'broken glass' fine art print by cio

Cio loves the outdoors. When she isn't taking photos, she works at a non-profit camp and blogs about her adventures, many of them accompanied by her mother. This photo was taken shortly after Hurricane Rita hit her hometown.

All proceeds from items sold on the To Haiti with Love auction go directly to the St. Joseph's Family in Haiti. To make a bid, simply leave a comment with the amount of your bid and your email address. The auction will wrap up on February 8, 2010, and winners will be contacted right away to arrange payment and shipping. Good luck!

Broken Glass fine art print by cio: 12x18" on a double weight matboard (origin: USA)

Starting bid: $30.00

'the golden road' fine art print by cio

Cio loves the outdoors. When she isn't taking photos, she works at a non-profit camp and blogs about her adventures, many of them accompanied by her mother. This photo was taken shortly after Hurricane Rita hit her hometown. This photo was taken in Campeche, Mexico on cio's visit to see her grandmother.

All proceeds from items sold on the To Haiti with Love auction go directly to the St. Joseph's Family in Haiti. To make a bid, simply leave a comment with the amount of your bid and your email address. The auction will wrap up on February 8, 2010, and winners will be contacted right away to arrange payment and shipping. Good luck!

The Golden Road fine art print by cio: 12X18" on a double weight matboard

Starting bid: $30.00

'all is well' fine art print by shelagh duffett

Shelagh Duffett is a mom, artist and photographer living in lovely Nova Scotia. Her folk art is found all over the globe, cheering up walls from China to Sweden.

All proceeds from items sold on the To Haiti with Love auction go directly to the St. Joseph's Family in Haiti. To make a bid, simply leave a comment with the amount of your bid and your email address. The auction will wrap up on February 8, 2010, and winners will be contacted right away to arrange payment and shipping. Good luck!

All is Well 5x7" fine art print by Shelagh Duffett (origin: Nova Scotia, Canada)

Starting bid: $20.00

'cats': a calendar by folk artist shelagh duffett

Shelagh Duffett is a mom, artist and photographer living in lovely Nova Scotia. Her folk art is found all over the globe, cheering up walls from China to Sweden. View the illustrations in this charming calendar here.

All proceeds from items sold on the To Haiti with Love auction go directly to the St. Joseph's Family in Haiti. To make a bid, simply leave a comment with the amount of your bid and your email address. The auction will wrap up on February 8, 2010, and winners will be contacted right away to arrange payment and shipping. Good luck!

Cats 8.5x11" calendar by Shelagh Duffett (origin: Nova Scotia, Canada)

Starting bid: $20.00

authentic mothering session with amelia maness-gilliland

During this one-to-one workshop with Amelia Maness-Gilliland, you'll complete the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®, MBTI, to gain a better understanding of your personality type. Amelia will apply this insight to your mothering to gain a realistic and objective picture of your strengths, struggles and needs -- so that you have the tools and understanding you need to become your own unique 'ideal' as a mom.

Amelia Maness-Gilliland is the founder of Mom's Daily Retreat in Mesa, Arizona. As a Myers Briggs Type Indicator® Certified Professional, Amelia works with moms to understand the influence our personality has on how we parent, how we manage the bliss and the chaos of life, and career related issues that moms face who are either currently working or planning to return to work.

All proceeds from items sold on the To Haiti with Love auction go directly to the St. Joseph's Family in Haiti. To make a bid, simply leave a comment with the amount of your bid and your email address. The auction will wrap up on February 8, 2010, and winners will be contacted right away to arrange payment and shipping. Good luck!

Mothering Authentically: Individual Session with Amelia Maness-Gilliland

Starting bid: $95.00

'truly tiny' mom planner by amelia maness-gilliland

The Truly Tiny Mom Planner from Truly Mom is the brand new, smaller sized planner. It is still refillable, and contains a weekly/monthly Sept. 2009 to Sept 2010 calendar with pocket, a sticky note pad, a note to pad, and a pen. Truly tiny can also be used without the calendar to hold your PDA. Just pull the calendar out and slip your PDA into the secure elastics and off you go. You'll have a stylish place to hold your PDA and the paper you need to keep your life running smoothly -- it's small enough to throw in your purse, but too cute to hide.

