Benefit Auction

For those of you who hang out on the Pub at 2peas, you know about Jen Gallacher and her son Joey. This amazing 12 year old boy is fighting a VERY tough battle with cancer. You can read more about it on Jen's blog http://jengallacher.blogspot.com/ A fellow Pea (Tania Willis) has set up a blog in order to help raise money to pay for some of the medical bills. So I have decided to help out by hosting a benefit auction on ebay and then donating the $ to the blog that has been set up for them. http://www.benefitforjen.blogspot.com/ You really should check out the blog to see how AMAZING it is! They have raised over $9000 already and tons and tons of prizes have been donated as well! Doesn't it just warm your heart to see so may people want to help! It sure inspired me!

Anyways....here is what was posted on 2peas this evening....

We all have been following the latest on what is happening with Jen Gallacher and her 12 year old son Joey who is fighting a battle with cancer. As many of you know, numerous scrappers have been helping to raise funds to off set the medical bills this family now has. We have such a talented group of scrappers here and what better than to use that talent to help another scrapbooker!!! To help out we will be hosting a Benefit Auction for Jen through a group auction on eBay. We thought this would be a great way for not only fellow Peas to help out but for other non-pea scrappers to get involved in a good cause. The way this will work is that I am in the process of collecting handmade projects to be sold in a group lot. These items can me anything from premade layouts to altered items to cards to even new scrap products themselves! If we end up getting enough donated I will be splitting the items up to hold a few different auctions. We'll just have to see what donations come in. If you decide to donate to the auction, all that will be needed is for you do package up your items that you wish to be auctioned off and mail them to me. I will them take care of taking the needed photos, scanning in items that need scanned and then creating the ebay listing. I will be keeping the board updated as things come in and will be linking the auction once it is up. If you're interested in helping out this family by donating an item to be auctioned off, then you can email me at glassslipper02@yahoo.com for info on where to send your donations. I will be accepting donations through May 16th. (Items must be in my hands ON/BEFORE the 16th to be included in the auction.) The donations will be added to the funds already being raised here on the Donations Blog As the auction draws closer I will be posting the eBay link as well as showing sneak peaks of a few of the items as they come in...just to tease you all a bit! Thanks everyone for all you have done this far to help out Jen and her family! I can't wait to see what creative things you guys can come up with!

So......if anyone out there in blogger land wants to help out...you're more than welcome to donate as well either to the auction or to the donations blog directly! As a little incentive, I know that their have been some ROCK'N prizes put up for those who contribute to the bog! Check it out!

I will be updating here as well as the auction items come in and as the ebay listing goes up! If you are not able to donate, I do ask that you hold Jen, Joey, and the entire Gallacher family in your prayers. As you can tell from reading Jen's blog, Joey is not doing very well and things are pretty stressful around thier house right now. As a mother of three little girls I can not even imagine being in Jen's shoes.