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I'm Jean (many of you know me on social media as Jessalyn). I'm an artist with some visual impairment. I live on a small income from friends, about $50 a month plus food stamps and just moved to a HUD-subsidized apartment in late January 2017. I have a lot of creative ideas for making my place aesthetically pleasing, but I'm working with a lack of any funds and a mish-mash of donated furniture. With some work and a lot of imagination, I know I can pull it all together into something really cute and comfy, a feast for the eyes in bright spring greens mixed with pinks and reds, but that still takes some money, transportation, and some basic supplies (like sewing needles, thread, matboards, some inexpensive wood or plywood) that (for me) were lost in two previous moves, or to which I just don't have easy access. I'm hoping to raise enough money to:
- replace the matcutter I lost in a previous move ($30-$85, depending on what price I can get for one that's used on eBay)--much cheaper than buying custom-sized mats for art,
- get inexpensive but sturdy fabric (10 yds) in specific colors to recover a large armchair with peeling fake leather (poor thing looks like it has a skin disease), cover/make a couple of throw pillows, and another yard of a $22 a yd fabric for a valance to go across one very wide window ($150-$200),
- buy or obtain wood to tack up as a picture frame around two 26" square pieces of the fabric shown as my cover picture on this fundraiser--these are the colors that tie together my lime-green patterned couch and my green flowerpots with herbs, and my red steel & blond wood 1960's teacher's desk; also, some 2"x2"x2' wood "rails" to use as shallow picture shelves, and one shelf under a window for the cat, also screws and other hardware ($$ ?? depends on what I can find, and what I have to purchase, estimating $50),
- cubbie shelves for plants and storage under a low window ($60 total for the 2 cubbies, $20 for the fabric bins).
- matboards plus acrylic paints to paint some old matboards, spray paint to paint some old frames ($30-$50)
- other miscellaneous hardware, Minwax or other wood-finishing wax, OOPS paint (reject paint sold on the cheap) tinted to paint 2-3 wide horizontal stripes (alternating with the wall's original white) in a soft sea grayish aqua blue ($25-$40)
- saw attachment for my drill $30
- an inexpensive or used steam iron (for sewinng and for removing a very large piece of peeling/splintering veneer from an otherwise-amazing old work table ($5-$25)
- 1-2 hard chairs or stools for my kitchen table and craft/sewing table & art table. I don't need one or two for each; just a couple I can move around as required. ($50-$125)
- Task lighting and swing-arm lights ($40)
As an artist, visuals are incredibly important to me. I think my entire outlook would improve if I could just get my place to a point where I looked around and felt like it was a HOME, and not some strange repellant sort of solitary confinement. Having art on the walls and aesthetically pleasant surroundings affects my mood in ways that are incalculable, and any improvement will be such a huge boon. I can manage the most basic necessties on my income, but extras like this are just beyond my financial scope. If you can help, thank you so much!
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