HFH Project: 14th of July '14

Today all of the group members should have come but only Kelvin, Chika, Sherni and I came. We all were distributed some packagings that Kelvin got for the bracelets. The packaging is a great idea. They look cool too. The plastics and colours of the papers make the bracelets look expensive. We also planned on meeting our supervisor from HFH in their office right after that but Sherni had to go home early so she didn't join us there.

So Kelvin, Chika and I met our supervisor from HFH in their office in Bellezza. We got lost in the building because their office was apparently in a secluded corner of the building. We got a lot of infos. One of them about the 2Build program where youths get to build houses hands-on. We got posters to help us fundraise. We also got brochures and pamphlets to help us promote our fundraising project at school. I believe we all were really excited after hearing our supervisor speak about HFH's plan regarding the fundraising box. They said that they plan on creating a fundraising box that is also interactive to the giver. Something like a box where when a coin is put in the coin will roll over from one side of the box to the other. Something like we can find in Timezone. Although it is not so fancy I think that it is better than just having a plain box that is boring. They told us their tag line to promote for their fundraising event too. "2 thou per day to help the poor have a decent house" (something like that) and we were really blown away. 2 thousand only? And we can help the poor have a house? I think this visit really is beneficial. We don't only get to be more motivated in our fundraising program but also we get to have some fresh ideas on how to fundraise.

List of some of the new ideas we have:

• Use brick poster in which each brick in the poster is 'sold' for 100 rupiah. The brick 'sold' will then be for the buyer to decorate. They can write their names on it, etc. When all of the bricks in the poster is 'sold', it equals to the money needed to build for one house.
• Buy HFH pins and use them when fundraising so that we can look like fundraising for real. It will increase our credibility I guess.
• Use catchy tag lines 

HFH Project: 10th of July '14

Yep! My prediction was right. The strings weren't enough, for everybody too. So I brought some of the strings that I have at home and we meet up in Chika's house again today to distribute the strings. We ended up making the bracelets again in her house. The guys apparently are having problems making the connector. So they gave their bracelets to Mandy for her to make the connectors and we agreed to reduce the amount of bracelets that Mandy has to make from 20 to 15 bracelets. Today's meeting was more productive than the last meeting for me. I actually finished making some bracelets. Last time I didn't even get to finish one bracelet. I think it was also because I had to learn first. But I think I wasn't really focused that time too. So this is an improvement.

HFH Project: 7th of July '14

Today I made some more bracelets at home. I'm running out of ideas of how to make each of bracelets unique. I have limited colours and I can only do twister and braid. The only thing that I can  work with to make each bracelet unique is probably the way the colour and patterns are arranged. But with this too, some of the 20 bracelets will still look similar to some other. So today I tried making different patterns with the strings. I tried using only two strings and looping one of the strings to the other. I also tried using different strings. I tried using wool but it turned out really bad so I'm not using that again. I still need to make so much more bracelets! I think I'm going to donate some of my bracelets to fill in my assigned portion. I spent 2 hours today and still I'm not even done with half of what I am supposed to make, not even 10! I'm getting annoyed now.

HFH Project: 3rd of July '14

I made some bracelets today at home. It was really fun. I tried making the diagonal shaped bracelet but I failed. I used too little strings so the width of the bracelet wasn't wide enough. The bracelet instead started to twist but it becomes another style and looks cool too so I'm going to keep that. It takes quite a while to make these bracelets. I really don't know how long it will take me to finish all these strings that I got. Today I only made 3 bracelets and I spent around 3 hours already. So it's like I need 1 hour to make 1 bracelet. The result too is not a one-hour worth in my opinion. The bracelets that I made seem to be very easy to make. I'm not sure too if the strings that I have is enough for 20 bracelets. It looks like I will need more to be able to get 20 bracelets out of it. But let's see later. I might be wrong.

HFH Project: 1th of July '14

Today is the first meeting we have during our summer. I know this sounds lame. It is lame that we are working during our summer but it is not so lame when we're actually doing it. Today we made some bracelets to sell after the summer. I couldn't make any bracelets so Chika and Mandy taught me how to make them first before I actually did it. It was really easy to learn. I especially like the twister style because I find it the most easy to make. My goal is to make the arrow shaped bracelets though. I know it will take me forever but it will be very cool if I can actually make something as hard and pretty as that. We took quite a while in Chika's house learning and making bracelets but we obviously didn't had enough time to make all of the strings we have into bracelets. So we distributed the strings. We assigned each one of us to make 20 bracelets, and we have to be finished before school starts so that we can start selling right away.