I Walk In This World

Welcome to I Walk In This World’s Auction and Bake Sale, to raise funds to fight cancer via my friend Beth’s team walk in the Jimmy Fund Walk!  

Since it’s founding in 1948, the Jimmy Fund has supported the fight against cancer in children and adults at Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, helping to raise the chances of survival for cancer patients around the world.

Click here to read my story and why I care.

The Auction and Bake Sale begins today at 10am.  It will go until 5pm EST Wednesday evening, April 22.  If any items remain beyond that, they will remain available for bidding until sold.

To place an official bid, you e-mail me at esavearth [at] gmail [dot] com with a bid of what you would like to purchase.  Please be very specific about which item you are bidding on.  A minimum bid of $10 is the very lovingly-suggested starting price. 

Bids left in the Comments section of this blog will not be counted.

This will function as a silent auction.  Throughout the day, as time permits, I will post an update with the highest bids per item.  If you see that your bid has been outbid, email me a higher bid or suffer your loss!

Any tied bids at the close of auction/bake sale will be determined via names drawn out of a hat.

I will notify each winner by email, and post the winning bids on my site.

If you get an email from me notifying that you are a winner, you have 24 hours to donate your bid amount to Beth’s Donation Page.   If in that time frame the donation is not made, the next highest bidder will be contacted or the item will go back up for bid.

Be sure to indicate what you have won in the comments section on the donation page.

Once the donation goes through I will provide the winner’s address to each donor/baker, and it will be their kind responsibility to send the winnings to you.

Due to limitations on postage costs, we have to limit this auction/bake sale to U.S. Residents.

Let the bidding begin!

 1.  Fresh assorted New York Bagels (1  dozen) courtesy of my friend Jess, a native New Yorker.  Bagels will arrive wrapped and airtight to maintain that fresh NY flava.  For anyone who has never HAD a NY bagel, these are for you!

2.  Homemade chocolate chip cookies (2 dozen), courtesy of my friend Kara.  Who doesn’t LOVE homemade chocolate chip cookies?!?!

3.  Homemade chewy, chocolate chunk brownies (1 pan’s worth) also made by the lovely Kara.  It’s hard to beat homemade treats, these will go fast!

4.  Award-winning, super soft white chocolate & macadamia cookies (6 dozen), baked by my friend Jenn.  This is a giant batch of cookies people, you will be glad you bid on this!

5.  Two 1/2 pints of delicious homemade peach preserves and blueberry jam.   These gems come from hand-picked fruit (grown in NY), where the my friend Chelle, over at Little House on the Great Flats, toiled over a hot stove last harvest season preparing these tasty preserves, canning them herself.

6.  Buckeyes!  I think the picture speaks for itself.  You can thank my friend Courtney for these fabulous treats.  Courtney is offering 2 prizes, each containing 2.5 dozen Buckeyes, so we’ll have 2 winners here!     (((peanut butter)))!

 

7.  Chocolate chip blondies courtesy of my wonderful friend Beth, over at Beth Bakes Cakes, and if anyone’s wondering, yes these are pretty healthy!!  This girl is an amazing baker, I’m telling ya.  These won’t last…

8.  And if you’re looking for another kind of blondie, look no further!  My friend Kristan over at The Stepford Wife is baking these beautiful pecan, cranberry, chocolate chip blondies.  Woah, I have a feeling neither blondies will last long!

9.  Oatmeal raisin bars courtesy of everyone’s favorite, Tina from Carrots n Cake!  These bars are a definite winner!

10.  Mix n match nut butter cups courtesy of the cutie pa-tootie Mallory at a Bacon Wrapped Life.  These are 1 of my faves so y’all better watch out!

11.  Chocolate Marshmallow Fudge (3 dozen pieces)!!  Need I say more?  Ahhh, how will I keep from bidding forever on this, courtesy of my friend Allison!

12.  Molasses cookies (2 dozen!) courtesy of my friend Kourtney, who swears that these cookies must leave her house immediately upon baking or else she’ll hoover them all!  So help a girl out, please!

13.  Homemade snickerdoodle cookies (2 dozen), courtesy of my friend Meg, who swears this is one of her family’s most fantastic secret recipes!

14.  A fabulous pairing of Grandma Jones’ Scotch Shortbread (1lb box) and Bonne Maman Blackberry preserves, courtesy of my friend Kate, who insists this is a fabulous family recipe.  Oh…I adore shortbread.  I may have to bid!

 15.  A beautiful set of my mother-in-law’s outstanding homemade biscotti, courtesy of Susan herself!  These are so good, paired with tea, coffee, or cocoa.  Susan’s offering up a set of 1 dozen, containing two kinds, Chocolate/Pecan and Amaretto/Almond.

16.  A Trader Joes’ gift basket of goodies, courtesy of my college friend Lauren, from athlEAT.  This basket (retails for $30) is sure to be a hot ticket item for all you peeps that drool over all her TJs finds on her blog!

 

 

17.  An Arizona-themed gift basket, chock full of local goodies, courtesy of my friend Jen, an AZ resident.  She went out and collected some her state’s BEST treats for y’all to bid on, and ALL products come from local Arizona producers!  This is a totally unique offering, bid fast, this won’t last.

