We’re giving big this holiday season!
Hello, lovelies!
It’s that time of year again. The Sewing Studio is gearing up for the holidays! And what better way to celebrate than to share our joy and warm spirits with others?
This year, we’ve decided to take part in Operation Christmas Child, an organization that sends personalized holiday gifts to deserving children around the world.
How can you help? Fill a box with treasures!
- Come by The Sewing Studio’s Summerhill location (1225 Yonge Street)
- Pick up a special Operation Christmas Child shoe box* (there are instructions and specifics inside each box)
- Fill the box at home with goodies for a deserving child
- Bring the box back to The Sewing Studio before 6pm on November 18th
*Please note, each box requires a $7 donation, which Operation Christmas Child uses to pay for the delivery of the box to other countries.
The Sewing Studio’s hours for pick-up and drop-off are:
Sundays and Wednesdays from 2-6pm until November 18th.
While you’re picking up or dropping off your box for Operation Christmas Child, or if you’re looking for another way to share joy around the world, bring in new or used (but washed, of course) T-shirts for our second charity mission to West Africa. We’re collecting T-shirts again to give to village children in the country of Ghana. Collection boxes will be at all locations of The Sewing Studio until the end of January. Last year, we collected 177 shirts in only 2 weeks. This year we’re aiming to collect over 2000 in 3 months! Help us warm a child’s heart.
Much love!
Online registrations and summer camps on the way!
Happy FRIDAY!
So much for me getting footage of our Ghana mission online today. If you read my blog post this past Monday, I was planning to post a video from our first charity mission in today’s blog post. Oops. It turns out I have no idea how to download video from our camcorder to my desktop. So that’s my personal task this weekend: Figure out how to download the video and then post it for Monday. Stay tuned and wish me luck…
Anyway, great things have happened this week. We just launched our ONLINE REGISTRATIONS! Check them out. Now you can register for a class in Toronto or in Pickering directly from www.lovesewing.com.
And we’ve finalized the content for our summer camps. We’ll be doing a teen fashion camp and a kid’s teddy bear camp all through the summer. Details to follow. We’ll send out the announcement with our newsletter (sign up for it here), and we’ll also be putting a link directly on our website.
Have a great weekend!
Denise — Founder & Managing Director
Back from West Africa! (plus our footage on the Steven and Chris show)
Hello all! What a great Monday morning it is. We just got back this weekend from our first charity mission to Ghana, West Africa. In only one week, The Sewing Studio’s students and generous community members donated 177 new and gently used T-shirts and over 25 drawstring bags and tote bags. Wow, THANK YOU!!
The goods were given out to school kids last week in two villages near Ghana’s capital city, Accra. Most of the kids we met own only two outfits: a school uniform and a set of play clothes. Needless to say, they were THRILLED about the T-shirts!! Keep an eye out for the video footage we’ll post at the end of the week…
And stay tuned for more charity work that you can be involved in. We’ll be starting a charity division of The Sewing Studio very soon. Our hopes are to provide clothes to many more village kids in West Africa. The schools we visited this trip have a total of 1100 students, so we’re aiming to bring one T-shirt to each student next February. If all goes well, we’ll hit even more schools on our next mission.
We’re also looking into creating jobs in West Africa by opening a sewing factory in Ghana that Canadian businesses can depend on for their manufacturing needs. On this side of the pond, that will mean cheaper production costs for local businesses, while over there we’ll be creating jobs and pumping funds into Ghana’s developing economy.
So there’s lots cooking!
Also, did you catch The Sewing Studio on the Steven and Chris show while we were gone? Our segment about shopping for a sewing machine aired February 10th. We’ll have the video clip on our website soon. In the meantime, you can see the full episode (#83) online. Forward it to 28minutes and 18 seconds. That’s where our clip starts.
Have a great week!
Denise — Founder & Managing Director
177 and Counting …
Thank you so much to everyone who contributed to our t-shirt charity mission to Ghana! We collected t-shirts from our students and community and managed to collect over 177 gently worn and used t-shirts to distribute to the children and youth in villages across Ghana.
Below are a couple of pics of the suitcases, YES – SUITCASES, Denise took prior to leaving for Ghana.
Thanks again … we really appreciate your support!
The Sewing Studio
Donate your t-shirts and make a kid in Africa smile!
What are your old T-shirts doing right now? They’re probably taking up space in your closet. Get a head start on your spring cleaning (if only even the mention of spring brought on nicer weather…) and bring your Ts to The Sewing Studio‘s Toronto location. We’re doing a charity mission to Ghana (West Africa) this month where we’ll give our and your new and used (but washed!) T-shirts to kids in small villages.
Drop-off days: Sunday Feb 1st and Wednesday Feb 4th
Drop-off times: Between 2 and 6pm
Clean house and make a kid smile! (They especially love T-shirts with graphics, logos, and text.) All sizes, styles, and colours welcome. We’ll post pics at the end of the month. Keep an eye out.
And thank you in advance for giving generously!
