Yay Suzie!!!!!!

The WINNER is Suzie for $70!!!!!!!!!

(although the true winners are Becky & Billy right? Or maybe the true winners are the Berry's who get to bring these adorable kids into their family).

Thank you everyone! This was such a fun auction to watch with a bunch of new bidders, some from people I'm sure I've never met. And action right up until the last minute! So fun.

I am almost done with the next BlackBerry auction item, so stay tuned in the next few days....

And Suzie, please introduce yourself! How did you find the blog and do you know the Berry's?

Also, please contact me via e-mail so I can get a shipping address from you, and let you know where to send a check to for the Berry adoption fund. My e-mail is in my profile on the blog.

Auction #4 - Project BlackBerrys Apron

Here it is!!!!

Here's the deal.

The Berry Family (of 5 currently) are adopting 5.5 year old

 Ugandan twins - Becky & Billy!

They are such a wonderful family, the twins are going to be sooooo blessed. Here's the irony. It costs a lot of money to adopt orphans. Fees for the agency, fees for the government, fees for background checks, fingerprints, home studies, and travel fees to go get the kids. The good news is, God will provide. Hopefully through the generosity of the people that know and love them, and through perfect strangers who believe giving 2 orphans a home is worthy of some of their latte money.

Here's my latest project. I already mentioned in my last post how much I love this apron. Is that tacky? I don't normally toot my own horn, but I love this fabric. And I bought the last of it from the fabric store - where there wasn't much left. The apron has long ties to wrap around to the front. It is made with quality fabric, and is lined and top-stitched. 

I think this would make a great Christmas present for a wife, mom, aunt, niece, grandma, daughter, daughter-in-law, cousin, sister...you get my point. Or buy it for yourself! Who doesn't need a cute new apron, that helped bring 2 orphans home to their forever family?

I'm posting my lame photo of myself in the mirror until I get a picture of my neighbor wearing it. Bear with me. Or is it bare with me?

Now the boring albeit necessary auction details....

Auction Rules/Details

The auction begins NOW, and ends Thursday 9:00 pm PST. You place your bid by posting a comment in THIS POST with your bid amount. Please bid in increments of $5 - and higher. Let's start it out slow and give everyone a chance to bid. I LOVE my high-roller bidders, but I don't want people to start thinking it's not worth it to try! Whoever is the highest bid at the time the auction ends (9:00pm - thursday) is the winner.

Shipping costs are covered to anywhere in the 50 states.

The entire amount of the winning bid will go directly to the Berry Family Adoption Fund. I will give you details of where to send the check.

Let's start the bidding at $10

Let the bidding begin!

*****If anyone wants to post a link from their blog to my blog, I would be ever so grateful.

This is my kick-off project....there will be more items to come!

Auction #4 is almost here

I finished it tonight (I guess technically it's early morning) and I'm so excited to post this new item. This could be, my most favorite item I've ever made. And I've made a lot of things. I love love love this fabric. And this thing, it can appeal to anybody, or everybody. If you're starting to think at all about Christmas, you will definitely have somebody you can buy this for. 

Where is it, you ask? Well, I need a model. I'm tempted to upload the cruddy pictures of myself in the mirror, but then I have to make the creepy walk out to the office in the dark to upload the pics from my camera to my computer, and well, I'd rather not. So in the morning, I'm thinking 9-10am~ish I will get them up! 

Remember ~ This is the first of my "Project BlackBerrys" stuff I'm working on. Let's bring those beautiful children home!!!!!

Mary, it was all you baby!

2 ADORABLE stockings for $50!

That's $50 that will help rescue a victim.

Thanks everyone for watching the auction.

Please come back, because there will be LOT'S of stuff coming in the next few days. You won't want to miss something super-dee-duper spectacular!

Auction #3 is HERE

Just in time for Christmas!

My sister-in-law (Luke's sister) Lisa, made these darling stockings. They are beautifully made, and lined inside. She has such an eye for fabrics (I love the polka dot contrast!).

The auction is for both stockings - they come as a set. (They would make a great gift for newlyweds!)

Auction Rules/Details

The auction begins NOW, and ends Thursday 9:00 pm PST. You place your bid by posting a comment in THIS POST with your bid amount. Please bid in increments of $5 - and higher. Whoever is the highest bid at the time the auction ends (9:00pm - thursday) is the winner.

Shipping costs are covered to anywhere in the 50 states.

The entire amount of the winning bid will go directly to International Justice Mission (IJM) who does an awesome job at rescuing oppressed peoples - child prostitutes, slaves, widows whose land is stolen, and the list goes on.

Let's start the bidding at $10

Let the bidding begin!

Don't forget to tell others about the auction. You can send out an e-mail to EVERYONE you know, post about it on Facebook, myspace, or YOUR BLOG (my favorite way to communicate!)

For those of you new to this blog and auction business, my purpose is to try to DO SOMETHING in the fight against the MILLIONS of oppressed people. Right now in 2008, there are people being physically bound in slavery. Some are labor slaves. Some are sex slaves. Some are held in chains. Some held at gunpoint. Some held psychologically with threats to harm them or their family members. And others are held physiologically as their captors have gotten them addicted to drugs like meth, so even though they want to escape, the addiction keeps them bound to their owners.

All that's horrible right? 

Now picture it happening to kids. Young kids. 7, 6, 5....as young as 3 year olds! Yes, there is a premium price for virgins. The younger they can find, the better guarantee of the "purity". 

It is absolutely SICK. 

The problem is SO HUGE, it's easy to get paralyzed into INaction. 

This is my attempt to at least wiggle my pinky toe. I refuse to sit back and do nothing. And while this isn't much right now, it's motion, and builds momentum, and HOPEFULLY will inspire a few more to not be paralyzed too. 

So the 

goal right now is to raise money for the people who can actually go to these places and rescue these people. These kids. And to PUNISH the perpetrators. And to bring JUSTICE to those who are being imprisoned in a life of shame, humility, and physical abuse.

Please keep checking back on the blog. I am going to be giving tangible ideas on how you can DO SOMETHING too. 

Thanks for stopping by.