The floods in Queensland are heart-breaking. The footage of the inland tsunami that ripped through Toowoomba yesterday was disturbing to say the least. I have been thinking of families with small babies and children and what I could do to help.
Then this morning Corrie alerted me to the fact that Toni over at Make It Perfect was organising an auction of crafty handmade goods with all proceeds going towards the flood appeal. What a great idea! So many people ask me where to get good quality handmade kids clothes and baby gifts - well now there will be a whole list of bloggers, crafters and stay at home mums whipping up all sorts of delightful creations for you to buy, with all your hard earned money going somewhere where it really counts.
My heart goes out to anybody that is affected by the floods, if you are in a flood affected area please stay safe and with your head screwed on, radio tuned in and provisions near. Times like these remind me of the disaster close to our own hearts, Black Saturday, and brings back all those emotions that went with that day, weeks and months after.
Little Miss Emma (remember her?) will be holding an auction on Thursday night at 7.00pm Australian Eastern Daylight Savings time over on the facebook page. If you are not already a facebook fan of Little Miss Emma please become one (hit the 'Like' button) and stay tuned for more details.
My prayers are with the people of Queensland tonight xxx
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Hi, what a lovely post. I'm in Gympie and we're totally safe but our town has been cut since Sunday (isolated and the main highway cut for a further few days). Our CBD got flooded but we've had it flood every decade. We're very hilly country. I've lived here for most of my 30 years, and we didn't get to our record flood levels 25+ metres or our 1 in 100 year flood level from 1999 which was 21+ metres. We peaked this time at 19.24 metres. River is dropping now.
Absolutely heartbreaking about all the low lying areas, that had flash flooding - Lockyer Valley, Toowoomba, Dalby, St George, Gatton, and now Brisbane on alert with Srathpine and Caboolture and Ipswich. There are a lot of people affected.
Hearts go out to people devastatingly affected.
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