I'm Luna Michelle. I've been hesitant to publicly ask for help, because I've had to ask before. Lately, I've had a lot of people critizise me for reaching out for support in such a way, but this is not a time for me to fear the harsh lack of understanding from others, or for my pride to get in the way. I've silently been trying to get through the most horrific year and a half of my life.  However, If I don't ask for help right now...at the end of November my daughter and myself will no longer have a place to live, and the dream opportunity that the universe was kind enough to put right into my hands, will slip away.

You see, last spring, I was ready to give up, tuck my tail between my legs, and disapear from Boise all together. I had been suffering from the loss of a job over the holidays,  I saw the last of my tax return dwindling and was aware of when my unemployment would end, and projected that if I didn't do something quick, that I'd end up homeless. My only option was to move to central Kansas, and stay with my estranged mom. It was then that the universe tapped me on the shoulder, and posed another option, one that I never would have imagined, and over the years, had deemed impossible. But this was literally my dream come true.

I had just had my fortune told. I was told that there is ONE dream I've always wanted to pursue more than anything in my life, and that I've put it to the wayside, but that this was a time that I needed to revisit it, and make it a reality. Just an hour later, I saw the "For Rent" sign in the window of the storefront I had stated ten years prior, would be my store someday. With my daughter's urge to call and inquire about rent, and the previous insight given just before this, I felt that I needed to at least look into it, but honestly, didn't think it would be possible. Within three weeks from that day, I put together a business model that seemed feasible, formed an artist collective, which would allow me to have help with coverage and aid in paying the rent, and was ready to start prepping my already existing inventory that had been packed away for years. I decided to put all my chips in, with the wholehearted belief that this was my destiny, and that I couldn't imagine having such an ideal and basically unheard of scenario in the palm of my hands like this again.

If only the months that followed would have been simple. However, since the opening in July, I've struggled through two failed fundraisers to help with the costs of opening, and have had a roommate turnover rate that would make your head spin. Every time I'd get something figured out, I'd turn around to find there was a new time sensetive, or expensive scenario to figure out. However, all this time I've prided myself in my ability to keep my chin up, juggle finances and use creative ways to make things work.  I've gotten pretty good at it, until recently. The new obsticals before me are too much, and out of my hands, which is why I'm now asking for help. This time, despite all my efforts and resources, I'm backed into a corner, and there is no way out.

The money raised will allow me to either get some extra time here so I'm not so stressed about allllllllll the stuff needing to be done to get my deposit back, or to cover a few months at a new place so that I'm given some time to actually get some money saved up and have a clear plate allowing me to focus of the business.

If you can't help with money, I NEEEEED help at the house too. BADLY! Also, if you have room for the two of us and my  fat indoor companion cat (who will live in our room with an expensive awesome air ionizer)  OR you have a spare room for my inventory, or storage space, I am trying to figure these things out as well. 

• rain gutters around the whole house and garage need to be cleaned out
• the firepit and holes in the yard need to be filled
• the garden fence needs to be pulled out
• both front and back yards need raked and bagged
• help getting boxes out of the rafters in the garage
• packing...so much sorting, organizing and packing...
• transporting stuff to storage
• do something FUN with my daughter