2/14/2010 Update: We've finished this project with an amazing 680 dahlias sold! Thank you everyone for helping ups raise $6,800 - more than three times our original goal of 200!
Learn more about this project on our blog here.
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We're sold out!
Order these flowers here on our website, or stop by our Seattle store to buy some ready made flowers to take with you right away.
We will donate $10 from the sale of each felt dahlia pin to Mercy Corps, a Northwest based relief organization, for their Haiti efforts.
We'll use the $2 left to cover our shipping and credit card fees costs. We are donating our labor, materials, and design to the effort.
Due to the incredible demand for these handmade flowers, we've established the following production/shipping schedule:
Orders placed between 1/25/10 and 1/31/10 will ship between
2/5/10 and 2/14/10.
Orders placed between 2/1/10 and 2/14/10 will ship between 2/10/10 and 2/20/10.
Some Background:
When I started making these flowers in early January, I thought they would be a fun little flash of color perfect for the gray winter weather. I loved working with the 100% recycled felt, which is made from PET soda bottles.
That was before the earthquake in Haiti and the massive human tragedy there. Thinking about how helpless one feels in the face of such a huge disaster, one recent morning I looked at the humble, cozy flowers, and had a thought.
What if we (the Laura Bee team) makes a huge garden of these flowers to sell in our store and online. We'll donate our handwork and materials, offer the blooms at a fair price, and give $10 from each to our favorite relief organization?
Support our effort:
Choose your flower color above and we'll sew up a lovely bloom for you (or two, or four), topping it off with a vintage button and description card.
We'll sell as many as we can - we've already more than doubled our goal of 200 - and will finish the project by cutting a check to MercyCorps on February 14th, 2009.
To get the latest news on this project, visit our Facebook Fan page here.
PLEASE NOTE: As this is a fundraiser project, we are not able to accept gift certificates for payment on these Dahlias. In order to maximize our contribution to Mercy Corps, we can only accept payment via credit card, PayPal. (Or cash or check in our retail store.)
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