Thank you so much for all your awesome submissions to the craft-along!
As always, we are thrilled by your creativity, artistic talent, and willingness to support our little fundraiser.
We’ve received an overwhelming number of submissions and they are being carefully vetted by our intrepid Craft-Along Coordinator. We ask for your patience and please allow 1-2 weeks for a response.
Thank you, again, for all your offers and ideas.
Desert Bus 9 is going to be full of amazing handcrafted items!
Do your hands make pretty things?
Want to show the world the awesome stuff you make AND raise money for a good cause?
The craft-along for Desert Bus 9 is open for submissions. This means that if you have an idea for a unique, fantastic, handmade item that you would like to donate to Desert Bus 9 now is the time to let us know!
Details on the submission process can be found here.
This year we will also be collecting for themed prize lots. If you’d like to contribute something to the “Space Lot” or the “Everybody PICNIC basket” we have a handy spreadsheet that can hopefully provide you with some inspiration.
All submissions must be received by July 20, 2015.
Please expect a 1-2 week response time; Tally’s fingers can only type so fast.
Here are some examples from the Desert Bus 8 craft-along:
This may be one of our last Donation Drives of Desert Bus for Hope 8, so make sure you get in on it!
We’ve set the bar pretty low on this one: it’s only $5.00 to get in! Before 10pm local time, donate $5.00 or a multiple thereof for an entry into the draw for the Mini Mystery Box! What’s in it? I don’t know! I’m not sure anyone knows!
(Yes, I know that’s only in two minutes, but how long does it take to make a $50 donation?!)
Taking a glance at our overlay, it appears that we have about 3 hours of bussing left, so let’s reflect a little on Paul’s rather extraordinary shift:
- We surpassed the Desert Bus 7 total (it was about $523k) and thereby became the earningest Desert Bus for Hope of all time! Of all time! As of right now, we’re sitting just above $600k, with a few earning hours still left to go!
- CBC Radio’s As It Happens covered us! The beloved interview-news program has is enjoyed across Canada and is even exported to other countries around the world!
- Paul’s shift surpassed $75,000 or so and became the earningest single shift in Desert Bus history! Of course, he passed that hours ago so as of press time he’s cruising somewhere above $140,000 and getting near to doubling the single-shift record!
- In fact, Paul’s shift alone has surpassed the entire amount raised by DB3!
- The muchly signed PS4 & PAX challenge coin became the earningest donation drive in Desert Bus history, bringing in $32,000 and more than doubling the old record of $14,000!
- We surpassed $600,000! Nice milestone!
- According to some funky James-rithmatic, since we’ve started, we’ve averaged $1.08 per second! WHAT.
According to the scoreboard we still have three hours of bussing left — plenty of time for some last minute surprises to come up!
Paul’s “Earn Every Dime” contest has a winner! Laserbeaks Fury was the winner for this clever little stanza:
Come all you fine girls of human descent.
You robots and aliens, with British accents.
I’ll tell you a story of toil and of strife
And the hardship that comes with a companion’s life
Well it’s off in the TARDIS to no one knows when.
Might be yesterday’s morning or the future again.
But you gotta keep running from all the nightmares,
Unless it’s a Dalek, then climb up some stairs.
And it’s hard, buddy, it’s hard
Travellin’ through all Space and Time
Well it’s hard, bucko, it’s hard
A companion earns every dime
Genius! Laserbeaks wins a Paul lenticular gif and some additional pig sweeteners besides!
Fangamer is the official supplier of Desert Bus 8 t-shirts, with proceeds from sales during the run going to Desert Bus for Hope! Founded in 2008, Fangamer specializes in creating unique accessories, apparel, figurines, and other merchandise based on your favourite games and geek fandoms. If you want an oven mitt that looks like a Power Glove or some post-it notes shaped like Nintendo cartridges, they’ve got you covered. But that’s not all; they also host podcasts, reach out to the community through Fanfests and conventions, and contribute to charity events—like Desert Bus for Hope! We are incredibly grateful to Fangamer for their generosity, and you can order your Desert Bus t-shirts RIGHT NOW; no pre-orders necessary!
You’ll never guess what we just did! As of a few minutes ago, we’ve officially eclipsed the grand total of Desert Bus 7, thereby making
Desert Bus for Hope 8 the most successful Desert Bus ever!
As of right now, we’re at about $555,000 and are scheduled for 156 hours of bussing! Huge thanks to all of you for tuning in, donating, and helping us help the children!
Workers of the world, unite!
Think your job is hard? Can you can express your daily grind through song? If you answered “yes” to both those questions, this is the contest for you!
Driver Paul recently treated us to a stirring rendition of “A Folksinger Earns Every Dime” and challenged you viewers to rewrite a portion of the song — let’s say a verse and the chorus — about your job! (For reference, you can find the full lyrics to the song here.)
The best entry will receive a Paul lenticular prize pack, sweetened with a D&D Dragon Ampersand sticker, some picnic chocolate, some Desert Bus For Hope 8 patches, AND Paul will sing your entry, live on the stream!
To enter, send your entry to contest@desertbus.org and use the subject line “Earns Every Dime”! The contest closes at 6pm local time!