“Happiness doesn’t result from what we get, but from what we give.”  -Ben Carson

Thank you so much to everyone who has emailed to take part in our Annual Food Drive!  We changed things up this year and anyone could sign up for a mini session with a minimum donation of a $30 Publix gift card or 60 food items.  People could bid more and the top three donations would win more time, products, and digital images.  We are happy to announce the top three bids now…

The highest bid and winner of a 30 minute mini session, a disc of 10-15 images, and an 8×10 is:

SARA C.!  Sara is donating 250 food items!

The next two highest bids were a tie so we are giving them both the 2nd place prize.  Thanks to:

DENISE G. and JILL P.

who will both be getting a 20 minute mini session with 7 digital images!

I will be contacting these three amazing people today and they will have the first choice of time slots.  Tomorrow I’ll be in touch with everyone else who is donating.  They will all receive a 15 minute mini session with 3 digital images and tomorrow they will be able to choose from the remaining time slots.

With everyone who has signed up for a mini session and with those who have bid to give even more, we will have donations of at least 540 food items and $320 in Publix gift cards!  We’ve had several other people who cannot make the day of mini sessions but are still donating food items and gift cards so that number will be higher by the end of our food drive!  Thanks to everyone for your support and generosity.

A few people have asked us why we chose to accept Publix gift cards this year after the issue we had last year.  We thought a lot before making our decision but we are happy with how Publix resolved the situation last year, and many of our couponing friends have said that Publix is a better place to get good deals and more food, especially this time of year.

THANK YOU to everyone who is helping us make this year’s food drive a success!  We are still accepting donations for anyone who wants to send in a gift card or drop off food.  We’ll be blogging the end count for food items after the mini sessions and the official end to our food drive!