You have probably seen some Secret Santa diaries around the last few weeks. If you haven’t look here, here, here and here.
And there may be more diaries out there/in here that I've missed. You can check the Kos Katalogue group page here.
In case you don’t know what Secret Santa does let me explain the garbled version that comes out of my warped mind. *
The purpose of the whole Secret Santa phenomena is to help Kossacks who make and sell things in the Kos Katalogue. We want to give them business and give them some money for the holidays or electric bills.
It’s a bit of a twofer as well. The vendor gets money and someone gets a lovely gift. Now most people didn’t ask for these gifts. Other Kossacks thought it would be nice for them to have a pretty something.
So forget all that “Who does she think she is to ask for…” She didn’t, he doesn’t and we don’t. It’s just one of the things we do as a community. And it often extends outside our community as well.
I remember 3 years ago when I was having cancer and the community was making me a quilt, I emailed several friends in astonishment saying “You won’t believe what these people are doing for me.” A few of my friends donated or sent in messages. So feel free to share this any way you want.
You’ll have to look at the other diaries to see what gifts are being given; I assume it’s stuff like this:
The totals of amounts still needed as I have them now (in my garbled, warped mind) are:
Kitsap River - $80.40
Remembrance - $105.40 - update $200
Aji - $240 (and we have a $50 match offer)
Ann (Winglion) - $180 +s&h – ($50 match offer) update $160
Sara R - $500 + s&h – ($50 match offer)
Zen Trainer - $46 - update $41 - complete!
Spirit in Life - $15 to $350
Ramara – complete!
Ooooh – complete!
Poz – complete!
So please jump in and donate. It could be $2 and it will help immensely. I put in $5 on 2 of the completed Secret Santa gifts so I know it works.
Thanks in advance!!
*I just thought this was funny; my spell check thinks there should be a question mark after “my warped mind”. There is really no question about it.