Whangarei's own good sort, Doreen Brechelt, strongly believes that sharing is caring and if we all lived with that motto the world would be a wonderful place.
For the past month, Doreen has been knitting coffee warmers, selling them at a local cafe and taking the proceeds into T&T Childrenswear where she buys children's clothes for Barnardos.
"I was reading articles (in the Northern Advocate) about children who need warm clothes and I thought, 'how can I help?'," Doreen said.
She took her knitted coffee warmers to Lynda Gibson at Columbus Coffee at Whangarei's Mitre 10 where Lynda said "bring it on" and agreed to sell the coffee warmers to customers.
Rabbits, dolls, clotheslines, caterpillars, little boys and girls, flowers, hedgehogs, and even Taniwha are keeping Doreen busy, and the more she knits, the more complicated they become.