Winners!!

Before I announce the winners I just want to say how inspiring everyone's comments were! Just a small act of kindness can make an incredible difference in the life of someone else and I truly believe all out efforts will help those in needs, but also inspire those around us. it is wonderful to be surrounded by such charitable woman who want to give and pour their hearts into something! You all are amazing and I am blessed to have connected with each of you. Thank you all for sharing your plans for 2009. From the sounds of it this next year will be inspiring and life changing!

I am so thrilled to congratulate Granny Smith Green as the winner of the Balboa Weekender. She will be chairing a project involving a Christian inner city school. The children are so eager to learn. We are providing them with opportunities that they might not have otherwise encountered. It's my goal that we can really make a difference. I hope we can all strive to make giving part of our personalities. It feels good to give!

The winner of the fabulous Cosmetic caddy is JillyBean. In 2009 she is organizing a career closet for the local women's shelter. This "closet" will include career-styled clothes for women who are victims of domestic violence to "borrow" when they go on job interviews. As you probably know, most women who find their way to a shelter usually do so with nothing more than the clothes on their back. Also, most women were forbidden by their abuser to work (one way they were controlled) so even if they were able to grab a few things before they left chances are they don't have anything suitable for the workplace.The women's shelter here does not have anything like this available on site. They usually send the women to Goodwill to pick out things, which is OK for the long run but I plan to create a one-stop shop that includes suits, shoes, stockings, handbags, etc. to make it easier for them.

Like everyone that entered this woman have incredible projects for them and I will be praying for them! Here is too making 2009 a better year for someone else!

Greater things have yet to come and greater things have yet to be done in this city!!

GSG and JB please email me your contact information when you have a free moment!