Banner, location, eggs, food

Hey all,
I have contacted Interlochen, and the admissions officer I spoke to gave formal permission for us to hold off payment until we have this event. Yay! She was impressed with our project, and the support of Piano Girl's community. She told me it is kids and families like this that they want at Interlochen. It helped to hear that.

Your responses to this project have been amazing! Thanks for coming to check this out, and thanks to those who have already pledged to sponsor Piano Girl. I am wondering if I should post a list of names, or keep those private for now. If we don't do names, maybe I can at least put a number of pledges there, so we have a way to document the progress of filling in keys. Hmm. What do you think? Keep in mind I have never done this before!

I will put a link to both Paypal and an email addy in the sidebar before Sat. so we can start accepting payments by check or paypal.

I am meeting today with my friend (Thanks, D.) who has taken on designing the banner, and I have friends who own a huge printer, and will let us print them on it.

I have also firmed up the location of the recital. It will be held at the Unity Church of Bellevue**, where the Piano Girl's Fairy Godfather works. It is a beautiful location with a beautiful piano. Whenever we are in the area, or are going out to lunch with the FGF, Piano Girl always stops in to say "Hi" to the piano, and stroke its keys a bit. She is a sucker for a good piano. ;-)

The other thing I need to work on this week is food to serve at the reception following the recital. I did all the work for the last solo recital, and though it was fun (I know, I am crazy in that I actually love to cater events.), I think I would like to have help in that area this time around. Let me know if you want to help on that front.

Oh- one more thing- if you live locally, could you save Piano Girl egg cartons? In addition to the benefit concert, she is selling eggs, and is very short on cartons.

So as you see, we are moving and shaking on this project, and it is going well so far. Thanks again to those in my community who are helping out to make it happen, and to our pledges so far.
Proud Mama

**I will do this again, I am sure, but I want to acknowledge the good folks at B.U. for their gracious and generous support of our Piano Girl. We love and thank the whole staff for being some of PG's biggest fans.