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| Okiciyap Dkos Auction Quilt DK Quilt Guild: A place for quilters to gather, share ideas, projects, and to make the world a better place, one quilt at a time. Join us and share your thoughts, projects, questions, and tips. ... |
BeadLady | 03/23/2013 | 13 | 37 | 1 | - |
| Saturday Morning Home Repair Blog v8.45: Our Quilt Project
I am so sorry, but due to unforeseen circumstances this project has been cancelled.
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CodeTalker | 05/31/2014 | 16 | 33 | - | - |
| TIME FOR THE BIG SHOW!!!!!!! This diary is not about quilts. It's about hunger, making a difference, recognizing and rewarding beauty. OK, maybe a little about A quilt.
The reason for the creation of the Daily Kos Quilt Guild ... |
glorificus | 03/17/2013 | 18 | 22 | - | - |
| DK Quilt Guild: Dementia Quilts DK Quilt Guild: A place for quilters to gather, share ideas, projects, and to make the world a better place, one quilt at a time. Join us and share your thoughts, projects, questions, and tips. ... |
pucklady | 07/21/2013 | 18 | 28 | - | - |
| IAN:11-8-15 I don’t know what happened to loggersbrat’s diary. I published this one so anyone looking for IAN can check in.
Thanks for reading, and have a great day.
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broths | 11/08/2015 | 22 | 7 | - | - |
| Beauty and Justice (and quilts! Oh my!) This new group has been started as an adjunct to the Daily Kos Quilt Guild. Our purpose is to put the creativity and talents of the quilt makers to create works of beauty to be auctioned, with the ... |
glorificus | 02/21/2013 | 23 | 28 | 1 | - |
| Help Keep Okiciyap Open
We here at the Isabel Okiciyap in Isabel, SD have been trying hard to get more grants to keep us functioning. BUT until the next one comes in it would be great to get some help to keep us afloat ... |
OTICEDPenick | 12/31/2014 | 26 | 24 | 1 | - |
| Okiciyap Quilt Auction benefit: Help the people of Cheyenne River This is such a worthwhile project that when I was asked to write for it I didn't have a moment of hesitation when I accepted the offer. This diaries that have been written so far have told you about ... |
Dave in Northridge | 03/30/2013 | 27 | 66 | 1 | - |
| NEW Bidding Group for Okiciyap Quilt Forming Now! All welcome! (Updated) Announcing a new quilt auction bidding group: the "Keep It Going" group.
I'm hereby creating a bidding group whose objective is to win the auction so that we can then SPONSOR A DRAWING for the ... |
peregrine kate | 03/30/2013 | 27 | 36 | 1 | - |
| Two-Spirit and Okiciyap Two-Spirit is the Anglicized term for the North American indigenous cultures used to define Transgender or gender variant people. The French based term was Berdache. Starting in the eighties there ... |
Horace Boothroyd III | 03/28/2013 | 29 | 61 | - | - |
| Father's Day gifts. Kos Katalogue If you are looking for something other than a tie for Dad this year, you might consider a photograph as a gift he can enjoy every day.
Pictures can pull you into a different world and mine draw on Nature's never ending beauty and variety to create a... |
snoopydawg | 06/05/2016 | 29 | 29 | - | - |
| OKICIYAP: FEEDING THE HUNGRY
We are proceeding nicely in our auction, and with the realization that combined bids make bigger bids I think we have our own Survivor experience going on, just without the bugs and backbiting. I ... |
glorificus | 03/29/2013 | 32 | 58 | 1 | - |
| School's Just Around the Corner: Okiciyap!
In the midst of all the turmoil in the world right now, you may have forgotten that school is just around the corner. This is the third year that the Daily Kos community has been sending school ... |
betson08 | 08/20/2014 | 32 | 41 | 2 | - |
| Okiciyap Quilt Auction: Twelve is a community number. There are twelve blocks on the Okiciyap quilt . They were created and contributed for ... |
GreyHawk | 03/19/2013 | 33 | 34 | - | - |
| Okiciyap Quilt Guild Auction. We Help. That's What It's All About. Okicyap. The word means "We Help."
Today is the day bidding starts for Okiciyap Quilt Auction; proceeds will benefit the Okiciyap Food Pantry on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation.