Amelia Maness-Gilliland is the founder of Mom's Daily Retreat in Mesa, Arizona. As a Myers Briggs Type Indicator® Certified Professional, Amelia works with moms to understand the influence our personality has on how we parent, how we manage the bliss and the chaos of life, and career related issues that moms face who are either currently working or planning to return to work.

All proceeds from items sold on the To Haiti with Love auction go directly to the St. Joseph's Family in Haiti. To make a bid, simply leave a comment with the amount of your bid and your email address. The auction will wrap up on February 8, 2010, and winners will be contacted right away to arrange payment and shipping. Good luck!

The Truly Tiny Mom Planner by Amelia Maness-Gilliland (origin: USA)

Starting bid: $30.00

two tickets to the premiere of 'paradise garden', a play, at Vancouver's Stanley Theatre

Local boy Day, a free spirit, lives next door to worldly Layla, a career-driven intellectual. The two have nothing in common. Or do they?

Over time these divergent souls come to understand each other in a way neither thought possible. A contemporary tale of romance and cultural divides so engaging it will change the way you see the girl (or boy) next door!

~ Paradise Garden by Lucia Frangione

Award-winning playwright and actress Lucia Frangione has emerged from Canada’s independent theatre scene to take her place as an important, young post-feminist voice on the lives of women in the post-modern world, boldly questioning the institutions of family, religion and sexual iconography.

Lucia is the recipient of the 2006 and 1998 Gordon Armstrong Playwright Awards and won the Sydney Risk playwright award for Cariboo Magi in 2001. Espresso was nominated for seven Jessie awards, toured Western Canada in 2004 and was translated into Polish and performed for a year at teatr Jeleniogorski in 2007. Her twenty plays have been produced by theatres such as The Belfry Theatre, Alberta Theatre Projects, Lambs Players San Diego, Ruby Slippers, Solo Collective, Chemainus Theatre and Prairie Theatre Exchange. She is currently world premiering two new plays in 2010: Paradise Garden at the Arts Club Theatre and Leave Of Absence at Pacific Theatre. Her play Sanctuary is in development with co-writer and composer, Aaron Krogman.

All proceeds from items sold on the To Haiti with Love auction go directly to the St. Joseph's Family in Haiti. To make a bid, simply leave a comment with the amount of your bid and your email address. The auction will wrap up on February 8, 2010, and winners will be contacted right away to arrange payment and shipping. Good luck!

Two (2) tickets to the world premiere of the new play Paradise Garden at the Stanley Theatre in Vancouver, BC from March 16-April 11th 2010 (rating: 14+)

Starting bid: $15.00 (value $80.00)

signed 20th anniversary hardcover edition of 'sleeping dragons all around' by sheree fitch & nimbus publishing

Sheree Fitch’s celebrated lipslippery poetry and Michele Nidenhoff’s colourful illustrations combine to make one of the most delightful children’s books ever published in Canada. In this classic children’s book, a girl wakes up in the middle of the night and wants some cake.

But to reach the refrigerator, she has to tiptoe past a host of sleeping dragons—like Priscilla in her pink pantaloons, the punk rock dragon Fagan with spiky green hair, and Beelzebub (who sleeps in the tub). When she stubs her toe, the dragons wake up, and she has to think fast to befriend the dragons.

Sheree Fitch has won almost every major award for Canadian children’s literature, including the 2000 Vicky Metcalf Award for a Body of Work Inspirational to Canadian Children. She has over twenty-five books to her credit. Fitch’s home base is the east coast of Canada. She dances with dragons daily.

Nimbus Publishing (blog here) produces more than thirty new titles a year on a range of subjects relevant to the Atlantic Provinces—children’s picture books and fiction, literary non-fiction, social and cultural history, nature photography, current events, biography, sports, and cultural issues.

