Category: Blog
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Happy New Year, Valentines Day, and MORE!
Happy New Year everybody. Resolution: Keep Blog updated. Hello, it’s good to be back keeping our lovely friends updated with business. Make sure to keep an Eye out! Sweet Dream’s Yoga Mat Bags were part of a shoot for Yoga Journal and may be featured on the cover of their magazine. All of the members were…
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Introducing RisingLeaders Mentorship and the Program’s Impact
Hi Everyone – I’m Jamie Lu, and I am a guest blogger on the Sweet Dreams Project’s blog! In mid-2012, I founded RisingLeaders Mentorship, in partnership with the Sweet Dreams Project, after being inspired by both my volunteer experiences at Sweet Dreams in 2011 and by the Sweet Dreams cooperative members. Rashi Kacker then joined to…
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Sweet Dreams and the Chocolate Factory
joint post by melissa and joselyn Hey Sweet Dreamers!Last Sunday June 9th Karen Murray Kennedy, one of Turning Heads volunteers, hosted a chocolate tasting and factory tour in order to raise awareness for Turning Heads. The event was at Charles Chocolates from 2:00pm-4:00pm. Charles Chocolates is located in the Mission District, is a widely…
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End of Year Mentoring Celebration
On Saturday, June 1st, we had our end of the year mentoring celebration with our mentors from Rising Leaders Mentorship Program. Through these past three months they have helped us accomplish our individual goals. One of the things that they helped all of us out with was building our resumes and our LinkedIn profiles. In…
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Prom Night
(The boat Madina Ott’s prom was on) One of our Co-op members name Madina Ott just came from prom on May 18th and had a great time. She wore a long red dress that had a crop top. It fit her body great and she says she wore it because she didn’t want anybody to…
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Sewing Boot Camp!!
Guest blog post by Madina, Sweet Dreams Member. Yeah we are starting to recruit more members for our sewing boot camp. If you or someone you know is interested in our summer boot camp please let us know!! In case your wondering our summer boot camp program is looking for girls that are the ages…
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Mother’s Day is coming up!
Hello everybody! Mother’s day is coming up on May 12th, and what better gift to give all those lovely moms than a lavender scented eye pillow! The calming scent of lavender will drift them off to a zen paradise. You can visit our online store and place an order for a lovely lavender eye pillow.…
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practice back to back
guest post by joselyn today we had a workshop about how to improve our marketing at sweet dreams. the workshop was presented by karen kennedy who is a entrepreneur in san francisco. she taught us about cold calling and how to promote our products to new shops. first she gave us a script on what…
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New Projects
Hello everyone! Here at Sweet dreams we are starting to come up with new projects. 1. New Lavender eye Pillows with geometric fabric. If you love brown and green you will love these new eye pillows. In addition, we also have a new stripe fabric with gold lines. 2. Some of the Sweet Dreams ladies…
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1st Mentor Meeting
Guest Post by Nancy C. Saturday, March 2nd, we got to meet our new mentors. I wasn’t sure what to expect but I was excited to get something out of this experience. We were in a circle around the large cutting table, ready to meet the young women in front of us. We did a…