Please Help Me With This Project
 

First, thanks for taking the time to read this. Please read ALL of it, or you will not understand what this project is about.

My name is Caitlin. I am 15 years old, and I live in Fairhope, AL. Recently I started a *little* project. I made a design for German Shepherd owners (I own one myself). I put 50 headshots of different German Shepherds on the design. On each picture I put the name of the dog, and under each picture, I put the name of the owner, and the state (or country if not in US) on it. I then made assorted products with the design on it for them to purchase..

Here is that design: http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...AGSD_WHITE.jpg
And here are the products I created for them: http://www.cafepress.com/All4GSDs

Well, with the success of that, I decided I could actually do something with this..

I am going to many breed forums, and doing this. The reason is to try and raise as much money as I can for animal related organizations. I am 15, but I really want to make a difference. Maybe help stop puppymills, or something like that. Right now I am researching different organizations to determine which one needs the money the most and which one will do the best with the money. I may even donate to more than one, depends on how much money I can get raised for this. After I donate the money, which will be after I finish all this for all the breeds of dogs, I will come back to each and every board and let you all know what came out of this project.

I am not selling anything right now, hence this not being in the Buy and Sell area. Right now I need your help to collect the headshots for the "Yorkshire Terrier" design. It will look like the German Shepherd one, but with of course different titles.

Here is what I need from you guys:

A headshot (the larger the better) of your Yorkie. Please only ONE of your Yorkies if you have more than one.
The name of your Yorkie (call name, not registered name if any)
Your (meaning you, the human) first name
The state you live in or country if you do not live in the USA

I can only fit 50 dogs on the design. This is the "2005 line". In spring 2006 I will come back here again to get another 50 for the "2006 line".

I am doing this one breed at a time, because it takes about 6-8 hours to make each design. I know thats alot of work, but I am homeschooled, I have the time, and like I said, I cannot sit around anymore not doing anything.

After the design is done and the shop for this breed is open I will PM each of you who has been involved and make a new thread in the Buy and Sell area.

Thanks in advance for becoming a part of this! You will not regret it.

Hi, welcome to YT. I am up way past my bedtime and super tired so I will have to read this again tommorrow to soak it all in :p But it sound like a fun project and those are super cute pics of all the german shepards. :)

Thank you, and I look forward to doing this with you all. All the Yorkie pictures I've seen so far have been sooo cute! They are such cuties, all of them!

:animal36 You seem very generous and very talented. I will defenitely try to post pictures of Ruby. Maybe you like her for your next design. That would be kinda cool. I know Villette our member her has great head shots of her girls and they are both very stunnig. I have pictures but am not sure if they are only head shots. Good luck and i hope we all can help. :thumbup:

Hey anyone with a Yorkie is welcome!

It does not have to be a headshot, if you have a large picture of your Yorkie with her head facing *mostly* forward I can crop it into a headshot.

Wow your very young for such a big Project . Great Job! Heres a picture you can use of My two Mickey and Minnie. Sorry I could not chose one out of the other. My Names Debbie and I live in Ohio.

Thanks Debbie!

Its ok, alot of the German Shepherd owners couldn't choose either. I wouldn't be able to, if I had more than one dog. Should have added, thats its ok if you guys give me more than one, I will just choose the one that works out best for you.

Caitlin, you sound like a sweetheart and a real go-getter, and if you were my niece or relative, I'd both smothering you in pictures. But without knowing you or having any guarantee that are who you say you are, I'm a little leery of giving away free rights to pictures for the purpose of making someone else money, even though your intentions seem noble.

Don't get me wrong. You sound like a terrific young lady, and the work you did with the shepherds is outstanding. I encourage you to do this project. But for your protection and for the peace of mind of people giving you pictures, you ought to get some advice on contracts from an attorney. Maybe even consider getting a business license. The people giving you pictures should have some assurance that they are not going to end up on the label of a Taiwanese dogfood.

But I'm no expert in this area. If you've already considered this, feel free to let me know how it works.

And don't give up on your dreams.

I thought about this also, and thank you for the comments.. What do you suggest for verification of what I'm doing. On the German Shepherd board I've been a member for a long time, posting pictures of myself and my dog so I'm well known there, which is why I probably haven't had this question before.. Do you think getting letters from the people who have already purchased products would help? What kind of contract should I get and how would I go about that?? In the contract I of course, would state my intentions (to give half of the profit to charity and to ONLY use the images for what I have said) and then let people sign it if they choose. Sorry, I am new to this of course, but I do want to be able to back up what I say with some sort of legal paperwork.

