Momtastic is giving back to the Community!

Day 254  Starting today 10% of all sales from Momtastic Stitchery's Artfire Store , Services , Classes and Events will be donated to a different charity every month.  

Find out why here

For February the charity is the micro-loan Non-profit Kiva and our goal is $25.

January 2012 for us was a time of reflection and refocusing of our business and artistic goals.  There will be some new items in the shop this week and I think you will enjoy the new direction as much as we are having fun creating.

So come shop, be inspired and help Momtastic give back to our local and global community.

What will you create today?

Come check out Momtastic's Artfire Store

Day 251:  My husband, family and I revamped our business plan this week with some new goals in mind.  So come check out our newly restocked Artfire store for great pillows, aprons and other goodies.  There are merely the beginning of a grand new creative direction!

Since we decided to start this business adventure a few years ago we have tried, worked, reinvented and tried again to be on a path that represented us and our family.  We love to create.  I love to sew.  I can't help but get a kick out of being able to work hard on a job I LOVE and that my family can work with me.  This joy, I have that, we have that, we are being creative and working hard on a business that is growing.

But one of the things that our family wanted as part of our business plan was to give back to the community although we had never figured out a way to give to ALL of the places we felt needed giving.  Now we have.  Every month we will be giving 10% of our profits to a different charity, these are the profits before shipping and taxes.  Sure we will start small but there are ways where small helps and we hope to grow.  These profits will not only include online sales but the seamstressing work I take on here in my home as well.  

My family has chosen a handful of charities both locally and worldwide but if you have some suggestions please let us know and we will add them to our list.  The charities must be a registered Not-for-Profit and have a website.  We will be checking them through a Charity Checker as well.

We are working on the website page this weekend that will link each charity and the amount donated each month so that you can see where the money is going.  

Starting February 1st we will be raising money towards a KIVA loan.  It is hard to believe as we struggle with bills here in the U.S. that $25 in another part of the world could change someone's life.  Before the 1st I will write a little more about it and post reminders.  So by shopping at Momtastic Stitchery's Artfire Store and utilizing my sewing services you will be making a difference both around the world and locally.  

You, my customers and friends, will also be making a difference in our lives.  Supporting local business IS community and my stitching your projects just helps to bind us together.

What will you create today?  What will we create together?

Send in your Quilt Blocks....

I have been reading and just checking in on the life of this little girl since I first heard about it on Twitter --if you want you can read more about her story and the story of her family here but you will need some tissues.

I can not imagine the grief of this family and other families that go through this fight with cancer. I just got home from errands and found out she has passed but I will be making a quilt block for them tonight.

The deadline for the blocks is Monday 3/15 so find out more information here..... the sweet blogger at Cotton Candie Fabric is going to put the blocks together into quilts.

And even if you don't send a quilt block please just go hug your kids--as I just wrote on Facebook This is truly what matters in life....NOT cleaning the house or worrying about bills or stupid swim team stuff THIS IS WHAT MATTERS MOST....go hug your kids and if you have not talked to your kids in a while flipping call or email already just reach out don't wait until it is over or too late.... going to go hug my girls for a bit