Naalakkersuisut press release regarding the latest statements from incoming President Donald Trump

Fundraiser

Do you like to help those in need? Down below is some links for a Single dad who is raising his 8 year old son. They’ve been struggling for awhile but things are improving thanks to the many who have stepped up to help. Christmas is approaching so there is still a need relating to that too. So if you’re feeling generous and want to help, there are links down below to help. I will be adding a couple of more wish list due to the prices being cheaper on some items.

Amazon Wish List for Thomas & Blaze
Thomas and Blaze’s wish list

GoFundMe Go here to donate funds.

Cotton Cuts Spring 2025 – Flyaway

Cotton Cuts 2025 Spring Puzzle Mystery QAL

It’s that time again to sign up for the next Cotton Cuts Puzzle Mystery! This spring, we’re diving into the Flyaway Mystery Case, and I can’t wait to join forces with both seasoned and newbie detectives. It’s gonna be a blast showing the newcomers how to crack the case! I’m super excited about all the amazing quilts we’ll whip up while figuring out this mystery! So, I thought I’d switch things up and pick three different color schemes to share on my YouTube Channel “Greenland Quilter” and in the “Greenland Quilter” Facebook group.

I even set up a poll so viewers and fellow quilters could pick what colorway suits me best. Of course, a lot of folks leaned towards my favorite colors, but they also know I’m all about color and suggested I try something a bit outside my usual vibe! It was awesome to see so many people getting involved, voting, and sharing their thoughts on why they chose a certain colorway — many thought it’d be a fun twist for me to explore something different too!

On the GQ FB Group these are the numbers:

Option 1:
12 Votes – 52%
Option 2:
3 Votes – 14%
Option 3:
8 Votes – 34%

On the GQ YT Community Tab (Note: It would not show me the number of people who voted, just % of vote)

Option 1 – 55%
Option 2 – 12%
Option 3 – 33%

I find it exciting that in both instances, the percentages are quite close! Many people shared their thoughts on why they voted for certain options and expressed their enthusiasm for me to explore option 3, as it would be a wonderful departure from my usual style. Others mentioned that my love of color makes option 3 (Phoenix) an appealing choice! A lot of comments highlighted option 1 as a fantastic option too, considering my fondness for purples.

After weighing the numbers and the delightful feedback, I feel incredibly encouraged by the comments influencing my decision. I’ve decided to embrace option 3! It’s refreshing to try something different and see where it may lead. I just know the quilt will be beautifully unique!

Thank you so much for sharing your votes and insights! I truly enjoy engaging in discussions about our choices, even when it comes to something as fun as selecting a colorway for the next Cotton Cuts Puzzle Mystery Quilt Along.

The Cotton Cuts Puzzle Mystery Spring 2025 is set to begin in February 2025, and I can’t wait! Signups will start on December 6th for everyone new to the PMQ experience. I invite all of you enthusiastic detectives to join us for this delightful Spring 2025 Mystery Quilt Along! It’s a ten-month journey, and I’ve truly loved piecing together the mysteries.

There are so many wonderful reasons to participate! You’ll be part of a large community solving a mystery while enjoying the creative process. Every 3rd Thursday, Cotton Cuts opens its Zoom doors for detectives to come together to sew and connect while providing help for our newer detectives with any questions. Joining the Zoom sessions allows you to make new friends, share the joy of solving a mystery, and receive support for any inquiries you might have. Plus, you’ll gain insider information from Kim Moos regarding future mystery QALs!

You never know what new inspirations you might discover! In the 10th month, Cotton Cuts opens its Zoom doors for a half-day sewing session featuring all the clues right after the reveal, which generally takes place on the last Friday of the month. After the reveal, we gather for a fun sew-together of the clues, with prizes awarded during the Zoom as well! Participating is a delight, and there’s a great chance you’ll complete all your clues during that session, leaving you with a fantastic sense of accomplishment!

I’ve formed wonderful friendships through Cotton Cuts, and yes, I’m proud to be a fan! They offer outstanding customer service, and Kim consistently introduces exciting new sew-alongs while her company contributes to projects that assist those in need! So come join this amazing community of people who share a deep love for the art of sewing!

To learn more about Cotton Cut’s Puzzle Mystery’s, Click on the link below! Did you know that we are Stronger when we sew together? So join us and let’s get started in early February!

