1 Year Bloggaversary

Today marks 1 year since I've set off on my journey to fold 1000 paper cranes. I figured I would take a bit of time to recap the year and let you lovely followers know how it is going. And since I am a nerd and enjoy statistics/numbers, I'll throw a couple in there as well.

I managed to place a little less than 250 cranes in a year (24.5% of the way through), which is almost a crane a day. Not too shabby! So how many people responded to me that they found a crane? A total of 5! That was more than I expected. Between cranes not being found/thrown out/ignored and knowing people found them but may not have checked out the site or contacted me, I'm pretty stoked. These were the cranes in order:

103. Savor (Washington D.C. - October '10)
92. Esteem (Massachusetts - November '10)
169. Sprightly (Pennsylvania - February '11)
172. Dear (Pennsylvania - February '11)
206. Bouncy (Florida - June '11)

The cranes found their way to 12 different states and one Canadian province with 2 new states waiting in the very near future. I've been very fortunate to have been able to place cranes in so many interesting locations and look forward to what the coming year holds.

So what would you like to see more of? Where would you like me to attempt to travel to in this year?

Tomorrow morning I am heading out to Wilmington, North Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina and Savannah, Georgia. So you'll be seeing some crane placements in the south. I'm hoping to have internet access at my hotels, but we'll see what the future brings. If you've been to any of the cities and have suggestions of things to do/places to go, I'd love to hear them! Hopefully you all have a wonderful week.

Another Muhlenberg Crane Finder!

I got this email from another crane that I left at my alma mater. Allison "Albi" left a comment on the entry for 172. Dear.

Feburary 7, 2011 7:53pm
"I found this one :) It is sitting on my desk in my dorm room. When I get a spare moment to breathe in the next few weeks, Dear will be flying free elsewhere.

Just a note: When I was in 5th grade, I read Sadako and the 1000 paper cranes, and folding my own collection. I named every single one and they all had a story and I still have them back at home. Your mission is inspiring, keep up the fantastic work!" - Allison

I'm impressed that you named them all! I'm not sure I could come up with that many names. Hopefully you have a great spring semester!

Help in the Paper Crane Mission

After getting a number of requests and suggestions in the first couple weeks, I tried to think of a good way to get people involved in the crane project. After volleying some ideas around, and then finally finding the time to put it in the works, I finally have written up a tab devoted to how you wonderful followers can help out! Check out this link: How To Help & Make Your Own Cranes or find the similarly titled tab on my main page.

This will allow you lovely bunch to make your own cranes and place them in your own respective areas. And, of course, let me know about it! I look forward to seeing what you guys come up with.

I am always open to suggestions about my project and appreciate that a number of you have been interested in getting involved. I'm going to continue to look for ways to get you guys involved in the project as much as possible. Hope you are all having a wonderful week! And happy folding!

Web Issues

Well, I've made the big leap of buying my own domain name! Http://1000cranemission.com is my new address. Definitely a good next step for me. But I've seem to run into a couple small issues. If you are looking to follow me and can't, I'd love for you to pop back in a couple days to try again. It apparently takes a couple days for everything to settle out over here. I've also had a bit of an issue with my google analytics, but that issue seems to have been fixed.

Other exciting news will follow within the next couple days about getting all you lovely readers more involved with the project! I'm quite excited and will definitely keep you update. Hope you have a great weekend!