Category: Giving Back

Designing to Make a Difference

I am a HUGE fan of Jessica from Jessica Bennett Interiors. Huge. I wrote about her here.

Jessica Bennett Interiors is an Orange County interior design firm specializing in young families and professionals and she did the most amazing transformation of my living room in what I called my “Extreme Living Room Accessories Makeover” a few months back. Every day when I see that room that I love so much, I think of Jessica and I smile.

And now Jessica has made me smile again for another reason.

To me it is incredibly heartwarming to see people that use their talent for a good cause. Which is exactly what Jessica is doing in a very special design project benefiting the Good Shepherd Center for homeless women and children in Los Angeles.

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Father Son Haircut Special!

There is a cool fundraiser going on in June to benefit Help Me Grow at metro FOR MEN just in time for Father’s Day!

The special boys in your life can help support a great cause and enjoy a day of grooming at Metro FOR MEN, OC’s premier men’s only salon. The salon is offering a father son duo haircut for only $50 if you mention “Help Me Grow.”

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team tiny oranges reached for the cure

It’s taken me the week to process the event from last weekend but I am now ready to share all the amazing details and wrap up what has been an incredible experience.

Special thanks to Kim Harvey Photography for donating her time to photograph our event! All photos in this post are Kim’s unless otherwise noted. She did SUCH an amazing job! Thank you!

On Sunday, May 1st, 2011 one hundred and eleven people from Team Tiny Oranges showed up to the Irvine Spectrum to participate in an inspiring event to reach for a cure for pediatric cancer…

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The PCRF Race Weekend Has Arrived!

It’s here! It’s here! The PCRF race weekend has finally arrived!

That is our team banner above. One of my team members, Calee, from eXist Designs was generous enough to donate it to our team. I think it turned out so cute and even though this picture is not the greatest, I love how the sun reflected and made stars on the top left, because that is how I feel… Team Tiny Oranges is going to sparkle & shine this Sunday!

On October 17th I was running a race and thought, “wouldn’t it be fun to put together a team for the PCRF Run Walk in May?” In the beginning when I was considering starting a team I pondered whether I could even get the 10 people I needed to be considered a “team.”

Well, today we are 111 team members strong, and, have raised over $23,200 dollars for pediatric cancer research. I still am in a little state of disbelief at what our team has accomplished. Eighty cents on every dollar raised for PCRF goes towards research so I can’t tell you how happy it makes me knowing the dollars we raised truly will make a difference.

The past six months of planning this event have been a journey for me; one I don’t think I was fully prepared for going into it. At times it has been exhausting and a little emotional. Correction, really emotional. It has also been…

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