TOTAL GIRL CRUSH - I LOVE TWINKIE

Total raised - £100

Winner - westcountrygirl 
(as picked by random.org)

THANK YOU AGAIN EVERYONE - WILL BE SENDING TO REDFI AT THE END OF THE MONTH, SO IF YOU STILL WANT TO DONATE, FEEL FREE.

I'm off to the pannier tomorrow, so anyone want any of these before I take them?
postage is between 50p and £1.40 depending on how big it is and how much you buy

I'LL ALSO DONATE 10% OF EVERY SALE TO THE RAFFLE FUND

( everything a quid or less - ignore if you're not interested )

My mate redfi has posted this on her journal - she's such a loving giving person, I want to help her out.

"We have 3 kids, one 16, one nearly 13 and the youngest who is 10.
All 3 have been to our local primary, The Bluecoat School ,
It's a small school, wonderfully run and our kids have loved it, our youngest is just coming to the end of Yr5.
For the past two years and 3 months, our kids and their classmates have been fundraising in every possible way to gather money for a sunshade on the playground. There are two children at the school who suffer from XP so shade is essential. Each sunshade was custom made and cost £1900. We raised enough money over the two years of car washing, bag packing, sponsored EVERYTHING to have two built. They looked gorgeous and were our pride.
Until Monday night when someone broke into our schgool and slashed them both up to pieces. There was nothing but scraps of material left blowing across the playground. Our headmaster actually cried, and the kids are heartbroken.
Obviously we've informed the police, but don't hold out much hope of finding out who did it.
Our entire school budget is spoken for for next year, so here comes the crunch. I'm desperately trying to raise funds now so I come to you for ideas of how I can raise a bit of money!!!
We've done the usual sponsored events, we've had discos and shall do again, we have our school fete on July 3rd, I'm now doing a homemade fresh lemonade stall with all proceeds to the Sunshade Fund, but we really need ideas of other things I can do so we can get our shades back and show the buggers we won't be beaten down!!!
Any help is vastly appreciated!!"

I've decided to raffle off 'Bobby Bones' - everyone liked him, so I'm hoping for a better response.



Please repost this, retweet it *whatever* - we need to raise nearly 4 grand for the school, and I can't think of any other way to help out.

 

*edit to add* Hi all...I'm the parent in question with my child at the school. Thank you so far for the thoughts and suggestions! Obviously the school have insurance, that was not the issue, nor the question asked, but there will be a shortfall as we added extra uv filtering at our own expense, and as each shade needs to be custom made, we need to raise funds *now* to put our orders in so the work can be carried out ASAP, hopefully in the upcoming summer break. The long process of insurance will eventually be resolved, and the schools coffers will be somewhat replenished, but hopefully by collecting ideas and awareness, we can help the children get back the shades they worked so hard to buy

Yes, I know I'm late. Never mind.
We raised a grand total of £20, which isn't to be sniffed at - I would have liked more, but everyone who donated was really generous. The total owing to Ovacome now is £40 (I made £20 selling some craft stuff earlier in the month) - THIS IS MORE THAN I MADE FOR MIND IN THE WHOLE OF LAST YEAR! well done, everyone

As we had 8 entires, almost everyone who entered the raffle has won a prize, basically. Everyone else receives a card anyway, so you can choose whether you want the prize, or whether you want a greeting card instead of what might be left!
I received entries from the following, in order of receipt
1. Zoe Flett
2. Fiona Shepherd
3. Pete Ratcliffe
4. Jo Aitchison
5. K Goode
6. Becca Sibley
7. Sonia Chesher
8. Chris Shaw

Random.org has picked the winners in this order

2 - 8 - 3 - 7 - 4 - 6
Fiona -> Chris -> Pete -> Sonia -> Jo -> Becca

meaning Zoe and K Goode are getting cards (unless someone else doesn't want a prize!)

If you've forgotten what the prizes are they are
1. LBC book
2. 2 small cat paintings
3. plush shark badge
4. small baby sock toy
5. cupcake rosette hairclip
6. The first 3 issues of ralph kidson's Giant Clam

the original entry with photos is - http://pesky33.livejournal.com/493127.html

Great Aunty Mary was 80 in February, but she had her party yesterday. I took over 200 photos for
her, but you won't recognise anyone in them, so here's the ones I like best



This is GAM - she's a really lovely woman, and I'm not just saying that because she might read this. She's the most honest, genuine person I've come across, like most of Ian's family to be honest, and there was lots of love in the room.

all photos are here - http://www.flickr.com/photos/peskychloe/sets/72157623981677796/

( cupcake photos, and some of me and ian )

Ok, I'm having a raffle to raise funds for Ovacome!

Entry is £1 (at least, you can give more) and everyone who enters will get a greeting card as a prize. The prizes below will be distributed in order of names pulled out of the hat.

1. Life is like a Big Canvas paperback book



2. Twin cat paintings



3. shark pin badge



4. Cupcake Hairclip



5. Small blue sock monster



6. Those Ralph Kidson zines which didn't get given away last month

I've chosen these as they're cheap to post. Each one is worth more than a quid, obviously, so you're getting a bargain.

This raffle will run for the whole of May, so I'm sorry if you get sick of me plugging it. HOWEVER I thought it was the cheapest way for people to get stuff, and also a good way to get funds for Ovacome, with everyone getting a prize.

Please repost, retweet WHATEVER to get this going better than the last one.

Click here to donate - please make sure your address is included (it usually is with Paypal) and that you donate at least £1 - if you want to enter and donate less, that's fine, but I won't be able to send you a greeting card.

I'm honoured that people have asked for a banner for their website. These are the ones rumantic made for me

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There's also this funny flashing gif dont_letme_fade made for me for Heidi's site



You're welcome to save them from here and upload them to your site. I don't have loads of bandwidth on photobucket, so you can't hotlink i'm afraid.

The website address is http://www.lifesbigcanvas.co.uk

Let me know if you add me to your site, and I'll put you on my links page as a thank you.

I haven't been keeping up with my friends list again, so I culled it. I ALWAYS end up taking someone off who gets offended no matter how I do it. This time, I'm just going to say that I've only deleted what I think are dead journals. If I've taken you off and you're wondering why, ask me, cause I guarantee it's because I didn't recognise your name because you've changed it and I'M OLD AND CAN'T TAKE CHANGE