Bake sale success!

As I mentioned in the last post, I had planned several bake sales for this week. I was planning on selling for three days - Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Due to last sale's success, I had instructed my family to bake roughly three times as much as they had last time and here's what I got:

- a mountain of cookies
- 24 brownies
- 40 cupcakes
- 1 chocolate loaf
- 1 tray of raspberry bars
- 1 tray of maple walnut bars
- 3 massive cakes (one marble chocolate with chocolate chips, one butter pecan, and one lemon poppy seed)
- 32 rice krispie squares

I hope you all know that when I say a mountain, I'm almost certainly not exaggerating. Monday's bake sale went really well, in spite of the fact that it was a Monday which is generally a slow day for bake sales. I had the chance to talk to quite a few people about what FOP is and what it does to the people who have it. I handed out a lot of the fliers that Carrie from the Canadian FOP Network had sent over. I even sold some FOP awareness bracelets :) At the end of the day, we had made $196.86 which is AMAZING for a bake sale! Usually on a good day they make around $90-100, so we killed it!

Tuesday rolled around and I brought all the baked goods to campus on the off chance that we would go through everything. Well, good thing I did because we did! It was amazing to see the difference between business on a Monday and business on a Tuesday. First of all, there are significantly less people wandering about on a Monday (everyone is avoiding reality in their beds at home). Secondly, people are just generally friendlier after they get over the Monday blues. This is all to say that Tuesday was a resounding success. I ran out of CFOPN fliers, had several more engaging conversations with people curious about FOP, sold a few more bracelets, and we ended up selling out completely of the baked goods before the sale was even over! By the time everything was sold we had made $172.62!

Now, I found all of this pretty exciting, but something happened to me today that rivaled that excitement. While studying in the library, I saw a friend of mine, and wrapped nicely around his wrist was a FOP awareness bracelet. This marked the first time I had seen anyone who was not a family member wearing the bracelet. My lovely friend Tut is African and thus the light red of the bracelet pops beautifully against his dark skin. I only hope others will notice and question him about it!

New giving page up!

Hey everyone!
We're getting in the thick of some new fundraising which is super fun!

A few weeks ago I hosted a bake sale which made over $200 - which blew me away! Next week I'll be hosting three more of these and I'll keep you posted on how much we make!

Tomorrow I'll be giving a speech at the AIESEC Toronto General Assembly about my journey fundraising for FOP, my sister, and the challenges I faced. Wish me luck!

And best of all - the new givingpage is up! Yayyy! Here it is: http://www.canadahelps.org/GivingPages/GivingPage.aspx?gpID=9966

p.s. there was a ridiculous amount of exclamation marks in this post.

Lots and lots of love,
Vanessa