Friday, July 22, 2011
And the winner of the PINK quilt is.....
and the amazing thing about the winner is she has nearly the same name as my late mother, Sally Johnston. When I first opened the email from Susan G. Komen saying I had a donation and read her name, Sally Johnson, my heart leapt a little. My mom was just 55 when she passed away after a long battle with many medical issues that started when I was 15 with lung cancer, watching her go through this horrible battle is what gave me the passion to join together with my best friend to do these walks. Each and every step I take in training, fundraising and walking I think of my mom and what things would have been like without this horrible disease.
A special thanks to each and everyone of you who participated in this raffle, together we raised $405 for a cure!!! A HUGE thank you to Heather of Olive and Ollie for sacrificing her time, talents and fabric to make this beautiful quilt, without her none of this would have been possible.
Special hugs to each of you who donated and shared your stories of loss and survival! I will be thinking of all of you as we walk our 60 miles this year.
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Congratulations to Sally. Hope she enjoys the beautiful quilt.
What a beautiful post. Miss you! -Ve
I am very slow in saying thanks to all who commented on me winning the quilt. I have been uber busy with my quilting, my blog, and with the Red Cross in preparation for many things. I just returned home after 7 days of deployment with Red Cross after responding to call for assistance from community that were hard hit by Hurricaine Irene. But back to the quilt.
Thank you so much for sharing with everyone that I won the quilt. I am very interested in learning how I can use this gorgeous quilt that Heather made, for a rolling raffle. If you are not sure what this is, it means that this quilt would be raffled yearly every year at my Making Strides Breast Cancer walk and the person who won it would raffle it off in one year. they would have to stay in communication with the original winner of the quilt so that I(as the first winner) would see that it is being raffled to raise money for such a great cause. I as a breast cancer survivor would love to see this happen. I am hoping all of you are well and had a fantastic summer. Thank you again...
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