Grand Falls Farmer's Market

Today was the last day of the Farmer's Market on Saturday mornings for me.

I'm not sad to see them come to an end, ONLY because the temperatures are getting kinda cold around here and there is no heat in the building!!!  Aside from that, I LOVED every minute I spent at the market.   I've made some great market friends and have made some regular clients, that I will miss seeing from week to week.

Chosing to do the Farmer's Market was a grand success, considering my totals:

      Total Paid in Market Fees:  $332.00

               Total Made for HAITI:   $580.75

           Total Made for KENYA:   $115.00

    Total Made for ADOPTION:   $1101.00

TOTAL money made at the market:   $1464.75

How is THAT for awesome!

What's up next for me?

Here's my line up:

Grand Falls - MALL Christmas Craft Show

Nov 6      9:30 am - 5:00 pm

Nov 7       12 noon - 5:00 pm

Moncton - Christmas at the Coliseum

Nov 26          2:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Nov 27        10:00 am - 9:00 pm

Nov 28       10:00 am - 5:00 pm

 

Grand Falls - MARKET Christmas Craft Show

Dec 4        9:30 am - 5:00 pm

(will have to double check the times, but this IS the date)

Hopefully, get some photos of jewelry online for those of you who can not make the craft shows.

Email me at chosenone

Haiti DONATIONS - THANK YOU for your support.

Without YOU, this would have NEVER been possible!

Considering it's Thanksgiving weekend (here in Canada), I want to give thanks for living with SO many blessings in my life by donating what I have collected so far.  As I continue to sell more and collect from those I have not received payment for yet, I will continue to donate money to New Missions (the company I had intended on travelling to Haiti with) to buy rice in Haiti.

Donations #1 - Paid for an extra bag to be shipped with my friends travelling to Haiti.


One of the couples I was supposed to travel with, and the couple I had been taking Creole lessons with continued to travel to Haiti for (I think) 7 or 8 weeks.   They left sometime in August and just returned home last week.  Before they went, they collected many items to take with them and ended up with too much stuff.  I felt it was a great way to use some of the money I had raised and I gave them $100 to pay for the extra bag to take supplies to one of the oorphanages they worked at while they were in Haiti - Wendy's Love in Leoganne, Haiti.

These are photos they shared of the bag they were able to take from the money raised from the earrings sold.

This just makes all my/our hard work and YOUR SUPPORT worth while. 

Isn't this little girl just adorable?

This is my friend Bernice, with a bunch of the children.

And this is my friend, Roland.

So up until now, I had been waiting for the BIG donation to happen when I had collected all the money, in hopes that I could reach $1000 to send.  Plus, I thought maybe after the Christmas Shows, this may happen.  NOW, in a Thanksgiving kinda spirit, I decided to send the money collected up to now on this Thanksgiving weekend. 

Of the $842CDN I have collected, I donated $770USD (which is as close to would be very close to $800 as I could get).

Your support in my Haiti project has been just amazing!

THANK YOU for allowing me to coordinate such a successful project and as well feel SUCH joy to send this kind of money for SUCH a worthy and practical way.

Thank You.

Preparation

The weeks are numbered before the big Turner's Christmas at the Coliseum in November! 

Seven weeks - today!

Considering many of my supplies come from China or Hong Kong and sometimes take up to 4-6 weeks to be delivered, I felt a huge push this past week to get everything ordered...and I did. 

It's so hard to guess how much stock I will need for this show...so I'm totally 'ball-parking' the number.

Especially considering, Nov 26-28 is this craft show and the following weekend is the craft show in Grand Falls, so I won't have time to make much jewelry the week in between the 2 shows.  In some ways (when I look at ALL the money I've spent on supplies) - I am FREAKING out completely. Yet, in other ways I know it will work out!

Every few days, I am creating, creating, creating.  In fact, I've narrowed down all the designs I will take with me and how many of each.  But it just hit me yesterday, I wasn't factoring in preparing all of my bags for purchases with labels, or preparing the jewelry tags for each necklace, or preparing the extra jewelry displays....sheesh. 

OK...so today, I am completely freaking out!!!

Tomorrow, is the regular farmer's market here in Grand Falls which will be finished in a few weeks (leaving me all of November with no Saturday mornings at the market).  This should help!

So that's what is new around here...hope all is well with you.

For all my fellow Canadians, hope everyone has a safe and Happy Thanksgiving weekend!  Count your blessings, count them one by one!

Thrilled beyond measure.

