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!

We Are the World 25 for Haiti

The remake of this song for Haiti is absolutely amazing.   If you haven't heard it, stop what you're doing and watch this or listen to it.  The video is great and the song remake is 'so' 25 years later in music....love, love, love it!   It brought tears to my eyes and makes my heart hurt for Haiti.

I just can't wait to go!

Blessed

I can't even begin to tell you just how blessed I feel for being a part of this mission trip this year.

Everything is working out so much better than EVER expected.

With the help and donation of so many peoples' time and resources, the blessings just keep on coming!

My great friend Christine has ordered 30+ pairs of earrings to sell for me now.  Check out what she did at a house party she had the other night.  She made this beautiful display to show case the earrings to sell.  Thank you so much for your effort and all of your ideas and most of all your friendship.  You are one in a million!!

Then, the other day I got a call from our dentist's office.  They informed me that they had some toothbrushes and toothpaste for our mission.  Upon arrival, they played into the 'having a few toothbrushes, etc'.  When they brought the box out of the office, I almost fell over and tears filled my eyes when I saw the size of the box.  In total, over 300 toothbrushes and nearly 50 tubes of toothpaste - WOW!!!  THANK YOU so much to my dentist, Dr. Alain Cyr from Grand Falls, NB for your most generous donation!

As well, many continue to help me make earrings to keep up with the orders - Dianne, Bernice, Amy, Brenda, Isabelle, Katia and more to come!!!  Thank you SO much for all your help.  To date, we have shipped 398 pairs of earrings in 3 weeks!  WOW....and I just got a tid-bit that my cousin wants a THIRD shipment (which will bump us over 400)!  You ROCK girl...thanks for selling so many for me!!!

I tell you....the more YOU do to help, the more I am inspired to do MORE! 

Thank you for all your inspirations!