Bidding ... |
radical simplicity | 03/27/2013 | 34 | 52 | 2 | - |
| Want to help Okiciyap Shine a Little Holiday Light on the Cheyenne River Reservation? (UpdateX2)
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betson08 | 12/07/2013 | 34 | 42 | - | - |
| Giving Tuesday: Okiciyap
As we get closer to Christmas, some folks out there in social media land have declared the advent of 'Giving Tuesday' to join the pantheon of Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday. |
Dr Erich Bloodaxe RN | 12/03/2013 | 35 | 40 | - | - |
| We are so close; help us reach our goal tonight! (Please, rec this diary) UPDATE: We are closer now than ever! 92% Complete, only $400.00 to go!
What do Aji, Kitsap River, rb137, Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse, Sara R and peregrine kate all have in common?
... |
weck | 07/27/2013 | 36 | 72 | - | - |
| DK Quilt Guild: Small Art Quilts at the Gem and Mineral Show The quilt shown has natural mineral materials for the boats' sails and the stones on the beach.
DK Quilt Guild: A place for quilters to gather, share ideas, projects, and to make the world a ... |
weck | 11/24/2013 | 37 | 23 | - | - |
| #HelpProgressivesWin special edition: The Community Quilt Project needs your HELP TODAY! Sara R and winglion (Sara and Ann Reed) have done so much for so many of our fellow members here (or their friends and family) with their beautiful and lovingly created Community Caring Quilts. The donations of community members for the costs to create... |
Angela Marx | 05/02/2016 | 37 | 41 | - | - |
| Of Quilts and History: The Okiciyap Quilt Auction This quilt auction is to benefit the Food Pantry of the Isabel Community in the Cheyenne River Reservation in north central South Dakota. The Isabel community is a reservation town of about 250 ... |
winifred3 | 03/22/2013 | 39 | 37 | 1 | - |
| Okiciyap Quilt Auction benefit begins Wednesday. Help the people of Cheyenne River Thanks to the efforts of the DK Quilt Guild , someone will soon be the owner of an extraordinarily fine quilt, and the food pantry of the community of San Isabel on the Cheyenne River Reservation in ... |
Meteor Blades | 03/26/2013 | 39 | 96 | 3 | - |
| Okiciyap – Why a food bank, by the numb3ers
Okiciyap is a non profit community organization that has as a part of their mission the goal of making sure no one on the Cheyenne River Reservation goes hungry.
As a ... |
ZenTrainer | 03/30/2013 | 39 | 54 | 2 | - |
| Okiciyap Quilt - Final Auction Soon, but not Your Last Chance to Help!! Well! The auction moved past what most of us were able to bid on the first bidding diary!
Some groups have emerged and currently, one of them holds the high bid $6360.00
We didn't expect that! |
weck | 04/07/2013 | 39 | 50 | 2 | - |
| Freelance Escapologist Desperately Needs Help This is the first diary I have ever written here at DKos. I am only posting now, because our friends, Callum and Kim — Freelance Escapologist and his wife, desperately need our help. As many ... |
Hellebor | 09/29/2019 | 41 | 54 | - | - |
| Did you donate to the Okiciyap quilt fund-raiser? We want your name for Cheyenne River ceremony | Meteor Blades | 07/28/2013 | 42 | 79 | - | - |
| DK Quilt Guild: The Okiciyap Quilt DK Quilt Guild: A place for quilters to gather, share ideas, projects, and to make the world a better place, one quilt at a time. Join us and share your thoughts, projects, questions, and tips. ... |
BeadLady | 03/17/2013 | 43 | 35 | 1 | - |
| Okiciyap - We Help
Of all the people down through history who have gotten a raw deal, the Native Americans have to be right in there at the top. The tragedy of that history is compounded for me by the strong ... |
One Pissed Off Liberal | 03/25/2013 | 44 | 116 | 1 | - |
| A Final Christmas Gift: Okiciyap ("We Help") | Aji | 12/25/2013 | 45 | 55 | - | - |
| The Quilt is done. Now we need to get it to Otteray and his Celtic Lassie by Tomorrow
The quilt is done. In spite of Sara and Ann both being hit with illness, they have bent time to make it so. The messages of love and support from all of you are there ... |
Onomastic | 05/11/2015 | 45 | 77 | 1 | - |
| Okiciyap Quilt Auction: Thanking DK Quilters Who Share Their Quilt Story The auction is now at $ 630.00 for this beautiful quilt to support Okiciyap's ("we help") operating expenses. Okiciyap was founded by Georgia Little Shield, as my friend Aji explains in her diary, ... |
Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse | 03/29/2013 | 46 | 67 | 1 | - |
| Daily Kos Fundraisers for Okiciyap: Taking the Long View — A Trickle Turns into a Stream | weck | 11/08/2013 | 47 | 56 | 2 | - |
| Zen Trainer beat cancer, next she'll beat Trump Like Zen Trainer, I’m a breast cancer survivor. There are many of us here at our virtual home.
