ring sling with overlapping pleat shoulder
Today's
message: The kids are out of school for the summer, so while
I'm doing my best to keep up with orders, there may be days where I get a little
behind so that I can take the kids to the pool or on a day trip. Please don't
expect 24-hour turnaround during this time.
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Please read about infant safety in baby-holding
devices (every parent,
babywearer or not, needs to know about this) and sling safety!
sleeping baby productions' charitable initiative
As we are going to buy a house this year, and my income will no longer be disposable, I will no longer be making a regular percentage donation each month. I really hate to do that, but housing in our area is definitely not cheap! Hopefully, once our housing situation is more settled, I will be able to go back to making a monthly donation from my business income.
From October 2005 through December 2007, 10% of my monthly sales each month were given to charity. The percentage donated was based on the actual dollar cost of the slings, so a $40 sling generated a $4 donation. Occasionally world circumstances -- like the 2005 earthquake in Kashmir -- compelled me to donate more than that 10%, but that was the very minimum.
I hope that you have looked or will look at your financial situation and consider charitable giving as well -- we have so much in the developed world that it can be easy to forget how little others have.
Below is a list of organizations to whom I have donated funds in the name of Sleeping Baby Productions.
Past donations -- grand total: $8786 since September 2005!
January 2008:
- $35 to Oxfam (regular monthly donation)
- $35 to Save the Children (regular monthly donation)
- $25 to America's Second Harvest (regular monthly donation)
- Total: $90
Total for 2007: $4030
December 2007: (Not sewing, but can't stop donating!)
- $100 to Clinique Monique (a maternity/health clinic in Mali, as detailed in the book "Monique and the Mango Rains" -- an excellent read, and one I'd certainly recommend)
- $35 to Oxfam (regular monthly donation)
- $35 to Save the Children (regular monthly donation)
- $25 to America's Second Harvest (regular monthly donation)
- Total: $190
November 2007:
- $100 to Oxfam (emergency appeal for Bangladesh cyclone relief)
- $80 to the United Nations World Food Programme
- $80 to Medicines Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders)
- $35 to Oxfam (regular monthly donation)
- $35 to Save the Children (regular monthly donation)
- $25 to America's Second Harvest (regular monthly donation)
- Total: $350
October 2007:
- $100 to FINCA
- $100 to US Fund for UNICEF
- $80 to PlayPumps International
- $50 to Amnesty International
- $35 to Oxfam (regular monthly donation)
- $35 to Save the Children (regular monthly donation)
- $25 to America's Second Harvest (regular monthly donation)
- Total: $425
September 2007:
- $100 to the United Nations World Food Programme
- $100 to Medicines Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders)
- $100 to CARE
- $30 to PATH
- $35 to Oxfam (regular monthly donation)
- $35 to Save the Children (regular monthly donation)
- $25 to America's Second Harvest (regular monthly donation)
- Total: $425
August 2007:
- $100 to US Fund for UNICEF (emergency donation for Peru earthquake)
- $100 to Oxfam (emergency donation for Sudan refugees)
- $35 to Oxfam (regular monthly donation)
- $35 to Save the Children (regular monthly donation)
- $25 to America's Second Harvest (regular monthly donation)
- Total: $295
July 2007:
- $100 to US Fund for UNICEF
- $100 to CARE
- $40 to PATH
- $35 to Oxfam (regular monthly donation)
- $35 to Save the Children (regular monthly donation)
- $25 to America's Second Harvest (regular monthly donation)
- Total: $335
June 2007:
- $105 to the United Nations World Food Programme
- $100 to Medicines Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders)
- $35 to Oxfam (regular monthly donation)
- $35 to Save the Children (regular monthly donation)
- $25 to America's Second Harvest (regular monthly donation)
- Total: $300
May 2007:
- $100 to US Fund for UNICEF
- $100 to CARE (special matching appeal)
- $100 to Save the Children (special matching appeal)
- $35 to Oxfam (regular monthly donation)
- $35 to Save the Children (regular monthly donation)
- $25 to America's Second Harvest (regular monthly donation)
- $25 to the National Resources Defense Council
- Total: $420
April 2007:
- $100 to CARE
- $105 to PlayPumps International
