.....raising awareness of what?

Trying not to panic, after all it's only 4 of 33! I've ignored the trolls who clearly are watching the recently launched Kickstarter thread and then try to sell you services.
If I had the money I wouldn't be on Kickstarter! I'd be buying the equipment and materials to do my project. But I've had no pledges since Saturday, even though its my birthday!

Then you start thinking of whacky ways to raise awareness, firstly of Kickstarter.....what's Kickstarter? Question I'm asked a lot. It's crowd funding. In this day it's virtually impossible to get funding from a bank unless you don't need it, like you've already got money? I'm a carer to an autistic spectrum child around school hours, and I have CFS/ME all the time, oh yeah that's question Number 2!

And I haven't even got close to explaining my project.


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Passion and surprises.

Hi, so I launched my project on Kickstarter, and after the initial celebration/nervousness I've been promoting it pretty hard.
Here's the link, in case you've missed it! http://kck.st/YZ0VmW

I'm cheeky enough to ask for support, or retweets. Out of the blue, I had the most amazing experience. On Saturday I asked for a cheeky retweet from Will King, the CEO of King of Shaves. What I got blew my mind! Not only did Will King take time out of his busy schedule to RT me on twitter, but he actually went to my project.

Then he backed it, requiring no reward in exchange, and wrote a tweet all of his own to encourage other people to back it....me!

What I got was a massive boost, then came the encouraging words "Make it Happen." So if I come across as nagging, or persistent, or repetitive, it's because I'm making this happen. I'm asking for your help, to promote me, to share my links, and to talk about the project. To drum up support.

I can't do this without you, pledges from all my friends and family won't be enough to get this funded. I can't go anywhere else for funds, I can't earn the money, I'm unemployable. If Will King can take a moment to watch my video, and invest in me, so can you.

Thank you
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Kickstarter

Well, I did it. Not only did I pass Kickstarter's guidelines to be allowed to post, but I actually clicked the launch button.

http://kickstarter.com/projects/kezzareece/inspired-by-Britain-made-in-Britain

Doesn't get more nerve wracking than this, but there was no procrastination and no self sabotaging. It happened so smoothly I could have blinked and missed it. However I'm aware that the hard work starts here. Now I have to promote it. If you can help please circulate my link around. I'm not fussy where, I just want to make my project total so I can move on to a truly mesmerising medium.


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So here we are

Nearly 7 months later and I've managed to quieten those projects which were screaming at me. I also made the decision to try to make Fire Faerie Designs my only business, and have spent the last 5 months I've readjusted my priorities and I pleased to say I'm in abetter place because of it.

Where to now? I've completed a silversmithing course, experimented with polymer clay and had the most amazing Lampwork workshop with Ray Skene from celticglass.co.uk. He was truly inspiring 3 years ago when I met him at the ICHF show at the N.E.C. He was incredible in a workshop. Unfortunately it means I've found a medium I want to work with full time.......glass. So I'm setting up a kickstarter project to try to get it funded. I would save up, but it would take me 5 years to raise enough. My urgency? I've been to 4 funerals in the last 9 months, and I've got a 5th one in a couple of weeks. Nothing like death to make you want to live, but as a sufferer of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (aka Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) I am aware that this infliction can be life shortening. I don't want to wait. I want to get on with my life.


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