I love reading blogs and skip around alot, reading this one and that one. My friend, Laura, buys art materials from a woman in Omaha and her company is Mantofev. I’ve read her blog and visited her site before. Her husband is a 5th grade teacher in Omaha and has also written some children’s books.
Sara sent this e-mail to Laura who forwarded it to me.
I wanted to send out a quick email to let you all know that the mythical raffle tickets are now available for sale!
http://www.dantesalvatierra.org/raffle/
These tickets are being sold to raise money to pay for my husband’s medical bills. He recently had surgery to remove a large brain tumor. He has been home about a week now and is doing really well! There seem to be no physical or mental side effects, and the tumor pathology was low grade (slow growing), which is great!
We have some wonderful items up for raffle to help raise money, including items from Lynne Perella, Claudine Hellmuth, Linda and Opie O’Brien, and tons more!
There are 19 large art item lots,
then 6 lots made up of tons of smaller art items,
and finally 5 supply lots.
Please let me know if you have any questions about the format or the website.
Also, if you are on any art email lists or have a blog, please spread the word about the raffle to all of your friends!
I truly appreciate your support, your donations, and your friendship.
Your emails of support have meant a lot to me over the past few weeks.
Thanks again and good luck! 
Take care
sara
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Sara Hopp
http://www.mantofev.com
Alternative art supplies
We Cut, You Paste.
Manto Fev Weaves!
http://mantofev.etsy.com
I know I’M planning to buy a raffle ticket!
What an outstanding, hardworking young couple!
And a very creative method of raising awareness AND money!
So, spread the word.
Send good wishes and money, too, if you can.
