Oh My! Handmade

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For the Hands

Notes To A Little Schmuck

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Found in my grandmother Ana Brom’s notebooks tucked between instructions on dying wool and sketches for clothing designs are “notes to a little schmuck”, as she referred to herself. Born Ann Doris Rosen in Brooklyn, New York in February 1930 to Jewish parents Clara Brom and Simon Rosen, she died on Vancouver Island, unknown to all but a few family members on the first day of … [Read more...] about Notes To A Little Schmuck

A Thousand and One Reasons to Hope

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"Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. I remember the killers, I remember the victims, even as I struggle to invent a thousand and one reasons to hope. There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. The Talmud tells us that by saving a single human being, … [Read more...] about A Thousand and One Reasons to Hope

#FellowMakers History & the Triangle Factory Fire

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Fellow makers, many of us have forgotten International Women’s Day began as International Working Women’s Day. The agenda? Changing conditions for the working women of the world and uniting the working class. On March 8, 1857, garment workers in New York City marched and picketed, demanding improved working conditions, a ten hour day, and equal rights for women. On March 8, … [Read more...] about #FellowMakers History & the Triangle Factory Fire

70 Ways to Build Community

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It’s become such a cliched phrase-something we say and recognize to be true but don’t often act on: “It takes a village to raise a child.” What does that even mean? I am asked all the time - “How can I possibly do it all?” The hard truth is you can’t. You can’t be everything to everyone all the time. You can’t be the only one responsible for raising your children, running … [Read more...] about 70 Ways to Build Community