We have a new year before us and our Garden Gate Rabbit Park Calendar for 2010 is hanging on our Garden Gate office door!! It is the first picture that greets anyone entering the room!! Now please remember my office is a VERY busy place since I organize all my photos here, do all my correspondence, creating, order fulfillment, Garden Gate promo design work and even calendar layouts!! This is where Glenn greets me, my son delivers my mail, appointments are made, my family brings their questions, Gloria uses the embroidery machine, and Jeri (Gloria's cat) runs for cover! As much work as I have to do-gets done here! I do a lot of praying here and am thankful for all the wonderful ways God has helped especially giving me ideas and solutions to meet the various needs and problems that come up!! Requests for another calendar kept coming in last year and so we set aside the work on our next children's book to make it possible. The pictures that I had to take to complete the 12 months for 2010 turned out great. Our printer offered us an incredible price if we would order 1000 (gulp!!) Can we sell that many?? We sure need to--in order to pay the printer!! We need to sell so we can maintain the Rabbit park with all the prices going UP!! THose bunnies eat 300 lbs of feed a week!! THe problems keep coming in.... Obama's attack on our economy scared retailers from buying quantities to sell in their stores....(groan!)
The good news--we got them printed here in South Carolina (Made in USA printed on it too-- profiting our local businesses too!)
More good news--people that bought our calendars before are buying again this year!!
More good news--people are buying for their families, friends, business associates even a dozen at a time!! (bless them!!)
More good news--those letters of encouragement and recommendations!!
One ordered asked, Send my daughter your calendar too-we loved it last year and I want may daughter to have one!! (a business lady in SC)
"...the great Garden Gate work that you have created has so much to offer. It needs to be presented to ARBA. Present one to Eric on my approval,if you have not already done so. Send a calander to ARBA in care of him, as a gift, so he can see it first hand..." (ARBA member in GA)
"I love your pictures and products, and I hope to share your website with many of my local homeschooling friends via our message boards, etc. May God bless you! We're enjoying quite a snowstorm here today in Virginia. Martha Greene and I went to school together many moons ago; so I learned of your cards through her...Thanks so much!" ... in VA
" I need 2 more calendars! I love them!! teacher in TN
" I need to change my order-make that 10 calendars!!" secretary in Laurens, SC
"Everyone is getting a calendar for Christmas this year!! I love this-with an English Lop too!!" lady raising English Lops in NC
"I want to order a calendar for my son!! He loves rabbits!! Lady in CA
"I have one at the office and everyone else wants one too! This is the 8th calendar that I have bought!! Lady in Greenville, SC!