We had a wonderful fundraiser this year, held at the Brentwood Country Club. There were about 100 women who joined in the festivities to help us raise money for our 2013-2014 budget. Lots of club members pitched in to help pull off this huge event. A special thanks goes to Paula for heading up the event for the 4th year in a row!
Of course, there was a silent auction. Lots of members put together fun baskets or brought lovely things from their homes to be auctioned off.
There was lots of serious bidding going on. There was one intense bidding war going on over a Bluebird Cafe hatch print.
The tables looked gorgeous and the meal was delicious. There was lots of socializing with long-time friends and new acquaintances.
The
Redd Hot Mamas energized us with their enthusiasm and talent. Paula really knows how to throw a party!
Wait, a dude!? What's he doing in here!? Paula wisely suggested that we needed
a sound guy to help pull this thing off.
Dillard's sponsored a fashion show and our club members and their friends
strutted their 'stuff' down the runway weaved through filled-to-capacity tables. Check
out all these cute ladies in their very well-coordinated outfits.
Of course we had to invite the press. Our former and new publicity people, Nora and Mary, are really on the ball when it comes to publicity.
Take a look at a few more shots of just a fraction of the women who came out and supported our fundraiser. Thank you so much! We really appreciate all your support.
A special thanks goes to
Lawrence Taylor for taking all these wonderful pictures for us! For more pictures of the event go
here.
I was really impressed with Lawrence Taylor myself, so much so that I did what I never do and recommended him to my daughter Eva who manages all the photographers at CNN. They connected and she was impressed with him, too, but she only handles video cameramen. So she hooked him up with the CNN manager who handles still photographers. I don't know if anything came of it, but Lawrence was SO excited and grateful to me.
ReplyDeleteIt was such a simple thing for me to do, and reminded me that sometimes doing some little thing for someone can mean so much.....and we should try to make an effort more often.