Last night at 1am we officially launched www.terravidadesigns.com ! The business and website have been over a year and a half in the making. I began making jewelry to sell for charity donations in the summer of 2009 when I was raising money for Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Team in Training (TNT). I was training for the Dublin Marathon and had to raise over $7,000. I had never in my life raised that kind of cash and had no idea where to start. I'm not great at marketing myself. I didn't have the time or sales skills to walk the malls and get donations from stores. I can't sell a glass of water to a dying man in the desert.
I started making simple earrings and selling them on Etsy to friends and family. 100% of my profits were donated to TNT. Eventually I got more and more creative and started remembering that I have a right side of my brain - something I hadn't used since before graduate school! Once the money was raised and the marathon was over, I had big plans to keep up the creativity. Like many best-laid plans before, it went astray. I found out I was pregnant AND had to chase around a very VERY active toddler. I slept every moment I could. Now I have an even more active toddler and a super sweet 4 month old. I'm still busy and I still want to sleep every moment I'm able, but for me it is more important to have something that is my own. Something that helps define me as more than a mother. Something that reminds me I can do more than play patty cake (although that is very important!).
If you are interested in using my site to help raise money for a charity, please contact me at terravidadesigns@gmail.com .
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