One Day Only Nie Nie Auction!

Surprise! We’ve got a special treat for you today.

We were so thrilled by the overwhelming response to the Nie Nie Auctions, we decided our readers deserved one more chance to raise some serious cash for Nie Nie!

We’ve paired up with the oh-so-talented Ruth from SparkleThots to bring you these one-of-a-kind Nie Nie inspired earrings. She describes these as, “a pair of birds who fly upwards, as if searching for their elusive haven. Gold chains from which dangle gold hued Swarovski pearls and citrine hued glass beads hang by the side and create a golden sky for them to fly in.” We just didn’t see how the weekend could end without a chance for these Birds in Flight Earrings to find their haven and do something nice for Nie.

Same rules apply, bidding starts at $5, please bid in dollar increments, Auction ends tonight (Sunday) at 12pm PST time, the winner will send a recipet or screen shot of their PayPal donation to receive their item. Remember this is the last day and all proceeds are going to the Nie Nie Family so dig deep in your pocketbooks and score some earrings Stephanie would truly be proud of.

Let the bidding begin!

Enjoy,
Stacy & Ruth

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Nie Nie Silent Auction Kickoff

Let the First Kids Stuff World Auction Officially Begin!!

See Official Rules Here

Lastest Update: As of 6:30 am (German Time) on Monday

We’ve got a little under 3 hours left for bids on the original three items (Lotus Bag, Hope Necklace, and Free Banner). Gabrielle at Design Mom has asked us if we’re interested in extending the One Day Only auction sine she didn’t get a chance to advertise it. Please keep the bidding going, but I’ll check with Ruth to see if we could possibly give away a piar to the winner in just a few hours and possibly another pair to anyone who votes afterwards. I’ll let you know ASAP. In the meantime, here are the current auction tallies. 

Item #1: Jennifer is standing firm with an $80 bid

Item #2: Lisa is still in the lead for $45

Item #3: Erin is hanging tough at $50

Item #4 (One Day Only Auction): Deb is in the lead for $25

 

Be sure to get your final bids in now, I’ll post later if I am able to secure another pair of earrings.

Item #2- A time for HOPE

Our second item up for bids is a darling necklace handmade by Jennifer of The Vintage Chain.

The actual piece necklace up for bids is similar to this one, only will have the word HOPE stamped in place of the PEACE as shown here. The winning bidder can choose a red or a blue accent as they wish. Red is shown above, blue is shown here.

We designed this piece especially for Nie Nie and again, we feel she would really enjoy it.

Just to review, the bidder is bidding on a teardrop silver pendant with the word HOPE stamped on it, they may choose a red or a blue accent piece.

Bidding starts at $5, each bid shows our love and support to the Nielson Family.
Official Rules Here

Help celebrate Nie Nie Day

To help celebrate Nie Nie Day (as officially declared by Gabrielle over at Design Mom ), we’ve decided to participate in the silent auction to help raise money for the Nielson Family. 100% of all proceeds from our three auctions will go straight to the Stephanie Nielson Fund and be paid via PayPal.

Official Silent Auction Rules and Regulations:

1. There will be three items up for grabs, each item is being auctioned off individually. I repeat, you are only bidding on one item at a time.

2. Each item will be featured in its own post. To bid on an item, leave a comment with your email address and bidding amount. (If you would prefer to remain anonymous that is fine as long as we can get a hold of you with your email address later)

3. Bidding for each items will begin at $5. Bidding will be in at least $1 increments. There should be no change involved.

4. Shipping is FREE. We have already covered the price of shipping for each item.

5. The auction will run from Thursday, 28 Aug until Sunday, 31 Aug at midnight – PST

6. The winning bidder will be contacted via email after the auction and told how to proceed with the payment to the Stephanie Nielson paypal fund.

7. You will need to send us a screen shot of the actual receipt of donation. Once we have seen your receipt, we will start the shipment process for your item.

Good luck to everyone and remember you’re not just bidding on an item your donating to a terrific cause for a wonderful family and a beautiful fellow blogger. Let’s really make this worth their while.

Thanks to everyone who participates,
Stacy

Nie Nie Day!

It’s Official, August 29th is Nie Nie Day. How stoked will Steph be when she finds out she has her very own day of the year?

The fabulous Gabriel over at DesignMom has decided to organize an evolutionary web event for the Nielson Family. We were so inspired we’ve decided to jump on board and do everything we can to help. If it wasn’t for the NieNie Dialogues, we never would have made our physical leap into the blogging world.

Here’s the excerpt taken from her site explaining what you can do to help:

1) Host a silent auction* on your own blog. For sure you have something awesome hanging around your house — in your gift closet, under the bed, in the pantry. Auction it off already. And relieve your house of clutter at the same time. Or. You could contact your buddy who’s an etsy seller and see if she’ll donate one of her fabulous creations. Just think how fun it will be if there are a whole bunch of auctions happening in honor of Stephanie and Christian at the same time!

2) Not up for hosting an auction? Then how about writing a special post on Nie Nie Day. You could include a link to your favorite article on Stephanie’s blog in celebration.

3) Spread the word via twitter or blog or email or facebook about Nie Nie Day so that more people can get involved. You can use the cute banner above — designed for Stephanie’s blog by the talented Lyndsay.

4) Send a card to Stephanie and Christian. There’s just something about putting pen to paper.

Send cards, pictures, etc. to:

c/o Stephanie and Christian Nielson
Maricopa County Hospital
2601 East Roosevelt Street
Phoenix, AZ 85008

5) Get spendy. And have fun bidding on some silent auctions.

How will anyone know you’re participating? That you’re hosting a super-cool auction? Problem solved: on Thursday Gabrielle will write a post about Nie Nie Day. She’ll include a list of anybody that’s celebrating. Just send her a link to your post or auction (or mention on your facebook page or tweet or whatever) and she’ll add your link to her Nie Nie Day post at Design Mom. The best part, we can all visit each other’s sites and share the love. How’s that sound?

It’s like the internet was born for stuff like this.

~ Taken straight from the Design Mom post

So what are we going to do? Well, first we’re going to find something super awesome to feature on the Kids Stuff World silent auction. Then, we’re going to feature some of NieNie’s amazing posts (something we always wanted to do anyway) and cultivate as much traffic as we can for the event. Lastly, Kids Stuff World will send its very own donation (separate from the silent auction) to the Nie Nie paypal fund.

It sure feels good to do something,

Stacy