Monday, February 27, 2006

Thank you crafty shoppers!

Hey everyone. Long time, no update. It's hard to have time to write to people, even cool people like you, when you're running a small business, working a day job, and slowly working "da business of crafting" to your advantage.

We had a wonderful show on February 3rd at 826CHI a drop-in tutoring center teaching literary skills to Chicago's students. We helped them raise some money, which was great cause the week after our fundraiser they were mobbed with new students. Here's a bit of a letter from Leah Guenther, the director for the organization:

Your contribution was, I should say, accompanied with quite good timing as our tutoring population doubled right after the show. We went from hosting an average of 12 students per afternoon to having nearly 27 each day now. A coincidence? Maybe by a public airing of our ties to the mob, we tapped a new population? Either way, we found ourselves scrambling to buy more tables and chairs the week after the event in order to account for our new students, and I'm happy, and grateful, to say that your contribution more than covered the cost of our new furnishings, so we can't thank you enough. Nor can the kids who were sitting on the floor for a few crazy days!


We're delighted to know that we helped make it possible for this wonderful organization to serve even more kids. But we couldn't have done it without the wonderful folks who came and shopped and bought stuff and maybe got some information so they can make donations on their own or even volunteer. We're all cool with helping out good people, but only because we got good people like you helping us help them.

And we wouldn't be able to notify anyone about our shows if it wasn't for the local media that has given us great publicity and helped us to take this little organization of 6 members and turn it into the crafting powerhouse that it is today.

Here is an article published in the Chicago Maroon about our second annual St. Valentine's Day Craftsacre.

posted on 10:52 PM by Cinnamon