Just this minute got back from the charity auction. The guys at Tabac were amazing, Kevin you rock & we’ll definately be seeing you next year! Bex.. without you this wouldn’t've happened… and the same goes to Jessa, Jackie, Jared, Dean, Ryan, Trav, and Jenny.

thank you Anthony for the amazing cakes, Conrad for hooking us up with amazing sound and Boyd for the lights.

our performers just rocked… Evie Gordon, amazing as always, Zvi Indyk rocking some awesome tunes and making the room rock with you, Sam Wheeler i know you were nervous but you sounded amazing. start working on material for next year! Kristie Addison (a cut-down Transit of Venus) i’ve missed hearing you play, and suprised myself by still being able to sing along to some of it. Diamond Fist Willie.. well the name says it all and you definitely lived up to it. & lastly Le Freque & Steve. just beautiful.

Natalie Hugill, you held it together, dragged it out, sped it up and were generally amazing and bubbly and just great.  Plus you dealt with my garbled additions every five seconds with aplomb. SO getting you to come back next year

we have video and camera footage of this event (thanks to quite a few people) so hopefully there’ll be footage for those of you who had to miss the actual event! yay. at some point in the future we’ll get to the point of getting full web coverage during the event, but not quite yet.

Lastly…. as a rough estimate, if everyone comes through, we have raised $880 this year, which is almost TWICE what we raised last year. Congratulations guys!! i can imagine a lot of Pain Charities will be very happy, and i’m personally thrilled, and in shock!

Some of the pieces will still be available on the website for purchase after the auction, we’re in negotiations with the artists now, so they’ll be available at a later date.

The standard of art since last year has gone up (several pieces were bought on behalf of an art foundation) the amount of enthusiasm has grown… next year (forbidding any unforeseen hospital type incidents) we will improve organisation, publicity, planning… and use what i’ve learnt this year to avoid the same pitfalls. If any of you are interested in being involved and helping out in any way, Please email me and let me know – be specific, if you only want to hand out fliers, say that. if the thought of having to turns your stomach, thats also important information to have! we need the team to be more than me, so if i fail the competition or auction doesnt fail -which almost happened this year.

Heres to bigger an brighter things – and to you, my amazingly talented friends
thank you for making this year possible
(& trav i love you)
xoxxo!
Nix

but theres no way i’ll get all the pieces up on teh pieces for sale page in time. i’m trying to make labels for pieces tomorrow and my back has gone mental again and is making it difficult.

all the printed pieces have been printed, theres still two physical pieces to get but they’re being delivered tomorrow. all the performers are sorted & the event is on so see you there!

xo

Nix

YAY!

Ryan just dropped off the canvases (the digital pieces that Harvey Norman Wairau Park and Hauraki Picture Framers sponsored us to print)  and they look AWESOME! All set up to hang and i cant wait to hang them

It wierd… i know i said this last year but it truly feels like its not really real until the auction.. like its me imagining things or something & then all these actual pieces of art and people turn up and i start wondering what the hell happened! In a good way

We’ve lost Plum Green, unfortunately, with the date change. we have picked up some more amazing artists who i’ll add to the artists page once i get their blurbs, & i’ll add the pieces which are now guaranteed up for auction up as i can.. they might not get up before the auction, but i’ll do my best. sorry.. forming full sentences is a little beyond me right now.

see you sunday. ill be the one curled up in the corner
xo
Nix

Many thanks to the sponsors of our auction!

Tabac Bar of course, who are letting us use their gorgeous space and gear and staff and are just generally awesome.

Paul Broadhurst from Harvey Norman Wairau Park who are helping us with printing the digital entries onto canvases, and Hauraki Picture Framers who are framing them all for us.

For me at this point though, its mostly about Rose Noire, Ryan van Heerden and my Travis King, who have pretty much entirely taken over organising.. well, everything. It looks like i’m out for the count at this point unfortunately, and they’re helping keep everything running smoothly. Thank you guys

we have some amazing artists performing and a fabulous MC for the night Natalie Hugill, who i cant wait to see in action again.. i just need to get her all her info! off to do that now, add some more to the performers information now we have confirmations, stretch like hell and hopefully sleep at some point soon! fingers crossed
see you Sunday!