Crafting for Charity: Crafted With Love

Crafted with Love is a small online completely no-profit shop I just found the other day that sells handmade goods to benefit animals - in this case, no-kill animal shelters. In fact, it was begun to help one group in particular, Action for Singapore Dogs which helps stray and abandoned dogs in (you guessed it) Singapore. Incidentally, I quite agree with what the charity says on their home page - “A pet is not a toy. Think before you get one.”

All handcrafts are donated and all proceeds go to the shelter. They raise quite a bit of money each month - $150 to well over $200, and it’s been going on for some time. There is a lot of jewelry there, and I think one of the founders has a special line she makes for the group. Quite a few artisans participate - I found myself wondering if any also participated with Etsy for Animals (they’re linked as a friend on their blog). The picture there on the left is a fabulous pair of earrings up for sale. They have books! Locket books!! (I do love books, these may be mine.)

Crafted with Love has a Flickr profile, a mailing list and a blog to help people keep up with what they’re doing. Reading back through the blog it looks like they interview contributors, talk about charities and report on their successes.

Find more information about this group either on the blog or in the store.