Kaitlyn's Korner: Cajun Canvas Fundraiser and Silent Auction Night!

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Cajun Canvas Fundraiser and Silent Auction Night!

The fundraiser for Kaitlyn was a huge success! The painting at Cajun Canvas was a blast as always and the silent auction was a huge hit. If you are in the Charlotte area and haven't been to Cajun Canvas, you definitely need to go. It is a very cool place! www.cajuncanvas.com

We had people bidding up until the clock struck 9:30pm that night thanks to Chip's laptop setup for online bidding onsite!

It is amazing that in less than a month, this fundraiser was created. We couldn't have done it without the help of our wonderful friends and family. A HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who helped put this together! One of the best parts of the night was seeing all of our friends and family and feeling the support from them for Kaitlyn.

We have been touched by the generosity and sincere concern of those we know and also those we don't. Kaitlyn is such a special little girl and I am so thankful that she has touched so many hearts.

She slept for the first half of the event in a pack n play in the back room

Kaitlyn's little brother, Cole

Some of the items up for bid

I am so glad that both Kaitlyn and Cole were able to be at the event, despite being way past their bedtime.

Kaitlyn's cousin, Dane, is quite the Picasso!

2 comments:

UnknownJanuary 23, 2013 at 3:57 PM
Hi! I will be looking forward to visit your page again and for your other posts as well. Thank you for sharing your thoughts about silent auction fundraising in your area. I'm glad to stop by your site and know more about silent auction fundraising. This is a good read.
Silent auction is a variant of the English auction in which bids are written on a sheet of paper. At the predetermined end of the auction, the highest listed bidder wins the item. This auction is often used in charity events, with many items auctioned simultaneously and "closed" at a common finish time. The auction is "silent" in that there is no auctioneer selling individual items, the bidders writing their bids on a bidding sheet often left on a table near the item. At charity auctions, bid sheets usually have a fixed starting amount, predetermined bid increments, and a "guaranteed bid" amount which works the same as a "buy now" amount. Other variations of this type of auction may include sealed bids. The highest bidder pays the price he or she submitted.
One inefficiency of silent auction fundraising is that item performance data is not tracked and stored.
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AnonymousSeptember 12, 2014 at 3:18 AM
Good information about online bidding. Thanks for sharing.

Dagdeals & Online Veilingen

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About Niemann-Pick Disease

Niemann-Pick Disease is a lysosomal storage disease that affects metabolism and is caused by genetic mutations. In order for a child to have Niemann-Pick Disease, both parents must be carriers of a genetic mutation causing Niemann-Pick. There are three types of Niemann-Pick Disease, Types A, B and C.

Kaitlyn had Niemann-Pick Disease, Type A, the most severe of the three types. She lacked an enzyme called acid sphingomyelinase. Since she didn't have this enzyme, her body couldn't get rid of sphingomyelin. Sphingomyelin has nowhere to go so it accumulated in her cells, eventually causing cell death and the malfunction of major organ systems.

Those with Type A typically live to be only 2 to 4 years of age. There are approximately 1,200 cases of type A and B worldwide with the majority being Type B. There is currently no treatment or cure for the disease. When Kaitlyn was alive, she was 1 in 5 in the United States with Type A.