Garden Bloggers Operation Christmas Child
October 22, 2009
The fundraiser is over! Thank you so much!! We were able to make up 20 boxes for the little kids and we raised $800. Thank you all so much.
Every year, little children all over the globe wish for their holiday to be brightened with a gift of happiness and a message of kindness. Little children just want to know that every thing is going to be ok. They want to play and laugh. That’s all. It’s so simple.
Will you help me show the generous hearts of garden bloggers? I’ve never known a more giving bunch and feel in my heart that you will give beyond measure. Will you help me by donating a few dollars toward items that can fit in a shoebox and together our treasures will add up to a lot. I’m going to do the work and all you have to do is the giving.
Proven Winners Plants who already extend a generous hand to many causes has graciously agreed to sponser this event and donated $300 to get us started. Thank you Proven Winners.
The beautiful hanging basket that I have chosen for our Garden Bloggers Operation Christmas Child widget is a Superbena Coral Red which I thought appropriately represented our giving hearts don’t you think? It’s new for 2010.
Don’t forget to get your widget to display proudly on your blog to show you gave and to advertise to others to come and give too.
You are giving to a very worthy cause. It is the Samaritan’s Purse Operation Christmas Child headquartered out of Charlotte, North Carolina. Every year they collect shoeboxes filled with items appropriate for little boys and girls and then deliver them to needy children all over the globe. It is a massive operation and not one penny goes to waste.
I have assured every measure of accountability for you and me. You will click on the link I have provided which will take you to my flowergardengirl.org site. You do not have to wait for that page to load. Click on the donate button. You can donate by credit card or paypal. You do not have to open a paypal account.
Donate HERE <—OPEN AND CHOOSE DONATE FOR CREDIT CARD
Your donation is like if you dropped money in a container some place as you entered a place of business. I can not offer a tax deductable receipt. You will get an email confirmation of your donation from paypal but you do not have to sign up for a paypal account. You will also get a receipt from your credit card company. You and I will both get an email notification of the transaction but I will not get any of your credit card information. I will only get notification of the amount you donated.
I will keep up with all the monies donated until the cut off date of my choosing which is: Nov. 20th and any money received after that date will be donated to the Samaritan’s Purse site for next year’s Operation Christmas Child.
Money collected on November 20th will be used to purchase items for the shoeboxes for the Garden Bloggers Operation Christmas Child. The event will be photographed and/or podcasted with the event reported about on my blog soon thereafter. My best friend and I will make up the shoeboxes and deliver them to the drop off location for Operation Christmas Child in Charlotte, North Carolina before the cutoff date of November 23.
Last year my best friend was part of the final destination of the shoeboxes and she said it was one of the most emotional things she’s ever done. She went to a reservation in South Dakota and handed them out and the people were very appreciative. So this year she ask me if I wanted to do just one box because she was going to collect some for her church where her husband is a pastor. So I got to thinking about her experience and I thought—you know, I know a lot of giving people—and I thought about you! I hope you will give—I hope you will give a lot!!!
A daily total of the monies received for Garden Bloggers Operation Christmas Child will be displayed on a Widget at the top this blog at the end of the of the 24 hr day.
Thank you all and let’s show the world that we are the most generous of givers!
Our garden world would not be what it is without the support of Stuart and his efforts over at Blotanical.com. If you have not joined then I encourage you to do so. Most of my visitors come from there and I would not be the blogger I am today without his success. Thank you Stuart. He has the best garden blogging forum on the internet!
Give HERE THEN CHOOSE DONATE. you do not have to wait for the page to load just choose the donate button
Should you choose to pay by check:
This fundraiser is over—Thank you for giving.
Please leave a comment here to show your support for this event. And again thank you so much to Proven Winners Plants and should any other plant organization or company desire to participate, I will include your name on my sidebar under the daily total widget for the duration of the campaign. Thank you all for participating.
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Copy and paste the code below to show this widget on your blog.
