
Extraordinarily, because the earthquake struck at 04:35 (local time), most people were asleep in bed, with the result that, despite the severity of the quake, there were no direct human fatalities. Nevertheless, the beautiful and dignified city of Christchurch suffered terrible damage (and at the time of writing this post, aftershocks are still occurring). Sewers were opened, water lines were broken, buildings (many of them historic) and other property destroyed, and people and animals injured.
New Zealanders take pride in their willingness to help each other (perhaps a remnant of our colonial heritage, when neighbours were forced to rely on each other for survival), and the crafters and artists of Felt.co.nz were quick to come up with a way to help: FeltAid.
Here's an extract from the Felt blog post about FeltAid:
Many of my past customers have come from Christchurch, so Whiteleaf Jewellery donated one pair of each of the following: Cherry Blossoms earrings, Lichen earrings, and White Buds earrings. All three pairs have now sold.
As a side note, I was chuffed to see this feedback (for the White Buds earrings) in the FeltAid shop: "Thank you so much for the gorgeous earrings from Whiteleaf Jewellery. They are d[i]vine and the packaging was beautiful."
I love it when people appreciate my packaging!
So far the FeltAid shop has been going well: at last count they had made 104 sales!
This successful shop will not be open for long, however: all proceeds will be given to the New Zealand Red Cross on 31 October, at which time the temporary Felt shop will close.
Before it does, however, here's a showcase of handmade goodness from the FeltAid shop.
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2 comments:
Go FeltAid!!!
Wrapping is something I try to work hard at, sometimes purchases take me by suprise and I just end up stick it in an envelope :-)
Thanks for including George. It'd be nice for him to bug someone else all day with his talk of world domination :-)
[Laughter] I am quite fond of George, despite his rampant determination to dominate the world (I've got a bit of that in me myself!), so I do hope he gets a hope where his 'talents' will be fully appreciated.
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