DONATION MADE!

Well!  All this month, I've been working toward the biggest donation I could make through the sales of the Japan Tsunami Curious Pebble... I'm tired, but very, very happy! 

I took a screen print of the listing before I changed it... This particular style was so popular that I decided to keep it in the store as a custom order.  So, you might note that the current listing has changed  from what you see above, as this was the last day of my fundraising. 

And already, I'm asking myself, but why stop? 

But I think it's time to move on. 

And so, THANK YOU to everyone who helped me to make that donation possible.  I could not have done it without you, and I'm thrilled that I could make something worthwhile and worthy and for a good cause.  And if it happens to look pretty on your desk, then so be it. 

Thank you!
Julianna

I've Been Officially Blogged...

...by the sweet Miss Alicia over at Posy Gets Cozy.  While I wrap my head around the implications of this, I'll let you go on an read all about it here.

This is the photo she used from my Etsy Shop's Japan Tsunami Relief Pebble.
You can get your own right here.

 

She has actually compiled a Very Impressive list of Good Things that will help the various Japan Tsunami and Earthquake Relief Funds. 

A. You want to Donate, I know you do.
B. You want to Shop

So why not do BOTH?  And when the benefit is as awesome as the handmade goodness... well, you know that it just doesn't get any better than that.

Craft Benefits Japan 

OH!  And, I really do want to mention that this 'lil pebble 'o mine has already raised over $150 for Red Cross relief efforts.  And, better still, I'm all caught up on my orders, my fingers are still nimble, I have plenty of thread.... so START CLICKING!  :D

Julianna

An amazing day... And a Thank You.

I don't know if it was sheer blind luck, Karma, or some other force of Good, but yesterday the unbelievable happened.

My 'lil Etsy Shop went Bananas.

I was in complete and utter bewilderment about it all for most of the day, until a kind reader clued me in... As it turns out, I was featured in the Etsy Finds email newsletter, which seems to have SCADS of readers, most of whom apparently clicked on my Japan Relief Curious Pebble.

At 9AM yesterday morning, I had something like 34 views on that Pebble. As I write this, there are now over 2260 views on that item, alone. It's been "hearted" like a million times and my shop has seen exponential growth.

Unbelievable.

I'm a very strange combination of grateful, bewildered and awed at the moment.

Of course, I immediately subscribed to the email list, but, they don't back-post these things, and while I did get today's Etsy Finds in my mailbox this morning, I haven't actually SEEN the mechanism by which I sold FOURTEEN sweet 'lil Relief Pebbles. Fourteen. Yep.

I'm hoping that someone might still have a copy of it in their mailbox? And, that this person would be so kind to forward it to curiouspebble(at)cox.net? That would be truly a kind-hearted thing to do, as I am ridiculously curious about all sorts of things (including pebbles, 'natch).

Did I mention that I sold FOURTEEN yesterday?

And that those sales mean $140 in donations to the Red Cross Japan Tsunami and Earthquake Relief?

Which is ever so much more than I'd be able to donate all by my lonesome?

Again... I'm stunned and amazed.

Thank you, thank you to those of you who have found me and my little Found Art Project through this little miracle. My blog has never seen so many hits, and I even have a few new followers. Many of you have written such nice things to me via this blog and via Etsy Conversations... I'm so pleased that you like what I'm doing and that you took the time to let me know.

For a while, I've been floundering for an audience, and have been wondering if this project was going to die a slow and painful death.

It isn't.

Thanks to YOU.

Have a beautiful day.

I have to go crochet some Pebbles until my fingers bleed, now. But that's fine. I have band-aids.

Whassuppwitdat???

My Etsy shop has EXPLODED today... And I'm at a complete loss as to why?!?

Sure, the Tsunami Relief Pebble is in a few Etsy treasuries, but none of them are even on page 10, let alone the front page, and this blog has all of FOUR followers.

Huh.

If anyone has any clues or has linked to me somewhere, PLEASE fill me in!

Curiosity killed the cat, you know.

Over 780 item views and counting....

***CORRECTION! 884 views and counting!

Oh-Em-Gee.

♥Japan♥

Signature Pebble Custom Orders being taken for Tsunami Relief...

I am not immune to the madness that has befallen Japan in the past week.... I'm finding it difficult to tear my eyes away from video feeds of absolute devastation and suffering.

So I've decided to offer custom-color Curious Pebbles in my Etsy Shop with 50% of the profits to be donated to The Red Cross.  Please see the item in my Etsy Shop for more details.




You Choose the Color... I Choose the Pebble... The Red Cross Gets $10.00...