Yesterday was a long day, but I decided to instagram some of the afternoon. I heard from a friend that our favorite fabric place, Mathis Fabric, is going out of business. They’ve been around for years and always have an amazing selection of fabrics available. It’s going to take a few weeks to liquidate their stock, so I will probably need to make another trip up there soon.
Our garden out back is so wild and random, when I’m not paying attention, it changes its whole appearance!
I have a little book that I write various quotes/Scripture/songs/poems and such in. It’s pretty fun, and I thought, why not share them with others by inlaying them on photos I’ve taken over the years? So here are a couple I made early this morning. They’re on Pinterest, so if you click on the image, you will be taken to my board and able to repin it. Enjoy 🙂
(ok, this next one’s not my photo)
I’ll try to get some more on here soon. It’s pretty fun!
NightLight International.
Check out this great site/organization, rescuing women from exploitation in the brothels and bars of Thailand and giving them skills and industry to maintain a life of freedom. Some of the jewelry is a little expensive, but how much should freedom cost?
“The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned.” Isaiah 9:2
NightLight is an international organization committed to addressing the complex issues surrounding trafficking and prostitution by catalyzing individual and community transformation. NightLight’s vision is to offer intervention to sexually exploited women and children, to enable them to discover their dignity, and to provide a program of holistic transformation, empowering them to live and work in their community.
NightLight’s mission is to build relationships and provide hope, intervention, rescue and assistance to women and children exploited in the sex industry by offering alternative employment, vocational opportunities, life-skills training and physical, emotional and spiritual development to women seeking freedom. NightLight builds support networks internationally to intervene and assist women, men and children whose lives are negatively impacted by the sex industry.
In Bangkok, Nightlight operates as a business (NightLight Design, Co. Ltd) and a non-profit (NightLight Foundation). In the United States, NightLight operates as a 501c3 with branches in Los Angeles and Atlanta.
The wife of a new family in church had one of the coolest bags I had seen lately. Upon asking her about it, I found out that it was re-purposed from old coffee sacks! I’m a huge fan of re-purposing and so had to investigate further. It was made by an organization called “I Know Hope” which was founded by my new friend’s mother-in-law. Here are some of the details of the history of this group:
Know Hope was founded in 2009 by Connie Baker. Connie was born with a heart to help children around the world. Especially the desperate and the suffering ones. In 2005, Connie began taking teams of people into mountain villages around Tijuana, Mexico to build houses, churches, and orphanages. It was through these trips that her eyes were opened to the desperate children in the world.
In 2009, shortly after hearing a message preached on Matthew 25, we launched this non-profit organization called Know Hope. Our mission is to get the message to children around the world, that there is hope in Jesus Christ. The way we send that message is by bringing food to the hungry, shelter to the homeless, and aid to the orphans of this world.
So what they do is gather empty burlap coffee sacks and pull the best part of the bag and make sweet hand-bags. These are on sale throughout the US and Canada at different shops, or you can just go to their online site: Know Hope Store
Here are some examples of the bags:
I really like this one. It’s like totally my style, especially with the big “S” on the front. 🙂 It’s a midi bag measuring 8″ high and 12″ wide. Has matching blue liner with 1″ strap.
I believe this one is $25.
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I like this one as well. Just the colors are really nice. Brown and blue go together so well…and teal is a kind of blue! Measures 12″ high and 14″ wide (medio size) with a 1 1/2″ thick strap. This one/size costs $35.
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This last one is my favorite! I love the rhino and the colors! It’s super-cool. I would totally buy it for myself, but I’ve placed a moratorium on spending (we’ll see how long that lasts) until the end of summer. You can get this particular design as either a medio (12″H x 14″W) or a grande (insert big smile here) which can hold a 15″ laptop. Cool, huh?
And it all goes to a good cause: feeding hungry children around the world. That’s something that I can get behind easily. Enjoy!
Xapa to the World 