Our Vision use the tiny budget we have left, to buy a property we could afford, that is just liveable enough to get started and with the possibility of turning the place into a homestead & Bee sanctuary.
We had plans & visions of doing this for the past 2 years, either going nomadic or finding property to create a sanctuary homestead, these 2 options seemed recurring considering the finances we had available.
Before all of this adventure got intitiated we both have been already trying to create some income independently by launching our own website where we feature our handmade leather creations & our original art, but we only started the website in december, so far only having made 2 sales in total, which is definitely not sustainable for survival yet.
So we find ourselves now in Croatia purchasing a property with 22 000 Euro, after which we will have about 1000 Euro left to our names. Enough to get by for an approximate 2 months. We have signed up on some job searching websites, hoping we might perhaps be able to grab a remote job to support us for a while, but we are also considering using HIVE & Leofinance as a medium to get us through. Since we both find a lot of pleasure in writing and expressing ourselves, we have decided to give it a dedicated & committed try, seeing whether we can make enough by consistenly documenting our journey in the process of creating our Bee-Sanctuary. Our needs are quite little, but since we have 2 royal pythons in our care & a dog, it adds up.
The property has 1300m2 Garden & 1300m2 Forest next to it, which gives us plenty of space & possibility to explore homesteading & creating a place in which we might be able to cover much of our basic needs by cultivating the land.
We equally started a Fundraiser which pretty much so far brought in enough that it almost covered the unexpected 350Euro fine that hit us on the road to croatia.
We had also started selling some of our Art as NFT on OpenSea, although we are new to that space, we have never sold a piece yet, but we decided to create a unique collection of NFT's which act as Certifications of Donation, which have the added perk, that every owner that purchases one of them, gets the right to name one of the Bee-Hives we will set up, which will be painted onto the Hive on the Roof, and they may have their name (or pseudonym) engraved on the hive itself to commemorate their donation to our Bee-Sanctuary.
A dear friend donated crypto directly to me to support us, so I made him a custom NFT as a gift for the occasion, he gave enough to deserve to name a Hive, and knowing him personally, I could not resist making him something uniquely tailored to him so he would appreciate the art & its theme. He absolutely loved it when I send it to him.
So all in all wrapping it up, having gotten kicked out with nowhere to go, has made us jump into a crazy risk & adventure that my rational mind can't comprehend is happening. But my heart is utterly excited.
If anyone has any insight or avenues to recommend that we should perhaps consider, to help us pull through in the beginning, it would be greatly appreciated & welcome.
God has thrust us into the great unknown, he kicked us out of the tiny sliver of comfort & security we had left, forcing us to go play our hand all-in, and our only card being nothing fancy. Now we will have to see what cards we will be dealt even though our position has already been set. There is no turning back. There is no Fold. It is All-In.
I leave you all with some videos of the outside of the property, in which one gets to see the yard surrounding the house.
Since Embeds do not seem to work on Leo, here are 3 Videos I uploaded to Odysee giving a Tour of the Outside of the Property. Front Yard Lower Floor, Front to Back Yard Lower Floor, Back Yard Upper Floor
For more Original Art of ours, check out our portfolio on our Website
We are currently preparing to go on an adventure to create a Bee-Sanctuary, for that, every kind of support is more than welcome & highly appreciated.
If you are interested in contributing to the Vision by getting yourself one of our original Artworks, you can visit our Arts & Artisanry Store.
for the NFT Lovers, check out my collection here on Opensea.
And for those who just feel like making a small monetary contribution, don't hesitate to like or tip this post, or visit our Fundraising page, where we describe the entire Project.
By AEK