Cotton Cuts Puzzle Mystery
https://www.cottoncuts.com/about-pmq/

Greenland Quilter You Tube Channel

Greenland Quilter Facebook Group

Greenland Quilter Thursday Live (November 7th, 2024 @ 4:00 PM EST, 3:00 PM CST, 2:00 CMT, 1:00 PM Pacific Time)

Fundraiser

Do you like to help those in need? Down below is some links for a Single dad who is raising his 8 year old son. They’ve been struggling for awhile but things are improving thanks to the many who have stepped up to help. Christmas is approaching so there is always a need relating to that too. So if you’re feeling generous and want to help, there are links down below to help. I will be adding a couple of more wish list due to the prices being cheaper on some items.

Amazon Wish List for Thomas & Blaze
Thomas and Blaze’s wish list

GoFundMe Go here to donate funds.

Let’s Build Bricks and Sew Blocks!

I have something exciting to share with all of you today! This Thursday, I’ll be going live, and I can’t wait to connect with you! As many of you know, my live sessions (Greenland Quilter) have been a bit unpredictable lately, and I truly appreciate your understanding during this challenging time. Now, let’s get to the fun part! When my “Heart Light” (Nikolaj) is home, he loves to join in on my lives and create amazing Lego builds! I have a special request for each of you:

Below you’ll find a poll featuring four awesome Lego builds! Which one would you love to see him construct during our live session this Thursday Night (November 7th, @4:00PM EST)? The build with the most votes will take center stage on Thursday, and the second most popular will be featured in our next live, which will be announced soon. With about three weeks left together, I invite you to join us for some delightful Lego-building fun, alongside my sewing! I’m excited to try using a cell phone camera for Nikolaj, so we can all see his amazing creations up close!

Please take a moment to vote on the Lego Kit you’d like to see built this Thursday. Share this link, and let’s rally as many people as possible to come and enjoy! While this is primarily a quilting/Greenland channel, Nikolaj is an important part of my life, and I want to share our joy with everyone, even with those beyond the sewing circle! Come and be a part of the fun! Let’s have a fantastic evening filled with creativity and laughter! If you’re a Lego builder, feel free to bring your bricks and join in while we go live! Let’s make this a wonderful experience for everyone!!!

Join me Thursday @4pm EST over on my Greenland Quilter YouTube Channel! Let’s have some great conversation, lego building and sewing! Bring your projects or just bring yourself with a cold/hot drink and have some relaxing fun!

Greenland Quilter Channel Update

Thank you to all of the amazing viewers of the Greenland Quilter’s channel!! Your unwavering support, the time you dedicate to watching the videos, and your engagement with the content on the community tab, combined with your constant encouragement and kindness, are truly invaluable! I can’t fully express how much you all mean to me as a community—Y’ALL ROCK!!!

My watch hours are currently sitting at 14,800, and I am determined to push it over the 15,000 watch hour milestone! If you’re willing to take on the challenge, sharing the videos or watching those you haven’t experienced yet could make a huge difference. Regardless of the time invested, I greatly appreciate everything you as viewers have contributed to this channel!

Right now, the channel subscription count is at 1,396, and I have a clear goal for where I want us to be by Christmas or the end of the year. I’m aiming for a remarkable milestone of 2K subs, 15K watch hours, and 90K views, and I believe we can achieve this together. Whether we hit those targets or not, any growth is a significant achievement to celebrate!

Stats:
Watch Hours: 14,800
Viewers: 85,000
Subscribers: 1,396

Again thank you so much!!!

Greenland Quilter 85,000 YT Viewers milestone

Thomas & Blaze’s GoFundMe Page Go here to donate funds.

Amazon Wish List for Thomas & Blaze
Thomas and Blaze’s wish list

Be Kind and Empathetic

There are moments when I write about topics I love or find intriguing, and other times when I delve into aspects that evoke sadness, annoyance, apprehension, or anger. I also use writing as an outlet for past hurts. Writing is my tool for navigating through these challenging times. It’s crucial for people to grasp that words can inflict genuine harm, despite the popular saying “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me,” which is entirely false!

Unfortunately, many individuals fail to realize how a single word can trigger a past experience, resulting in emotional turmoil and distress. Yes, I used the word “harm.” Most of us associate harm with physical injury. Nevertheless, we are all human beings with emotions and minds, and some of us even grapple with mental health disorders such as anxiety, depression, or other severe illnesses.

Being a content creator entails dealing with unpredictability, numerous obstacles, and unexpected roadblocks. While most individuals navigate this landscape with minimal friction, others struggle but persist nonetheless. Creating compelling written content and videos while sharing our passion for various subjects demands substantial effort.