The anxiety and worry that accompanies treatment and recovery is a journey of its own, and this is the journey zen trainer is presently on.
Every... |
remembrance | 12/04/2016 | 47 | 89 | - | - |
| DK Quilt Guild: Okiciyap Quilt Auction, Gratitude & Photodiary DK Quilt Guild: A place for quilters to gather, share ideas, projects, and to make the world a better place, one quilt at a time. Join us and share your thoughts, projects, questions, and tips. ... |
Pam from Calif | 04/07/2013 | 48 | 44 | 2 | - |
| Where are YOU, when "Okiciyap (we help)" needs you? I promised myself to never write a serious diary. And as you can see with this one, I keep my promises. I can't do serious writing. Whatever I say, it's not the right way to say things around here. ... |
mimi | 04/07/2013 | 48 | 33 | 1 | - |
| Giving Warm for Valentine's Day Okiciyap (we help) Cindy Taylor reported on February 3rd that the price of one gallon of propane heating fuel was up to $5.00 on the reservation. Please be assured that even a donation of just $5.00 will help. ... |
weck | 02/09/2014 | 48 | 62 | 1 | - |
| Okiciyap Quilt Auction, Wish Lists, and Challenges Okiciyap Quilt 2013
Bidding and match challenges continue through tomorrow for the DK Okiciyap group's fundraising auction of the stunning quilt (detailed image at link) created by ... |
nomandates | 04/06/2013 | 50 | 52 | 1 | - |
| DK Quilt Guild: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Quilting for a Good Cause The quilters of the DK Quilt Guild are doing it again! Working together, the guild has assembled the many quilt blocks needed to produce not one, but two fabulous quilts to be auctioned for the ... |
weck | 02/24/2013 | 51 | 34 | - | - |
| DK Quilt Guild & Okiciyap Quilt Auction: Why this quilt? DreamCatcher block from Okiciyap Quilt 2013
DK Quilt Guild: A place for quilters to gather, share ideas, projects, and to make the world a better place, ... |
leu2500 | 03/24/2013 | 51 | 41 | 1 | - |
| Okiciyap Quilt Auction: We Are All Responsible Few are guilty, but all are responsible.—Rabbi Abraham ... |
peregrine kate | 04/01/2013 | 51 | 50 | 1 | - |
| Okiciyap: When We Help, the Transformative Power of Compassion "I did not know then, how much was ended. When I look back now, from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children, lying heaped and scattered, all along the crooked ... |
Grizzard | 04/04/2013 | 53 | 51 | 2 | - |
| Okiciyap Quilt Auction: Helping the Helpers Who Helped the Helpers I have watched and supported the Okiciyap (we help) group since I came upon a call for supplies for the Isabel community of South Dakota. The 8500 residents living on the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe ... |
Glen The Plumber | 03/18/2013 | 54 | 58 | - | - |
| A Very Happy Ending! Thank You DK!
Okiciyap 2013 Quilt
The Okiciyap Quilt Auction for 2013 has concluded. DK Quilt Guild and Okiciyap (we help) Group dedicated six months of creative quilting and three months ... |
weck | 04/21/2013 | 56 | 52 | 2 | - |
| We're collecting Okiciyap Quilt Project donor names for the plaque to honor Georgia Little Shield We've gathered some names from the bidding period of the recent Okiciyap Quilt Project . In the previous link you can read about the history of this project and see more photos of the quilt. Special ... |
Neeta Lind | 05/20/2013 | 56 | 68 | - | - |
| Okiciyap Food Pantry Still Needs Us, Please Donate or Bid Today Okiciyap Quilt 2013 second row center block
People are amazed at the rugged beauty of the quilt created from twelve blocks stitched together ... |
weck | 03/31/2013 | 57 | 53 | 1 | - |
| Frigid Winter Endangers Lakota Elders - Okiciyap!
