A Little Help From My Friends

Friends, I just got a wonderful phone call from a generous donor and offers from some great ladies who are independent consultants for several businesses.

 CLICK HERE TO DONATE TO OUR FSP

I am not going to reveal who our donors are just yet but I have a pretty cool idea to share with you all.

First, for any donation made either to our FSP with Reece's Rainbow OR through our Chip-In account this donor is willing to DONATE an additional 50% of your donation and ADD one more dollar beyond your donation IF you comment & SHARE this on either FACEBOOK or TWITTER or on YOUR BLOG. So, if you donated $10 and you tell us that you did and then you share THIS blog post on all three forms of social media--the donor will donate $8 total making that an $18.00 donation combined. 

BUT you have to play along with this game

To play along, just Donate & leave a comment stating  you donated and IF you are sharing tell us WHERE you are sharing.

Here are a couple more great items we will be giving away too. If you make a donation, you have a chance to receive the below items. For each $10 that you donate, you get an option to get your name drawn for a particular item. If you would like an option to be selected for a gift, please click on the picture and leave a comment saying how many options you would like. So, $100 gives you 10 chances and you can put all ten chances in one item or split them up between a couple, whatever you want. And.....that's not all..... if you share on a social media site, just tell me and I will offer up some freebie options too per share.

First up is a Fossil "Weekend Camel Bag" <----click description to opt in for this gift

Next, Women's size 8/9 Genuine "Muk Luks Slippers"<----click to opt in for this gift

We also will have an Ollie Faith Design's necklace added very soon---if you have not seen Annie's work, check them out here Ollie Faith Design's

How long will we do this? We don't know; but, God knows how quickly we need this fund full--so I am relying on Him with this one.


And here is a sweet little twist, FOR EVERY $200 mark we are blessed with, I will announce here (in this very blog post--I'll come back and update it) ONE LETTER of Andriy's new name and also giveaway ONE homemade oversized towel bib in either a boyish or girlie color scheme (there's a picture of Stas modeling one for us listed below Andriy's pictures).

 See? He's so surprised, y'all will know his name before he does!!!! 

IF you wish to just order some pretty stuff for you or your sweet princesses in your life, check out these two stores by clicking on the link below them. If you order from the shops and mention Christie Taylor with your order, this ROCKIN' momma will donate 100% of her sales commission to us.

Monkey Toe Bows

The Picky Gal

OR if you would like to purchase some

just click on the logo and head over to our online party from now til August 31st and Rhonda will also, generously, donate 100% of her commission to our adoption fund.

OR If you LOVE Scentsy (I know I do) Stephanie is doing another fundraiser for us too and she will ALSO be donating 100% of her commissions back to us. This party will also go until August 31st. Just click on this logo 

And ONE more opportunity for you to purchase items you love and still help us out too. Patty sells "StampinUp" products for you scrapbooking ladies. If you go to her site and order between now and August 31 and email Patty thru her site and mention CHRISTIE TAYLOR with your order, she will ALSO be donating 100% of her commission to us as well. Just click on the logo to visit her online site.

We now have $13,031.00 in our FSP and and additoinal $20 in our Chip-In---

starting total for this game is $13,051.00

Now for a LETTER REVEAL!!!!! (*and bib pick*)

There were 4 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

1. Anna gets the bib this time around~THANK YOU EVERYONE!
2. Sky
3. Elissa
4. Amy

Timestamp: 2011-08-17 23:43:06 UTC




"I will go before you and will level the mountains; I will break down gates of bronze and cut through bars of iron. I will give you hidden treasures, riches stored in secret places, so that you may know that I am the LORD, the God of Israel, who summons you by name." Isaiah 45:2-3 (NIV)

Cosmetics Collection

This is an assorted collection of cosmetics donated by Lisa C. and her sister Marissa.

This collection has a retail value of $200 and includes:

3 Urban Decay loose pigment (smog, gunmetal, rockstar)

Lorac blush (rose)

Lorac blush brush

Stila lip pots (cerise)

Benefit powder pop

Stila eye shadow (it girl palette)

Kabuki Brush

2 Lorac eye shadow (social, chic)

1 Lorac lip polish (sizzle)

2 Hard Candy lip gloss (heart breaker)

sample Hope in a Tube (one of Oprah's fav things :)

sample Hard Candy keychain lip gloss

Ollie the Elephant

This is a Scentsy Buddy with a Mochadoodle Scent Pak. Donated by Kelly D.

Columbia Sunglasses

Here we have the second item donated by 20/20 Vision owners Rick & Angela D. Angela has been collecting donations f0r Alexander since we began this journey with a chip-in container at the office. And if you are on Facebook, she also has a picture of Alexander set to her profile picture. Rick and Angela have two kids, Fletcher and Mary Caitlin (otherwise known as MC) and she is also Rockin' her extra 21st chromosome! I am proud to call Angela a friend and sister in this walk.

The specifications for this pair of Men's Columbia sunglasses are:

Model# Rapid Descent

Color: Brn/Green with Polarized lenses

Size:64-14-150

Retail Value $140.00

Versace Sunglasses

Next up is a pair of Versace Sunglasses donated by 20/20 Vision owners Rick & Angela D. Angela has been collecting donations f0r Alexander since we began this journey with a chip-in container at the office. And if you are on Facebook, she also has a picture of Alexander set to her profile picture. Rick and Angela have two kids, Fletcher and Mary Caitlin (otherwise known as MC) and she is also Rockin' her extra 21st chromosome! I am proud to call Angela a friend and sister in this walk.