- $50 to PATH
- $35 to Oxfam (regular monthly donation)
- $35 to Save the Children (regular monthly donation)
- $25 to America's Second Harvest (regular monthly donation)
- Total: $350
March 2007:
- $100 to the United Nations World Food Programme
- $100 to FINCA
- $100 to Medicines Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders)
- $65 to NINO (Nine In / Nine Out babywearing organization)
- $35 to Oxfam (regular monthly donation)
- $35 to Save the Children (regular monthly donation)
- $25 to America's Second Harvest (regular monthly donation)
- Total: $460
February 2007:
- $100 to US Fund for UNICEF
- $100 to CARE
- $35 to Oxfam (regular monthly donation)
- $35 to Save the Children (regular monthly donation)
- $25 to America's Second Harvest (regular monthly donation)
- Total: $295
January 2007:
- $100 to Medicines Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders)
- $100 to PATH
- $110 to the United Nations World Food Programme "Gift of Hope" campaign
- $35 to Oxfam (new monthly donation)
- $35 to Save the Children (new monthly donation)
- $25 to America's Second Harvest (regular monthly donation)
- Total: $405
Total for 2006: $3,235
December 2006:
- $75 to the United Nations World Food Programme
- $25 to America's Second Harvest (regular monthly donation)
- Total: $100
November 2006:
- $100 to US Fund for UNICEF
- $100 to Medicines Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders)
- $100 to Save the Children
- $35 to the National Resources Defense Council
- $25 to America's Second Harvest (regular monthly donation)
- Total: $360
October 2006:
- $100 to Oxfam
- $100 to CARE
- $40 to the United Nations World Food Programme
- $25 to America's Second Harvest (regular monthly donation)
- Total: $265
September 2006:
- $100 to US Fund for UNICEF
- $100 to Medicines Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders)
- $100 to Save the Children
- $25 to America's Second Harvest (regular monthly donation)
- Total: $325
August 2006:
- $100 to Oxfam
- $100 to CARE
- $100 to the National Resources Defense Council
- $25 to FINCA
- $25 to America's Second Harvest (regular monthly donation)
- Total: $350
July 2006 (busiest month ever!!):
- $100 to US Fund for UNICEF
- $100 to Medicines Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders)
- $100 to Oxfam
- $100 to CARE
- $75 to the United Nations World Food Programme
- $25 to America's Second Harvest (new regular monthly donation)
- Total: $500
June 2006:
- $100 to Save the Children
- $100 to La Leche League International
- $100 to America's Second Harvest
- $40 to PATH
- Total: $340
May 2006 (another busy month!): Responding to crises in Darfur, Indonesia, and Africa
- $175 to the United Nations World Food Programme
- $100 to Medicines Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders)
- $55 to Oxfam
- $50 to Sesame Workshop
- Total: $380
April 2006 (a very busy month!):
- $50 to US Fund for UNICEF's Campaign to Save Mothers and Babies from Tetanus
- $50 to Save the Children
- $100 to Oxfam
- $100 to Medicines Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders)
- $20 to America's Second Harvest
- Total: $320
March 2006:
- $100 to Boy and Girls Clubs of America
- $100 to PATH
- Total: $200
February 2006:
- $100 to Medicines Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders)
- $100 to the National Resources Defense Council
- $35 to Sesame Workshop (producers of Sesame Street and other children's programming)
- Total: $235
January 2006:
- $100 to FINCA International (a "village banking" organization which makes small loans to women in developing nations, in order to help them build their own businesses and support themselves and their families)
- $100 to Save the Children
- Total: $200
Total for 2005: $1,431.32
December 2005:
- I was on a sewing vacation... no donations in December!
November 2005:
- $100 to Oxfam
- $100 to Medicines Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders)
- Total: $200
October 2005: Funds earmarked for US hurricane relief, the earthquake in Kashmir, and the Arctic Wildlife Refuge
- $100 to US Fund for Unicef
- $100 to Oxfam
- $50 to the National Resources Defense Council
- Total: $250
September 2005: Funds mainly earmarked for Hurricane Katrina relief
- $100 to the American Red Cross
- $100 to US Fund for UNICEF
- $100 to United Way
- $300 from sling raffle to the American Red Cross
- Total: $600
Prior to September 2005:
- $160 to various causes (Operation Migration, Tsunami relief, American Cancer Society, People for the American Way





