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cancer-hating b&w photography print sale

my amazingly talented and wonderfully generous friend claire has graciously donated five of her fabulous photos as prints in the cancer-hating etsy shop.

if you don't know claire, or even if you do, take a moment to check out her flickr photostream, she is truly a gifted photographer.

she is offering two of each five photos as 10x10 prints.

they're listed for sale over at the cancer-hating etsy shop, please go check them out if you're interested.  

it's not often you can purchase such fabulous art for such a fabulous cause!

and a huge huge cancer-hating thank you goes out to claire!  thank you claire, you are wonderful beyond words - i love you!!

drumroll please......

..... and we have a winner!!

congratulations kathy!!  

a big thank you to everyone who participated!!  we raised a whopping $95 for cancer-hating!!

and another speical thank you to the lovely maya, without your generosity this wouldn't have been possible!  

springtree road raffle

the wonderfully talented maya over at springtree road has generously offered up a skein of her yarn for a cancer-hating raffle!

(photo credit: maya henderson)

maya's shop is full of gorgeous hand dyed yarns and handspun and she is generously offering one skein of anything available in the shop as the prize for this raffle!  click here to visit her shop and take a moment to drool over all the lovelies she has listed there....

(photo credit: maya henderson)

now on to the nitty-gritty of how do i win this fantastic yarn...

make a donation to team breast intentions!!!

 for every $5 you donate to my sister and teammate's 3-day fundraising page you will get on chance to win.  so for example, if you were to donate $20 you would get four chances to win, a donation of $25 would get you five chances and so on and so forth.  the more you donate, the more chances you'll have of winning.  

(when your making your donation please let us know in the "personal note to the participant" box that you're entering the yarny contest.)

(photo credit: maya henderson)

the raffle will be open through sunday july 31st at 7pm central time and i'll announce the winner here on the cancer-hating blog shortly after.

(photo credit: maya henderson)

for your chance to win you can click here to go to meghan's personal page to make a donation, then just click on the "click to donate to meghan in 2011" button.

thank you in advance for all your support!  i couldn't do this without YOU!

and a special thank you thank you thank you to maya for her generous donation to the cancer-hating cause.  i am continually in awe of the awesome generosity of all my knitty-friends.  

auction #2 results

congratulations to the lovely lindsey!!

her generous winning bid will add $40 of cancer-hating power to team breast intentions!!

thank you linds!

thank you lily!

thank you to everyone who bid - you're all awesome cancer-haters!

 

handspun auction part2

only just this week my 6 year-old daughter lily has begun to learn to spin yarn.  yesterday while she was spinning her second skein we were chatting and i asked what she was planning to make with the yarn she was spinning.

after very little thought she announced that she wanted to put the yarn up for auction to raise money for the cancer-hating.  needless to say i was proud and touched and amazed at her generosity.

so without any further ado, here's the auction rundown:

what you'll be bidding on: 24 yds of thick&thin bulky weight 100% corriedale wool yarn handspun by 6 year-old lily.

the winning bid will be donated to team breast intentions through my sister meghan's account.  bidding will be done in the comments below and i'll set the opening bid at $20.  the auction will run through tomorrow (saturday 07.23) at 7pm cst.  and as always we're happy to ship anywhere on the globe!

a big thank you to lily and a big thank you to you all!  hooray for cancer-hating!!

celebration!!

hooray hooray!!  i have reached my minimum fundraising goal of $2300!!

i couldn't have done it without YOU!!  so thank you thank you thank you from the bottom of my heart.  all of you cancer-haters rock!!

that said, anyone who would still like to make a donation, i would ask that you do so to my sister's account.  she still has some money to raise to meet the minimum amount.  

we're on the same team, and the funds will go to the same place.  so from here on out, click here to make a donation!  

thank you!!

auction results

congratulations to the lovely sarah jane!!

her generous winning bid will add $110 of cancer-hating power to team breast intentions!!

thank you sarah!

thank you heather!

thank you to everyone who bid - you're all awesome cancer-haters!

handspun auction

my very talented and generous friend heather (blog or rav profile) has spun up this amazing handspun to donate to my bc3d fundraising campaign.

it's aproximately 315 yards of 2-ply 100% blf fingering weight yarn!  and let me tell you - it is amazing!!  heather is a genius with her spinning wheel.  this yarn would be perfect for socks or a small shawl.

i'm going to run this auction through the comments - if you'd like to make a bid just leave a comment on this post.  100% of the winning bid will be donated directly to the susan g. komen foundation through my bc3d fundraising page.  the auction will run until tomorrow (sunday 07.17.11) at 7pm.  as always, i'm happy to ship anywhere on the globe!

i'll open the bidding at $25.

i can't stress enough how gorgeous this yarn is in person.  the lucky winner is going to be lucky indeed - not only will they have purchased a fabulous skien of handspun yarn, they'll have increased their good karma by being a super-awesome cancer-hater!

again, a big thank you to heather and thank you to all of you who took the time to consider making a bid.  now let's go hate us some cancer!!

pink ribbons for tennessee

my mother-in-law susan placed an order for a dozen pink ribbon cloths!

she's going to give them to her coworkers, which i think is a lovely gesture.

i'm happy to take orders, if anyone else is interested they're going for $4/per cloth with the money going straight to the bc3d.

the pattern is also for sale through ravlery for $3.  click here for pattern link.

thank you all for your support - i'm off to little pine lake for a week to celebrate the 4th with some friends (so i'll be away from the internet until i return on the 6th), hopefully i'll return with pictures of the beautiful places i've been going on training walks!

report from the old town art fair

yesterday was the first annual old town art fair in downtown mankato.  i shared the above booth with some of my crafty friends.

everything i sold went directly to the bc3d fundraising.

meghan, my talented sister and the other half of this year's team, sent these adorable babylegs and i knit and crocheted up a myriad of items.

(there were a few more things that i guess i didn't get pictures of - sorry.)

we raised $100 for the team but still have a lot of items left to sell.  in the next couple of days i'm going to work at getting them set up online so that those of you who were unable to attend will have a chance to snatch some of them up!

i also want to say a huge public thank you to my mother-in-law susan (also a breast cancer survivor) who donated the money so we could purchase the tent for the booth.  it was a hot and cloudless day, without the tent i fear we may have melted!  so thank you susan for both your generosity and your cancer-hating spirit!!