One of our founding members, Nancy Schultz, came across a pattern online for crocheted jelly fish babies. She toyed a bit with the pattern and made a few samples that we planned to sell at a craft table along with the dish cloths that we also make. Anything over and above the cost of making these gets put into a fund for our Santa Under the Bridge project. The cost to make one is $3.00. We planned to sell them for $5.00 which would give us $2.00 on each one.
We put a few photos up on our social media sites and managed to sell a few in advance of the craft table.Nancy became a bit more creative and gave some of the jelly fish babies hair or ball caps.
We sold a few more. Then, we came up with a side project. We heard the the local food banks were in dire need of assistance. So we created The Jelly Fish Babies Project. During the months of July to October, one dollar gets put into Santa Under the Bridge and one dollar from the sale of each will be donated to Feed Nova Scotia. Once we announced that on social media, the orders started coming in. They are selling faster than we can make them.
In other news, Trish Eisenhauer has left our board of directors to pursue other adventures. We wish her the best in whatever she does and she will be missed. Existing director, Donna Horne, stepped up to the plate and took over the duties of Vice President. Also, two additional directors have joined our Board. Cyndi Murphy and Betsy Cochrane both seem eager to get started.