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Here is the direct link for the pic above so you can make your widget if the code will not work in your blog:
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll211/flowergardengirl/PWLogoFinal.jpg
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Contributors Listed Here and On My Sidbar
Karen @ From Paradise to Plan B
Dee @ Red Dirt Ramblings
Cindy @ My Corner of Katy
Katie @ Garden of Words
Jan @ Thanks for 2 Day
Diana @ Sharing Nature’s Garden
Rebecca Sweet @ Gossip In The Garden
Shirley Bovshow @ Eden Makers Blog
Carol @ May Dreams Gardens
Gail @ Clay and Limestone
Kylee @ Our Little Acre
Catherine @ A Gardener in Progress
Leslie @ Growing A Garden In Davis
Pat@ Common Weeder
Mary Ann@ Idaho Gardener
Rosalie @ Prairie Rose Garden
Julie @ My English Country Garden
Karen @ Karen Eileen Designs
Thank you everyone for giving—This fundraiser is over. The last day to give was today, November 20th.
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November 21, 2009 at 3:47 am
Thank you everyone. November was the last day to give. We raised $800 and made 20 boxes for the little kids. I’ll deliver them on Monday and do another post on Tuesday. Thank you all so much.
November 10, 2009 at 10:08 pm
My daughter and I r filling shoe boxes with the girl scouts! I’m so excited to pick out the things that will go in our boxes! We r picking one boy and one girl! Hoping to fill their boxes to the top! I wanna give Kudos to the woman who’s site this is! It’s a great thing to help in this way! The more who know about it, the more children we can help!!
KUDOS!
Jennifer,27,Ohio
November 8, 2009 at 9:53 pm
This is a great cause, and I applaud you for promoting it here. I’m heading over to donate now.
November 1, 2009 at 5:51 pm
I’ll get my check in the mail to you tomorrow. This is a wonderful cause. And I’ll try and get the widget on my blog. I want you to fill up lots of boxes and get back to your regular posts.
Thank you so much and I’ve gone back to posting cause I think we are doing ok. Enough folks like yourself are taking this seriously now and hopefully the word is getting out. I still need the money to come in…but I am hopeful. I want to fill the boxes too!!!!
October 29, 2009 at 8:28 pm
Hi Anna, I just put up a post about this and linked to you several times. In a few days I’ll put the widget on my sidebar. Hope you’re getting more and more donations for this wonderful cause;-)
October 29, 2009 at 7:15 pm
I’ve got a ton of stuff to write about and just itching to do so….but I promised not to write until I had raised $2,000 for the little kids……..Feels like I’m standing on the tide waiting for it to change. I know you’ll give…I have faith that Gardeners are the most giving and sharing people I know. Just look at the way you share plants.
October 29, 2009 at 12:26 am
Okay Anna, my check is being sent to you tomorrow. I’m adding the widget to my blog now. I think this is a great cause
Thank you so very much! I’m getting a big antsy not writing and posting all these pretty pictures of Autumn I’ve been taking, but I promised God that I would give it all the time it needed for the kids and I meant it.
October 28, 2009 at 7:41 pm
I’ve finally got it on my sidebar, Anna, but it’s too wide. I changed the width in the code to 150, which in other cases has worked, but it’s not working in this case. It’s there, but it doesn’t look the best. I’ll have to read through the above comments and see if there’s a solution for me contained in there.
Thank you Kylee, I see you got it fixed and it looks good. Thank you for giving.
October 28, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Hi Anna. You’re so wonderful to do this. I wish I’d read about it before mailing my Oct card ~ I would have included money in the envelope for you. I’ll try and get my act together to donate ~ it’s definitely a worthy cause.
Thank you too for your sweet message about my daughter and her recovery. It brought tears to my eyes. She sat with me and watched your Copper top cottage video and we both enjoyed hearing your voice and listening to your plans. You have a beautiful family too. Hugs back to you.
October 28, 2009 at 10:47 am
Anna, I made this comment on an earlier post! But, I’m here to collect my widget! I did make a donation. Thanks for organizing this for us…You’ve made it so easy. You are a darling. gail
October 28, 2009 at 5:44 pm
Thank you so much! and I am still committed. I am not doing another blog entry until I raise the money. Nothing in this world is more important to write about for me. Thank you all for taking the widget. Thank you for giving the money. The little kids will have a box of goodies. I can’t imagine a child not having a gift for their holiday.