December 12-14 back to back clothing swaps

THURSDAY: The Winter Clothing Drive with the Davisville PS community wraps up with a Clothing Swap for families before and after the Winter concert and open to the neighbourhood during the concert. Thanks to volunteers Anjali and Binita (not pictured) who joined in to help set up and tear down, to the shoppers and especially to Davisville staff, administration and Council who supported this winter drive and swap with us.

We packed up the best of the drive (a carload of clothes) and stored the remains (to be donated to our next textile drive, starting Dec 16th at Hodgson MS where we will partner with the Eco Club in hosting a Bag2School textile drive)

FRIDAY: Made a fresh bunting sign for the Moss Park Market Holiday Swap, and dropped off donations with market manager Tooba (formerly Appletree Davisville Farmer's Market manager!) There was already a good pile of donations from the past two weeks and we rough sorted all of them into corners. We were worried about how it would all fit but feeling better after this step.

SATURDAY: poured rain, sleet and hail all day long. We came at 1030 to erect racks and Tooba had cleared the room and set up tables with our piles, along with delicious farmer's market bags (we bought a couple bags before we left.) , Despite the truly awful weather some hardy swappers came out in our 12-3 time spot, some just walked in from the street, most were redirected from the Building Roots Holiday Lunch next door. Everyone found something, including the WIP volunteers, some gifts for others and ourselves.

We left a few things in the corner for the next day's workshop. No pictures but I came back to do a WIP pickup hands on beeswax making Demo as part of the Building Roots Plastics Out workshop and had a great time again. Lovely space, but pretty chilly... beeswax and an iron a definite improvement.
And now a carload moves on to the Bag2School Workshop starting tomorrow Dec 16
#Eternalclothingswap