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Two More Days to Donate and Win!

Shelbi — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:34:01 +0000

Just a quick reminder that there are 2 days left to enter the drawing for the BlizzCon 2011 Ticket and Custom Minitarz Character. All proceeds go to Child’s Play.

I can tell you that there are less than 10 entries, so your odds of winning are REALLY good!

This Ticket is Child’s Play!

Shelbi — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:54:07 +0000

We’re running a contest over at LFG: BlizzCon from June 1st to June 30th. Donate to Child’s Play and get a ticket for our virtual raffle.

The winner will receive a badge for BlizzCon 2011 (no swag bag) and a custom character illustration (minitarz). 100% of the proceeds will go to Child’s Play. For more info, including rules, Click Here.

Although the details of the raffle are TBD, most likely it will be conducted just like our last raffle.

Child’s Play: What Do You Want?

Shelbi — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:00:32 +0000

For those who missed out on BlizzCon ‘09, I’ve recently added a Death Knight to my character collection, fully decked out in Darkruned gear. I believe this means the only class I’m actually lacking is Troll. I love you guys. I promise. I’ll be adding more within the next few months as well, which brings me to a very important question.

Which of my characters would you like to see turned into a custom figure?
Think n00bz..and think about the children. I’m planning on custom painting some of my characters for Child’s Play Charity this year. As some of you know, our previous efforts with the Charity Raffle were pretty successful. This “doll” will come packaged with some other awesome goodies which are going to take some time to make, so I’m trying to get a head start. I’ll have more details about packages as we get closer to auction time.

Comments with class and itemset are appreciated.

The Check

Shelbi — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:38:59 +0000

Here’s a scan of the check we’ve sent out to Child’s Play. Thanks again for all of the donations! The total amount (including auctions) of $3,167 can go a long way… like buying 105 $29.99 games.. or 8 xbox 360s.. or 211 $14.99 DVDs.. or helping to pay shipping costs!

Also, I wanted to let you guys know that I’ll be a bit busy the next few days – with illustrations, cooking and, of course, Christmas. Oh – and how could I forget – finally getting to 70. LOL!

Good and Bad

Shelbi — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:30:14 +0000

If you’re like me, you want to hear the bad news first and get it out of the way. So, here it is.

We received an e-mail from the 10K donator asking for a refund of his donation due to the fact that he made a clerical error when donating. As much as we would have liked to have given the $10,000 to Child’s Play, it needed to be returned. He did, however, donate $100, which was his original intention. Screenshot below – certain info is blocked out for obvious reasons.

Before we received this news, we contacted Kristin over at Child’s Play to see how they would like the money transferred. So, we’ll be donating the remainder via check. The total comes to $2517.00 (including a $111.69 donation from TBK to offset the Paypal fees). Upon having to redo our raffle spreadsheet, we came across an accounting mistake ($11 to be exact), which did not effect any previous drawing winners. We’ll be posting the new raffle numbers and initials on our donations page.

Ok, so the good news.
We will have another raffle which we will document w/ screenshots tonight. Two of the previous winners have been moved to spots 1 and 2. We will contact them accordingly so they can select their prizes. The remaining winners will be chosen in the same fashion as before – we just need to get it done faster so I can get to work on the prizes. So, all who donated have a better shot at winning.

We’ve learned some valuable lessons which will, hopefully, make things easier next time around… And even though this was kind of a bummer, we still raised a lot of money, which will do a lot of good. So, thank you guys!!

Raffle Screenshots

Shelbi — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 17:35:56 +0000

I promised Big Bear Butt that I’d get some screenshots of the raffle event posted, so here they are:

All in all, it was a pretty good time. We drank. We danced. We rolled. Thanks to everyone who came out!

Don’t forget…

Shelbi — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:05:02 +0000

Donations for Tickets Closing Soon!
8:00PM CST is the cut-off for donations through TBK. If you don’t see your name on the Donation page immediately, don’t worry! We have a Christmas play at one of the kid’s schools and as soon as we get home I’ll be adding the remaining donations and sending out raffle number e-mails.

Raffle Meet-Up
When: Today – 11:00PM CST
Where: Dark Iron[US] – Booty Bay
Who: Everyone, of course!
Jon & Shelbi: Kaelwryn & Aereyan (Alliance)

We plan on liveblogging the event, so stay tuned here if you can’t make it out to Dark Iron. Hopefully we’ll be able to get a few people on Vent so we can have communication between both factions. This will help incase any low-level alts need a summon. I’m also a lock and I plan on collecting mass amounts of souls before the event.

Jon will have another update prior to the gathering, so stay tuned!

Donations of EPIC Proportions

Shelbi — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:03:31 +0000

I wanted to give you guys an update on how much money we’ve all raised, because I’m in complete shock over the generosity of everyone. Our total, as of 10 minutes ago, is $12,654.00. That is totally not a typo.

If you look at the Donations page, you’ll noticed that one individual donated $10,000. I wanted to be sure that everyone keeps in mind that, despite the fact that this person has a good majority of the numbers in the raffle, this is for a greater cause, and this remarkable donation is going to help a lot of kids have a better Christmas this year – something a lot of us, including myself, take for granted.

Again, I want to thank every person who donates – even if it’s only $1 – you’re making a huge difference in the lives of many.

More Prizes!

Shelbi — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:30:19 +0000

The other day I was browsing Etsy, and I came across a wonderful artist who had a magnificent Murloc in his shop. I immediately purchased one of the prints and sent him an e-mail asking if he would be kind enough to donate one of them. Well, he is definitely made of awesome, because he donated three – two of which aren’t even listed!

So, here are the three prints that we are proud to add to the raffle:

Many thanks to Anand Hurkadli for donating these. They are 5×7″, matte finish and superb quality. They are really gorgeous IRL.

ZOMG – there was something else I just had to tell you guys. I’m so excited, I can’t wait until Jon posts. We have a HUGE prize coming up for you. I won’t ruin the surprise, but I will tell you that it is definitely worth a few more raffle ticket purchases. I would get in on this myself if I could (but that wouldn’t be fair).

Raffle Banners!

Shelbi — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:47:03 +0000

One of our readers, Wena, suggested that we post banners for the raffle. What a great idea! So I’ve created three different banner sizes. Fell free to take the code and post to your site, blog, forums, etc. All of your donations are going to a very worth cause, so any bit of extra traffic helps!

Note: There are no borders on the banners – it’s only for display here.

Ok, I think I really fixed it this time.