About six weeks ago, I tweeted a picture of a mask I painted. Someone sent me a direct message and wanted to buy one. I hadn’t thought about selling them and tried calculating the cost of the materials and shipping and told him I would paint one for him for 25.00. He messaged back and said that sounded good.
After I bought the materials, I thought it would be a pain the ass to collect money for the mask, so I messaged him and said that I would send him the mask, and in return he could make a 25.00 dollar donation to a kickstarter of his choice.
Then I never heard from him again.
I painted two masks and they’ve been sitting on my liquor cabinet ever since. I thought about writing a post and offering to send them to readers in return for making a donation to a kickstarter of their choice. I wasn’t in love with that idea, though.
Until today.
I talk with a woman on Twitter named Victoria. She’s gorgeous and funny and kind and loves to drink punch as much as I do.
I learned today that she is gravely ill.
She went to the hospital in July thinking she had appendicitis and left with a diagnosis of cancer in her liver. She says the medical bills are killing her faster than the cancer is. I hate this for her. I hate it for anyone who is ill.
What I am proposing is that I will send two readers one of these masks, in return they will pledge a donation the size of their choice towards Victoria’s medical bills.
Here’s to many more punch drinking years for Victoria.
With rainbow sherbet.
If more than two people want the masks, then I will have my son decide who to send them to, because no way will I be able to do that shit. Also, if it works for you, I’d like to ask you to share this post and see if we can do some good for Victoria.
I have a third mask that I have hanging on the lattice around my deck, they seem to be fairly sturdy as it’s stood it’s ground against the elements so far. Also, my son and his friends wore the masks once it and the effect was fairly creepy, so you could wear the mask and scare small children, but I don’t recommend that. Unless they are on your lawn…then all bets are off.
Thank you and FUCK cancer.
If you’d like a mask, just leave a comment and we’ll work it out. In case you missed the link earlier, HERE it is again. Click to donate..every bit helps.
I wish I could reblog this because fuck cancer. That is awesome of you. I wish I had more time to do creative things. I guess it’s a bad thing to work full time & let my resentment of my current position occupy so much of my time; that is, when I’m not blogging from work.
God…we sound a lot alike! Those masks are so easy and quick to paint. I love doing projects..I just have no patience or talent..but I’ve found dripping paint on things is EASY….hahah
Very cool masks.
From the title of this post, I thought “Mask” may have been a metaphor!
PS FUCK Cancer HARD.
Right in it’s face..
You are awesome on so many levels, I can’t even count that high!
-1 because, ya know, no potato salad, but I get it.
Consider this post absolutely shared.
I forgot to mention that while I shared your post, all 6 of my readers will see it when they sober up somewhere around Wednesday.
I know, it ain’t much, but I’m tryin’.
I so much appreciate the support!
Yeah, fuck cancer. It got my mom, and my friend Dirty Dan, and now my friend Sara has it. My sister beat it, though, so maybe Sara and Victoria will as well. Cool masks, by the way. Maybe you can get a bidding war started.
Am currently waiting on the timer to go off to rinse the hair dye out…but will come back and donate just as soon as I’m not afraid to touch anything in my purse. I am insanely destructive in spreading hair dye around.
Thank you very much, Marianne!
Is done. Also tweeted.
Thank you gorgeous and I know Victoria appreciates it as well. This makes my night.
Those are really cool masks! I will not ask for one because I wouldn’t be able to donate more than, like, five bucks right now, and hopefully someone else could afford more than that! But you are cool for doing something like that. Maybe I will think of something I can make on my blog!
I would be VERY happy to send you one…and you know, a couple bucks here and there add up..
I would love to see people doing this on their blogs, I think we’re supposed to help each other when we can. 🙂
I hope you get some takers because cancer does truly suck. My husband has devoted his career to trying to treat/cure it.
Thank you!
What a great way to fuck cancer and help your friend! Sending good thoughts and love to you and your friend! xo
Beautiful masks and a great cause. I feel for your friend having to deal with cancer and medical bills.As a breast cancer survivor I became aware of many cancer navigators and advocates that perhaps your friend could look into at her hospital.
More signs of your good heart. 🙂
Your masks are lovely. I think you could charge even more. Maybe sell them on Etsy? Paypal makes it easy to accept payments.
Thank you! I’m not really interested in making them to sell. I was flattered that someone showed interest (and then bailed) but I like doing stuff like that for around my house. I just had these two sitting here for weeks and thought maybe they could be put to good use. 🙂
What a great idea. What a nightmare for poor Victoria. I’ll share and then visit her site.
Thank you! Thank you so much!!
Sharing your good work(s).
Thank you so much!
I’m all about paying it forward. I’m happy to help and will certainly share. Thanks for sharing the story, Michelle.
Thank you so much!