Wonderful people...

Another fabulous woman has extended the generous hand of friendship and made a donation toward the cause...thank you Glenys Waddell you are a lovely person.  Karma will now kick in and stop your pups from stealing any more food in the park! :)  Thanks also to Lorena, Jo, Jelynne and everyone else who stepped up and spread the fundraising load...I'm nearly there!
Congratulations to David Knott of Ultimo Tafe who won the first Nestle Basket on Saturday, I hope you enjoy your goodies.

Drawing the Raffle for the first Nestle Basket...

We asked the lovely Dean at the bondi lifesavers hut to draw the raffle, take a peek.  The next basket will be drawn on October 30th at Newtown Markets...come a buy a ticket if you want to be in the running to win...

A massive thank you to Frazer and Hughes.....

Lood at this fabulous selection of much needed equipment for Koto donated by the wonderful people at Fraser and Hughes; a great supplier of commercial cookery equipment, uniforms and cookbooks.
Check them out   http://www.cooksshop.com.au/

HELP!

I'm desperate guys, I need to sell these raffle tickets for the wonderful Nestle baskets!  Uni won't let me sell them on campus - it's for personal gain apparantly ?!?  I can't sell them on the street without council approval and public indemnity insurance (big bucks!) and the few friends I've hit have all bought up!  I need inspiration!  I will offer a cooking class in return - either pastry or Vietnamese goodies when I return from the adventure - does anyone have access to loads of chocolate lovers who might be inspired to buy some tickets?  Let me know...I'm really, really worried about raising the last dollars that I will need for the three months commitment over there............:(

Amara's croquembouche.....

Here's the latest fundraising venture...commisioned by the wonderful Toni for her beloved neice Amara...and to really make my day, when I delivered the croque Amara's generous mum Jann contributed another $50 towards the total!  I'm so lucky to have such wonderful friends...nearly there now.  Once the raffle is run I should be home and hose! Yay!

Raffle baskets from Nestle....WOW!

The baskets have arrived from the wonderful Renee at Nestle Australia and I am gobsmacked!  They are huge!  I've taken a photo...it probably dosn't do it justice but you can get an idea.  I'm going to be raffling one basket off with 250 $2 tickets and the other with 500 $1 tickets.  Let me know if you want to buy any or if you think you could sell some for me.  Anyone who sells $100 worth of  tickets gets a free one on one class. 

So dissapointing...

As a student of UNSW I made an application to be able to set up a raffle table at uni, I filled in the forms, got the support of the Education Faculty and crossed my fingers.  Sadly, the person with the power in the Student Services office decided that my venture was for 'personal gain' and not for a club or faculty!  How small minded can you get? 
So I'm going to have to sell the raffle tickets any which way I can, sometimes I get a bit overwhelmed by the scope of this venture...maybe it was a mistake to try to raise this money while studying full time and with no regular work, but I'm halfway there so I just cant give up now...what's more I don't want to give up - it's just a bit depressing sometimes when every great idea gets shut down by bureacracy.
OK, whine over...chin up...onwards and upwards.