Purchase for a Purpose!

We are still trying to raise money for the Schilling Family and Drawn From Water!  Every one of the pieces below will contribute to each of these worthy people.  Please help us and purchase for a purpose!  These would make fabulous Easter gifts, as well as Mother's Day or Father's Day gifts coming up!  

This natural finish with a dot over Ethiopia is $25 (plus shipping)

These are some of the $25 crosses (plus shipping) that you can purchase to help the Schilling family bring their babies home as well as the orphans!

The size of these pieces are perfect for gifts!  They ship in flat rate boxes, so costs are minimal (if you purchase more than one, we will combine as much as possible!).  These heat finished Africa's are $30, plus shipping.

Help us help the Schillings!  Order on this blog or our email: pmteak(at)gmail(dot)com!  OR Contact Bonnie Schilling at info2(at)wildprairiefarms.net.  Check out her website to find more ways to help their family bring their children home.

How to order:  post a comment or email
How to pay:  Send a check to Bonnie Schilling (ask for her address via her email address!)

March Blitz for Schillings!

Bonnie and Charlie Schilling are adoptive parents who are looking to give a home to two more!  Through the month of March, we will be raising money for the Schillings to bring their new family members home, as well as raising money for Drawn From Water!  The profits will be split evenly, so please help this family and at the same time the orphans without a new family.

To purchase a cross or Africa (see above tabs for pieces), you MUST order via email (pmteak(at)gmail(dot)com) or leave a comment HERE!  All checks must be made out to Bonnie or Charlie Schilling and sent directly to them.  If you need that information, please email or comment and we will get that to you.

For more ways to help the Schillings, check out their adoption blog or Wild Prairie Farms site and see the many ways you can support this family's adoptions!

Continued Amazement!

Before we left home for our holiday visits, we "whipped up" a couple boxes of pieces to send to my sister   in Wichita, KS.  Julie and her husband Chris have helped us by spreading the word and continuing to help us raise money for Drawn From Water!  It has been a very successful operation, and we hope to provide them with more! 

 The above Standing Africa is a natural iron finish, and very rustic feeling.  ($30 plus shipping)

 Pat experimented with his grinding patterns and has made some very beautiful heated finished crosses!  Ranging in colors from the "gold" to purple to blue, this patterning tends to reveal layers of color. ($25 plus shipping)

This Africa is what we call the Medium Africa.  It has a way to hang it on the back. This one has a stainless steel dot over Addis Ababa!  ($50 plus shipping)

Most of the above pieces have been sold; however, we are heading back to our shop on January 7th!  Once we are back home, we can begin to make more.  In the meantime, please continue to place any orders. 

We are also working to make the ordering process easier and will be setting up a PayPal service soon.  For now, we are continuing to accept checks.  

Thank you all for your support and encouragement!  You have helped us send over $2,000.00 to help orphans!  We can't wait to see what God will have us do in 2011!

And the Winner is.....Part 2!

Due to our last winner being inaccessible, we have a new winner!

Brianne, I will contact you to let you know and we'll figure out how to get it shipped soon! 

And...They just got their referral today!  I got a bit teary when Pat pulled out the name!  Congratulations, Kopp family! 

If Karen will contact us, we will give a consolation prize of a heat finished cross.  We apologize for the difficulty!

And the Winner is.....

O.K., Karen!  You have won!  Please let me know how to send this gift to you by emailing me at pmteak(at)gmail(dot)com.  

Notice our super official tupperware bowl used for the official drawing, done by hand!  We are up on technology, people!

Thank you all for participating and helping us spread the word, so we could benefit others.  There were lot's of entries!  We will continue to take orders (year-round), and hope you will continue to help us help the fatherless.

Standing Africa

Yes!  We have new pieces!  These are gorgeous small Africa's on a stand; perfect for a mantle, shelf, or desk.  They are approximately 6" tall and 5" wide.  Even with the stand they should ship individually for $5 in the flat rate boxes.  

 This Standing Africa has a stainless steel dot over Ethiopia.  This can be done on any location!

 There are different colors of finishes as well as patterns, as you can see here!  

A bit of perspective here!

These Standing Africa's are $30.

We hope to have a shipment to Wichita, KS soon, so if you live nearby you can avoid the shipping!

Craft Show Success!

 Here I am, trying to sit prettily while our display was in full force!  We sold the small Africa's almost instantly, so we were disappointed we didn't make more!  We learned that there were many people in our area who had special connections to this beautiful continent!

 Our display had many varieties of crosses that we hadn't put up on the blog.  Some we may not duplicate, but others we have had good responses, so we'll try to add more options!

 We had a rust-textured finished that turned out really great and we did a few more silver.  We tried different patterns on the heated finish, but the blue/purple finishes were the most favored.

Pat also worked on a different pattern for the small Africa's.  I think they turned out gorgeous!  Because we didn't add a heart, Pat discounted them a bit for the show!  I think he could've left the price alone, but it's really about raising money for others!

Speaking of...we raised over $1,500 at the show!  We are excited about sending all of it to Drawn From Water!  Thank you all who have helped us accomplish this fun gift, and please feel free to continue to order!  We'll hold off sending the funds until we leave for our Christmas vacation!  We'd love to add to that gift and you can still purchase a purposeful gift this Christmas.