YEAH!!! We Have a Site!

Happiest Mommies and Friends has secured a site for our sale on Saturday, August 22, 2009: The Community Church at 109 North Harrison Street in downtown Ludington.  Flyers are being created, the vendor contract is being polished, and we plan to go to "press" with our information early next week.  In the meantime, here is a peak at our new logo, designed by one of our very own Mommies, Jo!

Still Tryin'!

Laura and I are still working on a space for the sale.  We have letters in to the Knights of Columbus, the United Methodist Church, and St. John's Church.  No response yet!!!  We have a few other ideas as well, and--most importantly--we remain positive.

The good news is that we have many people rallying for us.  According to good friend and new hospital volunteer, Leslie, the other volunteers are ecstatic about the sale idea and cannot wait to work that day.  

Another friend just emailed me asking if she could enter her daughter's baby and maternity clothes.  She wants the proceeds to go directly toward the hospital!  I had a related thought previously...And now I am considering it seriously...Why not advertise and have a booth housing donations like this woman's?  How cool would that be?  More money for the imaging center! Yeah!!!

I hope that next time I post I'll have a final place selected.  Can't wait!

Back to Square One

Someone once said something along the lines of, "Nothing worth doing is ever easy." This sale illustrates that quote well.

Laura and I have spent many hours on a roller coaster ride of ups and downs in respect to the location of our sale. Just when we thought we had it in the bag--enough so that we passed out fliers at M.O.P.S.--we were informed that the cost of holding the sale at the elementary school was going to be far more than we had been initially told. So we found ourselves back to square one.

After much scurrying today, we fortunately have about four more options. Each has some major pros and cons. In the end, we want to find a location that benefits the vendors and the hospital the most. In fact, I shared this sentiment as I drafted letters today asking various organizations to allow Happiest Mommies and Friends to use their facilities:

Our Mom 2 Mom Sale will help area moms clean out their closets and make extra money during a window that is traditionally tight for most families--back to school. Our event will also provide an opportunity for families shopping at the sale to purchase necessary items like clothing, shoes, and baby gear for their children at a reduced rate. HMF feels that there is a great need for this type of sale in the midst of our country’s current economic climate.

In addition, the sale will benefit Memorial Medical Center’s Women’s Imaging Center. HMF wants to help build an important part of the hospital that our moms, grandmas, daughters, friends, and even we will eventually use. We are currently working directly with the Memorial Medical Center Foundation to plan the Mom 2 Mom Sale and will give proceeds from admission and table rentals to the Women’s Imaging Center. Hospital volunteers and representatives from the Pink Christmas committee will participate by holding a bake sale and by selling breast cancer awareness items. Their proceeds will also go directly toward the Women’s Imaging Center.

So stay tuned! We will hopefully have a final location soon.

Welcome!

Coming soon...More details about Ludington's first Mom 2 Mom sale!