Free pair of earrings for YOU, if.....

OKAY blogger buddies....I need your help!

The contest/sale didn't work as well as I hoped.  In fact, I didn't get ONE sale.

I'm okay with that....but this is where YOU come in.

What do you think I could do to get sales going again???

For every comment/suggestion, I will ship you one FREE pair of earrings.

So, along with your suggestion, please send me your address and your colour preference.

Thanks for your continued support!

CONTEST / SALE

I'm going to start doing some contests to make my fundraising & supply building FUN!!!


If you have any ideas for fun contests, PLEASE email me.


Today's contest:


The first 5 people to purchase a pair of earrings or bracelet will get 2 pairs FREE (not just 1 but 2 pairs).  Make a comment, send me an email to let me know.

I'm going to upload a few of our newer designs for your viewing pleasure.

EARRINGS - $5 ea

BRACELETS - $10 ea

Creole 101

As part of my trip to Haiti, I am taking Creole (the official language in Haiti) lessons.  We started about 4 weeks ago.  Every Friday, 4 of us that are going to Haiti get together with our teacher, Renel.  He is a young Haitian man going to college in Grand Falls.  He has lived here for about 1 year and only speaks French. 

Though it's challenging me, it is SO much fun getting together every Friday afternoon with the other's I am traveling with, all for one common goal:  to learn to communicate with those we meet in our travels.  Plus, Renel is such a nice young man.

As part of my commitment to study, I am going to start listening to video's on YouTube to get used to the conversational piece of Creole.  I have decided that I will make a little 'Learn Creole' section on my blog for those of you interested!

Some of my favourite videos found today!





And my MOST challenging one is this one below. I'm going to try to go through this 30 minute story and translate the story (to the best of my ability)!!! I'm sure it will take some time!

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9 months to go

I am so excited...9 months until we travel to Haiti and my dream becomes a reality!


There is SO much to do until then...starting with our earrings!  We need to make more earrings to sell.  Plus, now we have bracelets and just starting to get into necklaces - with the help of so many wonderful friends!!!    We are finally caught up and there is a slow down in the sales - which sadly to say I am thankful for.  Now that I am working until the end of the school year, it's proved to be 'quite the adjustment' for time management!!!

Now we're working on our original ideas we had for selling our earrings.  I have contacted our Town Manager and he gave me many great ideas!  Some of our ideas are setting up a booth/table at our local mall, farmer's market and radio station on a given day to sell the earrings.  Some ideas I got from the Town Manager is to contact local business's (specifically Walmart) to set up a table to sell earrings there, or possibly door-to-door campaigning.  WOW...he was ever so helpful.  He even offered that if we had to get a 'pedlars license' to sell on the street, that he would 'waive the fee' because he believed in our cause!!!

BUT first thing is first, we have to have a BIG supply of them first - which is what we are working on right now.  Thanks to all my 'working bees' while I'm at work - namely Dianne, Bernice and Julia (who is making us our necklace 'prototypes'!!!)  I really couldn't do it without them!

Other projects we are working on are making sacs for the rice (for distribution) - sewing them and feeding the draw strings, a summer garage sale of donated items where ALL the proceeds go towards projects for our trip (but NOT any of our travel expenses), Noah's special project to sell and the collection of donated medical over the counter supplies.

In all of this, I need to get in to get all of my shots for traveling, etc.

So you see...I am convinced that 9 months is going to FLY by like a blink of an eye!

Earring ART (and lots of it)!

Yesterday afternoon, our pastor allowed us to gather in the basement of our church to make earrings.  In all we had a turn out of 15 ladies, some of whom had NEVER made jewelry before (what great troopers they were)!!

I am so thankful to my church family and friends who took 3-4 hours out of their busy schedules to help in our mission.   In total we made 240 pairs of earrings.  AMAZING!!!

THANK YOU so much for your help!  It's truly appreciated!