Last night, I put together and hosted an Art Benefit at the offices of (Dave Turner‘s company) Parallel 6 to raise money for the National Wildlife Federation Oil Spill Cleanup Fund. The event consisted of a live auction and silent auction of art. We had wine, jazz (CD sales donated by Brad Rambur), and food donated from The Big Easy at the event. We also received some lovely donations for the raffle: 2 bottles of Turley donated by Wade Hansen of Cabrillo Advisors, a bottle of Del Dotto donated by AJ Michalewicz of LS Technologies, and a bag of specialty food donated by Trader Joe’s.

The event was very successful.  We sold most of the art, and the proceeds went to NWF.  I sold 3 pieces of artwork myself.

To see photos, follow this link.  (Thanks to Carl Melville for taking photos at the event.)

Labels: art, philanthropy

posted by Lura on Sunday, September 26, 2010

I completed a refresh of LuraLee.com.

Amazingly, I didn’t really feel the need to change much stuff around. It was a pretty solid layout and design before. I just needed to change some images, change the text, correct metatags, throw away a lot of stuff that was hanging out on the server, request that Google reindex the site, etc., etc.

Ok, ok, when I think about it, I guess it was a decent amount of work. But I’m glad I did it. I have that feeling of “accomplishment” similar to organizing and cleaning out the garage.

posted by Lura on Friday, September 17, 2010