ToteTuesday – How Does It Work? Part II – Contents
Logo by Jeanelle McCall.
Today’s tote-ology post is about tote contents. Part I was about the tote bags themselves. Part III will detail how bidding for totes will work.
1. Each tote is wonderfully unique. Artists and businesswomen in the fiber industry have been working hard to make these totes something you are not going to find anywhere else. We hope to have something “Made by Hand” in each tote and/or a custom-made tote. Please show your appreciation for our generous donors by doing business with them. All contents of each tote will be listed and shown in a photograph(s) as it comes up for bid
2. It’s a fundraiser! Our goal is to raise the maximum amount possible for the ACS, but sponsors/donors have been wonderful in agreeing to provide totes at a variety of price levels. Be as generous as you are able and let’s celebrate the wonderfulness that is fiber. Perhaps you can form a ToteTuesday bidding consortium with your friends and then throw a ToteTuesday party when the tote arrives. What to keep and what to share – that’s the dilemma!
3.. Any amount you donate to the American Cancer Society through Fiberart For A Cause above retail value is tax deductible (upon advice of your accountant, of course).
4. All shipping is free to you thanks, again, to generous sponsors/donors. Totes and their contents may come to you as one shipment or you might have the joy of receiving the contents directly from a multitude of donors.
If you have any questions, please contact me at Virginia(at)VirginiaSpiegel.com
Dear Marlette, I can’t believe there is any family whose lives haven’t been touched by cancer, but your comment is just one more incentive to fundraise, no? I can guarantee you some wonderful totes to bid upon! Warm regards, V.
This is a wonderful idea and I will be sure to participate. Cancer has stricken my family in a big way!!
I have lost my younger brother at age 48 to colon cancer, my mother at 52 y/o to lung cancer, my father to brain tumor,my father in law to lung cancer after surviving both bladder and colon cancer. All 4 of his siblings and his mother also died from various cancers as did my mother’s sister and 2 of my grandmother’s siblings.
The idea of having a group bidding on the totes is a good one and hopefully one I’ll be able to organize.
Thanks Virginia.
Marlette