Winner!!

Remember this?

Well, the drawing (and one heck of a party from what I've seen in the pictures) was this past weekend. I'm sorry to say that none of my readers won the beautiful quilt, but a man from the local Rotary Club did (Port Angeles, WA area). The cool part is that his ticket was sold to him by an Ethiopian adoptee. A couple of kids attended the meeting a few months back to sell tickets. They were dressed in traditional Ethiopian clothes to make the tickets all the more appealing. The young lady that sold the ticket will also receive a lovely hand-made quilt. Good for her! The person that sold the most tickets is an adoptive Mom through AAI. She sold $1100 worth of tickets. That's 220 tickets!! She will be awarded with a quilt for her efforts as well. The total amount earned in the raffle of this quilt was over $7000. That should go a long way toward helping to find families for some harder to place children through the GRACE Fund.

Our efforts here and at TheBus4Us were far more humble, but I am pleased none the less. We sold 40 tickets and made $200 to add to the GRACE Fund. Not too bad for two non-salespeople that decided to do this on a whim. Thanks for spurring me on MP. And A HUGE THANKS to all our readers, friends and family that helped out. The kids and their new familes will appreciate it greatly. You all are the best!

PS For those that odered, your receipts are on their way to you. Thanks again. 8^)