Big thanks to Mandy (Meames) for being The Richness Sponsor of month for March.
Our message boards are free, however, to have a more professional, clean look we have to pay every month to have ads removed. Thanks to everyone who has stepped up and helped us have the ad’s removed for the rest of 2008!
Thanks Shanna & Michelle for getting the shout-out! Here is Shanna’s explination of what’s going on in this video: “I thought he was done talking and said “Thanks” and turned to Michelle to say something about the painting. Well he heard me and began to rant on about not telling him what to say and laughing and Michelle and I were fighting back telling him that we weren’t.”
Chris Singing “All Alone”
The giant Rich Chrispy Treat they made for Chris!
The 2 crazies with Chris! Haha just kidding, thank you guys for bringing back all the Chris goodies!
For more fan experiences, pictures and video’s go to: Forums > Tour Updates > Edys/Dreyers Promo Tour!
Chris Rich Calendars are now for sale! The cost is $18 and includes shipping. The calendars run March 2008 – March 2009. Chris has also been signing the calendars on the Dreyer’s tour and loves them, so if you are interested, please send money through PayPal to: finance@therichness.net along with your name and address. Snail mail is an option in certain situations so contact us for details. There is a very limited number of calendars so be sure to get yours before they run out! Also thanks again to everyone who submitted photo’s and congrats to those whose pictures were used in the calendar. 
The Richness has had some flyers done to pass out at the Dreyer’s Promo tour, these are free so if you will be attending one of the stops and want to pass out flyers to help promote Chris and The Richness please contact: Storie@therichness.net! These will be shipped in increments of 10 & shipping is free.
Here is the flyer design:
Thanks to Melissa (creativemind1281) for designing these!
After Chris had gotten the painting we received this via The Richness MySpace:
Thank YOU Chris for being an amazing artist and wonderful person, we couldn’t be happier supporting and promoting you on your musical journey! “The Richness has your back!!”
Thank you DR for these pictures of Chris with the painting! :smile:
Artist Information:
Graphics by Susan Fender of NY, NY.
Represented by Riverview Gallery.
1 High Street, Portsmouth, VA. (www.riverviewgallery.biz)
For Chris’ birthday The Richness put together three seperate parts in hope’s to get EVERYONE involved in his present.
Part One: Fan Sign Video
We asked for everyone to send in pictures holding birthday messages to Chris or just send in your pictures with Chris. And this was the end result:
Part Two: The Traveling Card
We thought a hand signed card was more sentimental than a list of printed names, so we sent a birthday card all across the United States for members to sign. It was started in VA and ended in VA. Thanks to firstmate for delivering the card to The DR for us!
Past Three: The BIG Gift
The Richness wanted to get something out of the ordinary, something Chris would look at years later and say “The Richness gave that to me” Everyone who donated to make this gift possible was named in a special birthday message attached to the gift, along with their email, city and state.
This is a one of a kind, Andy Warhol inspired peice of art.
The DR (Chris’ dad) with the painting. Big thanks to The DR for helping us in the delivery of the painting and the birthday card!
Artist Information:
Graphics by Susan Fender of NY, NY.
Represented by Riverview Gallery.
1 High Street, Portsmouth, VA. (www.riverviewgallery.biz)
And finally, Meames, Thank you for being the “ring leader” of this and setting this project into motion. It started with a few idea’s in chat and you took charge, contacted the artist and made this happen! THANK YOU from all of us! We love you!
We’ve experienced some technical problems on the site and in result we’ve lost all of our posted news in 2008! We are working on getting everything back up from this year, as well as the latest Dreyer’s Promo Tour goodies so keep checking back.
We’ve been mentioning this for a couple weeks now about helping others and giving back for the holidays, well the time has come.
The Richness is going to “sponser” a unit currently serving in Iraq. With the money we made from the raffle and small donations we can bring a smile to the men and women’s faces who are fighting for our country. We will be sending care packages, letters, and Christmas/New Years items. Also, we will send ONE big card from The Richness. To get these things there before Christmas it will need to be mailed before December 4th.
Donations can be sent to: finance@therichness.net
*Donations will be used to buy items for the care packages and to cover shipping costs. No amount is too small.
Letters can be sent to: Pinkislove00@therichness.net as of right now, this may change.
*Letters should be of encouragement and support. Talk about things you would talk to your friends about. You can enclose a picture of yourself if you’d like.
The Unit we are sponsering was deployed from VA and arrived in Iraq October 2007. They are expected to leave Iraq January 2009. They are The 7th Signal Company XO in the US Army. It’s 5 males and 2 females. The “leader” is 2LT Beverly Wendell, she is in charge of getting the packages and letters to the others. Not only are they missing/missed this holiday season with their families, they are missing next years as well. Some of these soldiers don’t even have family to write them, so letters are really appreciated and lifts spirits for them. That is the only name provided so you can’t personally address the others. Lets make a difference and lift the moral of this unit for the holidays.
Meames will be putting together the care packages since she has experience in sending the things. We are needing all the letters by DECEMBER 4TH, which is next Tuesday. A few words of encouragement does more than you can imagine for these folks. Also, if you have family members who would like to participate, by all means let them.
We need donations to pay for the items being sent. A few dollars can buy a tube of toothpaste, deodorant and other neccessities they are needing.
We really hope you will participate in this, a letter costs nothing but a few minutes of your time and a click of a mouse.
Everybody in The Richness should know what the Rich Chrispy Treats are. But just in case you don’t, check out Rickey having some of the treats himself.
Is Melissa J! She submitted her original work and has been proclaimed the first-ever Richness Featured Artist of the Month!
Check her work out under the Artwork section!
Our $2 Richness Raffle was a success! We sold 102 raffle tickets. Thank you sooo much for your participation and for helping us to make this a success. We have many other Richness activities waiting in the wings. Let’s just say that we plan on giving back for the Holidays. So stay tuned for the announcement.
Now…back to the winners. Our drawing was held in AIM chat at 8:30 and five of us were in attendance. We used a random generator to draw the ticket numbers. Here is the generator we used for your reference: Random Number Generator.
I also made .bmp screen captures of each number drawn for the record.
Now the winners….
1st Place Winner: Janice D. (aka yankeejan!!!!) – ticket # 47
2nd Place Winner: Reba L. – ticket # 77
3rd Place Winner: Lindsey B. – ticket # 99
Winners, please make sure to email your shipping addresses to finance@therichness.net and we will get those prizes to you before the end of the month.
View original raffle announcement posting for prize details: CLICK HERE.
