Festival of Trees

I know, I know, this is kind of late to post about this... but if you remember, the Hearts in Motion store where we usually had our rescue Christmas tree for the Festival of Trees is no more, so our tree was at the Schererville store instead.  Not the end of the world, but...

... most years we make like $40-50 in ornament sales.  This is useful, as often we get these ornaments donated from kind souls like yourself, so it's basically donations.

We made $16. 

I don't know if this was as a result of it being in a different location, or that our tree was on the second floor of the building and people had to walk up a flight of stairs to get to it (and I understand, this could be a problem for many people), or what... but this was sort of pathetic.

We did have a person or two donate a few bucks, saying they wouldn't be able to make it to the store to pick up ornaments, so that was good, so technically a few more dollars, but jeez... kinda crappy.

...and actually, that's how it's been going lately.  Not to complain, because of course, I'd never want to do that, lol, but we've had more no-shows than ever, more emails not returned than ever, less donations.  Now... we have had more ORDERS than ever before... but because there's still only one of me (unless one of you can clone me?  let me know...), it's taking longer to get them out, because now there's more of them, so a few people have cancelled their orders cause even though it says online that houses can take 2 weeks to ship... apparently people don't read and then after 3 days of no house shipped, they get all huffy.  But other than orders being up, everything else lately has been down.  Volunteers haven't been showing up.  In all fairness, it's cold / flu season and many have had that, and of course, they have lives as well... but just in general, things need to pick up.

So... if you have stuff to donate (I'll post a list of potential things another day), or know someone who wants to adopt a chin / geckos / guinea pig, or want to volunteer or all of the above... let me know!  We can use your help!