Check this out.....



As several of you already know, 's family are going through the International Adoption process. For those of you who don't know her, she's been on dA for almost three years, her and her husband have been married almost two years and they have a son in preschool together. They have always wanted to adopt since they met in high school, and have decided not to wait any longer. They have been accepted with a local homestudy and placement agency and have chosen to go with Ghana, Africa as their program. Children waiting in Ghana tend to be a little older, so they are not adopting an infant. They are likely to get a girl, anywhere from 2-4 years old. The Ghanaian program is relatively new, and therefor much different than other older programs such as China or Korea. While the process is a little quicker than with those other countries, it also provides a bit of a catch for them. Rather than having months between homestudies, dossiers and referrals; they might have weeks or even days. (A homestudy is when your home and your family work with a Social Worker to get you ready for being adoptive parents in your state. A dossier is the paperwork you prepare to submit to your adoptive country with things like birth certificates, background checks, homestudy approvals, etc. A referral is when the adoptive country places you with a child and requests you to travel to come meet and take home your child.)
It is for this unique reason that they have come up with Art for Adoption. The last thing they want is a handout to help them with these upfront and impending costs. While they have more than enough income, room and love for their waiting child, the upfront costs can be more than they could come up with on their own. They will be doing an arts and crafts online auction similar to that of eBay or if you are familiar with the Skeleton Key Auctions benefiting the WM3. Not only will people be helping a great cause, they will be getting unique handmade art and crafts!
The auction will run from May until June. In the meantime, their family is doing other local fundraisers, such as a yard sale, bake sale, etc. The auction is our big show. They are really excited about it, and has personally made around 20 pieces to donate.


Pieces can be sent to their PO box until May 1st. That's plenty of time to get your name in there! (Of course they will still accept pieces throughout the auction, but they're just trying to make less work for themselves) They will write an article and announce the auction when it begins sometime around May 15th. They are spreading the word like wildfire amongst friends, families and websites. There will definitely be a lot of traffic to the auction, but that doesn't necessarily mean that every piece will sell. If for whatever reason, there are pieces left over by June 15th, they will put those pieces in their Etsy shop: Art for Adoption, and sell them at your suggested retail price.
100% of our proceeds go towards our adoption, can guarantee you that.
Items can be sent to:
Selby Family Adoption
3555 S. El Camino Real
P.M.B. #606
San Mateo, CA
94403-3415

Help bring this baby girl to her new home!






!Amazingly tiny works of art!

I'm in love with the art of miniatures. Especially dollhouse scale foods.




AMAZING!



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I've also discovered an awesome site called Swap-Bot. It's basically a site dedicated to artisan and crafty trading. I'm involved in lotsa "matchbox" swaps right now and I've become quite addicted. Check it out [link]
and tell me whatcha think.



I've been doing lots of commissioned pieces and am happy for the business. Thanks to everyone that has supported me thus far. All my new watchers have befriended me and I thank you all for that. I will continue to make new items and post them as often as I can. I welcome your critique's and suggestions.


Relax, stay a while....you're always welcome here



I am utterly addicted to DA. I've met great people and have seen beautiful things. I own lots of pieces that I never would have known about if I had not found this wonderful community. Thanks to everyone that has befriended me and thanks for all the help, tips and ideas that each of you has shared. I will be a part of this site for as long as I can! I love you man!



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All rights reserved. None of my work may be reproduced, copied, edited, published, transmitted or uploaded in any way without my written permission. Any art in clubs is shown with my permission and upon my request.






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