![]() ![]() I had two stores in Marin as well, and it gave me a place where I could be surrounded by children, but it was also the purpose of loving children and letting them feel beautiful inside and out. ![]() It’s amazing how many people smile when you say I made this card and it creates a community, a way for us to say, I am thinking of you.Ī I started in women’s wear and sold across the United States, but I sat down one day and said, what do I really love to do? I like small, beautiful things. I work at the Goods in Mill Valley and with all the remnants where I work, I make small little gift cards, with the same idea, and I give them out to everybody and all the kids that come into work and they love them. When I started in the pandemic delivering to seniors, I wanted them to know that the community cares and loves them because they were probably lonely. She’s worked at the Goods, a Mill Valley boutique, for nine years.Ī I want to spread happiness and joy in our community. The retired fashion designer who spent most of her career designing and manufacturing infant and baby clothing began her pandemic project while stuck at home, using cards, ribbons, stamps and other discards she gets from people. In the past three years, she’s made thousands of cards to bring some much-needed cheer to those who need it - including grocery store workers and firefighters during the height of the pandemic - and to help create a feeling of connection in the community she’s spent most of her life in. Amid the fireworks, parades and other Fourth of July festivities, the San Anselmo resident dropped off more than 200 handmade cards to residents of a Corte Madera memory care center and its employees - something she’s done for Marin’s various senior communities and care centers since 2020. The Fourth of July looked a little different this year for Toni Tierney. ![]()
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