- Tickets will be sold for 1 week, from Friday October 1-Friday October 8.
- Each ticket is $5
- There will be SEVERAL prizes and winners
- If you are a vendor and would like to donate one of your products to the raffle please contact me @ echolmes03@gmail.com or message on FB.
- Some of the prizes include: Monogrammed Towels from Cherry Limeade, Stationary from Promenade26, Soap from Seraphim Leigh Soaps, baked goods from MamaShania's Cookie Jar, Photography mini session from Debra Rice Photography, and lots more!
- To purchase a ticket, check my Facebook page Friday! Also please specify if you are local to the houston area or not, I will only include local people in the photography drawing since that's obviously something you'd need to be nearby for :)
Monday, September 27, 2010
Fundraiser, part 2
So as most of you have read I am doing a T shirt fundraiser...well I've teamed up with a few other work-at-home-mom's and we've decided to add a raffle fundraiser also!!! Here are the details:
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Fundraiser info
OK, so here are the details of the fundraiser I will be doing for the Michael family! (see last blog if you haven't read their story yet)
I will be offering a choice of 3 designs for the fundraiser. These will all be on a white unisex T shirt, and the cost will be $15. $10 of the $15 will go directly to the Michael family. I will ONLY be accepting fundraiser orders when I reopen for orders, and I will be taking orders for the fundraiser for 1 week, so please stalk my facebook for updates on the exact date I will start this (still trying to finish all the orders I currently have first!).
I am also trying to put a raffle together, but I am trying to secure some pretty awesome prizes first, so more details on that later :)
Here are your shirt options for the fundraiser:
The first one is an ornament, in your choice of fabric, with your child's initials or name inside (will only work if they have a name with about 6 letters or less) This is a photo of one, but I have yet to make one myself so I can't take credit:
The second design is another holiday one, this one can only be done with 1 initial:
And the third, for those who don't want holiday designs, is a simple initial with a name across it. Again this isn't my photo so I'm not taking credit for this picture, but just to give you an idea of what it could look like!
I will be offering a choice of 3 designs for the fundraiser. These will all be on a white unisex T shirt, and the cost will be $15. $10 of the $15 will go directly to the Michael family. I will ONLY be accepting fundraiser orders when I reopen for orders, and I will be taking orders for the fundraiser for 1 week, so please stalk my facebook for updates on the exact date I will start this (still trying to finish all the orders I currently have first!).
I am also trying to put a raffle together, but I am trying to secure some pretty awesome prizes first, so more details on that later :)
Here are your shirt options for the fundraiser:
The first one is an ornament, in your choice of fabric, with your child's initials or name inside (will only work if they have a name with about 6 letters or less) This is a photo of one, but I have yet to make one myself so I can't take credit:
The second design is another holiday one, this one can only be done with 1 initial:
And the third, for those who don't want holiday designs, is a simple initial with a name across it. Again this isn't my photo so I'm not taking credit for this picture, but just to give you an idea of what it could look like!
Friday, September 17, 2010
Going beyond the call of duty
Last night my heart was touched by the story of an old friend, Kristin Michael. We went to church together when I was younger and through facebook I had reconnected with her family. I have such fond memories of a certain youth group ski trip in high school where I got a chance to bond with this family, even if it involved me having an accident and being taken downhill in a body bag by the ski patrol.
Kristin and her husband Jordan have been called to adopt a child from Ethiopia, but they have faced struggles trying to come up with the money. Nothing in me can express what she has in her own blog, and she has given me permission to share her link, so please just read about it for yourself, maybe it will touch you also.
http://bethechangeinethiopia.blogspot.com/(start at the bottom and read in chronological order!)
After reading Kristin's story God laid it on my heart that I can help in a huge way!!! We are his hands and feet here on earth!
I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.
Matthew 17:20
More updates soon to come on the details of my fundraiser for the Michael family!
Kristin and her husband Jordan have been called to adopt a child from Ethiopia, but they have faced struggles trying to come up with the money. Nothing in me can express what she has in her own blog, and she has given me permission to share her link, so please just read about it for yourself, maybe it will touch you also.
http://bethechangeinethiopia.blogspot.com/(start at the bottom and read in chronological order!)
After reading Kristin's story God laid it on my heart that I can help in a huge way!!! We are his hands and feet here on earth!
I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.
Matthew 17:20
More updates soon to come on the details of my fundraiser for the Michael family!
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
My CRAZY life!
So, even though I am absolutely SWAMPED with orders, thanks to all my fans and by God's grace, I want to take a minute to update everything here! I like the idea of being able to track my progress this way, so I can always look back and remember what an amazing time this is for me.
First of all, orders have been pouring in! I am getting at least 3-4 a day, and sometimes those orders have 3+ shirts! As fast as I make them I am getting new ones! Right now I have almost 50 shirts to make! Another issue this has brought up with me has been organization and time management! I guess before it was ok for me to be a bit on the lazy side with these things, but they are absolute NECESSITIES now!!! I have started making spreadsheets and labeling shirts and everything! My blackberry has saved me more than once when I've been in a store and either misplaced my list or forgot what shirt sizes to get!
My work schedule is usually during the day only if Peyton naps (which is not the norm anymore, sadly) and then at night I try to do 2 shirts. Thankfully, she got a last minute spot in Mother's Day Out at church and will be gone on Tues & Thurs from 9:30-2:30! She will be 2 in October so it's a great time for her to start getting more socialization and stuff! I think it will be a great transition also into preschool.
And about FACEBOOK...it is a God send!!! Really, without facebook I would have no sales, other than through my friends! It's amazing to me that people like my stuff so much that they want it just for the fact that it's cute, and not just to help me out :) I think with the bows it was just my friends ordering from me to keep me in business, so this is a nice surprise!!!
My husband is having surgery soon, and with all the orders and craziness I decided it's best for me to stop taking new orders right now and try to finish up what I have. If I get everything finished I will open up again, or open up in 2 weeks, whichever comes first! I just don't want to have a wait time that is longer than a month, I don't feel like it's fair to customers or to me!
Here are some pics of some of the work I have done:
First of all, orders have been pouring in! I am getting at least 3-4 a day, and sometimes those orders have 3+ shirts! As fast as I make them I am getting new ones! Right now I have almost 50 shirts to make! Another issue this has brought up with me has been organization and time management! I guess before it was ok for me to be a bit on the lazy side with these things, but they are absolute NECESSITIES now!!! I have started making spreadsheets and labeling shirts and everything! My blackberry has saved me more than once when I've been in a store and either misplaced my list or forgot what shirt sizes to get!
My work schedule is usually during the day only if Peyton naps (which is not the norm anymore, sadly) and then at night I try to do 2 shirts. Thankfully, she got a last minute spot in Mother's Day Out at church and will be gone on Tues & Thurs from 9:30-2:30! She will be 2 in October so it's a great time for her to start getting more socialization and stuff! I think it will be a great transition also into preschool.
And about FACEBOOK...it is a God send!!! Really, without facebook I would have no sales, other than through my friends! It's amazing to me that people like my stuff so much that they want it just for the fact that it's cute, and not just to help me out :) I think with the bows it was just my friends ordering from me to keep me in business, so this is a nice surprise!!!
My husband is having surgery soon, and with all the orders and craziness I decided it's best for me to stop taking new orders right now and try to finish up what I have. If I get everything finished I will open up again, or open up in 2 weeks, whichever comes first! I just don't want to have a wait time that is longer than a month, I don't feel like it's fair to customers or to me!
Here are some pics of some of the work I have done:
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