All proceeds from items sold on the To Haiti with Love auction go directly to the St. Joseph's Family in Haiti. To make a bid, simply leave a comment with the amount of your bid and your email address. The auction will wrap up on February 8, 2010, and winners will be contacted right away to arrange payment and shipping. Good luck!

A signed copy of Sleeping Dragons All Around (hardcover, 20th anniversary edition) (origin: Nova Scotia, Canada)

Starting bid: $25.00

kirtsy takes a bow: a celebration of women's online favourites

Kirtsy Takes A Bow: A Celebration of Women’s Online Favorites is an artful collection of writings, photography, tweets, websites, online stores, and other creations — the inspirations of more than 100 social media leaders, entrepreneurs and artists.

This new book artfully represents the dynamic movement of inspirational works that are making the web the definitive forum of our time. The result is an absolute must-have book for any woman who wants to know just what is happening on the Internet and for any man who wants to know just what women are up to.

Laura Mayes is one of the founders of Kirtsy ("a social media platform of pure goodness. A plaza for the peachy. A portal to the pretty. A place to find cool things. To read smart scoop. To connect with fab ideas, exceptional people, useful information, excellent products."). She spends her daylight hours working as a VP at an ad agency, where she writes for a variety of Fortune 500 companies and metaphoric rock stars. A lover of great finds, bargains, and design, she also writes for a variety of new-fangled blogs, review sites, and publications including The Queso and Cool Mom Picks.

All proceeds from items sold on the To Haiti with Love auction go directly to the St. Joseph's Family in Haiti. To make a bid, simply leave a comment with the amount of your bid and your email address. The auction will wrap up on February 8, 2010, and winners will be contacted right away to arrange payment and shipping. Good luck!

Signed edition of Kirtsy Takes a Bow: A Celebration of Women's Online Favourites (origin: USA)

Starting bid: $30

poetry four-pack by marita dachsel

Poetry is perfect winter reading and this four-pack of writing by Canadian poet Marita Dachsel includes some very rare pieces of poetic ephemera.

All Things Said & Done ::: Marita Dachsel’s debut collection is a visceral exploration of the moments of life that stand out in the pages of a family album and the intervals of memory. She playfully and poignantly documents first crushes, first times, weddings and trips across town, across water, and across continents. A full length poetry book published in 2007 by Caitlin Press and shortlisted for the ReLit Award. It has been described by reviewers "a promising review".

Eliza Roxcy Snow  ::: A limited edition chapbook published by red nettle press about one of the more famous polygamous wives of Joseph Smith, the founder of the LDS Church. This long poem is part of a full-length manuscript, Glossolalia. You will receive a signed copy of number 8 of 100.

There were better times than these  ::: A limited edition broadsheet made for the Caledonia Writers' Series. This broadsheet was available for purchase only one night. Very rare! You will receive signed copy number 18 of 20.

Dispatches From An Impending Marriage ::: A beautiful limited edition broadsheet made by Greenboathouse Books as part of their Varient initiative which was never available for purchase, but given to subscribers to the press. You will receive signed copy number 19 of 100.

Marita Dachsel writes, mothers, and occasionally blogs in Edmonton, Alberta. Her first full-length book of poetry, All Things Said & Done, was shortlisted for a ReLit Award. She has been published widely in Canadian literary journals and is currently is finishing Glossolalia, a full-length poetry manuscript about the polygamous wives of Joseph Smith, founder of the LDS.

All proceeds from items sold on the To Haiti with Love auction go directly to the St. Joseph's Family in Haiti. To make a bid, simply leave a comment with the amount of your bid and your email address. The auction will wrap up on February 8, 2010, and winners will be contacted right away to arrange payment and shipping. Good luck!

Poetry four-pack by Marita Dachsel signed to you or the person of your choice (origin: Alberta, Canada)

Starting bid: $30.00