Urgent! Pay it FORWARD for #LaylaGrace Charity

[PillowThrowDecor]

You may have heard of Layla Grace… the little girl that we have hear about on Twitter that is dying as we speak.  Family is in desperate financial straits.

A few of us have worked with Admin on this all through the night.

Please help! Here's how...

1)  Read blog post Part 1 - Paying it Forward for Layla Grace Charity.

2)  I need some comments… can u leave one? And can u tweet it? Can u donate $4 through Paypal? ... you're then entered into huge giveaways.

3)  Also need some help getting word out to iCraft sellers asking if they will donate one item and tag it with "Layla Grace". Admin is setting that up, as I write this. I am asking YOU and every other iCraft seller to donate one item (if sold) for this fund.  

The steps....

Pick one of you listings and tag it with "Layla Grace" in tag field.
If someone buys it (we are inviting the world to "SHOP FOR LaylaGrace" and to replacement the icraft site for something to buy) They will pay you through Paypal. You would then donate that amount, minus the shipping fees, to the Layla Grace fund through the "donate" link in this blog. I know that is asking a lot but we are helping our own handmade community here and have a chance to meet new friends and more handcrafting family. Please do anything you can. We are expecting HUGE traffic through our site and we need a wee bit to help... it will pay back exponentially!

4) Email, tweet, Facebook, blog, link link link, direct everyone that you can to the blog or your own site asking them to help with a $4 or whatever little bit they can do... even if it is to leave a comment.

If you can participate in this "SHOP for LaylaGrace" please leave a comment here, or Private message me or email me at pillowthrowdecor(at)gmail(dot)com

Please help put iCraft on the front and center of a kind and caring community.
Read the blog and let me know what you think. Please have a little heart for a little angel.

Hugs for Layla,

Cheers Christine
PillowThrowDecor

[iCraft Admin]

Hello iCrafters,

If Layla’s story has touched your heart, here is one way that you could all help – donate all or a part of the sales of some of your products on iCraftGifts.com to the Layla Grace Fund.

Please follow the instruction below to tag your products properly, so we could help you to promote them through various channels.

1. Tag your products that you want to donate to Layla Grace Fund with “Layla Grace” and “charitable donations” tags.

Make sure you separate the whole string “Layla Grace” and “charitable donations” with commas, if you have tags before and after those two tags.

So, in combination with other tags, it should look something like this: pillow, throw cushion, Layla Grace, charitable donations.

This will allow site users to navigate to all other products on iCraft tagged with “charitable donations” and with “Layla Grace” specifically. Also, this will allow us to aggregate all those products on a single page on iCraftGifts.com, as well as on our Twitter account @payitFOURward.

This account will promote all charitable products posted on iCraftGifts.com.

2. Additionally, please add #LaylaGrace hashtag at the end of your product Title.
This is needed for those who use TweetMeme widget on the product page to promote your products on Twitter.

3. Please make a note on the product page, if you are going to donate all or only a part of the sale amount to the Layla Grace Fund.

4. Once you collect the money from each “charitable donations” sale, please send them to Layla Grace PayPal Account at this URL http://tinyurl.com/kvee97

5. We would like to hear how much you’ve collected for Layla Grace Fund, so please post your regular updates here on this Forum thread.

Thanks everyone for your support!

[The Knitting Lady]

Christine, you are such a caring person. Always busy as a bee. I admire your energy and your big heart. Hope this fund raiser is going well.

I would also like to put my custom work as a giveaway. Here is a product that I will custom create for a person who wins it  https://icraftgifts.com/handmade/12435/ladys-pink-scarf.php I’ll even pay shipping charges. Thanks!

[PillowThrowDecor]

Thanks so much for everyone that pitched in for this program.

It is the first time that icraftgifts.com has ever participated in a program like this and considering it was planned on the fly it went quite well.  We at least have a system setup if we want to assist any other charity that some of our sellers might suggest.

I promoted our sellers through Twitter and through a number of blogs.  I was going to do another blog post on the collection of sellers participating in raising funds for Layla Grace but got word from family friends the Marsh were trying to rein things in a bit. We of course were approved to do our program on behalf of the Marshes. In my watching the Twitter feed I saw some unscrupulous people "milking" the Layla Grace story for their own gain and questionably submitting donations. Sad this stuff happens but it is a reality.

I am closing up my Layla Grace products at the end of the month and sending the remaining products to the family for their Layla Grace Foundation.

Thanks again to you Knitting Lady   and to all the others... thanks so much for the participation and the encouragement.

Cheers

Christine