Grand Prize to the highest total sponsor!

Okay, now that I have your attention, I am taking a moment for some shameless fundraising. You can read my cause if you like or just scroll down the prize bit.

Ahem. Every year I participate in the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), and this year I have decided to take part in their annual fundraiser, the Night Of Writing Dangerously. On November 20^th, writers from around the world converge on San Francisco to write novels and raise money for supporting creative writing education in public schools. Even five dollars helps, so please help bring the arts to our youth.

To show my appreciation, I spent several hours one weekend in my workshop to create something for the highest total philanthropist.

As of the 19^th of November I will total everyone’s donations and my most generous sponsor will receive a leather-bound book hand made by me. Yes, that’s hand bound, hand painted, hand sewn, and all the pages hand torn by me. The center ‘eye’ is a fused glass cabochon from Sea Air Arts.

So please, donate anything you can, if not for the children (you should be hearing moans and weeping in the background about now), then for this uber-awesome handmade book I slaved over just for you. And thank you!