Mountaingirl made the first contribution when she paid for enough dark brown silk to make eight scarves. I hired the lady at the fabric store to do them, but they were less well done than I had wanted, so I had to give them to another lady to fix.
Somewhere along the way trying to find seamstresses, and taking one of the brown silk ones already done to show what I didn't like about it, and taking my two well done personal silk scarves (gifts of my husband), the manilla padded mailer they were in disappeared.
I am still accepting prayer contributions for anyone with an in to St. Jude?
Mostly I wanted to say that despite all the problems, in the end the big box was filled to the brim. Five boxes of scarf packages were packed in a big box, and the rest of the baggied scarves (with colorful holiday cards and emails printed on holiday decorated paper enclosed with them so the color part of the card/message was showing through the clear plastic of the Ziplock bag)...the rest were layered on top and along one side.
It was pretty exciting that they all barely fit, and the simple packaging idea turned out to look so festive And they looked so wonderful to me.
The big box was strapped multiple times and it went out early Wednesday afternoon by Priority Mail, and should be received at the DOD Depot back East by Monday, the 3rd of December at the very latest.
I insured it for $3200.
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