Jimmy's Benefit

Just realized that I never posted about Jimmy's Benefit on this blog! Below is a repost from my other blog.

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Tonight was Jimmy's benefit. I blogged about the benefit/him here. There was a great turnout, but no total yet!

Rachel and I had a table of our stuff, including some Ghana flag themed items. :) The donation basket on our table (we did prices labeled as suggested donation, not actually sold it) $166 for Jimmy!! Praise God! Ironic thing is, that's the same amount as our farmers market last weekend for  Lilly! :)

The tables all set up, ready for lots of people to eat lots of pie!

And the pies.... yes, I'm being cruel and making you hungry. Bwahaha (evil laugh)! ;]

All the people watching the groups that played tonight...

In Harmony...

Con Brio...

Don Shire...

And the Ott Family led several songs at the end, one of which I will share when my ridiculously SLOW internet finally finishes the 1 min 30 sec video after 2 hours. No, I'm not joking.

And then there's the fun in the nursery! :) My little 3 sibs - Elijah, Rachel, Jonathan, my mom, "big" Rachel, and half of the Prevost family, including Caleb! :)

It was an awesome night to bring an awesome little boy home!!

Ghana & Jimmy & Flag Dishcloths

On Saturday night, there is an adoption benefit to help bring Jimmy home from Ghana, Africa.

I blogged more of Jimmy's story over on my other blog if you would like to read it.

And if you are local, you are invited!

Rachel and I will be there, selling these Ghana flag dishcloths, as well as some other items.

We'd love to see you there! :)

Craft Sale

Pictures from the Craft Sale/Farmer's Market yesterday morning that Rachel and I did.

Shared this on our FB page - our hat booth!

Rachel and I

Right before we started

At the end of the day (around 12:30pm) - shows you how much we sold. :)

Not much disappeared from this table - two duct tape pens (made by our younger sisters) and a hairbow.

Just a table runner from this part of the table

And just the purple baby blanket from what you can see here.

Random facts about the sale:

-The weather was at one point predicting rain and wind, but PTL it was only cold! We took a chance not taking a tent, and at one point we thought we may have to squeeze under our nice neighbors tent.... the pink tent - the people on the other side of us were dressed up (last farmers market before the 31st) and they were freaking Rachel out because we couldn't figure out if the one ladies hair was a wig or real and she didn't take her sunglasses off ever (it wasn't sunny)... like I said, random facts.

-We made $166 for Lilly, which is a LOT for a craft sale! Thank you Jesus!

-We had a newpaper reporter take pictures of friends of ours who stopped by our booth, and he was asking about our booth and Lilly and what we do. I said all the sales go to Lilly, who is a little girl waiting in a Russian orphanage for an adoptive family or something along those lines. He says "So she is from around here?" Umm no, you aren't understanding. ;) Don't know if anything will come out of it, but it was a great reminder how uneducated the majority of the population really is about the orphan crisis. Makes me want to advocate harder.

-We were cracking up at how many BOYS hats were getting brought for girls. Mostly for babies, but one teen girl who was with some friend bought one of the red with grey border 3-5 yo size owl hats in the pictures above. For herself!

-As one lady was paying, I said something to the effect of all money will go to helping orphans find families, and here's a business card (everyone was getting them with purchases). She says "That's nice. Oh I don't want that!" and put the business card down. Ummm ok. Some people you just gotta laugh at because it's ridiculously funny how rude they are. ;)

I'm tired and I'm going to bed now. 'Nite all!!

Craft Sale Today!

Today we had a craft sale which was part of a fundraiser for a local family adopting from Haiti. They are adopting a sweet little girl named Naika:

Isn't she just darling??

She won't be able to come home for awhile, but I encourage you to go check out her family's blog!

After a really busy day yesterday (that included a lot more drama than I would have preferred), we went to set up last night, and stayed up really late (or shall I say early?) trying to get projects done. By we, I mean Rachel, my "business partner", who also happens to by my best friend, and I. This morning we got up at an hour no sane person would choose to get up at if they had a choice (and I'm not sane, so I don't know how that works...), and got ready and headed out!

Here's our table before it started.