The specifications for this pair of WOMEN'S Versace sunglasses are:

Model # VE4145B

Color # 785/11

Size  57-14-135

Lenses Tint Gray

Retail Value $250

Scentsy Buddy!!

"Each Scentsy Buddy features a zippered pocket to hold a scrumptious Scentsy fragrance. Just insert a Scent Pak™ and bring your Buddy to life with comforting scent."  Here we have an Ollie the Elephant Scentsy Buddy with a Mochadoodle Scent pak donated by Kelly D.

Mochadoodle (one of my favorite scents) is described as: delicious roasted coffee beans and cocoa balanced with sugar, caramel and heavy cream.

Official New York Mets Pets Jacket/Basket

For those fur-babies out there who love to ROOT for their HOME TEAM; Cheryl B. is donating a New York Mets Official Pets baseball Jersey~~winner picks pet size and will receive lots of other pet goodies too!

$25 iTunes Gift Card

This is a $25 iTunes Gift Card donated by Elissa L. I have been blessed to have met Elissa through Facebook and our adoption journey--she prays for us regularly and has a heart for adoptions. THANK YOU, ELISSA!!

47>46 kids t-shirt, toddler shirt OR onesie

A great t-shirt for those of us who love the tongue-in-cheek play on 47 is greater than 46 this t-shirt displays! I saw this shirt and just LOVED it!

Selected champion can choose size and color from either a onesie, a toddler shirt , OR a kid's size t-shirt. This shirt is donated by Kelly S. who is donating it to help his friend AJ (a.k.a. Alexander).

HELP!!!!!!!!!!

Have I got your attention?  LOL

Our iPad Giveaway is headed into day three. We have been so blessed by the support we are receiving and the blessing given by His hand through each and every one of you. Please share, share, share our blog and our fundraiser. In doing so, you will help change the life of an orphan--our son, Alexander Jacob. His birthday is coming up next month, he will be 6 years old. Can you imagine being 6 years old and not knowing where your parents are? Wondering what love is? Longing to be held and comforted from the shouts you hear at night from the strangers among you in the cold, dark room that envelopes you? Can you imagine living in an institution? Can you imagine the fear he must experience?

YOU can help change all that by blessing him with your donation to our Family Sponsorship Page and receive an option for our iPad2 giveaway. So, do you have $10 to spare? If $10 is just too much today will you please, please just share our story? Time is of the essence, we must be ready to travel soon. I am praying for a July travel date, I would love for it to be even sooner (are you listening God?).

So here is what our giveaway will offer:

iPad2 (choice of white or black)

16 GB with Wi-Fi

Your color choice of polyurethane sleep cover for the iPad2 (gray, blue, green, orange or pink)

Apple iPad2 Dock

THIS PACKAGE WILL NOT BE PURCHASED UNTIL AFTER THE GIVEAWAY CLOSES ON APRIL 17, 2010. WE WILL RUN THIS FUNDRAISER FOR ONE FULL MONTH. DRAWING WILL BE HELD ON APRIL 21, 2011. THE iPad2 WILL BE SHIPPED DIRECTLY TO THE SELECTED DONOR. APPROXIMATE SHIPPING TIMES (RIGHT NOW) ARE 4-5 WEEKS.  

The person selected as the giveaway champion will receive an electronic receipt of the purchase and delivery information as soon as we have communication as to where to send the information. 

Now, how do you receive your option for this package? First donate at least $10 to our Family Sponsorship Page by clicking on Alexander's picture in the sidebar of my blog at the top. If you do not have a paypal account you can mail a check to Reece's Rainbow with "Alexander for the Taylor Family" in the memo line and send it to:

Reece's Rainbow

P.O. Box 4024

Gaithersburg, MD 20885

Then you can come here to my blog and leave a comment, your name and entries will be tallied and added to our bucket to select the winners. This fundraiser will be live ONLINE and we will also be doing direct-face-to-face donations as well. What that means is this, my husband will be gathering entries through donations to Reece's Rainbow as well around town. 

For $10 you will get 1 drop in the giveaway  (& 1 option for a freebie)

For $25 you will get 3 drop ins to the giveaway ( & up to 3 options for freebie entries)

How do you earn a freebie option?

Once you have made a monetary donation, PLEASE share this blogpost for another option. If you donate enough for one option, you can only earn one freebie option by reposting. BUT if you donate enough for 3 options you can earn 3 freebies too. Facebook it for another option. Tweet it for another . Blog it for another too. SHARE, SHARE, SHARE. Momma said it was good to share, right? Come back here and let me know that you shared it and we will add to your entries for this giveaway. If you donate money multiple times over the weeks this giveaway runs--you will get options for that too.  YOU MUST LEAVE YOUR NAME and, please, do not post just anonymously because I won't be able to find you if you are the selected donor.

So keep coming back to see how many options are going in the "bucket" and watch the blessings unfold!!

Thank you!!!!!! You are BLESSING AJ and BLESSING our family too!!!!!