I have a job!!

I HAVE A JOB! It's at the local butchers, and it's only 3 hours a day (7 on Saturdays) but it pays well and it's completely flexible around my childminding! So now I should be earning roughly £200 a week! Not too shabby for a unqualified 17yr old who's only in the country for 6 months! In fact, by my calculations, I should have raised all my money by mid May! (with no extra fundraising and a childcare dilemma I've currently got, working its-self out!)

Doughy Ideas

So what with the new found bread making skill, I'm thinking of selling freshly made brioche or croissants and selling it at morning rush hour at the train station! I have to work my way through countless rules and regulations and so on cause...well...folks like to make things difficult :)

In other news, I've made around £100 total from a penny collection jar I placed in a local shop, which means my penny jar at home is almost full (its so heavy I sprained my arm trying to lift it from a funny angle the other day!) so I'll try and get a picture up of that because it certainly looks impressive!

I've been babysitting a lot recently (last night, now, tomorrow AND Saturday) so that's bringing the cash in nicely! And after making a fundraising thermometer for my bedroom wall last Saturday (I wanted to make it big, but I over-estimated my height so now I'm going to need a ladder after I hit £3000) I reckon I've got around £2700, which is OK. Mum does keep reminding me that I've used more than half my time raising only just half the funds, so I'm beginning to panic. But I only sent my charity letters off a month or two ago and I've got this thing with Damson Restaurant going on, so hopefully that will help. I've also got a guaranteed childminding job every week day which I didn't have before Xmas.

Better get cracking!  

Bread Making

Today I made bread! Just plain white loaves, but I was proud all the same. Dad makes all our bread usually so it's not out of the blue that I made it, he wanted to teach me :) Here are some pictures:

We had half the little loaf warm from the oven with butter (and I later had a sneaky piece with nutella!)

Update as promised!

So of the 130ish charity letters sent, and all of the rejection letters recieved, I finally got a check in the post for £100 :D So hopefully this marks the start of lots of monies!

Also, I got in contact with a local restaurant by the name of Damson (it took me a while, I think they thought I was a prank caller or something!) But I think they've agreed to help me, or at least to help me help myself! So I'm waiting to hear back from the local newspaper to see what they'd be interested in doing a story on and we'll expand on it :)

And now I've contacted the restaurant, I think I can get in contact with moormag, which get posted to something like 1000 homes in heaton moor for free...so quite a nice market!

I think thats all I have to report, I might be at a car boot on sunday 26th, but that's tbc so I'll let you know!