Monster Smiles

🎉We're thrilled to announce that today we posted 550 Monster Smiles pillowcases to Ronald McDonald Houses in Canberra, Orange, Townsville, Monash, Parkville, Adelaide, Westmead, South Brisbane, Hobart, Perth and Royal Darwin Hospital. 👏

We are committed to finding a way to keep Monster Smiles alive. We've poured our hearts into Monster Smiles and somehow, we'll find a way to carry on our mission. Our prices will remain unchanged at $12, or just $7 to donate a pillowcase.

Thank you for your support in creating smiles for sick children. 🙂👍

Monster Smiles, Joe & Jesse
www.MonsterSmiles.com.au

10,000 pillowcases!

Recently Monster Smiles was featured in That's Life magazine! I was hoping to make a big impact and raise awareness about Monster Smiles aiming to bring more smiles to children in hospitals and foster care. While the response wasn't quite what I expected, with only 4 sales, it's still progress! Every bit counts, right?

On a personal note, I'm grateful to share that my Crohn's Disease is stable these days. It's been quite a journey, but I've found a routine that works for me. The gym has been a game-changer, along with identifying and eliminating foods my body is sensitive to. Thanks to a hair analysis test, I was able to pinpoint these foods - it's amazing what modern science can do!

Now, here's the real highlight: Since Monster Smiles began in 2021, Monster Smiles has donated a whopping 10,000 pillowcases to children in hospitals and foster care! I have always reinvested any profits into creating more smiles.

I've hustled in every way imaginable - from appearing on Telethon and Sunrise Channel 7 to serving as an ambassador for Crohn's & Colitis. In 2022, I even won the Local Champion award! From selling online, at markets, to recycling cans and bottles, selling chocolates and unique-named seedlings, to recycling council verge collection items and selling them online, and even dealing with scrap metal, I've kept myself busy!

Thanks to each and every one of you who've supported this journey. Together, we're making a difference, one smile at a time. Let's keep spreading those Monster Smiles!

If you haven't checked out Monster Smiles yet, head over to www.MonsterSmiles.com.au and join the cause!

Monster Smiles to you all,
Joe

Today I received an email from the Manager at Women’s and Children’s Hospital Foundation in Adelaide thanking me for the huge donation of pillowcases.

The pillowcases will be distributed amongst the wards, the Gastroenterology Unit, the WCH Chronic Pain service, the paediatric ward at Flinders Hospital and Lyell McEwin Hospital.

Next week I should be in That’s Life magazine in The Volunteer of the Week section. I have no idea what photos have been used so that will be a surprise. I sent a large amount of photos and I know they were choosing 3 to use.

Thank you to everyone that helps me and follows my page.

Joe
www.MonsterSmiles.com.au

Today I was at Perth Children’s Hospital for an IV infusion.

I took pillowcases and handed them out to children all over the hospital. Wow! What a difference these little monsters made. The excitement and disbelief on the children’s faces when they received a fun pillowcase to keep was magical.

A little girl didn’t want to ‘risk’ putting the pillowcase on a hospital pillow as she thought it would become the hospital’s pillowcase and no way was she leaving the monsters behind!

It didn’t matter how much her mum reassured her they were indeed going home she wasn’t going to ‘risk’ anything. So she held her new pillowcase tightly during her entire treatment.

My blood test results are excellent! The recent iron infusion made a huge difference and I have no more headaches or dizziness.

I have been busy packing pillowcases for hospitals and they will be collected next week.

Thank you to everyone that helps me create smiles for sick kids. To see the smiles on sick children’s faces is the reason why I do what I do.

Monster Smiles to you all, Joe
www.MonsterSmiles.com.au