Standing Rock Reservation, January 2009
If you've been shivering through this winter and ... |
betson08 | 01/28/2014 | 57 | 45 | 1 | - |
| DK Quilt Guild: Okiciyap Quilt Auction~ We Quilt For Others Quilters by nature are generous & creative. Most of us can remember a quilt given by a dear relative or friend for a special occasion. A baby receiving blanket, a wedding gift, a graduation gift. ... |
Pam from Calif | 03/21/2013 | 60 | 29 | - | - |
| Food, Healing and a Quilt Auction: Okiciyap [updated 2x with photo and video thank yous] If you're reading this diary today, the last day of the quilt auction, you're probably aware of the Okiciyap (we help) the Isabel Community food pantry on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation, which ... |
betson08 | 04/07/2013 | 61 | 50 | 2 | - |
| Vetwife needs our help. w/ Update Update:
Wow. I put up a little late night blog post and ya'll have spread it out in the ether far and wide enough that Vetwife is withing $1,100 of her goal. You ladies and gentleman have really ... |
Drewid | 06/22/2015 | 61 | 187 | 1 | - |
| You guys are the best We had a fundraiser for fineena a couple of days back and you guys kicked ass. I can't tell you how thankful I am for your kindness and generosity. These qualities are the finest the human race has ... |
One Pissed Off Liberal | 03/22/2015 | 63 | 153 | 1 | - |
| A Lake For Lin: Breath, Eyes, Memories “Every thought we have is a tangible energy with the power to transform. A thought is not only a thing; a thought is a thing that influences other things.” -– Lynne McTaggart
Good afternoon, everyone.
Many of you, if not most of you, have... |
Avila | 12/18/2016 | 67 | 61 | - | - |
| Okiciyap Quilt Auction: Strength in Numbers, Synergy and Symbols When I first saw the Dreamcatcher square of the Okiciyap quilt, my mind immediately drew a connection to the Okiciyap logo, and superimposed the two. Now, when I see one, I automatically see the ... |
GreyHawk | 04/01/2013 | 75 | 60 | 1 | - |
| (Update #3) Saving Ginger: Ask Not What Pooties Can Do for You. Ask What You Can Do for Pooties. Most of us who have pets would have a gaping hole in our daily lives were we to lose any of them. Over a period of time, they become an integral part of our family and we're dependent on them as ... |
JekyllnHyde | 10/31/2015 | 79 | 105 | 6 | - |
| Community Fundraiser: We reached our goal! And the single parent's double bind Update: Tonya sends her thanks. :)
It takes a village.
In the United States, we have a habit of lying to ourselves about our independence. Our story is about individual freedoms and personal ... |
rb137 | 07/28/2013 | 80 | 75 | 1 | - |
| Okiciyap Quilt Auction: It's All About Community I am new to both the quilt and Okiciyap groups and therefore had to spend some time to discover what this project means to me. I found that I most appreciate the layers and layers of community. ... |
Smoh | 04/03/2013 | 81 | 54 | 1 | - |
| Okiciyap , we help bidding diary I’ve wrestled with what to say in this diary. Unlike Meteor Blade I have little relevant personal experience with poverty. What ever economic challenges I have had have been minor compared with ... |
mollyd | 04/06/2013 | 81 | 42 | 2 | - |
| DK Quilt Guild:Weekend Quilt-a-Thon and Stay at Home Retreat Good Morning and welcome to DK Quilt Guild Gift Quilt-A-Thon and stay at home sewing and quilting retreat weekend. It is time for sewers and quilters to get busy making Holliday gifts using fabric ... |
trkingmomoe | 11/02/2013 | 82 | 17 | 2 | - |
| How to Get Help for a Veteran You Believe Has PTSD Vet63 published a compelling diary in which he describes a friend of his who is an older Veteran still suffering from the psychological pain inflicted during the War in Viet Nam.
Over the last 3 ... |
llbear | 11/23/2014 | 82 | 86 | 13 | - |
| Feeding the Body, Feeding the Spirit: Okiciyap (We Help)
Next month - on April 22, to be exact - it will have been one year since Eagle Wings Woman, also known as ... |
Aji | 03/20/2013 | 84 | 61 | 5 | - |
| Okiciyap Quilt Auction: Let the Bidding Begin Today is the day. Today is the first day of the Okiciyap Quilt Auction - the day that bidding begins.
It will be remembered in different ways by those who read and participate - some may make note ... |
GreyHawk | 03/27/2013 | 85 | 71 | - | - |
| Fundraiser for Vetwife and Family Many of you know Vetwife , Amanda, who is a long time member and activist here and involved in many groups. Her husband Jack is a Vietnam Veteran, one left with long term health problems from his ... |
Avilyn | 06/17/2015 | 88 | 180 | 3 | - |
| Cold Without Choice: Okiciyap (we help) | carolanne | 02/03/2014 | 89 | 82 | 2 | - |
| This quilt is not invisible - Okiciyap is Lakota for 'we help' and we can help auction it The Okiciyap (we help) Community here at Daily Kos is asking for your help.
