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Fundraising

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We fundraise because money does not grow on trees-

 

As we have mentioned adoption is expensive, so we are planning some fundraisers to help offset these expenses.  Some of our planned fundraisers are mentioned below.  If you have any questions or suggestions for something we may not have thought about please email us.  Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated

Garage sale  We scheduled ours to coordinate with our neighborhood sale.  Since we had recently moved we sought donations from family and friends.  

Crafts for sale   We have been "Crafting for our Cause".  We have a selection of scarves, frames, gift baskets and more.  We also sold crafts at our church's annual crafts fair

Bunco party  Was held November 9th, since November is Adoption Awareness month we thought it would be a great time for this FUNdraising party. 

With Angela's lay off came some severance and more time for odd jobs that have helped increase the fundraising efforts as well as continued knitting of scarves...

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Sean and Angela after a hard day of fundraising

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Fundraising Progress   

Savings                                             $7465

Mother’s Day Mugs of Love               $  125

Sean Grass cutting                            $  600

Sean OT                                            $1625

Angela Mystery Shopping                 $    30

Southern Living Catalog Party          $    90

Garage Sale                                      $  383

Craft Sales at Bunco                         $  200

Bunco Fundraiser                             $  316

Craft Fair                                          $  227

Scarves sold @ Violet                                  $1025

Scarves sold on by word of mouth   $   75

Crafts sold by word of mouth             175

Coins for Cassie

              From Mommy and Daddy    $     68

              From Nana                          $     92

Donations & Gifts                                 2729

Online Garage sales                         $      67

 

We can not thank our friends from Leukemia support group enough for their generous gift!  It covered almost to the penny the unexpected costs incurred by having to travel during trade fair, tell me that is a coincidence.  I think not - we are truly blessed in this journey!