Tuesday, June 2, 2009

The Very Sucessful Bake Sale!

So, since I bake so much, I had an idea to have a bake sale as a fundraiser for Team in Training/Leukemia & Lymphoma. I asked some of my baking friends to help along with my aunt and together, we made a crap load of yummy goodies and made a wad of cash! Here are some pics from the event:


Here is a before picture. I had so much stuff! I didn't even take a breath to take a picture of the tornado that went through my own tiny kitchen. I baked the Sunday before my Monday bake sale from 9am until about 1am. Of course there were breaks in between but for the most part, I was working on something having to do with the bake sale all day long. I wasn't the only one......a huge THANKS to Aunt Betty, Katie, Sheila, and Gen for baking for me! You guys are awesome!


Here's the after shot. While we had some stuff left over, it went throughout the day and then I passed along the kindness and donated my leftovers to my sister's friend, Jen, who is a youth minister and is taking some of her teens to Africa to build houses! She had a bake sale a few days after mine.


I have had this hanging outside my cube for awhile now. It generates some good conversation!


One of my first customers!



Me and my bake sale!


I made these cute things....just in case you can't tell, they say, "Seattle or Bust" and the other cupcakes have "13.1" on them. One person bought the whole box for her team. Awesome I say!

My donation can. Long live Don Francisco and his coffee cans! When all was said and done, I made a total of $425.63 on my bake sale. I could not have done this without the support of my peeps at work. I must say that my friends at work are awesome and have really shown their generous side during my adventure. Not only do they watch me limp around some days, listen to me talk about the stress of fundraising, and cheat on their new healthy lifestyles with baked goods, but they genuinely care about a good cause and are excited about my little adventure. Thanks for all your support.......you know who you are!
Next stop.....Joy and Hope's Excellent Garage Sale on June 6th! Stay tuned........

3 comments:

Julie Barnes said...

HEY! Wow, congrats! I used to work for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and have been thinking about the Nike Marathon! Let me know how seattle goes!

Helen Corkran said...

Joy I think you are awesome. Did you get that e-mail from me with all of the cakes. I love what you are doing with your cake baking. You rock.

Love you
Mom

Joy said...

Julie - Do the Nike marathon...I heard it's awesome.....I would like to try that one someday!! :o)

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