Calendar Update

So far over 1300 calendars have gone either sold/to raise awareness/on a sale or return basis so over half way at the moment. Proceeds are somewhere between £7000 - £8000. Hard to put an exact figure down at the moment with monies being spread all over via on-line payments and cheques to bank, but still on target for that £10,000.

I received a little note from Lorraine Kelly at GMTV this week which I thought was very nice, so I'll put a copy on here. Not all "celeb's" can be-bothered to take the time to send a thank you.



There is also a write up on the Community Newswire today about the calendar, which is another helpful way of promoting it - although I've never had much success through that on-line site before - there is always a first time!

http://www.communitynewswire.press.net/article.jsp?id=3236296


After my holiday I'll look at doing more promoting of the calendar, but sales are still steady and I'll be back to packaging up parcels and sending them out in the New Year.

Happy Christmas to all and Best Wishes for 2008.

Christmas Montage

Make an on-line slide show at www.OneTrueMedia.com

The calendar sales have slowed a little so I'm on a quick swoop to try and gather in as much interest as I can over the next couple of weeks. I'm not sure if my target of £10,000 can be achieved, but will do my hardest to make sure the calendar achieves the maximum amount of monies/awareness this year.

So far nearly 1300 calendars have gone and over £6000 in proceeds.

Please keep spreading the word and if you want your calendars before Christmas, please send in your order now.

Calendar Comments

There have been some lovely comments coming in through various of my fundraising selling area avenue's, so I thought I'd put some on the Blog. Not one person has said anything bad about the calendar so I hope everyone is as happy with them as I am.

Through ebay:

"Brilliant" "Fantastic" "Lovely" "Absolutely Fantastic" "Absolutely delighted" "Fabulous"

Through the CF Trust's Forum:

Well what can i say about the Fun Calender apart from wow !!!
My family think its the best one so far, WHY ? Well apart from the whole set up and design it shows these fantastic brave young people and not so young !! having FUN and ENJOYING themselves.
We all know what they go through daily but to look at all of them you would never know.
It puts some kids wocf to shame.

I got my calendars yesterday.... They are brilliant my son rylan thinks he is famous as he is in it... HaHaHa Bless him he is only 4..... Im sure my family members who have bought 1 will love it as much as i do.... Well done you have done a brilliant job


hi, the calendar is fab, its lovely to see such happy faces. liked it so much i bought 20!!
my 4yr old son marshall, also thinks hes famous and cant wait for next november to see his photo displayed!!

Calenders received,a big thanks!
Absolutely fantastic,a true inspiration !

Just got my calendars. As this is the first year we have been able to participate in the calendars I wasnt 100% sure what to expect.

I knew they would be good but they are brilliant. Its lovely to see all those smiling faces and i read somewhere that they put some people wocf to shame and i totally agree with that.

thanks for the calenders, they are really great, and good to see so many kids just being kids, and happy with it.

great job again this year, you really have portrayed a positive side of living with CF.

Just to let you know that I have received my calendars and agree with everyone else that they are really brilliant - The work you must put into them is amazing.

Got my calendars through earlier this week and am absolutely thrilled with them. They look great, all glossy and professional, and are even better quality than last years.

New Slideshow Available to Buy

I have ordered 3 of the Slideshow below for myself and my family and will put the costs below for shipping from America. If anyone wants to buy one, please let me know - the quality is really good and the photo's are clearer than on the calendar. Nice little keepsake - especially for those who have babies and children on the calendar.

$24.99 for the first one
$19.99 each when you buy 2 - 3
$15.99 each when you buy 4 - 9
$9.99 each when you buy 10 or more

Shipping from America is $12.99

I haven't added anything on for profit or gain - it's just something that people might like to buy but I'd have to do it though my Paypal account. I can send out an Invoice to anyone who wants one and the more we sell the cheaper it will be.

Photo and video editing at www.OneTrueMedia.com

All Orders Gone - Up to Date

All orders have gone now - even one's I received today, so I'm up to date and have sent out via post over 400 calendars this week - my back's telling me so!

I hope everyone is as pleased with them as I am - this year's is a lot more colourful and glossy with less "faff" on.

If you have any comments to add to this Blog, please e-mail me. I'm on the publicising trail next sending some out for promotional purposes to day time TV and some celebrity contacts. I hope to push this one as much as I possibly can in order to achieve the maximum amount of awareness and hopefully reach my target of £10,000.

In order to try and avoid as much ebay fee's as possible, if you are wanting to buy on-line, please e-mail me and I'll send you an Invoice directly. I've mostly put them on ebay to reach out to more people in the CF Community who don't know about the calendar through the CF Trust's Forum.

First Batch Gone!!!

Orders from 1 - 8 left today and am now on to packing bigger orders which will hopefully go tomorrow and Wednesday. I am a one woman packing and despatching machine at the moment!

After all the paid orders have gone I'll be starting on the promotion by sending a few to some well known day time TV programme's and celeb's in order to try and get it as much coverage as possible this year. I've tried before and it doesn't normally generate much interest in the media, but I'll keep trying - if you don't try, you don't get.

If anyone has any contacts in the world of celeb or any good idea's, please e-mail me.

The Calendars have arrived!!!!

Guess what I'll be doing this weekend?! Packing calendar orders ready to send out on Monday and Tuesday!!




Hubby fetching in 31 boxes of calendars!





Dan and Joe modelling calendars in the middle of the den Joe's made out of them!!