| Original Message: Thank you very much, BCN members... |
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Gratitude to everyone! And to Thomas for striding forward with this idea! The second and third quarter fees came from my meager checking account, since we are between grants at this time. So your donations help to cover April - September server fees and domain registries for the site. I surely appreciate the assistance, because beadcollector.net is a huge and rather expensive site with a dedicated server. We aren't lucky enough to have a buddy who owns a server farm or anything like that, but we ARE lucky enough to have a wonderful membership of folks who are coming through! I thank you all so very much, because I can't afford to pay for this site! And I believe it's a fantastic educational resource for the collecting community. We don't pretend to be experts, but we have members of every level of knowledge and experience and it makes for a wonderful bead destinaton. With the closure of two bead museums in the United States, it's important to keep a place open like beadcollector.net, even though it's a virtual place. It's continuity depends on us all, in many ways! If the hoped for grant comes through, those funds will be applied to fees starting October - December, and hopefully through next September. If you have made a new friend, a sale (or many) on the trades pages, found a new source or a new customer, or learned something on this site, please consider helping out. Thank you, thank you!! All rights reserved by Bead Collector Network and its users |
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