The crux of the matter is that, as creators, we invest considerable effort in producing great content and sharing our passions. Yet, there are individuals who feel compelled to tear us down! It’s puzzling why being polite, kind, and encouraging seems to have faded into the background. Instead of offering constructive criticism and support to help creators improve, some choose to use negative comments or words that, unbeknownst to them, can trigger past experiences of abuse. Some people are sensitive to negativity, and others are sensitive to words!

In light of this, one or two comments often express sentiments such as “Get over it,” “Grow a thicker skin,” and “Don’t engage in content creation if you can’t handle criticism!”

This situation is disheartening. Why should we, as content creators, have to comply with any of these demands? We don’t go around leaving the same negative comments on other creators’ platforms. We don’t direct such negative comments towards our viewers! What gives viewers the right to unleash their negative comments? If the content doesn’t resonate with them, they can simply move on.

Some individuals complain because they perceive a content creator’s voice to be unsuitable. They may find the pitch too high or low, the volume not to their liking, or the delivery overly anxious or lacking confidence. What they fail to realize is that anxiety or nervousness can affect our tone and delivery. Anxiety alone is debilitating, and when unsympathetic individuals enter the picture, the repercussions for the creator can be unpredictable!

I’m weary of the toxicity in our world. I create because I want to share what holds significance in my life. That certainly doesn’t give others the right to exploit this to feel better about themselves by belittling a creator due to their voice or manner of expression.

I recently watched a video in which a content creator shared the mistreatment they endured from viewers! Comments like “Your videos are too lengthy,” “Too much talking,” “You sound whiny,” “You seem like you’re begging,” “Not enough interaction,” “Boring unboxing videos,” “Inadequate tutorials,” or “Ignoring questions during live sessions” were endless.

Instead of tearing us down, why can’t these individuals be positive and supportive, enabling creators to evolve and improve over time? Rome wasn’t built in a day! Unless one is flawless, our content will naturally evolve and improve with time. Even some of the larger creators who watch smaller ones might contribute to this issue.

If only all of us, as human beings, were more supportive and kind to one another, the world would be a better place. Kindness and a simple smile can transform a person’s entire world! A single act of kindness, a shared smile, can make a difference to someone enduring a tough day or grappling with overwhelming anxiety. Kindness can help soothe someone’s anxiety, particularly when they are presenting a live video or writing a blog to be read later.

I would like to delve deeper into this topic, but finding the right words is a daunting task. I ultimately decided against creating a video about this because I knew it could easily spiral into a spectacle.

Having expressed all this, why don’t you, as viewers, choose to share kindness and empathy when reading and watching videos, whether live or pre-recorded? Kindness will not only uplift the creator but also make the individuals leaving comments feel better. Love, kindness, and empathy enhance our world. Let’s invest time in lifting each other up rather than squandering it tearing people down!

GoFundMe Go here to donate funds.

Amazon Wish List for Thomas & Blaze
Thomas and Blaze’s wish list

When Life Knocks Us Down So Close to Home

Sometimes things happen in life that comes to roost right at our back door or inside our family. Family is so important especially in this day and age and there are times when a family member falls down and struggles for years to get their footing again. Those times can make it hard on those who love them.

It’s hard to write about hard subjects that might cause discomfort for those who are reading what has been written. I’m writing about a hard subject because I think it needs to be discussed. I know I am not the only one who has family members struggling in this current atmosphere of our world. Life has been hard on so many and many want to escape not having to read about it but at the same time I’m hoping what I write about will hit home to others who feel the same as I do about this subject. Please remember I did not write this to cause anyone to feel sad or bad.

Circumstances can affect how a person handles life from the present to the future. It only takes one catastrophic event to affect the future of a person’s life. Some people take those catastrophies in stride and continue to move on in life while others struggle from the moment it started. Events can lead up to the catastrophy and then it starts to move down hill from there.

My family has been through so much over the last few decades. And for the most part all of us have moved on, however, my son has seen so much struggle since the death of his father. He has struggled to move forward while making good decisions. His decisions weren’t bad ones but it also made him a prime target for predators that live in our world. I’m not going to write about what I’m talking about because it’s too deep and mind boggling even for me to write about much less have the ability to articulate in the right way. I have trouble just understanding how people can be so cruel and mean to one another.

Ten months ago my son who is also a single dad became one of the percentages of people who are currently homeless in the United States. I never thought I’d see the day when one of my own would be homeless. This is super hard on all of us not to mention hard on me writing about it. There is such a vitriol attitude in our world towards those who have no home to live in not to mention most think that homelessness is caused from drug abuse or alcohol abuse or any other number of excuses of those who see homeless people in such a negative way. I can tell you that my son isn’t homeless because he has an addiction. It’s not that at all.

