This is the 6th year that $Moonbeam13 will be participating in the 60k Walkathon in "The Weekend to End Breast Cancer." This year the Walkathon will be on September 5th and her boyfriend *theblackmass and =mombeam, her mom, are also going to participate. The three of them each need to raise $2000 to qualify, making the total monies they need to be $6000. The Artisan Crafts gallery is going to have a Silent Auction and Contest in which interested deviants can donate a handcrafted item to this cause.

Donations to the Auction start today, June 20th, and will end on July 20th, to give anyone interested a month to make something, but your entries can be something already in your gallery, if you wish, as they do not need to be something newly made for this Auction/Contest, just move an older deviation into the new contest/auction gallery. Starting today, all crafts entries should be submitted to "Contests & Projects -> Events - > Charitable Events -> 2008 -> Artisan Crafts Silent Auction."

Silent bidding on the Auction deviations will start on July 21 and will continue until August 17. Bidders can note $Moonbeam13 with the subject title "Auction bid" and the body of your note needs to include a link or thumb to the deviation and your bid amount. At the end of the auction bidding (August 17), the winning bidders will send their money to Danie's PayPal account. On receipt of the money, Danie will then in turn send a note to the donor giving them the go-ahead to send the crafts item to the winning bidder.

If a donor wants to offer a "buy it now" price or wants to place a reserve price on their donation, the deviation will be taken down from the Auction/Contest gallery if it's bought at the "buy it now" price or if it doesn't reach its reserve price. All bids will start at $5 unless you feel your crafts item is of a high enough value that bids of $10 would be more appropriate. Or, you can have bids of $2.50 if you think that would be more appropriate, depending on the value you place on your crafts item. Place the bid amount of $5 on your deviation, unless you feel $10 or $2.50 would be more appropriate as explained above (use your best judgement here). If you wish to set a reserve price, indicate this in a note to $Moonbeam13 along with a link or thumb to your deviation. The reserve price will be known only to you and to $Moonbeam13 and will not show on your deviation. If you'd like to have a "buy it now" feature on your crafts item, do place that amount on your deviation.

All members of deviantArt are welcome to participate, but your Auction donation must be in an Artisan Crafts related medium, such as clothing or costumes, jewelry, woodwork, culinary arts items that are appropriate for shipping, metalwork, plushies, custom dolls, sculpture, glass, pottery, quilts, accessories (such as belts, hair ornaments, hats, handbags, dreamcatchers, etc.), weavings, leatherwork, or papercraft! It would be fun, but not required, to use the color pink in your donated deviation. It should be stressed that entries need to be packed adequately for shipping and shipping costs will be sent via PayPal to the artist directly by the winning bidder.

The Contest will begin when the Auction is closed to bids on August 17, with the winners being those deviants who get the highest accrued amount of monies in winning bids.

First place winner will receive - 1yr subscription & 100 deviantdollars
Second place winner will receive - 6 mos subscription & 50 deviantdollars
Third place winner will receive - 3 mos subscription & 25 deviantdollars

Every positive stride towards defeating breast cancer affects everyone, whether one has it or knows someone who has it. This Auction/Contest is one way for everyone on dA to get involved and join in with Danie to help prevent and eliminate this disease. I have already kicked off the Auction by submitting some donations of my own to the Auction/Contest gallery, so please join in with me and add one or more of your own to "Artisan Crafts Silent Auction" Community Project!

Launch and End dates of submitting to the Auction: June 20 to July 20
Bidding begins on: July 21 and continues until August 17
Launch of Contest: after August 17