The (Potentially) Great Doodle Experiment

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Someone has been doodled again!

A great big THANK YOU to you!

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Doodle in it's new home :-)

Thank you for sending the pic... Love the flowers!

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Kentucky doodle

Has been delivered :-)

I'm trying to remember to get a pic of each doodle before I mail it out, but have already forgotten a couple.

Yay!!! I swilled some coffee, sat down, and commenced to doodling this evening. I'm not sure if I should mention any names (out of respect for folk's privacy) so I'm sticking to only mentioning local - unless somone sends a picture I can post or wants to comment.

First thing Monday morning, doodles will be headed out to Houston and Austin.

Friday, June 19, 2009

Doodle #7 will be going out soon...

This awesome contributor to the Doodle Project asked if she could choose a doodle-subject. Good idea! Anyone who would like to request something, please include it in the Paypal comments section. I can't make any promises, but will do my absolute best to fulfill your expectation.

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Florida, You've been Doodled!

Thank you so much for sharing your picture :-)

Doodle #6

In the mail! Woot!

So out of curiosity, I did the math... 1000 doodles means $4550 has been contributed. I know, this is WAY down the road a piece, but good to think it out in advance.

$4550 should be enough to get started on something substantial and I think I will make it an "official" milestone. I will need to sit down with the person whom this is going to and let her know what we've been doing AND get her input as to what she would like to start work on first. It ought to be an interesting meeting, I have absolutely no idea how she would react to this sort of thing - but I know I can and will convince her to accept.

Then, it will be time to start having people come out to her place to give estimates.

I'm pretty certain if I can envision this all the way through it is bound to happen (think positive!)

About this experiment...

Doodle size, intensity, subject, style, media, and medium are all as unpredictable as are random acts of kindness between strangers.

When you are taken to Paypal, please be sure that your shipping address is correct or else someone else will be getting yours. Delivery of your doodle will be via the good old US Postal service, because lets face it, it's a doodle, not the Mona Lisa.

Just in case you are wondering, I've set the donation amount to $5, which after Paypal deducts its fee, amounts to $4.55 for the "cause".

The story behind it:

First, let me clear something up: I am NOT in dire straights - my mom called worried about my situation after seeing my lame attempt at internet panhandling.

I didn't think anyone would click on the Paypal link and actually take me up on this, but you did. I am delighted of course, but you forced me to take this whole thing a little more seriously.

So here is what I think we should do.

It just so happens I know someone who could really use some help fixing up her home that is still all messed up after hurricane Ike last year. . I can't tell you her name, as she doesn't know I'm doing this and she is a proud woman. She needs her roof fixed, her floor fixed, a driveway, the list goes on and on. If I could afford it myself, I would do it - but I can't.

So, you send money, i save it up until there is enough to send to someone else so they can fix up the anonymous person's home.

Sending a doodle for your contribution, is just a way of saying thanks for being a nice person with the added benefit of "forcing" me to be creative... which I haven't felt like doing in a long time. I'm not going to do anything fancy as it wouldn't make sense for me to spend more money than you give, to raise money.

There are no receipts. I am NOT a charity organization, just a person with an idea... which may or may not work out. We will see.