I quit my part time art framing job of three weeks yesterday when the Carbon Monoxide levels indoors where I worked got to be too much for me - they did have a garage bay door open, but up against it was a diesel truck that had been running for quite a while, and they also had a propane hi-lo forklift running, too. No where was the CO monitored, and I began to feel a bit lightheaded, so I headed outside immediately and decided to quit my new part time, $8 an hour job. There were other problems there, too, like the potential of me crushing my hands if I became distracted just once while using the table saw - it had hydraulic presser feet to hold the wood in place, and these were mere inches from where my hands held the wood in place to cut it. I also found it unsatisfactory that there was no safety glasses provided for cutting the glass, or dust mask for the sawdust, or saftey on the staple gun, or...
You see why I quit.
Anyway, back to the title of this blog. Now that I am free to persue my full time art career again, I naturally woke up very early with excitement on this fine Saturday morning and a great idea has taken hold of me:
Donate 20% of all my sale profits to HAVEN, which is a shelter for victims of domestic abuse. They are a wonderful help for women, and an organization I myself have had contact with once upon a time.
I am going to spend the next hour or so working on my website to reflect this, and have decided to be transparent about it and post every donation amount, no names, just the figures, and keep a running total so everyone can share in the joy of this endeavor. I usually only earn around $500 a month, so with the love and support I'm already getting as an artist let's see how much I can give to HAVEN!