I could give you advice on what I think it should say, but I'm not an expert. You really should talk to a lawyer, and I'll bet anything that one would be willing to give you free advice. Try sending out a note on your german shepherd board and see if there are any attorneys who could offer you advice. We have at least one here who will probably see your post tomorrow (today, I guess :) ) and offer some advice.

Before I gave you a picture, I would want you to assure me what the picture was going to be used for and guarantee me that you would only use it for that purpose. That would protect me from having you or a friend of yours selling it for big bucks.

You need some protection too. Who's to say some guy named AlaskaYorkie couldn't send you a free picture, then some guy named John Doe shows up later and says the photo is his and sue you.

Don't be intimidated, though. It might be easier than you think. There are probably standard photographer free-lance forms that you could use. But definitely talk to someone more knowledgeable than me.

Good luck.

You guys take a look at the below contract (I have put it in quotes) and see if that works. If it does, please sign it and email it back to me, and print one copy out for your records. My email is foxontherun613@aim.com

I have what I think is a really good head shot of one of my yorkies, Charlie. My name is Michelle and I live in North Carolina :) Sounds like a neat project. Can you post a picture of the one you did of the German Sheppards? I'd love to see it!!

Thank you Michelle! Here you go. ;)

I am also waiting anxiously to hear what the GSD owners think about the products (many have been shipped out already). I will let you guys know!

Btw, this is a really nice board. Alot nicer than most. :)

That is beautiful!!! Hopefully more people will see this thread in a little while and participate! You shouldn't have any trouble getting 50 people who would be thrilled to do this on here!!! AND for a GREAT cause!!! My hats off to you :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

I apologize! There were a couple of typos in this! Here is the fixed one.

I think that it is wonderful that you are using your time wisely for this project...it is wonderful that you want to help rescue the furbabies out there by doing a project like this..This is a Pic of Yoda, My name is Becky and we live in Michigan :)

Thank you Becky. :) And that picture is sooo cute! He's really smiling!

And not trying to info overload, but trying to back myself up and stuff..

The process on the other board (can you tell I'm alot better organized now, haha)
http://www.germanshepherds.com/ubbth...&page=2#422548

The results.
http://www.germanshepherds.com/ubbth...&page=0#424256

Hopefully, same exact thing will happen here! :D

Do you sell calendars?

Yes! I have a completely different shop for customized products. I have made calendars with pictures of peoples dogs on each month before.

http://www.cafepress.com/gsdcustomitems.31182479

That is one I made. :)

That shop also contributes half of the proceeds to animal organizations. All of my shops do.

For more information on completely personal customized products go here and attribute it to Yorkies. I can also make custom dog shirts plus loads of other items.

http://www.germanshepherds.com/ubbth...&page=0#406908

Email me if you have any questions. :D

Bump. :)

Bump again.. :)

Isn't there any school today? Or are you one of the lucky one's? :)

wow. I can't believe you're 15 ...you sound way older

Thanks for the comment red98vett, everyone on web boards tells me that. On my website in my sig theres a pic of me. I sound older (and act older most of the time) but still look 15! Haha.

And yes, I'm lucky and homeschooled hence me having the extra time to put into this. Other wise there is no way I could do all this.

Perhaps this should be posted in another section of the forum, such as the classifieds? :)

I was going to post a new thread once its done in the classifieds but since I was collecting pictures, I thought I could get it done faster by collecting them here, since I am not selling anything yet. :)

Here is a picture of Venus .

My advice to fellow YTers is to not post your pics. You have no proof this person is who they represent themselves to be.

Perhaps if you googled foxontherun613 you might be better prepared to make a decision though.
:)

Wow.. I am really becoming distressed over this.

Here, call me. I swear to God I will verify whatever you need.
(251) 223-1260

Leave a message if I do not answer. I will call back.

I am willing to verify anything because I really really really want to raise money for what I believe is a great important cause.

Please please please trust me. I understand your concern, but you can call and talk to my Mom, or whatever you need to do. She is the one who made the contract (has anyone seen it) and she's backs up everything is says. YorkieUSA please read it..

I am really starting to beg people.. I seriously have a chance of making a difference instead of sitting here all day. What proof do I have to give you guys..

Thank you to those of you who have posted pics. They are all beautiful and if you want I will post a pic of what the design looks like..

And to those of you trying to verify who I am please read what I have already said and talk to me.

I guess I'll go ahead and give out this information.. If I can get $50 from 100 breeds that is $5000 for charity.. $100 for 100 breeds is $10000 for charity. Yes that is my goal (I know its large but I'm trying)

Why would you be distressed if someone googled foxontherun613? :)