October 2009

Well.... this campaign is coming to an end. We had hoped to make more money for the kidz books... but in this economic climate - it didn't happen. We have broken even! So, anything we make now will be for books! We attended a craft fair to see if we could sell out some of our products - we did great and this fair allowed us to make back the $$ we invested. There are some special orders left to fill and some sales will trickle in on the remaining cards.We have sold out of our puppy pails!! Thanks for the support to anyone checking in on this blog. A final tally will be posted when it is really all done.

Blueberry Festival in Somesville

We made 170 dollars today for the Kidz books! A beautiful sunny day to sit by the mill pond and ocean - Timber handled the heat well - I had a canopy and fans to keep us cool. Will get a report from Pier later, who went to the Blueberry Festival in Machias to sell our pails.

August 13th

Prep for the blueberry festivals this weekend. Let's hope they sell!

August 3rd

We sent our first special order today - the girlz gathered around the box for a snap + Kirby too. We are preparing to go to two blueberry festival and are making pails and totes to sell there for our Books Fur Kidz!

July 28th

Received our second payment!! Yippee! Also had a special order request for a larger tote size with yellow bone fabric and a red dog!

July 13th

Delivered more cards to a store and now need to order some more! Yippee! We received our first payment for 8 sets of cards and 1 pail today!

July 10th

We gave a certificate for being a READer dog friend and a blueberry puppy pail to a HUGE supporter of our cause. Ruth has bought and donated over 20 books for our kids in the last 2 years. Thanks Ruth! Rissa gave her snuggles and kisses too!

July 9th

An article was in the Bar Harbor Times this week on this project AND WABI TV did a news spot on the project tonight on the news! Cross your fingers we start to selll our wares!

July 6th

There is a nice article in the village soup by Dick Broom on this project. Thanks Dick! We have sold some of our cards! Yippee!

Saturday, June 27th

Bri/Pier and Timber/me just had an interview with a local newspaper on our project to get "Books Fur Kidz" ! Hopefully it will be in next weeks paper. Pictured Bri pre-interview smelling the flowers and Timber sitting by the card basket in the store. I should have had the reporter take a shot with my camera of us together with our cards and pails. Oh well.

June 23rd

Well - we officially have our products in the stores. Timber came with us. We delivered 6 puppy pails to each of the local dog stores and 12 sets of note cards. You can see a couple of the pails in the car and the boxes had the cards all packaged up. People have been so generous sharing their dog pictures with us and assisting us in making pails - plus the 2 stores for supporting us in buying "Books Fur Kidz" - Walking the Dog and Bark Harbor are the two stores carrying our merchandise at this time. Now cross your fingers people will want to buy and support this cause!

Puppy Pails

The first puppy pails are about to make their way to the stores. A puppy pail is pet screen with applied fabric and leash material for the handle. Made blueberry ones first as this is Maine.

June 12th

The final READer celebration for the school year today at Tremont School. Timber and Rissa visited all the classes and gave the kids pencils, handed out certificates at the assembly and the humans had cake and ice cream in the library - the dogs got stuffed toys! Special guest Cirra came for the party too!

Cirra's School celebration

Cirra had her last day of school for the year in Northeast Harbor. Rissa and I joined to help out. All the kids in K-3 got books, book marks, pencils and certificates. A nice day! Fun!

Bri's Tea

Bri and Pier had their READer dog tea at Blue Hill Library on 4/29. Cirra and Rissa attended. The kids all came to see Bri (and her guests), they got a book and had some wonderful snacks (dog bone cookies and Bri kiss cookies) Bri will resume READer dog, in Blue Hill, in the fall.

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