Wish Upon A Card - Fabric Post Card Event opens -- 2009 Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show

The 2009 Wish Upon A Card, a silent
auction and sale of donated fabric postcards, is now open for your
bidding pleasure!. Nearly 80 custom framed fabric post cards have
been donated to raise funds for the Wendy's Wish project.
Approximately 55 custom framed fabric post cards are hanging at
Sisters Artworks and available for your silent bid! Another 25
custom framed fabric post cards will be displayed during the Sisters
Outdoor Quilt Show's Quilters Affair Week. The fabric post cards
that are displayed at Quilters Affair venue have been created by the
quilt instructors. Over $17,000 raised from the project in the past
two years has been donated to Wendy's Wish Foundation.

The 2009 Wish Upon A Card fundraiser is
a juried silent auction. High Desert Gallery has provided a 100%
donation (materials and labor) of custom framing for 80 postcards.
The postcards not selected for the silent auction will be sold at
other venues by the Wendy’s Wish volunteers. The silent auction
officially begins July 5, during the Around the Block Fiber Arts
Stroll and will continue through Quilt Show Day, July 11, 2009 and on
display at Sisters Art Works. A special juried group of 30 cards
from our Quilters Affair Instructors are framed and silent auctioned
at the Sisters Oregon high School during the week of classes, July 6
– 10. The silent auction of the instructors fabric post cards ENDS
Friday, July 10 at 11am! The silent auction of the fabric post cards
at Sisters Artworks ends Quilt Show Day, Saturday, July 11^th.

Image:  Myrna Dow, Gallery Director
of High Desert Gallery and High Desert Frameworks! Of Central Oregon
and Ann Richardson, Executive Director of the Sisters Outdoor Quilt
Show.

Remember – Bid High, Bid Often and
support the fund raising efforts of Wendy's Wish! This wonderful
fundraiser would not be possible without the support of the many quilters that submitted and donated the fabric post cards, the Sisters
Outdoor Quilt Show and the Executive Director, Ann Richardson. Thank
you Ann and to the hundreds of quilters and volunteers!

To read about last years project visit:
Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show - Fabric Post Card Auction

Wendy’s Wish is a project to support
the St. Charles Cancer Treatment Center. Wendy’s Wish exists to
provide education, promote early detection of cancer and offer
affordable, compassionate emotional support to each individual’s
personal journey. Wendy’s Wish is named in honor of Wendy S.
Huntley, a Central Oregon quilter who had breast cancer and
ultimately passed away from colon cancer in the summer of 2006.
Direct contributions to Wendy’s Wish may be made to St. Charles
Foundation – Wendy’s Wish, 2500 NE Neff Road, Bend, OR 97701.

About The Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show™:
The Stitchin’ Post is proud to present the 34th Anniversary
Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show™ displaying more than 1,200 quilts under
sunny summer skies. From barns to balconies, storefronts to
stairways, quilts from all over the world blanket the town with
splashes of color on Saturday, July 11, 2009 and every year on the
second Saturday in July. A “grass roots” show, the Sisters
Outdoor Quilt Show™, features quilts from groups as far away as
New Zealand, as close to home as Sisters and beyond. For more
information visit: www.sistersoutdoorquiltshow.org
or call the Stitchin’ Post at 541-549-6061.

About High Desert Gallery: High Desert
Gallery & Custom Framing, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™
is an award winning fine art and custom picture framing gallery with
three High Desert Gallery retail locations in Bend, Oregon (Open
Summer 2009), Redmond and Sisters Oregon and one High Desert
Frameworks! located in downtown Bend, Oregon. The gallery specializes
in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing.
High Desert Gallery honored in 2005, 2006 and 2007 by Decor Magazine
as a "Top 100 Art and Framing Gallery in America" and voted
"Best Art Gallery" in Redmond, Oregon (2006, 2007 &
2008) and Sisters, Oregon (2005, 2006, & 2008). International
Framing Awards earned by High Desert Gallery include First Place and
Top Honors in the Professional Picture Framing Association (PPFA)
2007-2008 International Open Framing Competition and Third Place in
the Professional Picture Framing Association 2008-2009 International
Print Framing Competition. For more information please visit:
www.highdesertgallery.com or call toll free 1-866-549-6250. The Art &
Soul of Central Oregon™ and Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™
are trademarks of High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central
Oregon.