Fundraising for All Star Cheerleading – Chocolate

For those who do not know, 3 of my children do Cheerleading. It started with one, which expensive, but fine. As soon as the others realized how awesome it was it then became rather expensive.
Costs involve
Term fees of over $700 for 3 children doing 2 classes each (one routine, the other tumbling – total 3 hours)
Uniform: $170 each, plus practice uniform $40 each, shoes, an hour trip for each lesson twice a week
Competition fees: $60 each per comp.
Time: I spend a total of 5 hours a week driving and watching cheerleading, they spend 3 hours a week training, plus time at home practicing, and one even practices at school daily.

We’re not poor or hard done by, both my husband and I work, but its never easy finding that kind of cash, and we’re not the only ones. The Gym needs a new sprung floor, and it would be rather nice for us mums to have some heating through winter rather than having to bring duvets and onsies! Fees barely cover hall hire, mats, safety equipment, and coaches.

We came up with some fund raising ideas, one of them included selling chocolate. Now we live in a small town (Cambridge) so there is a limit to how much we can sell, however i do happen to know a ton of awesome people online who love chocolate!

So this is your chance, to get chocolate for $2.50 a bar plus shipping!
We have the following flavours

  • Plain Chocolate – everyone loves it!
  • Top Deck – Normal chocolate on the bottom,white chocolate on top!
  • Caramello – Everyones favourite!

Email me liz at velofille.com if you are interested, let me know how many, and what flavour!

I can arrange Paypal/CC payments. Donations also accepted or shipping to others as a gift!

Here is a snippet from a month or two back.

This is the kind of thing they are learning to be like (in fact one of their teachers is in this class)

30 days of me list of blogs #30daysofme

The new fad sweeping the internet is 30 blog posts about yourself. I found it hard to keep up with all the blogs to i lissted the users and their blogs based on twitter

The original post that started this, that I’m aware of, was located here  http://pebblesy.wordpress.com/2010/09/07/30-days-of-me-challenge/
Let me know if you are not on my list – these were gathered from twitter search

@BRONNINATOR http://www.missb.me
@tomgeeknz   http://tom.geek.nz

Update: you can see a few more on Alikats blogroll http://blog.alikatnz.com/blogroll/ and her twitter list http://twitter.com/alikat2k/thirty-days-of-me

Who wants an Android tablet? Wholesale order

A few weeks ago i asked if anyone was interested in an android tablet if I could do a wholesale order and get them cheap. I got a fairly overwhelming response, so i looked into it more.
I have decided on the Zenithink ZT-180 Android to import, and i have worked out the prices to be approximately $350 each. This takes into account, purchase, shipping, GST, and hopefully any other hidden costs.

zt-180zt-180

Specs:
Operation System Android 2.1 (upgradeable to 2.2)
LCD display 10.2″ TFT display,1024*600 Resistive screen (sorry, nobody is making capacitive yet)
CPU ARM11 1Ghz (This means it will probably never run flash/shockwave! – still better than an iPad!)
Memory DDR 256MB
Internet support WIFI:USB port
USB for web camera
I/O ports DC in Power
Earphone
RJ-45
TF
1*USB 2.0 Host port
1*USB 2.0 OTG port
Touch screed Resistive
Audio Built in stereo speakers 1w*2
Built in mono recorder
LED indicators Power; charging
Key-press Power on /off 1 key
Volume 2key
ESC 1 key
Max battery time Wi-Fi on :5 hours
Wi-Fi off:7 hours
Power adapter 220V Input 9V DC Output ,2A
Office software Word viewer
Excel Viewer
PowerPoint Viewer
PDF Viewer
Image Viewer
EDIT Tools Microsoft WordPad
Microsoft Spread Excel
Network Correspondence QQ,MSN,Skype
Internet Internet Explorer
Audio MP3,WAV,WMA,AAC,AAC+,WMA record.
Video 1080P MP4,1080P AVI(XVID,H.263,DIVX),
1080P MKV,1080P RMVB, RM
Photo JPEG,GIF
Game Support all Android Editions,Games
Language Multi-Language

There is NO 3G or GPS, however there is an optional extra for this available online.
When ordering I am also ordering a leather case for them (included in the $350) which has a keyboard built in.

cover and keyboard

cover closed

If you are interested in one of these for approximately $350, please read on.

IMPORTANT!

I will be buying them online in a large portion from an unknown company, whilst I will do everything in my power to make sure i dont get ripped off (its my money too!) there is a slim chance that this may happen. The money is in escrow so I’m fairly sure we’re ok on this front (they don’t get my money until i get the goods)

Payment must be made up front as I do not have the funds to cover everyone elses items!

There is no profit made anywhere in this for me. The price may vary depending on currency conversions at the time and any other unknown fees incurred. If its under the $350, then you will get any leftover. If its more, then I’ll let you know (though I can’t imagine it will be much if it is).

Ideally I need a minimum order of 15 of these before its viable, I can still do it with less, however the buying power is lost somewhat.

Yes you can search around and see other prices on ebay etc, you will find there are a few people that list these at around $220-$300USD each without the leather wallet/cover thing, however i suspect that having the leather cover is probably something most people will want (we can opt for or not either way).

Most android tablets from china are cloned, which leaves the Market unusable, this is fixable, I’ll do it myself and upgrade it to 2.2 if necessary before passing them onto you. You are welcome to take it as it is and do that yourself if you want 🙂

So, you still want in?

Email me: liz at velofille dot com