Starting April 7th, I will be hosting an online
Fundraising Auction to help us raise money for our adoption expenses. The auction will run from Sunday , April 7th
at 1 pm until Saturday, April 13th at 8pm. I will create an album of pics of items for
you to preview the week before over on the Elizabethtown Blog Facebook
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I would love it if you had an item you would be willing to
donate. Maybe you own a small business
and could offer up a gift card to said business. Perhaps
you enjoy sewing and could make a dress to sell. Or perhaps you sell a product? Or maybe you have relatively few skills but
know how to buy a gift card at Kroger.
{We will auction off the gift card, you can keep the bonus gas points.}
No worries if you do not live in the Richmond area. Some items WILL be limited to the RVA
area. But most things are shippable. Or maybe you are a photographer in
Winnipeg. Well, I could post that you
are donating a photography session on the auction. You could then blast your business’ clients
to advertise and they could bid and it would all get taken care of in
Winnipeg. {wherever that is…}
For larger items, you can either ship them to
me and I can take a picture for the auction and ship to the winner, or you can
email me a picture of the item and then you would just ship the item to the
winner directly. So long as the item is
shipped in a timely manner, it’s all the same to me. Whatever is easiest for you.
Or perhaps you have no skills and no money but do have a
facebook account….well as it gets closer I will be calling all of my peeps to
donate their Facebook Status advertising about the auction to get people to bid
on items.
Or maybe your grandma gave you a bathrobe for Christmas and
you haven’t even unwrapped it from it’s packaging because who needs a 7th
bathrobe? Yeah, we can auction that off
too. Just so long as it is a new item.
Things people have already donated thus far: 2 $25 Fandango Gift Cards, $100 Amex Gift
Card, A new in Box Rumba vacuum, 31 products, a custom painted painting, ABERNATHY BLAND ART {holy freaking cow, y'all, this is wicked awesome!!!}, a Scentsy stuffed animal with an
insert, a handmade custom quilt, a handmade custom mesh wreath, a credit for an
Origami Owl necklace, Handmade boutique jewelry, as well as many of my own PlumPanda creations such as necklaces, picture frames, hair accessories, and
wreaths. Some of the stuff is being
donated by relative strangers—I posted about it on some adoptive mommy forums I’m
a member of and have been blown away by the generosity of others.
What a treat it will be to recount to our children how many
folks God used to knit our family together.
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