• Arizona Cowboy Jalapeno Hot Sauce
• Sunshine Specialty Food Co. Sweet & Spicy Corn and Black Bean Relish
• Barb’s Gourmet Beans Old Pueblo Corn Chowder Soup Mix
• Queen Creek Olive Mill Roasted Garlic Olive Oil
• Cheri’s Margarita Morsels and Prickly Pear Cactus Jelly Candy

18.  Who’s a Skinny Bitch in the Kitchen?  This Cookbook will help you figure it out, courtesy of my friend Katie, over at Up Fit Creek.  If I were skinny, I’d fit right in with the theme here!

19.  Katie is also offering to custom make (with color of your choosing) a Swarovski crystal book string (book mark)!  Part of this package includes 30 hand-stamped beautiful recipe cards for all your healthy kitchen works!

20.  Allie is also putting up for bid The Cook’s Illustrated Complete Book of Poultry.

21.  Green is the new black, right?  My friend Leslie (a Jazzercise Instructor) has kindly donated a brand new Jazzercise Live Fit Live Green bag for all your toting needs.  How cute is this?

22.  Leslie has also donated a new Deceptively Delicious cookbook (the Jessica Seinfeld smash!).  This is a good one!

23.  Harry Potter Fans, c’mere.  Look at these delightful, HAND SKETCHED art pieces from my friend Marion, a fabulous artist (for real artist, not just for fun)!

24.  If you’re a scarf person, you will love this beautiful, creamy ivory wool scarf, handmade by my friend Jenifer.  Look how fabulous!  This scarf has a $50 value!

25.  Party Game!  Apples to Apples (brand new), courtesy of my friend Heather, who describes this party game as supa fun!

 

26.  We all love Pampered Chef products, right?  I’ve got a winner here, for all you bakers (or meatloaf fans).  A brand new Pampered Chef stoneware loaf pan!  This is a supa item (and it’s my donation)!

27.  How about a mixed bag!  My friend Cynthia has offered up 2 unopened DVDs, a crockpot cook book, and a super cute recipe card box!

                            

                         

28.  This baby gift basket is unbelievably generous, and is 3 separate items, courtesy of my talented friend Shan!  She’s offering custom colored embroidery for the blanket and burp cloths!  Her items are coveted!  You bid on items A-C SEPARATELY.

A) A set of 3 personalized burp cloths (you customize any color ribbon and embroidering)!

B) An embroidered fleece blanket (customizable in black, blue, pink, red, orange, or navy with any color embroidering)!

C) An embroided baby gift set (baby blanket, receiving blankets, hat)! 

 

 

29.  Start the summer feeling great with a health consultation via telephone (value $50 USD).   Hadley, at HadleyHolistics, helps clients achieve their ideal weight and energy level by exploring what foods work best for their bodies and unique lifestyles. At the end of the consultation, you’ll will receive three nutrition tips—customized just for you.

30.  Batch of Hadley’s Nutty Cookies, Hadley describes these as guilt-free cookies over at HadleyHolistics.  Filled with almonds, coconut, agave nectar, and dark chocolate chips, these cookies are certain to please anyone with a sweet tooth!  (Gluten free, vegan, low sugar).

31.  Two handmade, 100% cotton baby bibs, courtesy of my friend Erika, a new mom herself!  The bibs are perfect for babies starting solid foods as they are bigger than your average bib.  Model not included, but photo is included to show size of bib (on a 6 week old baby - he’s a little young for this bib yet).  Bibs are machine washable and can be used over and over again. They have a snap fastener - which moms love since babies love to yank off the velcro-fastened bibs at that age.

 

 

Ok, everyone, get on the horn and email me your bids!  And Thank You!

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UPDATED BIDS

1. 1 doz NY Bagels - $50
2. 2 doz Chocolate Chip cookies - $25
3. Chocolate chunk brownies - $40
4. 6 doz White chocolate macadamia super soft cookies - $25
5. Blueberry jam & peach preserves -$50
6. Buckeyes (2 sets) -$30 (2 tied)
7. Chocolate chip blondies -$40
8. Pecan, chocolate chip, cranberry blondies -$50
9. Oatmeal raisin bars -$40
10. Mix and match nut butter cups -$40
11. Fudge -$40
12. Molasses cookies -$25
13. 2 dozen Snickerdoodle cookies -$40
14. Scotch shortbread + Bonne Maman Blackberry preserves - $40
15. Chocolate pecan & amaretto almond biscotti - $50
16. TJs gift basket -$40
17. Arizona goodie basket -$50
18. Skinny Bitch Cookbook -$36
19. Handmade Swarovski bookstring (custom color), 30-handstamped recipe cards -$15
20. Poultry Cookbook -$25
21. Jazzercise bag -$15
22. Deceptively Simple Cookbook -$15
23. Harry Potter Art -$50
24. Handmade wool scarf -$25
25. Apples to Apples game (new) -$20
26. Pampered Chef loaf pan-$25
27. 2 DVDs, recipe box, cookbook -$10

28A.  Burp cloths -$30

28B.  Baby blanket -$20

28C.  Baby gift basket -$40

29.   Personal nutrition consult -$50

30.   Vegan dark chocolate cookies -$25

31.   Handmade baby bibs -$25

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