Welcome to the second day of the Okiciyap Quilt Auction, to benefit the Okiciyap Food Pantry on the Cheyenne River ... |
Denise Oliver Velez | 03/28/2013 | 93 | 137 | 1 | - |
| Daily Kos Okiciyap Quilt Mission: Accomplished! Photo & Video Heavy Earlier this year, the Daily Kos Quilt Guild planned a quilt auction to benefit a worthy cause . They rallied together and produced a stunning quilt. Each block of this ... |
Neeta Lind | 08/25/2013 | 102 | 123 | 1 | - |
| Okiciyap Quilt Auction, plus a Youth Library (updated w/ challenge) Okiciyap Quilt 2013
Our DK Quilt Guild has created a strikingly beautiful quilt (detailed image at link) for the DK ... |
nomandates | 04/05/2013 | 103 | 72 | 1 | - |
| A longtime kossack needs our help today.
Our longtime friend Alexandra Lynch has found herself overwhelmed with worry. The bills have been getting incrementally farther behind and her family is now having to choose between ... |
weck | 04/09/2016 | 110 | 123 | - | - |
| UPDATE X 2: URGENT! Fellow Kossack Needs a Little More Help Please keep tipping and recommending so as many people as possible will see this diary! We only have a day to accomplish our goal. THANK YOU!
Due to a situation far beyond our control, the Derby ... |
Most Awesome Nana | 05/04/2015 | 119 | 70 | 1 | - |
| A Kossack Needs a Little Help
There are times when life gets a little financially rough. We have been asking for donations to help out elenacarlena .
So far, we’ve raised enough to cover her rent payment (which was due ... |
Ojibwa | 05/05/2015 | 128 | 126 | 2 | - |
| Community Quilt for Puddytat Yesterday, the community was devastated to hear that Puddytat has been in treatment for Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Chemo is very, very rough — as she said in her diary:
I’m finally home, kidneys back to normal, Magnesium and Calcium levels coming down... |
Sara R | 01/03/2017 | 133 | 99 | - | - |
| We have a sister who's in trouble Her name is Fineena. Many of you know her. She's been around since '08 and is known for her personal generosity and enthusiastic participation in our community. She's also known for the cool scarves ... |
One Pissed Off Liberal | 03/19/2015 | 135 | 270 | 2 | - |
| * New Day * - Quilt Matching Funders seek your help in raising $6,000 for Okiciyap Every day is a new day and with that, a new opportunity.
EVERYONE is welcome and please join us each morning at 7:30 AM PACIFIC
to tell us what you're working on, share your show & tell , vent, ... |
Neeta Lind | 04/02/2013 | 139 | 76 | 1 | - |
| It's time to support the Quilting Sisters of Daily Kos As our friend, JekyllnHyde says, Sara and Ann have done a great deal for the Daily Kos community. |
One Pissed Off Liberal | 11/12/2015 | 146 | 194 | - | - |
| Update #3: Help Build a Bridge for BFSkinner - #HelpBFSkinner@DailyKos
Please help build a bridge for BFSkinner to get him to the start of his Social Security monthly income in January, if all goes well. |
officebss | 10/03/2015 | 150 | 112 | 5 | - |
| Derby Day Party and Fundraiser for elenacarlena
I am joining [Most Awesome Nana http://www.dailykos.com/user/Most%20Awesome%20Nana] and several others in the [Community Fundraisers http://www.dailykos.com/user/Community%20Fundraisers] ... |
Most Awesome Nana | 05/03/2015 | 180 | 73 | 2 | - |
| UPDATE #4: Fundraiser for gchaucer2, a Community of Support In case you missed gchaucer2’s cry for help and the superb, sustained community response, at least six stories graced the Rec list this week. ericlewis0 contacted gchaucer2 that night and wrote gchaucer2 is okay. Now that PayPal has completed its... |
2thanks | 06/18/2016 | 193 | 295 | - | - |
| Important Updates: For Sara R and Ann. For all of you and the magic you make.
The sound of thread being pulled through cloth whispers like a barely breathed prayer.
Through the years, Sara R and her sister winglion (Ann) have made thousands of prayers manifest. Our ... |
Onomastic | 11/12/2014 | 279 | 311 | 3 | - |