Name that Pattern and Win!

I've been fabric shopping.  I have some new patterns to debut, but this one is missing a name. With lots and lots of flower patterns, I'm running out of ideas.

Help me decide on a name and if I pick your suggestion, I'll send you the wipes case of your choice!

Please don't suggest proper names, as I assign those as friends and family have babies :) Post your ideas on the Made by Angie Facebook page.  Thanks in advance!

Angie

PS Happy birthday to my sister, Lindsay!

Happy Birthday to Me!

I'm no Adam Lambert or Justin Bieber (they raised over $260,000 and $46,000 in lieu of gifts this year for their birthdays!). This year I want to help too so I am donating my birthday.

On Monday, March 7th I am turning 38 years old and will donate $38 to Charity: Water. Please consider a small donation to Charity: Water in honor of my birthday. Or all March birthdays - go Pisces! Or your birthday this year.

It's not going to me, of course. All of it is going to build freshwater wells for people in developing nations.

A billion people in the world are living without clean water - but how much are they really living? Millions contract deadly diseases from contaminated water. 45,000 people will die this week alone. The lucky ones won't, but still walk hours each day to get dirty water to give to their families.

My birthday wish this year is to give clean and safe drinking water to some of the billion living without it. I want to make my birthday matter this year.

I know that so many of you helped us raise funds for Charity: Water back in December. Our Hot Cocoa for Water was such a successful campaign - we raised over $730! I'm excited to keep the giving fire burning with my birthday campaign. $3, $8, $38 ... 38 cents. Whatever you can spare!  Please join me. Thank you!

please note: Because of charity: water's unique model, 100% of all donations go directly to direct water projects costs, and each donation is "proved" and tracked to the village it helped when projects are complete.

Introducing ... a rewards program that really PAYS!

As if buying great products from Made by Angie wasn’t rewarding enough, we’re excited to announce a new program to make it even more rewarding!  

Made by Angie has partnered with Free Tree Rewards, which is a rewards program where you earn free goodies with every Made by Angie purchase.  And because Free Tree Rewards is a cooperative program, you will also earn points by shopping with any of the other amazing small businesses in the FTR partner network.  We’re excited to be in great company with the other businesses in the network - Ellie Bellie Kids, Julian & Co., Hand Picked Pumpkin, Pop & Lolli, and Tiny Tales.

Free Tree Rewards offers these amazing benefits:

1. Points never expire
2. Completely free to join and no annual fees
3. Simplicity - 10 points are worth $10 towards goodies at any of the partner shops
4. Low minimum to redeem - rewards start at just 5 points
5. High earning rate - earn 10% of purchases back in FTR points (most rewards programs are 1% - 2%)
6. Grow your balance even faster by referring friends and liking the FTR facebook page

If you join Free Tree Rewards by February 15 you’ll receive 10 points, which is $10 in your pocket to spend at Made by Angie.  We’re excited about rewarding our loyal customers, and hope you will jump on over to www.freetreerewards.com and join the program.  It’s very easy to sign up, and once you do you’ll receive information about how to get credit for your Made by Angie purchases.

To learn more about the program, visit www.freetreerewards.com.

Happy New Year

Hope you all had a great holiday season. After returning Friday afternoon from a fun Florida trip, our New Years Eve was rockin' ;) Pizza at home with friends and asleep by 11:01pm, as soon as the New Yorkers began their midnite celebration. 

We were so excited to watch football all day on Saturday ... and see our Wisconsin Badgers bring home a victory in the Rose Bowl. Sadly, the win did not happen but it was a great day in front of the cozy fireplace and so much fun to see Max get ultra excited about the game, players and team. He learned a lot about football this season! Nate, not so much - but he checked in for score updates a few times between Sponge Bob and iCarly episodes.  I even dug out my photo album from '93/'94 and looked at pics from the Rose Bowl we did win -- Marc & I both went to that game, but didn't know each other yet :)

Final update on the Hot Cocoa for Water campaign. We collected and donated $541! Enough for 27 people to have safe drinking water for the next 20 years. Yay!

Happy and healthy year ahead...Angie