End of May!!

Jorie asked if we could hit 375 by the end of this past week (maybe today, I don't remember, I was out of town!!!). We did that and as of right now we are at 388 items (although I think there are a couple things posted today that we have not counted in that yet.

WAY TO GO!!!!

All I can say is WOW! You guys make me smile and fill me with happiness. Thank you! So, the end of May is coming. I just added a great progress bar to the blog (over there to the right of this) and we are already at 51.7% of the June goal. What I would like to see is us hit 500 items by the end of this month!!! I mean, at this count that is only another 112 items and I think we can do it!! We got into the Live Journal spotlight and we have a lot of new members who are posting and ready to go! Thank you all so much for coming over!!!! 500 items at the end of this month would put us at 66% of our June goal AND 17% of our total goal. That 750 is a full 25% of the 3000 goal. When Jorie started this and I joined up we figured there was no way we would hit 3000 items this year. We weren't even sure we would hit 300 at the end of January. BUT WOW!!!

We have just over 2 weeks left in May (the 15th is this coming Tuesday) - lets see if we can blow another goal out of the water and hit 500 by the end of this month!!!!

Wow!

Today on Oprah is Finding your calling and doing good work for charity. I am seriously impressed by some of these things. I know we aren't big enough to make Oprah - but that's ok - we are enough as we are. I am proud of everyone who even lurks on this community as they are thinking of good things. Thank you all for making the dream come true for us (Jorie, Julie and me) and for helping so many others. And thank you for passing the word and exposing others to our cause. I have been talking the community up all over. I talked about it all over LA and I think I have made some GREAT connections. Once I know more, I will post about it. Suffice it to say - I am a happy happy girl! When I came home to 175 items (25 OVER the goal I asked if we could hit) I almost cried from happiness and gratitude to your helping spirits. Thank you all.

Welcome!

Hi and thanks for coming over from Live Journal. Yeah, you will have to join Blogger, sorry. Just email the new Crafters for a Cause email and I will get you set up.

Some of the neat things that blogger offers is that nifty list of links and other things I can update for us (woohoo) and we have a picassa photo album for the community - I don't really know what that means, but it has to be good for all the pics we want to post.

Same deal here - post your pictures and charities and tag them. Hopefully blogger won't make us mods be the only ones who can create new tags. I have a little used blogger blog, so I am learning here myself. Please cut us a little slack while we work all this out and get this up and running. But, since we are about to kick off a Warm Up America Square Drive, I will be on vacation starting Wednesday and I will be podcasting as soon as I get back I wanted to get this up and running.

Thank you to everyone who followed us over. I will be setting up a RSS feed into LJ soon(ish) so that you don't have to come here to read what is going on, just to post - you will be able to get your content (usually minus pictures and links) right on LJ.