Making Strides Against Breast Cancer

Join us tomorrow, Saturday October, 6th, for the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk at North Hills in Raleigh.  We will be at the Survivors tent giving Survivors Pink Ribbon Glitter Tattoos!  How fun is that?!  We are so excited to do this for these courageous women! 

Holiday Open House 2012 benefiting BackPack Buddies!

We are so excited to announce the beneficiary for our 2012 Holiday Open House - BackPack Buddies! 

The BackPack Buddies Program provides children from food-insecure homes with weekend meals during the school year.  The children receive a backpack containing six balanced meals and two healthy snacks at the end of every week. The children are selected by school principals, guidance counselors, and various after school programs.

Fast Facts about BackPack Buddies

• Over 111,000 children in our service area receive free or reduced price meals at school.
• 1 in 4 children are hungry in the Triangle
• Nearly 1,500 children are enrolled in BackPack Buddies at 49 sites in 7 counties
• $350 provides a child a BackPack filled with nutritious food each weekend for the entire school year

Tickets for our Holiday Open House are now on sale!  $10 in advance/ $15 at the door.

This is going to be an extra special night because it will be Swagger's 10th Anniversary!  Everyone who purchases a ticket will receive a 10th Anniversary Swagger T-shirt and we will have more specials than ever before!  Purchase your tickets today!

Announcing our Holiday Open House Preview Night beneficiary - Nancy's Butterfly Fund!

We would love for you to join us for this amazing event!
Make sure to make your calenders for our favorite night of the year!!!
  Here are all the details:

Who: You and all of your friends! Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door.

100% of the ticket sales and 10% of the store sales during the event will be donated to Nancy's Butterfly Fund!

When: Thursday, November 4 - 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Where: Swagger Gifts - 2425 Kildaire Farm Road, Cary

Why: To raise money and awareness for Nancy's Butterfly Fund and to check out the fabulous new Holiday 2010 items at Swagger Gifts!

What’s happening:
50% off monogramming for items purchased at Swagger
FREE freight on all personalized orders
FREE personalization on ceramics
FREE gift bag filled with goodies worth over $25 for the first 50 customers LOTS of prizes given away– including a $100 worth of Swagger Gifts certificates
And Cool Gifts sold at Special Prices for this night only!

A little more about Nancy's Butterfly Fund:

Friends of Cary murder victim Nancy Cooper created Nancy's Butterfly Fund, a fund to provide financial assistance to women and their children leaving abusive relationships.

The goal of Nancy's Butterfly Fund is to minimize the financial obstacles that may prevent women from leaving violent, unsafe homes. Assistance from the Fund may help with apartment and utility deposits, childcare, education, food, transportation and ther basic financial needs and services.

The butterfly symbol memorializes and honors Nancy, and also serves as a symbol of hope to victims whose lives are impacted by domestic violence.

Money raised for Nancy's Butterfly Fund is then donated to the North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCCADV) which is a statewide non-profit membership organization providing support services to local domestic violence agencies and allied professionals.

NCCADV was founded in 1981 and provides training and technical assistance to 90 doestic violence programs throughout the state of North Carolina. The purpose of NCCADV is to strengthen the network of people working to end domestic violence in NC. NCCADV also advocates to improve statewide policies and legislation to positively impact the lives of victims and domestic violence and their children.

For more information about:

Nancy's Butterfly Fund please visit their website www.nancysbutterflyfundnc.org

or

NDDADV please visit their website www.nccadv.org

We would like to thank our gracious vendors for donating items for this event!

Let's Light the Night!

Do you want to help cure Cancer?  Starting today, you will be able to donate money to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society by purchasing a Light the Night balloon from Swagger.  You can donate any amount, $1, $5, $10 or MORE!:)  Every donation is appreciated! 

However, we wanted to sweeten the deal by offering a $400 Trollbeads bracelet to raffle off to anyone who donates $10 or more!  How does that sound?! 

Come by to check out the bracelet and get your balloon and raffle ticket today!  The raffle for this beautiful bracelet will be held during our Trollbeads Trunk Show on Thursday September 23rd at 7 pm! 

We hand picked the beads for this bracelet to represent everything Light the Night stands for:

 

• the Unity bead - for coming together to help cure cancer
• the Victory bead - for everyone who has kicked cancer's butt and for one day finding a cure
• the Forget-me-not bead - for everyone we have lost to this terrible disease
• the Red Feather and Red Stripe beads to represent the Leukemia and Lymphoma awareness color
• the Zebra, Fashion Flower, and Black Armadillo beads to represent light and night!

To find out more about this event and how to participate in local Light the Night walks click here!

Please tell your friends! You can help a great cause and possibly win a present for you or a family member/friend! Remember the Holidays are coming up!

We would like to send a special thank you to Lund Trading (TrollbeadsUS) for graciously donating this amazing bracelet to help us raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society!  Thank you Lund Trading!

Chili, Hot dogs, & Bake Sale for Life Experiences

I just wanted to let you guys know about a yummy lunch time event this Friday March 26th! Please head over to Life Experiences for chili, hot dogs and a bake sale!

Life Experiences is the organization our Holiday Open House benefited this year. They are a great group of people and a very worthy cause!

In case you can't read this flyer - you can dowload it here.

So go ahead - you've got to eat - right?