A totally new check list? Yep!

Thought that the last list of things I needed to do for the charity would be all that I needed to do, but hah, not even close! (and on second thought, maybe I SHOULD have opened that blog to journal the charity, as it's taking over quite a bit of this blog. However, it's still part of my healing with infertility and loss, and honestly there's not much to write about outside of the charity. Nothing so far has changed, except that the charity work has made me more energetic and happier than I've been since everything happened.)

The last list was my step up to start the foundation. This list is everything needed so I can actually start sending out the angels and selling them.

EDIT: It's only a few hours since I wrote up the list and now have changes!

• I need at least 1 lb of clay. By my estimations on how many ounces it takes per angel, that should get me about 5 angels. Not much, but it's a start. 1 lb = $12. I would love to get the 3 lb for $30, but I don't even have the $12 to scrap together yet after dishing out almost $50 just for the clay molds.  Bill sweetly decided to donate the $12 from his overtime check to the cause, so I ordered the 1 lb of clay to get me started!
• I need shipping boxes. Not the free priority kind that come from the post office, as they would cost an arm and a leg to ship these very light pieces, but small, sturdy ones from amazon. They cost $17 for 50 of them, which is the smallest quantity offered.  What's clay without shipping boxes? I downgraded the size to fit the angel better and ordered 50 for $12. I also signed up for free Amazon prime to get this and the clay shipped for free. Now hopefully I'll be able to remember to sign back OFF of the prime before they charge me $100! Luckily, I had $20 I've been saving to spend on these boxes. I wanted it to be the start of my new camera fund, but first things first. 
• I need a baggie for the angel to go into. Sure, this is mostly presentation and a voice inside of me says "hey, start SMALL," but first impressions are everything. I want everything to be perfect right from the beginning so that word of mouth will spread. Luckily, I found 50 of them in 5x7in for $2 (thank you, China!) Since I saved some money on the boxes, I went ahead and bought these too. I actually skipped getting them from China as I would have had to wait until the end of May or middle of June to get them - much too far away. I spent $6 and got 100 white organza bags, shipping from California.
• I need business cards. Vistaprint is $10 per 500, so I'll probably be going with them. It may cost a little more though, as I want the back printed as well. With shipping, it'll probably be closer to $20-25. Eek 
• I want to get little stickers with the charity logo. I know, again that's only for presentation and totally necessary? Probably not. But these would be from Shutterfly, which I have multiple $20 off coupons for. So I'd probably only pay overpriced shipping of $7-ish. 
• I need to create Etsy listings. These are about $0.20 cents a piece. I want to make a lot of them to get them out there. Most crafters I talk to say you barely see any purchases until you have at least 50 items in your store. Well, it'll take me forever to get to 50, but I'd like to create a lot of options and list them. 
• I need a bigger audience. I need to find a way to spread word about the charity to the people it matters most to. I'll probably be contacting other miscarriage/baby loss charities to ask if they'd be willing to help with this. 
• I need to figure out EXACTLY what's going into the comfort packets besides the angel. I'd like to have a card that has a comforting bible verse on it for those struggling, a few business cards to be handed out, and maybe one or two other things. I'm going to look around at what others that are gone now once offered. They need to be inexpensive, but a nice added touch.

I think the rest is done. Paypal set up, two emails set up (one for main and one for donations), website finished (I even replaced all the pictures that only had logos in them with actual angel pics now), facebook page up, logo finalized, a baby for each catagory made and photographed, etsy account made, twitter done, pinterest done, pretty much every way to get the word out on the internet has an account and has been worked on. 

Phew, I've been super busy in the last two weeks! This doesn't include the fact that I decided to also start writing again, and have spent every minute not already accounted for by children, cooking, housecleaning and charity stuff, on writing. I wake up at 5:30 AM, start writing around 6 AM and spend 1-2 hours on charity and writing, then work on it as I can throughout the day, then it's the last thing I do at night. Repeat, repeat, repeat. And yet I'm super energetic and excited every day now!