He’s homeless because of circumstances that started back to the loss of his father, along with being involved with the wrong kind of people. He has separated himself from those who were an influence on him. But he’s been struggling since then. My son suffers from depression as well as PTSD and anxiety. These issues have been untreated off and on over the years. He’s back in treatment for both while he’s raising his son. He’s a single dad raising his son. His sons mother is a drug addict! So he has custody of his son despite all the hindrances and roadblocks that had been thrown in the way of him moving forward.

Ten months has gone by while he’s been looking for work so that he could get a place to live for him and his son. Ten months!! All these so called job openings and still they don’t hire those who apply. It’s like the employers are being picky on who they hire! The longer this continues the more unemployable he becomes! People bitch and complain that those who are homeless or dependent on government help are lazy and worthless! I disagree with that notion! My son didn’t ask for this! Yes, he got involved with the wrong person but he had no idea what he was stepping into until it happened! He’s applied for hundreds of jobs and still doesn’t have one! He’s not trying to get a job that is special. His niche is unloading and loading stock on trucks. Stocking shelves and merchandising. This isn’t some special job! He’s even tried applying for washing and cleaning cars! So a lot of what is currently occurring has added to the stress of being homeless!.

Here’s a list of all the things that can happen to someone who becomes homeless: Reality check here:

1. Losing funding by using it all up to stay in a hotel to keep from having to sleep on
the street.
2. Sleeping in the car as long as one can have a car. Now keep in mind what is needed
to drive that said car.
A. Insurance, current tags, current driver’s license
1. No income, insurance lapses. Tags become invalid due to lack of insurance. (Do
you see the trend here?) Driving becomes illegal. Owner of car may take the
chance and drive anyway up until they are caught and their car is impounded.
Now you’re taking away mobility to look for a job!
2. Now they’ve lost their ability to get around to look for work, go places like
foodbank’s for food and/or other places of help.
3. Now you have them sleeping in tents and other makeshift shelters.
4. Then to add insult to injury, because of losing the car for driving it illegally they
are required to pay fines and show up in court, and if they can’t, then an arrest warrant
will happen. When they get picked up, if they are a parent, then their child goes to
foster care while parent sits in jail waiting to go before the judge. So you tell me how
any of this helps people in a time of need?

So before anyone thinks about degrading the homeless, remember someone in your family can find themselves in that same boat! Remember it could be you! People are living on the streets with stories none of us know about. I’m so thankful that there are programs out there to help but there are not enough! There isn’t enough money donated to go around to help so many who need help. So if you can afford it, please donate to homelessness programs. Every place in our country has programs that can use donations to help those in need. Donate to your local food bank! Every little bit can help someone in need. IN NEED! Think about that concept.

Currently my son and grandson are receiving help but they continue to need additional help from other avenues as well. I’m hopeful that my son will hear from a potential employer on when he might get to come to work. They are currently holding up things for a background check.

As a mom, it’s hard to see your children and grandchildren struggle in life. We as parents want all our children to thrive, be happy and live the best ever life. I know one day that will be so for my son and grandson. I have faith things will get better!

I wrote about this because I think there are so many parents watching their children struggle in life especially in this day and age and feel so helpless to help. We can only help as long as we have funds to help. Not all of us are loaded with money to support more than our own personal household. So when we run out of funds to help, that makes us feel even more inadequate. So my advice to any parent who is having this same struggle, research what is out there locally to help your homeless family member. Reach out to programs and people who host them to find out how they can help. If you can’t house them, be supportive of them until they can find housing. Being there for them means all the world to them because it helps them realize someone does care and that they are being heard! My guys have a long road to go but I have faith in my son not mention I know things will get better and be less stressful on the both of them.

Down below is a GoFundMe link as well as an Amazon link for my son and grandson. If you’re feeling generous and want to help, follow those links. If you cannot give, say a prayer on their behalf. Any help is help! I hope no one was offended by what I wrote. Also, I’ve been hosting a fundraiser on my YouTube channel as well. On August 31^st, 2024 I will be hosting a drawing for two different quilts to be given to two lucky winners. If you donate to the GoFundMe, You can enter the drawing via a google form. You will need to notify me that you’ve donated and would like to participate in the drawing. The two quilts that has been donated for this cause are handmade and beautiful! You will get much love out of them!

GoFundMe Go here to donate funds.
https://gofund.me/8e7d7ff7

Google Form for those who have donated to GoFundMe that want to be part of the quilt drawing. (https://forms.gle/ad3AtsntUwTmAQPb8)

Amazon Wish List for Thomas & Blaze
Thomas and Blaze’s wish list