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I’m working on three fund raiser ideas for adoption fund raisers.  I have three ideas that I’m working on. 

First, Art & Chocolate which would be my chance to pull out all my gallery merchandise and set it up for people to purchase whatever they could possibly want.  We’d make up a bunch of chocolates and chocolate deserts (plus some healthy stuff) for snacks for the evening.  People can eat and browse and hopefully find good reasons to part with their hard earned money.  I can certainly price things at attractive price points.

Second, it seems like it would be fun to do a Prairie Home Companion kind of evening and invite all my musical and creative friends to come and sing/play and perform with me for the fun of it.  I could pretend I was Garrison Keeler for one evening.  At first I was thinking it would be the entertainment for a meal, but the focus would be more on the meal.  But after I thought about it I’m wondering if we shouldn’t put the emphasis on the performance and have light refreshments afterward for guests to hang around and enjoy each other.  Sounds fun, right?  Sounds fun to me and hubby would certainly be busy running sound for the event.  It’s both of us in our element – me on stage and him at the sound board - so why not?!

Finally, I thought of a silent auction.  I’ve got all sorts of stuff I’ve made that someone else might be interested in – if we could find the right someone’s.  And I could hit up my artist friends for donations.  Everyone else hits up artists when it’s time to raise money… so maybe pegging that one frustration of this line of work might not really be appreciated – I don’t know.  But I always look at those kinds of donation requests as a chance to unload something I hate that didn’t sell for me but still has some value.  We could also invite in all the people we know who do Pampered Chef, Tupperware and whatever else people are selling these days.  They can donate whatever they want from their sales to our adoption fund.  I think this idea could work. 

We’re working with the dates of April 20^th, June 14^th and May 24^th.  It was hard to find dates that would work for us just because of my work schedule and wedding cakes that are always scheduled on weekends.  Some of the weekends this summer are going to be pretty intense for me in the bakery.  I’m hoping I’ve got what it takes physically to do that and these fund raisers.