Awareness design prompts $240 donation.

Once upon a time, life sucked.

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I created this somewhat crude text design early in my love/hate relationship with Adobe Illustrator, as a newly divorced community college art student.

It later occurred to me that I could raise funds for local domestic violence shelters by offering the design on merch at CafePress. But I didn’t think many people would respond to it.

To my surprise, one person recently bought hundreds of these stickers. I can only guess it was to hand out to survivors and others who might help spread awareness of the key message: verbal abuse is still abuse.

Due to this person’s generosity, I will have a check ready for the SIREN shelter right after the holidays. Just about the same time 8 years ago when I would have needed their help had I not had family to turn to.

Thank you.

Posted in CafePress, Squidoo
Tags: domestic violence, verbal abuse