Since my missions trip to Haiti was cancelled a few months ago, I've been trying to figure out WHAT to do with all these OTC (over the counter) medical supplies that were intended to go with us for our trip in December.

Well...this weekend (at our Missions Conference) we met this lovely couple (Allan & Patsy Myshrall who are with Ambassadors for Christ Canada).  They travel the world doing good with several of the poorest countries - Peru, DR & lots of time in the Amazon Jungle).

During our visit on Saturday, they told a story about medical supplies that they had purchased for a price per pound (I think something like around $500 for 200 lbs of supplieis).  After they purchased, they realized that the in fact had supplies equalling about $15,000 worth of medical supplies!  THAT'S when my friend leaned to me and said, 'what about the supplies for Haiti that we have no way of getting there'.

OH MY....I got all excited and thought 'too bad Dianne isn't here'?

AND...this is the home we found for all the supplies.

Monday, Allan & Patsy leave for Iquitos, Peru where they will be ministering to many people in the Amazon Jungle and distributing lots of these supplies.   Then, in December they will be taking a trip to the Dominican Republic and distributing the remaining supplies.

Thank you SO much for those who have donated....it was a great success (too bad they couldn't have gone to Haiti, maybe next year) and Patsy and Allan walked away feeling SO blessed!

Success

I can hardly believe all the success I've been having with jewelry sales.

Thank YOU to all that have been and continue to support our cause!

If you notice, on the right 'side bar' I have a tally of how much we've raised. 


To date: 

•  Haiti - $842.40  (plus $100 already given to pay for a bag to be shipped for an orphanage)
• Kenya - $165.00
• Adoption - $960.00 (I'm in complete SHOCK over this number)

YOU have all been SO supportive, I can hardly believe your generosity.  Thank YOU from the bottom of my heart!

My original goal for our adoption fundraising was to raise $5000 in 2 years.  Well...I have a feeling that this number is going to be exceeded (and maybe even by the end of the year).  With a big craft show and a smaller one, wouldn't it be absolutely CRAZY if we hit that by the end of the year.  

Remember this post???  Where I talked about saying 'yes' to God for our adoption without knowing how we could ever afford this journey???  

Now look, God's provision is allowing us to do this.  I have this strong faith and step by step it's happening!  How amazing! 

I've been working extra hard (and spending alot of money on all the supplies needed) to make over 1000 pieces to have ready for the craft show the last weekend of November and first weekend of December.  I don't even know if 1000 pieces is enough, but it's the biggest risk I'm willing to take!!!  I'm so scared that all this money will be spent and what if we don't sell enough to even cover all the costs so far?  I'm praying it all works out.  Will you pray for us too?

PLEASE keep in mind, that I will be putting the prices up November 1 by the advise of friends, family AND several customers.  

Here's a list of the new prices starting November 1st:

PRICE LIST

SO....get your Christmas orders in soon before the prices go up.

IF you are a returning customer, I will honour the old prices until 2011. 

I'll work hard on posting a bunch of photos this week....

After the craft shows, I will be focusing on getting an online market going. 

Thanks for all your support!




NECKLACES

Necklace with Small Glass Pendant $14.00

Necklace with Large Glass Pendant $16.00

Shells and Wood $14.00

Separates:

Silver or Black Leather Necklace (with no pendant) $7.00

Black Chord or Ribbon Necklace (with no pendant) $5.00

Pendant ONLY (Small sizes) $7.00

Pendant ONLY (Large sizes) $8.00



EARRINGS

All earrings $5.00

BRACELETS

All Kids $5.00

All Adults $8.00

RINGS

Big Glass Pendant $13.00

Little Glass Pebble $10.00

Wire Works $8.00

CUSTOM WIRE RINGS $10.00

KEYCHAINS

Letters $4.00

Glass Pendant (small) $7.00

Glass Pendant (large) $8.00

Cell Phone Tags $2.00

MAGNETS

bottle caps (each) $3.00

bottle caps (2 for) $5.00

CLEARANCE (prices as marked)


Earrings (1 for) $3.00

Earrings (2 for) $5.00

Earrings (3 for) $6.00

Earrings (5 for) $5.00

Necklaces for sale

CLICK on the thumbnail of each photo, to view a larger photo in Photobucket.com. I'm trying this out because it saves me a BUNCH of time (leaving me more time to CREATE)!! Leave comment or email me at chosenone.blingwithaheart@gmail.com for more details. Or come by and see me at the market to see them 'live'!!!  If you mention this post, receive a FREE pair of earrings with the purchase of anything else!