Thank You Party

Yesterday I had a party to thank people who helped me with my cat toy business. Not everybody could come, but I saved those people cake.

I designed a game and what you do is you take the tail and you try and tape it onto the cat toy, which is the purple round thing on the tree. (There's another game that isn't in any of the pictures. It's a little-kid game. I made an old man that was very very very old, and he lost his beard, so you need to give him back his beard by pinning it on his chin.) This is my friend Malia with the blindfold on, next to my friend Meaghan. At first Meaghan spun Malia around and Malia headed off into the fence, but then she went figured that she had to be walking into the fence so then she went back and then got it right.








I made the cake look like a Playful Pancake. The top is chocolate and the bottom (tail) is vanilla.







Here I am cutting the cake, with my friend Malia watching.

And here are some of the grown-ups eating - Larkin, Jay (holding Kahlil), Dave (holding Ian), Tricia, Leah (you can only see a little bit of her) and Tim. It was a BBQ.

Almost all the names of the Playful Pancakes that are out there

This is a list of almost all the Playful Pancakes my friends and I have ever made:

Big Lips
Silee Sad
Hapee Sad
snort
teeth
galapagos
starry
woow woow
Muse
tank
hoot
pockets
Foo Foo
marco
thmily
space alien
Lily
slipslide
Haer
googel
cat cat
seal
tortoise
sclis
zooey
sclis2
mocking bird
cinnamon
Blue footed booby
boots
chrystal
myow
gold
hootster
love
vampire
eagle
goo
RJ
poof
wild coyote
big nose
kangaroo
loo croow
zigzag
one eye
nickel
penny
dime
kk
coby
jack o lantern
star

That's all I can remember. From now on we will write all the Playful Pancakes names so that you can see them.

If you have any suggestions on names please send them in because we are running out. I need to make lots more Playful Pancakes.

The process of the cat toys

I drew the first rotation on the back of a Gatorade label when I first got my idea for this project. I drew it because at that time I felt like drawing and I was thinking about my business. I had recently drawn a butterfly life cycle poster at school and so I got the idea from that. This is the final copy of it that I drew on paper.

First on the rotation is the soft star shoes building where I get the leather from for free - I get scraps there.

Then next there's a picture of a cat toy.

I sell the cat toys so that I can use the money, not for myself, but for buying goats for the kids in Sudan.

We're going to make the sad little girl there, after the goat, happy by giving her goats.

I think about what if I I was one of those kids in Sudan, then I would be starving and I wouldn't be happy at all, but when I got goats I would be all happy. So I make that happen for the other kids.

Mailing off $1000

mailingcheck
Originally uploaded by playfulpancakes.

In July I had made enough money to send $1000 to Kids for Kids. My friends Angelica and Meaghan were with me when I wrote the letter to go with the check. Angelica drew that horse picture - she is a really good artist. It was exciting to send that much money.

Plus I raised $348.25 in donations and I already sent $300 from selling Playful Pancakes a few months ago.

So, I have been able to send $1648.25 which is 78 goats. That means that 13 families do not have to starve because people want to have a happy cat and they want to help kids in Sudan.

My goal is to help 100 families though and so now I am trying to find out ways to tell more people about this.