Jamberry Nails: Raising Funds To Bring Them Home

Y'all, I took the plunge! A plunge I NEVER thought I would take. I watched a friend wear her Jamberry nail wraps and be very successful with her business. So, Nick and I discussed it and prayed about it. I dove right in!

Yep, I'm an independent consultant for Jamberry Nails! Don't know what Jamberry is?? Here's some info for you!

We figured this was a good way to share the fun with others and also make some additional funds to go towards our adoption. I get to interact with other women, make new friends, share a bit about our adoption journey, and raise awareness about orphans around the world and right here at home!! 

Like what you see? Let's have a party! Seriously! It's as easy as you inviting people to a Facebook event and showing up to comment/participate in giveaway entries. I do the work and you walk away with some awesome product at the end of the party. OR we can have even more fun and invite all the girls over for some snacks, fellowship, and pampering! What I earn becomes part of our adoption fund. When we need to write our next check to the adoption agency we use this money to do so.You end up blessing us by having fun with friends and family and earning some awesome product in the process!!

Let's do this! Contact me! Ask about finding a date that will work for you, we'll have lots of fun, and you'll earn some amazing free product! You can email/call if you have my info or you can in touch with me via my page at www.facebook.com/EmilyBJamberryNails. While you're at it, can you like and share my page? This gets the word out about the business and, as you can already guess, helps grow our adoption fund!

I've also been blessed to do a few fundraisers for friends who are also adopting. The Lord has laid it on our hearts to use this business as a means to bless others, too. If you know of anyone else who is adopting and could use funds to bring their child(ren) home, PLEASE share this with them as well:

Thanks!

Pure Charity & Shopping Online

As I shared in our announcement this adoption is definitely going to cost us a pretty penny. It would be easier to not adopt. Easier to ignore the needs of children for a forever family. Easier to not think about and question where thousands of dollars are going to come from.

One of the biggest things the Lord has been working on me about over the last year is giving others the chance to get behind you, to get behind caring for orphans, to be love.

That said, we are looking into some creative more 'less direct' ways we can gather funds. This is the SIMPLEST one ever!

Pure Charity is amazingly brilliant! Most of you probably shop online. I also imagine most of you are going to be doing quite a bit of it in the days leading up to Christmas. A small percentage of those purchases at retailers you are already buying from can be used to back a charity you choose!! You can provide water for people in Africa, school supplies for students in China, OR 'coming home' funds for our kiddos! 

There are HUNDREDS of retailers participating (Target, AT&T, Walmart, Kohls, Apple, Groupon, Priceline Pottery Barn, Crate & Barrel, Southwest)!

So, when you want to buy a book, pay your monthly phone bill/internet/cable bill, snatch a Groupon deal, stock up on vitamins or toiletries, or surprise your special someone with a new TV or gadget you can also be helping us (or another charity of your choice) bring our children home. HOW COOL IS THAT?! I have been in love with this model for months, and now I am incredibly thankful it can be an answer for helping to fund our adoption!

The easy how-to:
1) Sign up for an account.
2) Install the Pure Charity Plug-In.  (Or shop on their site and search for your choice store)
3) Click to add each retailer in the top toolbar, and SHOP! A percentage will be given to the charity/project of your choice! We'd love for you to back us! (Keep track of our progress right here on the right of this blog.) Funds will go directly to our 5013(C) agency, not us.
4) Share this with your family and friends! Post on Facebook, Twitter, or send an email! Your sharing and giving can help us get them home!

I'm not asking for you to shop and fund our adoption because it is about us. I'm asking for it because it is about children, our children, we haven't met yet, desperately needing a forever family. It's about God's glory!

Just Love Coffee: Impacting Lives One Cup at a Time

If you're that person that just loves a cup of hot, aromatic coffee then this is for you! Just Love Coffee sells fair trade & organic coffees from countries around the world where the need for work is great. Knowing that the workers received honest, fair wages used to support their families is important to me. This helps stamp out the orphan crisis at the very core!

Just Love Coffee is an AMAZING company that also works with adoptive families to help them raise support for their adoption. You buy coffee and the proceeds support our adoption. A bag of coffee would make a perfect gift for that hard to buy for coffee-lover on your list! You would helping the workers provide for their families, helping us raise funds for our adoption, and giving that coffee-lover on your list a gift they are going to drink right up! 
Ready to shop?
www.justlovecoffee.com/basileadoption