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These will be raffled off on Friday, November 14th.  If you want half price tickets, make a donation before 4pm on Friday at http://pages.teamintraining.org/vtnt/starwr15/knealf If you make a donation, please email, call, text, or leave a comment and tell me where you want to put your tickets.  I want you to be able to have some control over what you win.  You do not need to be present to win!  If you make a donation from anywhere in the world, you get raffle tickets!! As of 10:00 pm on Thursday night, here are the items I KNOW are included:  Handmade lap quilt. It's incredibly beautiful.  Han Solo Crayons.  Seriously.  Love them.   Ewok coin purse.  Ohmygoodness so cute!!   Handmade scarf, little girl not included   Also likely (but not yet in my hands, so I am not promising): -Art from Wine and Palette, the ones the "real" artists do -Various gift cards -Possibly other fun stuf...

Here are ways you can currently make a difference in the lives of people with leukemia, lymphoma and their families:   1. Join us for a Wine and Palette event in Stillwater, OK on November 14, 6:00pm - 8:00 pm.  Here is a link to register: http://www.wineandpalette.com/Class_Detail.asp?CalID=3604  $20 of your registration goes directly to Team in Training.    We are going to paint this on Friday.  Yes, you can do it.  No, it will not look exactly like this.  Yes, it will still be something you love and can be proud of.       By the way, if you are not in Oklahoma, YOU CAN STILL HELP!!!  Everything else I am going to list here you can do from the comfort of your home in your jammies, with a cat on your lap (is that just me? )      2. If you're reading this, and it is still November 12, go check out my Stella and Dot Trunk Show at http://www.stelladot.com/ts/2o426 The show ends today, b...

    How do you get an Ewok coin purse?  (You'll notice a striking similarity to the Han crayons, thanks Kristen!)   1) Go visit my teammate Kristen's fundraising page at http://pages.teamintraining.org/vtnt/starwr15/kmcguigecg   She made them and will either sell you one or tell you how to get one.  She makes them in different colors.    2) Make a donation to MY fundraising page at http://pages.teamintraining.org/vtnt/starwr15/knealf   Every dollar donated between now and 4:00 pm (central) on Friday, November 14th is a raffle ticket.  $1 = 1 ticket.  If you wait until Friday night, raffle tickets go up to $2 each.  Double your chances and get a raffle ticket now!    If you donate $5 or more, you get 5 raffle tickets AND a donation letter for tax deductions.  Whoohoo.   Oh, and you help fight cancer.  There is that amazingly awesome perk too. 

You can't tell me these aren't the coolest things you've ever seen.  How do you get them?  Glad you asked.    1) Go visit my teammate Kristen's fundraising page at http://pages.teamintraining.org/vtnt/starwr15/kmcguigecg   She made them and will either sell you some or tell you how to get them.   2) Make a donation to MY fundraising page at http://pages.teamintraining.org/vtnt/starwr15/knealf   Every dollar donated between now and 4:00 pm (central) on Friday, November 14th is a raffle ticket.  $1 = 1 ticket.  If you wait until Friday night, raffle tickets go up to $2 each.  Double your chances and get a raffle ticket now!    If you donate $5 or more, you get 5 raffle tickets AND a donation letter for tax deductions.  Whoohoo.   Oh, and you help fight cancer.  There is that amazingly awesome perk too. 

http://youtu.be/6pttqFUviWs I thought I was joking when I said today my only plans were to "run" 10 miles and then recover.  I did 9 last week with no rest after.  Surely 10 would be fine.  Nope.  Nope.  Nope. 

Looks like Surekha Sheorey is in the lead for raffle tickets.  Right now she's winning the quilt, the scarf AND the Star Wars swag.  If you want your chance to win, make a donation at http://pages.teamintraining.org/vtnt/starwr15/knealf How else could you win a (tax-deductible) quilt?

If you're in Stillwater, you may know of Ainsley Peters.  She is a sweet little girl who is battling Leukemia.  If you are not in Stillwater, you may know of Ainsley Peters, who was in a viral photo of three little girls all dressed up, hugging each other.  And oh, they happened to be bald.  Ainsley did some national tv related to that photo.  If you don't know what I'm talking about, here's a link to an article in the Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2696898/Triple-miracle-Three-young-girls-viral-cancer-photo-remission.html    I could have picked American media, but I like that they made international news.  It seems completely ridiculous to me that I'm raising money for TNT and LLS which benefits Ainsley, but not directly.  I need to do something that affects a child and a family I have met.   Ainsley's mom gave me the ok to collect money for Ainsley and her family at the Wine and Palette even...

Oh, here's the deal.  I have some really incredible things to raffle off at the Wine and Palette fundraiser on November 14.  If you're anywhere near Stillwater, Oklahoma, you should really join us.  We're going to paint this: I am super excited.  I love Starry Night, but always thought the tree in the foreground is a little scary.  This one is warm and cozy.  Or cold and snowy, however you want to think about it.  Register here: http://www.wineandpalette.com/Class_Detail.asp?CalID=3604   I'll even take some requests for snacks.  Back to that raffle, some of our raffle prizes are AWESOME!  I have some very kind and generous donors (I'm looking at YOU Kristen McGuigan and Carrie Daigle!!).  At the event raffle tickets will be $2 per ticket.  I can take cash, checks and credit cards!  (That whole credit card thing kinda changed my life.  It's awesome.)  If you buy at least $5, y...