Sleep Awareness Project

(It was freezing in my apartment)

Well when starting this project, I really didn’t have a great idea of what I wanted to do, but after writing a few things down I decided that something I like when I feel stressed out or just really wound up is candles and that lead to my idea of Aromatherapy. And I thought well everyone might not use candles as much as I do so the next thing I thought about was soap, everyone uses soap and who doesn’t like to smell fresh during a nice hot bath or shower?

So I decided to make soap for my project. I made 3 different colors and made scents including peppermint and lavender. I packaged my soap using plastic wrap and tissue paper and gift bags. I was going to include fun tips about sleep but I was worried that it might come off too gimmicky so instead I made a brochure that included various tips and facts about sleep, things like healthy sleep tips, how to create a bedtime routine, and reasons to not use your phone at night.

Some snags I hit during my project was actually printing out all those brochures, I mean we all know AirBear can be brutal at times but I NEVER experienced the problems I faced during my project, things I didn’t even know could happen while printing happened, but I finally got all my copies made and I was happy with the results. Something I thought would have been more of a challenge was cost, but I probably spent no more than $50-$60 for all my supplies. The toughest part of my project was finding a venue, at first I was going to hand them out at my hometowns annual bazaar but unfortunately it was postponed and turned into the holiday bazaar which conflicted with the due date, so the race to find another venue was on. I called every place I could think of in Dallas and Waco but they all said they needed more notice of course, so frustrated and feeling defeated I sat there thinking WHAT AM I GOING TO DO? Then it hit me this is an outreach project so that is exactly what I’m going to do, I went all around Waco passing out soaps to anyone who would stop and listen.

Something I would change about this project would probably be having a backup venue to my back up venue. But I enjoyed the process and the experience.