It’s Friday evening, the fundraising has hit 35% and it’s Halloween tomorrow — how does the day get better? The answer is with a peaceful photo of sheep on the water from Swans Island. I got some scary news on the wool we have up in NH today — the mice have found it and [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Weekend Sheep
October 30, 2009
Sheep: Shear Joy
October 28, 2009
Today I’ve been getting a lot of yurt love, largely driven from a great write up on the project over at The Daily Green! As a way of keeping my karma in check I wanted to post about Heifer International, which, if yurt’s aren’t your donation of choice, allows you to “gift” animals to people [...]
350 — Yurt Power
October 26, 2009
As many of you are aware, this past Saturday was the International Day of Climate Action organized by the group 350.org. I’ve been familiar with the group for a little while as a friend of mine from high school, who lives in San Francisco, is involved as an organizer there and his Facebook keeps me [...]
Sheep Around the World!
October 20, 2009
And yurts too I should say! I feel like there’s a song in there somewhere…anyways, since the launch of this project I’ve been getting sent photos from friends and strangers around the world of awesome sheep and yurts that I wanted to share! The above is from Mt. Vernon — they’re George Washington’s sheep! And [...]
Make New Friends…
October 20, 2009
…but keep the old! That was the favorite saying at my elementary school in Back Bay, The Learning Project. From there I went to BB&N and both schools have been so supportive of the yurt I had to post a special thanks! BB&N has posted the Yurt in their Alumni News section — woohoo! Hopefully [...]
Fall Wooliness
October 20, 2009
This weekend in New York City was freezing and rainy! I had old study abroad friends staying with me from DC so we were able to stay warm in my little apartment but outside and at Crafts in Chelsea all I could think about was WOOL! The picture above is from New Hampshire of the [...]
20% Complete
October 19, 2009
I’m so thrilled to report that with everyone’s extreme generosity we’ve already raised over $1,100 for the yurt! This puts us at just over 20% funded on Kickstarter — if we keep this up we’ll be able to raise more than enough and the yurt will be even more awesome than I imagined! So team, [...]
Adyurtising
October 18, 2009
I’ve been getting some requests, especially while at Crafts in Chelsea yesterday for Yurt-related collateral. Sticker, bags, the usual! So I went on Zazzle this morning and have made a few products, bumper stickers and regular stickers so far, so that people can, if they so choose, spread the love of the yurt. I’ve posted [...]
The Beginnings…
October 16, 2009
I know you all have been greatly anticipating pictures of the first 200 pounds of wool and they’re finally here! The money I’m raising through Kickstarter currently is to pay for all of the wool, processing it will need to go through to become feltable fleece, and additional materials. As you can see, I already [...]
This Weekend in Wool
October 14, 2009
As promised here are some pics from this weekends wool extravaganza! Many are from the NH Wool Arts Tour where we stopped at many different farms including alpaca farms. The alpaca were captivated by the horse and buggy rolling by — clearly these camels were concerned by the size of the horses! Even though it [...]
