Contest Time!!

gina · That Girl! owner and administrator

I thought I'd start off the new year with a competition that will put smiles on so many faces. It's called the Manna Energy Dress Drive.

There are two ways to take part. Option A: For a $10 fee you'll get one of these sweet plain white dresses:

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Your mission will be to design/decorate it and send it back to me. You will then receive a dress chosen at random from another TIB member.

Option B: You may request up to 5 dresses without paying a fee. Your job is to design/decorate them and send them back to me. They'll be auctioned off at a later date.

Now here's the best part: All proceeds will be going to charity. Based on the title of the competition you can probably guess that I've chosen Manna Energy (www.mannaenergy.org), an organization focused on providing clean water to over 250,000 kids in Rwanda (3% of the entire population of the country). Manna Energy was started by my cousin Ronnie, who some of you may remember from my constant bragging last summer. Ronnie is an astronaut who went up in the Space Shuttle in June and did two spacewalks. Where he finds the free time in which to found charitable organizations I'll never know. He's an incredible guy. I'd love to make a nice big donation from TIB, so PLEASE participate in this if you can. It really is a worthwhile cause AND it could get your girl a new frock!!

Drop me a line at gina@thisisblythe.com and let me know which option you'd prefer. I'll get the dresses out immediately. I'd like to have all the dresses back by April 1st. For those of you who choose option A, your new dress will be sent to you on April 2nd. The dresses for the option B folks will be auctioned off shortly thereafter. All dresses will be put in a flickr file so you can see the gorgeousness that unfolds.

Thanks everyone. This should be reallllly fun!

Lots of love,
gina

preludes · **Posted:** Fri Jan 23, 2009 11:21 pm

What a fantastic idea! Well done, Gina!

I'll have to start thinking of some nifty designs....

i.am.mine · **Posted:** Fri Jan 23, 2009 11:46 pm

Can we do both options? That way we have a dress come back to us from another wonderful member and get to see a creation auctioned off?

bebebentley · **Posted:** Sat Jan 24, 2009 12:35 am

i.am.mine wrote:

Can we do both options? That way we have a dress come back to us from another wonderful member and get to see a creation auctioned off?

I was wondering this too.. It would be great to get a dress back and also donate one :D

moofala · **Posted:** Sat Jan 24, 2009 4:08 am

Are there any restrictions on the decoration or alteration of the original dress?

munki · **Posted:** Sat Jan 24, 2009 4:56 am

Is this international, I would love to join!

Kitty Vane · **Posted:** Sat Jan 24, 2009 6:04 am

Yay! This is a really super idea and I'd love to be a part of this. :D

madmadchen · **Posted:** Sat Jan 24, 2009 9:43 am

Great idea!

WoodSpriteBlythe · **Posted:** Sat Jan 24, 2009 11:51 am

Fantastic :)

delicious-muovi · **Posted:** Sat Jan 24, 2009 12:35 pm

I'd love to be a part of :D
Can we do both options?
:)