Gnome Drawing from Isaac – Age 6 1/2
Lucy and I opened a bunch of packages last night and we wanted to give everyone an update on our Send in the Gnomes Fundraiser for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Together we have raised $2,290 dollars and collected 229 garden gnomes towards our $10,000 / 1,000 garden gnome goal.
Here are some of the contents from the latest round of boxes {you can see all the gnomes HERE}
Girl Scout Troop 389 from Mt. Olive North Carolina sent me a pickle festival t-shirt and a gangster gnome. I like that this gnomie has a phone on him in case he sees any trouble going in the backyard. Nice work girls!
Holly from Yelm, Washington sent in her garden gnome on behalf of her friend Max or Jedi Max as she likes to call him. Jedi Max is in a fight for his life against brain cancer. His goal was to go to the Eiffel Tower but due to a downhill slope in his health his doctors do not think he is stable enough to make the trip.
Give Max The World!
Jedi Max
P.O. Box 690309
Killeen, TX 76549
So instead a family friend started a facebook event called Give Max the World and is asking people from all over the world to send him a souvenir or postcard from where ever they are from by July 1st {his 9th birthday}. Pretty awesome if you ask me!
I’m not sure who sent these knitted gnomes in but they sure are cute. I had to quickly put them up high so Lucy the Puggle Dog didn’t run off with them.
A hot pink gnome statue, a book about beans, garden seeds, bubble bath and candy? Holy cow!
Thank you everyone for your support! You. Are. Awesome.
~Mavis
If you have a gnome, send it to Mavis by August 1st to:
Mavis Butterfield
P.O. Box 2083
Gig Harbor, Washington 98335
* A maximum of $10,000 will be donated to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital
Maggie Little says
I sent the crocheted (not knitted) gnomes. I thought I had sent an email through the Contact link but you must not have gotten it. I got so excited to send them to you that I forgot to include the information. The gnomes are from a free Redheart Yarn pattern. They were fun to make, with some slight variations. I sewed the tunic to the legs a bit more securely than the pattern called for since the stuffing showed through if I didn’t and I did not use the plastic eyes the pattern called for. I may make more for you if you don’t get close to your goal in time.
Cheri says
You made Isaac’s day by posting his drawing!
Mavis says
Tell him he did a great job! It’s not everyday I get a gnome drawing in the mail. 🙂