Those french boards??? Ya, we are selling 1-2 per craft sale, so at this rate, we'll have them all gone in 3 years. :)

Potholders in the bottom right were made by my 9yo sister Anna

Tutus. :) Oh and those lightsaber looking things... another post coming about those. :)

And of course, I didn't get pictures after before we packed everything up. I seriously think I have only remembered to do it at the beginning and end for one craft sale, ever! Oh well, there wasn't too much gone that you could visibly see.

The morning started out sorta slow, I'm going to guess mainly due the last minute change of address due to flooding in the originally planned location. But mid morning it picked up considerably, but I think that most of the sales for everyone including us were from vendor to vendor. That's why I never bring my own spending money to craft sales - because vendors like to buy from each other more than shoppers! :)

We sold some stuff, of course not as much as we had hoped, but you never do! We ended up raising $78, all of which went to Naika's family! It's a lot more than we expected to raise, so PRAISE GOD! :)

I've been busy this afternoon marking things as sold on our website, and working on listing new things, so please got check it out! There's lots there! :)

And please also check out our puzzle fundraiser we have going on for Lilly too!

Thank you!!!

Craft Sale!

**Repost from Matthew 18:14**

I had a Craft Sale this Saturday morning at our local Farmer's Market to help raise money to bring Logan and Lilly home! It was a beautiful day (compared to the last 3 weeks which were cold, windy, and nasty!!), and I'd say we had a great turn out! What I thought would go quick didn't, but a lot of things went that I didn't think would.

Practice set up in the garage. SOO glad we did this!!

Me and my tent in the morning, shortly before it started.

French Boards!

Sorry, you don't get to see the pic of his family!!! You shoulda come if you wanna know who they are! :) My friend Jaclyn also sent me some bows to sell for Logan, which was VERY generous of her, considering she is trying to fund her own adoption. If you can, please go help her out!!! THANK YOU SOO MUCH JACLYN!!!!

She also sent me tutu headbands, and tutus! Sorry the tutu thing is backwards in this pic.

And it's backwards in this one too! After awhile the sun came out and we took the cover off the tent and left the frame up. Not only for warmth, but for more exposure. And it worked! The sales seemed to pick up and we had more interest after that! Standing by the table is Dottie, who came to sit with me while my mom watched the little ones at my bro's football game. Thanks soo much Dottie!!!!

Happy Customer! :)

This time I FINALLY remembered to take picture of my table after I set it up at on the morning, and before I took it down!

Sorry, you still don't get to see who they are! :)

THANK YOU SOO MUCH to EVERYONE who came out!! And a BIG thank you to my amazing parents!!!! They have both been such as help with tents, my sign, tables, set up, and staying up late to get projects done! Couldn't have done it with out them!

So I'm sure you all want to know total's, eh? Logan is almost $40 closer to being home, and Lilly is almost $80 closer to finding a family!! God is GOOD! Oh soo good! And Logan and Lilly say THANK YOU!!

Prevost Benefit!

This is a repost from my other blog for those of you who read that! :)


Remember this sweet family?

Remember my Bob the Builder days when I made the French Boards with Rachel?

 Well yesterday was their benefit to bring home their sweet boy Caleb! ♥ Rachel and I have been very busy making things for it, and it was a HUGE success!!! There was a Craft and Bake Sale from 10-4, and a Spaghetti Dinner from 5-8. We were there all day (12 hours I think!) and we had a blast helping to bring that boy home!

Our table before we set up! :)

After we set up! :)

Rachel and I

Rebekah and Gary! :D

Lil' Miss Spaghetti face!! ♥

I think we sold more things yesterday than we EVER have at a craft sale!!! We kept track and I think we at Handiwork for Caleb, sold a total of $240!! Praise God!!! Over 1/2 of things, sold and we are going to REALLY busy the next two weeks making things for our next craft sale on Oct 22nd!! :)

But the BEST news is.... the Craft Sale and Dinner combined raised over $6,000!!!! PRAISE JESUS!!!!! God is moving mountains to get this peanut home! And his family is hoping to travel as soon as January!! YAY!

(♥Everything that didn't sell is still listed on Handiwork for Lilly!!! I spent quite some time today marking things as sold! Please go shop!♥)