Rios Family- Materials Shipped!!!!

Rios Family-Materials Purchased

The best part of this project has been the cause! Our children's hospital is nice, but there are not hand made quilts on EVERY bed....that was very appealing to me and really helped as a selling point for our fundraiser, I think. What mom or dad could say no to that? That is the coolest thing.

Our meat was sliced by a local butcher.

Then the meat was seasoned with Tom's special,, but very basic, seasoning...yummy!

The bags were weighed for rough consistency.

The fundraiser was EXTREMELY successful and fun for the guys.

One of the hardest parts was selelcting the fabric! WAY too many choices.

The fabrics were so fun! We purchased the fabric for the girl's quilt but a very good friend donated the

material for the boy's quilt from her scrap closet. The cute fabric I am holding did not make the cut though...

The folks at Quilter's Paradise were amazingly patient with we non-sewers. When I explained the project details to the owner, they immediately agreed to give me a 10% discount!

Powers - SHIPPED!!!

Funds raised, materials purchased and shipped, project complete (for now).

Powers - Purchasing Materials

Powers - Creepy Creatures

Crossland Family - Fundraiser

Tom and Grandpa made and sold jerky which was a huge success, even getting calls at night to say how good it was and to order more. Needless to say thru all their work grandma forgot to take pictures even when Chantelle and I went to the quilting store last thursday to get the material I forgot the camera, but we got the material and it was shipped on Friday 26th. See you all the 16th.

Norman/Sessions Family - SHIPPED ! ! ! !

Norman/Sessions Family - SHIPPED ! ! ! !

Boxed and labeled!

Norman/Sessions Family...Materials Purchased

Our final trip to JoAnn's!!! We gathered up the Norman/Sessions Clan and headed into town. The kids chose the fabrics and the yarn selections. Luckily, JoAnn's had a sale on everything we purchased so we had enough money for shipping.

Norman/Sessions Family...Fundraiser Begins

With plenty of ice cream, toppings and Anika's donation box, we were ready for our fundraising event. All those who came had a great time! For several days afterward, we recieved donations left on our front door and even some in the mail. In all, we raised $140.00!

Norman/Sessions Family Fundraiser Begins

The Norman/Sessions clan decided to have a special Family Home Evening in which we invited friends and neighbors to our home for an Ice Cream Sundae Fundraiser.

We took around fliers and even gathered some funds along the way.

Trigueiro/Rubalcava Family- Shipped!!!

Materials ON THEIR WAY!!! :)

COUNTING DOWN!!!!

Hi Families.... we are on the count down!!! I truly can't thank you enough for your help on this project! The children at PCMC will be SO blessed from your efforts!

LOVE YOU ALL!!!!

Natalie

Bernard/ Debien fundraiser completed: Basket raffle completed and earned $81.00. Materials purchased and shipped to WRA on 3/22/10. Attempting to post some pictures, but have not been very successful in doing so. New to the blogging thing, but will keep trying.

Powers - Fundraising

Last year when my daughter was in fourth grade, she started a business called "Creepy Creatures". Josaleigh and 5 of her friends started to sew various "creatures" with material, buttons, and stuffing. They would make their creatures each day at school during breaks and also at home after school. They sold their creatures for $0.25 - $1.50. They earned over $100 from their business.

Their intention was to keep a small profit for themselves and then donate the rest of the funds. For several months they had been debating where to send the money. The girls liked this quilt project and voted to donate $29 of their earnings to the project.

Thank you girls!!!!!!!

So the total fundraising from the Powers family now is $314.

I have one more idea for fundraising that I hope to have time to complete before buying the materials this week. I'll keep you posted.

Powers - Fundraising

My second idea for fundraising was to tell out-of-town friends and family about the project and ask for donations. My family generously mailed me $100 in funds.

So the total raised so far is $285.

Powers - Fundraising

Fundraising has been going well!

My first idea was to simply ask friends and coworkers for donations. As a token of gratitude, they would receive 3 or 4 fresh homemade chocolate chip cookies. Who could resist?

So I left for work armed with a decorated collection box, flyers describing the project, and cookies. By the end of day 1 of fundraising I had raised $100 and paid back my cost of $10 for the cookies for a net $90.

I did the same project the next week for 1 day and earned an additional $95.

So the chocolate chip cookie project brought in $185 towards the quilts.