LAST CALL!!!

Time is running out guys!! If you want to purchase any more awesome hand made original door hangers let us know soon!! We are having our last craft night for the semester this upcoming Wednesday, April 28th, 2010! They’re only $10 and remember…they’re original!
We would just like to say thank you to all the people who helped in contributing to our business. You really helped us and D.I.V.A’S bring more awareness of teen pregnancy to the city of San Antonio. This has been a great semester for both of our businesses. We learned a lot and still had fun. Hopefully we’ll continue seeing a change and decrease in teen pregnancy. Don’t forget to visit our facebook page Links of Life and also visit D.I.V.A’S webpage www.divineadolescents.org, GIVE CHANGE TO MAKE A CHANGE!! Thank you for supporting a great cause!

Teen Pregnancy in San Antonio.

Teen pregnancy is a huge epidemic in San Antonio. As most of you know Links of Life was created to raise awareness about teen pregnancy in San Antonio and to help the non-profit organization D.I.V.A’S by donating a percentage of our profits to them. According to Metro Health, in 2005 teen pregnancy for young ladies ages 15-17 was 39 per thousand, that’s 82% higher than the national rate of 21.4 per thousand. Although the number has decreased since the peak of 58.9 per thousand in 1994, teen pregnancy is still a huge problem. Recently in class Tracey, Founder of D.I.V.A’S, informed us that teen pregnancy is rising again. Once we feel that teen pregnancy is finally dropping, it increases again. How can we help?? We need to educate, educate, and educate these young ladies and men from the time they enter junior high or even sooner in some cases. Seton Homes is a great organization who houses these pregnant teens and their babies once they’re born. They provide them with a shelter and parenting skills so when they’re older they are able to support themselves and their babies. Let’s bring more awareness to San Antonio to stop teens from having to resort to Seton Homes. Preach adolescence to these young ladies and men. Let them know they have a potential for a great future ahead of them. We’ve made progress so far…so let’s keep doing so!!


http://www.sanantonio.gov/health/PW-TeenPregnancy.html

1st Set of Orders

After having to change our original plans, Links of Life's first set of orders are now finished. The customers loved them!!! Thank you for your orders!

Give Change 2 Make A Change

Links of life raised $307.13 for D.I.V.A'S Thank you to everyone that showed their support by buying bracelets and giving donations.

Craft Night!

We met up at Brittani's apartment to work on door hangers that were ordered. Before heading over there, we shopped at Michaels for supplies which included paint, scrapbook stickers, and rhinestones. We took turns painting hangers and working on detail work. Since we realized that buying stickers were on the expensive side, we decided that we'll put our artistic abilities and creativity to work on future hangers. After about three hours spent on Brittani's apartment floor we finished our hangers and worked on packaging them. We found plastic baggies for individual hangers and white paper gift bags for grouped orders. We tagged the bags with our logo and a thank you note and a bow in our color. Everything has received good feedback from our customers and hopefully that will send more business our way.

Selling On Campus

Today we spent all morning selling doortags made by us and bracelets made by Tracy and the girls from D.I.V.A.S, as well as taking donations in a jar.

Tracy joined us and really got students who were passing by motivated to donate any change they had by coming up with the slogan, "Give change to make change." We also sold a couple of bracelets and even got a few orders for doortags. A group of students from another organization donated some change to us, as well as inviting us to sell doortags at their Talent Show event later in the evening.

When we finished and counted our money, we were pleasantly surprised at the amount we earned with donations alone. We didn't get as many doortag orders as we would've hoped but we are optimistic about the future since students are now aware of our presence on campus. Hopefully, they won't be caught off guard next time they see us.

Since the invite to the talent show wasn't expected, only one of our members was able to go and promote our doortags. It was a really good opportunity to bring awareness about our business and to D.I.V.A.S, but unfortunately we didn't any orders that evening. A few people signed up for more information on an emailing list which will help keep their interest in our doortags for the future.

Annoucement!

Selling Fun, Lovely, and Awesome Doortags at the University of Texas at San Antonio 1604 Campus from 9am to 1PM March 26th, Friday!

Please come out to see us and also checkout/buy our doortags.

See them on our Facebook page and become a fan!

http://tinyurl.com/ybh7sp2

We will also be selling D.I.V.A. bracelets with lovely sterling silver butterfly charms, "Because I'm Worth It" Bracelets, and T-Shirts.