Announcements!

I have some announcements today!

I am doing a craft show at Waterford Kettering High School on April 1st, from 9am to 4pm. Please stop by if you happen to be in the area! I am excited because this is the high school that my husband graduated from, and my brother-in-law is a senior there right now. So it should be fun! The show is sponsored by the Band Boosters, and the address for the school is 2800 Kettering Drive, Waterford, MI 48329.

The next announcements are about Michigan Youth Leadership (MYLead), which is a non-profit (501(c)3) organization that I do a lot of volunteer work with. MYLead is dedicated to inspiring confidence and empowering leadership in Michigan youth. Every spring, each high school from across the state is eligible to nominate one student to attend the annual MYLead conference, a 3-day experience filled with motivational speakers, panel discussions, community service, and positive peer interaction. All of MYLead’s funding comes from donations (the students don’t pay anything to attend the conference), and none of our 75 volunteers are paid.

MYLead is having a “calendar raffle”. Tickets are $20 each, and you have the opportunity to win over $1,000 from just one ticket. How this works is that, on the 3rd Sunday of every month (for the next 12 months), MYLead will hold a drawing where 3 tickets are selected to win $50 each. For the final drawing, one ticket is selected to win $500. All tickets purchased are entered into every upcoming drawing for the next year. This means that a single ticket could get re-drawn every month, and you could win over $1,000! Only 400 tickets are being sold, so the odds of winning are really good! If you are interested in buying a ticket (non-Michigan people can buy them too of course!), just let me know. :)

Second, for those of you who live in the general Michigan area, MYLead is having a Texas Hold’em poker tournament. This will be April 22nd, at the Coyote Golf Club in New Hudson, MI. Entry fee is $55, and the top cash prize is $500. So if you (and/or a group of your friends/family) like to play Texas Hold’em, this is a great opportunity to have some fun and support a great cause. We are also looking for volunteers to be dealers at the tournament. Let me know if you are interested! And for those who are wondering, no, I will not be playing Texas Hold’em, but I will be there helping with logistics!!!

If you would like to know more about MYLead, please visit www.mylead.org. It really is an amazing organization.

Okay, that is all my announcements for now. :) Thank you!

Craft Show Success!

Hello! I had a great time at my craft show last weekend - who would have thought a springtime show would become my #1 highest-selling show that I've ever done?!? I certainly wasn't expecting that, but it was a really great surprise!! Thank goodness two of my sisters (Joann and Mary) showed up right when it was getting busy. They took care of transactions for me while I spent time re-sizing bracelets and creating custom earrings for people. The same group organizes a holiday show each year, so I am applying for that, along with at least 3 other holiday shows. My plan is that, since I'll be graduating in April, I will be able to do a TON of shows around Christmastime this year! For the past 3 years, I've really only done 1 holiday show each year (except I did 2 the first year), because I'm always dealing with exams right before the holidays too. But this year will be different!! I don't know if I'll get accepted to all the holiday shows or not (all of them are juried, just like all the shows I've been doing lately), but it will be fun to see how many shows I can do! I may end up doing another spring show yet this season, but we'll see. I'll be sure to post it here if I end up doing it. :)

Ebay sales always seem to slow down around the beginning of March for me, so I am listing few items right now than I have been for the last few months. No use paying listing fees if no one is buying very much!!! I did get to make beads over spring break; I am going to use the beads for earrings to sell, rather than selling the beads on their own. Click here to see my current Ebay listings, including one pair of earrings made with my beads, and one of my springtime bead sets!