[Everything doTERRA] Re: Christmas event

We just divided up the projects.  So since I'm spearheading the whole thing, I'm in charge of spritzers and the pendants and tags for all the items.  That meant I had to go and get a couple of supplies (just enough to make up samples), make up 4 samples and figure out the pricing by today (October 29th).  One IPC is doing the sugar scrub and another is doing the bath salts.  So today, when everyone brings me their samples and prices, I'll take a picture and make both a digital invitation and a printed invite so people can see what they're making.  Then we'll divide up the samples so everyone has some in case people want to actually see the items.  The invitation will state that they need to place their order and remit payment for their items by Thursday, November 8th, so we can go get/order supplies for the class on the 15th. We'll purchase a little bit extra in case we have some last minute attendees or just use the supplies ourselves for our own Christmas gifts.  Once orders and $ are submitted, each IPC is responsible for purchasing, preparing and bringing supplies for their own project.  We'll all be reimbursed out of the $ that's submitted.  So this is definitely not something we're throwing together in a week or two :)

Everyone will be making the terracotta pendants themselves.  I just went to Hobby Lobby (a major chain craft store here) and used a 40% off coupon, which they have all the time, to buy a 5 lb. package of terracotta clay for $7.50.  Then I pulled a little hunk off that I though would be sufficient to make a pendant, weighed it (it was 1.5 oz), and made a sample pendant.  I took 5 lb. and divided it by 1.5 oz to find out I could get 54 pendants out of that hunk of clay (I'll be pre-measuring the clay into 1.5 oz chunks) and then took $7.50 and divided it by 54, which equals about $0.14 per pendant in clay.  I found Christmas ribbon at Walmart for $0.50, so it works out to $0.05 per 2 ft. cutting (again, I'm pre-cutting to control costs).  It'll cost $0.05 for the tag (a crafty friend of mine has a cool die cut machine she's letting me borrow to cut out cardstock). And the costs of the sample bottle and 15 drops of essential oil will be between $0.84 and $1.28 depending on the oil (we're offering On Guard (only 10 drops), lavender, wild orange/peppermint combo, and citrus bliss as the options.  So on a few of them we may lose $0.10 or so and on others will make $0.20 - $0.30 just to be sure we cover our hidden costs (like gas) and overages in supplies.  We're just borrowing mini cookie cutters from people and everyone can cut out and personalize their pendants the way they want.  The clay just air dries over night and they're good to go!  Hope that helps!

On Sunday, October 28, 2012 9:17:09 AM UTC-6, Tracy Price wrote:

How do you divide up the costs/expenses with multiple IPCs? Does one person provide all the supplies and everyone else just comes? I've been trying how to do Make and Take events with multiple IPCs. Where did you get the clay pendants?

On Thursday, October 25, 2012 4:19:13 PM UTC-7, rrickco...@msn.com wrote:

Does anyone have any ideas for a christmas event?

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