Haiti Relief Fundraiser Update

WOW!

So far, we have raised around $500 to donate to Haiti!!! That is so exciting :) I think I will continue do this for a few more weeks. Thank you to everyone who has purchased a necklace or passed my name on to someone else.

I was up really late on Saturday night making a whole pile of necklaces and my wonderful mother & aunts bought a whole bunch of them.

Here are some of the latest that I have to sell if you are still looking for one :)

Not the best photo as I took it with my cell phone, but hopefully you can get the idea. These also come with an 18" or 24" chain necklace.

Thanks Again!!

Haiti Relief Fundraiser - Scrabble Tile Pendants

OK so here is the fun part!!

I decided instead of just donating my $10, $20 or $50 to help Haiti I figured that if I make something crafty & fun with that money and sell it instead, that my money could go a lot further.

So I have created a whole lot of these awesome Scrabble Tile Necklaces, made from reclaimed scrabble tiles(see the back photo below) and have listed them on my Esty site. See the side bar on the right for the link to my etsy site and there is also a tab on my Facebook page.

***I AM DONATING 100% OF THE PROCEEDS TO THE HAITI FUND RELIEF***

-see the post below for where the money is going-

This is sample of one of them close up, they are all different(but most of them can be reproduced if it has already sold).

Here is the back view

This is a thumbnail collage of a sample of them, click to see it larger. There are many more available, if you are looking for something specific just let me know.


Every order comes with the scrabble tile charm and a chain necklace, either 18" or 24"- see below photo for the difference in lengths.

There are also kids necklaces and any of them can be made into a key chain style.

**IF YOU ARE LOCAL TO MINNEAPOLIS**

*If you do not already have and do not want to set up an Esty account(it's super easy & safe) and would like to meet me instead, then I can discount the normal shipping charges or you can donate that amount to the Haiti Fund.
*Or I can include the cute little round silver container shown above.
*Another payment option is that I can send you a bill through Paypal.


THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO CONSIDER MY FUNDRAISER

Just in time for Valentine's day :)

*please see my post below*

Haiti Relief Fundraiser

I really want to help and my way of doing that is doing a fundraiser, but giving something in return. Stay tuned for the plan to come....

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Haiti

What does it mean to you? I'm pretty sure it means something different to all of us at this point. Some of us feel sad for them, but Haiti seems so far away and it's easy to forget about it after a few weeks. Some of us appreciate our safety, our families and our homes a little more than we used to. I bet a lot of us are thankful to be in a safe and secure nation such as ours.

I wondered what I could do to help, to make it a little more personal, to know where my help would be going.

Our church has worked with Pastor Dio in Port-au-Prince for the past 20 years and they typically do mission trips there multiple times a year. We have helped them to build and continue to support a special needs home called The Mephibosheth House. In fact we had a church team down in Port-au-Prince when the earthquake hit. At this time Pastor Dio has moved most of the special needs children to a safe place in Tricotte and have moved in 35 families who have lost their homes and basically everything they have ever owned in the earthquake.

Open Door has set up a Haiti Relief Fund to be distributed by Pastor Dio where help is needed the most. He is a real, trusted, honest person living in this everyday and seeing where the needs are the greatest. He is down there doing what he can to help those around him.

For more information about this you can go to this link at Church of the Open Door.

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Not everyone belongs to a church, not everyone believes in God, but most of us WANT to help somehow and with every one's extra funds a little low these days, it's nice to know that the money will go directly to HELP the people.