Founding Membership

A quarterly box to support seasonal, liturgical living - from my desk to yours

Dear fellow-pilgrim,

Each and every one of you have helped me to continue deepening and expanding the offerings here at Hearthstone Fables, bringing more reflections, art, resources, and voices into this space. I’m so grateful for you, and also so delighted by the surprising twists and turns that this path has taken.

It’s truly a privilege and a blessing to walk through the cycles of the liturgical year with you - learning, growing, wrestling, asking questions…turning this beautiful spiritual discipline over and over in our hands, looking at the ways its different facets reflect the light of Christ back (and, in turn, call us to bend our habits toward that light).

One of the most enchanting parts of this whole journey has been seeing how support ripples out: your generosity here, whether through presence or through financial contribution, has an impact.

You help me continue to devote an immense amount of time and material toward research, reflection, and art-making (honestly, a dream-come-true for this artsy introvert) - and you also are, in turn, supporting so many other pilgrims who are on this journey. Your contributions allow me to be able to pay and support the many authors, historians, theologians, and artists who have joined us here at Hearthstone Fables in conversation: when I look back at all of the folks we’ve welcomed in our chats, I’m a bit blown away!

In my work here, one of my biggest goals is to plant encouragement: that you would feel inspired to graft liturgical living into your own life and landscape, to glean what you can and bring it into your actual community of people and into your actual place.

And so, thanks to your support, I’m able to continue to expand on this goal of encouragement: I’m offering a Founding Membership that includes a quarterly box of goods curated to help tangibly support you and your local community in liturgical living.

My hope is that each box can provide some touchstones that deepen your personal engagement in the rhythms of the Church year and extend that liturgical hospitality into your community. All of these elements can be sweet points of intersection for your home and your wider circle of people.

Summer 2025 Founding Member box: The Language of Flowers by Jess Buttermore and an antique flower frog (wrapped in paper here), summery tea towel, Rifle Paper Co. recipe cards, locally-made soap, HF art print, Morning Star Seed Co. packets, antique hymns and calling cards.

FOUNDER BOX TIMELINE:

The rhythm for Founder Boxes is tied to the quarterly feasts that are so integral to our faith story, each aligned with the solstices and equinoxes.

Here’s what that will look like in the coming year:

• WINTER
  Shipped in December, before Christmas/Winter Solstice
  Sign-ups close: December 1
  

• SPRING
  Shipped in March, before the Annunciation/Spring Equinox
  Sign-ups close: March 1
  

• SUMMER
  Shipped in June, before Johnsmas/Summer Solstice
  Sign-ups close: June 1
  

• AUTUMN
  Shipped in September, before the Conception of John the Baptist/Autumn Equinox
  Sign-ups close: September 1

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FOUNDER BOX DETAILS:

Autumn 2025 Founding Member box (gift-wrapped in this photo, so that all the goodies remain a surprise for Founders who are still receiving their boxes!) The theme for this box has been “HEARTH” as a touchstone for familial and community gathering.

Each seasonal box is filled with a variety of goods - small antiques, locally-made items, books, and more. Some of the pieces are ‘overtly’ liturgical, while others are more widely seasonal yet apply so beautifully to liturgical living. All of them are curated to inspire us to align our faith journey with our locale and our lives - a seasonal story told through the agrarian heritage in the Church calendar and applied broadly to so many people and places.

I’m also including the “Hearthstone Post” newsletter in each box, with a note about its theme and more details on each item…my pen pal dreams are coming true!

• The Founding Membership is priced at $100 annually

• In addition to the seasonal box, you will, of course, be able to enjoy all of the benefits of Paid Members

• Your contribution as a Founder goes toward these seasonal boxes, and it helps me continue to deepen the work and expand the conversations in this space

• My personal familiarity is with the Northern Hemisphere, but: if you are a friend in the Southern Hemisphere, please reach out to chat! I will happily work to craft boxes that reflect your seasonal experience and how it aligns with the liturgical year.

If you’d like to join as a Founding Member, you can update your subscription here:

Substack also has a helpful document stepping us through the process of upgrading:

…I’ll then get in touch with you about shipment details. :)

As always, please know that I’m so grateful for your presence here: every reader, every conversation, is a balm in this ongoing work.

Feel free to reach out with any questions, of course! This membership is new, so I’m learning alongside you.

Pax et bonum,
Kristin