St Paddy Day Spring Clean for GRRH

To past my time in Houston as a housewife, I've been volunteering for Golden Retriever Rescue of Houston since January 2014. Lately, my volunteer work has picked up more workload as I'm helping a lady in the vet coordination duties. It's interesting to see the rescue's dedication to saving a stray's life, no matter the cost or effort. I've come across a few cases of stray golden retriever that have lumps on their body, and it may be cancerous, but the rescue are willing pay/do whatever it takes to keep them alive and well, and finding their forever home. Ensuring the dogs are spayed or neutered is one of my core duties. 

In a week, we get around 1 or 2 stray dogs in, and I will schedule a basic health exam for them. That's really a lot of money, so much so, I feel that the donation money that GRRH has is less than all the vet expenses.

So, recently there was a fundraiser event held to raise some money for the GRRH, and I volunteered to provide cupcakes for the party. The event was themed St Patrick's Day Spring Clean, it was a dog wash with an after party. I was suppose to also wash the dogs, but had to call off last minute because I was having some dizzy spells. Nevertheless, I must deliver all my hardwork, thanks to my Hubby for driving me to the event! 

I really love my cupcake box =) It's stack-able, and fits 12 medium sized cupcake in each box. I only paid USD 15 for this =)

I made 48 pieces of vanilla cupcakes. I spent alot of effort and time to design/print/cut those little flags =) I kind of regretted not adding some sprinkles on the top of cupcake to make it look pretty. To be honest, I am a newbie in frosting, so clearly it looks kinda fail....and I'm not really a fan of frosting because I'm not so much a sweet tooth.

One of my friend Lin who also volunteers for GRRH threw me a great idea to make doggy treats as well. So I made Bacon and Peanut Butter treats. I'm glad the dogs ate them, as you know dogs are very honest about food. So I guess I passed the treats test, even though it was my first time =)

My friend threw me the idea of organizing an event for GRRH to raise funds in the near future, I'm still contemplating, any ideas?