Muffin Day @ ABTSRA

pretty labels :)

So the anticipated muffin day at a-bank-that-shall-remain-anonymous (ABTSRA) for privacy reasons (!?) finally rolled out successfully after a couple of months of procrastination/strategic planning. Well, it's where Duncan works, and he's the guy who approached me out of no-where, sent me an email saying he'd like to help with expanding my baking to his office of potentially 500+ staff and beyond which made me real excited when I was first starting out and secretly hoped I would be able to do that.

We met up over some bubble tea a while ago along with his sister Michelle who was also offering her baking talents. I was overwhelmed with the enthusiasm they showed... anyway, it kind of dragged on as Duncan didn't want to clash my campaign with other fund raising events at his office nor the $1 muffin promotion week at Woolies... so it wasn't until last week we finally did another massive muffin day (post muffin day at QLD Treasury).

sorting out the muffins - I see organised list!

midnight shot of the muffin factory half products

The purpose is really to spread awareness about the cause, offering people the chance to give. I understand although most people enjoy muffins, there are still a large population who don't like muffins and prefer cakes. Unfortunately, I'm pretty much over baking with the lack of sleep and as mentioned in a previous post I have burnt out physically already :(( So muffins were the only thing I can offer, that wouldn't be too much trouble to transport (but it did take some muscle and will power, power that Ducan never thought he had)... He carried about 55 muffins in one heavy duty bag I gave him on the bus to work! and stuck on labels for me as well. Judging by the photos he took, it was a pretty systematically organised procedure - excel file tables and all!!! (geez, if only I was as organised as these number people!)

I didn't intend to take on such a big order again but Duncan got a bit too excited and kept accepting new orders post cut-off day! I was really exhausted by the time I was done, and although Duncan offered to send his sister over to help out, it was really not going to make much of a difference having two people in the kitchen for muffins. But thanks for the persistent offerings for physical support!

BIG mixing bowl! - night shots are fugly!!

I delivered the muffins in the morning to Duncan's place, as I didn't want to keep everyone up all night, and he took over from there, raising $210+ including extra donations. I guess everything's more sensitive with banks so he wanted me to omit the bank's name... Duncan will be uploading the donations directly on my campaign site soon.

Also, I made a few muffins for NG House just around the corner and dropped them off on the way to work. It was Duncan's colleague Julie's connection... after I dropped off the muffins, I received a text from Ronald asking whether they could get more muffins as his colleagues were "raving about them"... I told him he'll have to wait till next week when I do my regular muffin days... So I accidently obtained more orders, and I think NG house might be full of accountants that are really into muffins....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you, everyone mentioned in this post as well as everyone at ABTSRA! who donated towards my campaign for helping out the cause! and Duncan especially for initiating to help out! (thanking Nancy for spreading the word for me too!.. it's like a crazy domino's effect!!!!)