Rustic Love Vienna

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Rustic Love Vienna

A 501c3, our mission is to actively engage & bring the community together to help the food-insecure.

08/24/2026

It’s the first day of school for FCPS! 🏫 Best of luck to everyone, including all the college students who are back on campus. 💟 Rustic Love has magnets in colors representing Vienna high schools and many Virginia universities. 🧡 Order yours today or check out the magnet selection hosted by Norm's Beer & Wine. Online order link for shipping is in the comments below.

Have a great first day! 📚

08/20/2026

Thank you to our wonderful partner Texas Donuts - Vienna for hosting our new coroplast heart signs these past few months and helping us raise more than $4,000!
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We love seeing our signs (and getting our donut fix!) at Texas Donuts, and we’re so grateful for this special collaboration. Thanks to owner Hoang Ton for welcoming our Board Treasurer, Jennifer Bernstein, at the shop this morning. 🍩💟

As always, proceeds from our sign sales directly support kids and families experiencing food insecurity in our community. Thank you for helping us make a difference! 💙

08/03/2026

☀️ Summertime update! ☀️
🍎 We recently received a very thoughtful update from Justice High School’s Wolf Shack, a pantry providing free snacks, food, toiletries, and clothing to any student who needs these essentials.
💙 This past school year, pantry volunteers logged nearly 15,000 (yes, 15,000!) student visits to the Wolf Shack. That's 5,000 more student visits than last school year.
🍎 Rustic Love was honored to be the Wolf Pack’s largest single financial donor to date, helping support the pantry’s continued operations and future growth.
💙 As always, none of this would be possible without YOUR generous support of our mission. Please know that your donations truly do make a difference in the lives of countless FCPS students. Thank you!

07/16/2026

We’ve added new designs to our Coroplast sign inventory! 💟 These signs are 12x12 corrugated plastic, waterproof and feature photos of mountains, beaches and our crowd-favorite rainbow heart signs! 🌈 We dropped off a small batch for purchase at Texas Donuts - Vienna and have a limited quantity available online. Thank you to Silverado Printing for their partnership on printing these signs for us and to Texas Donuts for being the perfect point of sale – as always, every sign sold benefits kids and families facing food insecurity in our community.

07/01/2026

Beautiful baby 🦌 and a beautiful Rustic Love sign! Photo courtesy of Nathalie Albrow 🩷🩷

06/17/2026

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Your generosity is making a real difference.
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As the school year came to a close, Rustic Love made one final pantry donation for the season to support a very special local program: Poe Middle School’s Raven’s Nest.

Led by the incredible Marissel Miranda, Raven’s Nest continues serving Poe’s most vulnerable families all summer long through bi-weekly food deliveries to their homes. This labor of love happens entirely outside of her regular job and is a remarkable example of the significant impact one person can make.

The need at Poe Middle School is significant:

➡️ Nearly 77% of Poe’s 900 students qualify for Free and Reduced Lunch.
🍎 Many families lose access to reliable school meals during the summer months.
➡️ Traditional food drives and fundraising efforts can be difficult to sustain because many of the families who would normally participate are the very families receiving assistance.
🍎 Raven’s Nest relies heavily on outside donations and volunteers to keep its shelves stocked and serving families year-round.

We would love to help secure a business sponsor for Raven’s Nest for the 2026–2027 school year. If your company, organization, or employer is interested in making a lasting impact on local children and families, please contact us and we’ll gladly connect you with Marissel. ☀️

Want to help today? Raven’s Nest also maintains an Amazon Wish List:
🛒 https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1G3BL23ZZKBLY

Thank you for supporting Rustic Love and our mission to help food-insecure families in our community. Summer can be one of the most challenging times of year for struggling households, and because of your generosity, we can continue helping Poe students and their families when they need it most.

06/13/2026

🥳 Today, Rustic Love turns SIX years old! 🥳

Six years ago, we began our journey as a nonprofit, and what an incredible adventure it has been! We are so grateful for the community that has supported our mission to help the food-insecure every step of the way.

One of our favorite memories from our very first summer is of two young volunteers – Cru and Kai Molter – who spent countless hours helping us build our wooden signs. Fast forward six years, and last week their family won local artist Nathalie Albrow’s beautiful Love Bug sign in our Hometown Art Auction. (And wow, have those boys grown up!)

We’re also thrilled to share that our Hometown Art Auction raised more than $7,000 for our mission to help fight food insecurity in our community. Between the auction of 26 one-of-a-kind signs and additional donations from generous supporters, this has truly been the perfect anniversary gift.

Thank you to everyone who has supported Rustic Love over the past six years: our volunteers, donors, artists, supporters, sign owners, community partners and our Board of Directors! A special shout-out to the Molter family for the many ways you have supported Rustic Love throughout the years. ❤️

Here's to six years of spreading love, giving back, and helping neighbors in need—and to many more to come!

06/07/2026

A heartfelt THANK YOU to all of our incredibly talented artists who have shared their time, creativity, and generosity through this year’s Hometown Art Auction. 🎨💛

Today is the final day of the auction, so be sure to get your last-minute bids in on your favorite pieces before it closes at 5pm! https://www.32auctions.com/hometownartauction

This auction is Rustic Love’s quarterly fundraiser, and every bid directly supports our mission to help fight food insecurity in our community. Every contribution makes a meaningful difference.

If you don’t end up winning a piece but still want to support the cause, we gratefully welcome financial donations of any amount.

Thank you for your continued support, encouragement, and generosity. We can’t wait to celebrate our winning bidders later today!
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06/06/2026

Our Hometown Art Auction ends tomorrow, June 7, but today, please give a warm welcome to our final featured artist: Shari MacFarlane! 🎨💛

Shari holds a truly special place in this year’s auction. Not only did she create two beautiful pieces for the event, but she is also the teacher and mentor of three other artists featured in the auction — a wonderful reflection of the creativity and inspiration she shares with others. 🌻 We also got to see a sneak peek of Shari's painting process -- did you know that underneath her "Hop To It" sign's green frog there is an orange one? It's all part of the paint layering process! So cool!

Shari's artistic journey began at just 16 years old as an arts and crafts teacher at a summer camp in Upstate New York. She later studied Fine Art at RIT, where she discovered a lifelong passion for both painting and teaching. Over the past 40 years, Shari has dedicated herself to nurturing creativity through her own artwork and by teaching hundreds of art students of all ages. 🐸

Shari shared that her purpose in life is to help others discover their creativity and connect with their authentic selves. Today, she continues that mission by teaching and painting daily from her home studio in Vienna. 🌻

We are so grateful to Shari not only for the beautiful artwork she contributed to this auction, but also for the countless ways she enriches our community through encouragement, mentorship, and creativity. Thank you, Shari, for sharing your incredible talents and your generous heart in support of Rustic Love’s mission to help fight food insecurity in our community. 🐸🌻
Auction link: https://www.32auctions.com/hometownartauction

Address

167 Glyndon St SE
Vienna, VA
22180

Website

https://www.rusticlove.org/, https://rustic-love-vienna.myshopify.com/

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