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Update #3: Become a backer, win this painting!

Posted on March 14, 2010

Hi friends,

We're almost to the half way mark--and I'd love to see the funding reach 5k by then.... so here's the deal: become a backer --or up your pledge--and be entered into the drawing to win this ORIGINAL painting.

THE DETAILS:
This drawing will run from now (March 14th) until $5,000 is pledged

How to enter:
1) Make a pledge or:
increase the pledge you've already made
2) Then leave a comment here--this is important! ONLY backers who leave a comment will be included in this drawing.

The drawing: One winner will be selected at random.

THE PAINTING:
30x15" acrylic and mixed media painting on canvas.
It's one of my favorites...and it's all about the arrival of good things: spring, gold finches, new opportunities, successful funding...
(Free shipping within the contiguous U.S. only ~ sorry.)

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      Lise Whitfield on March 18, 2010

      What a beautiful painting! I would love to have this in my house! I just upped my pledge and will cross my fingers!

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      Tara Bradford on March 21, 2010

      Lovely painting! My birdwatching husband would adore this. So glad to be backing your fantastic project!

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      Jamie on March 22, 2010

      Okay...I got a little more put aside to up my pledge!! Beautiful painting, too!



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Funding Successful

This project successfully raised its funding goal on May 15, 2010.

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Gets you behind the scenes backer updates including videos, photos, and some sneak peaks at works-in-progress…and you’ll get the a sparkle of creative good karma heading your way!

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9 Backers

Gets you all of the above, and a big THANK YOU and LINK on my my blog.

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For $10 or more, you get all of the above, plus a PDF of a selected essay and an illustration from the book.

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For $20 or more you’ll get the above, plus a PODCAST that will help you to launch into your own creative exploration of the daily moments that make up your life. Get ready to grin and be inspired.

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20 Backers

$35 or more gets you two selected PDF essays + illustrations, a creativity PODCAST, and Field Guide To Now PDF WORKSHEET that will guide you through the process of uncovering creativity in your life at present—even if you are neither a creative type or an explorer ( but in the quiet still moments of your dreams you’ve felt the wild drums of wanderlust or a turbulent longing in your heart.)

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$50 or more or gets you two selected PDF essays + illustrations, a creativity PODCAST, a Field Guide to Now PDF WORKSHEET...AND the option of choosing a word that describes a moment in your day—one you want to examine more fully—and I’ll illustrate it. Your word may end up in the book, or not—depending on the word and the inspiration that comes from it in the moment. Either way, you'll get a HIGH QUALITY PRINT inspired by your word!

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1 Backer

$65 or more or gets you two selected PDF essays + illustrations, a creativity PODCAST, a PDF creativity WORKSHEET...AND the option of SENDING A POSTCARD to be used as a canvas for one of the illustrations in the book! I'll use your postcard (though you might not recognize it in its final form)--AND include credit to you in the book. You'll also get a HIGH QUALITY PRINT (even if you don't send a postcard!)

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$75 or more gets you two selected PDF essays + illustrations, a creativity PODCAST, a Field Guide to Now PDF WORKSHEET...a HIGH QUALITY PRINT, acknowledgment in the actual physical book and a handwritten postcard from me.

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24 Backers

For $100 or more you’ll get the creativity podcast, a Field Guide To Now PDF Worksheet, a high quality print and THE ACTUAL BOOK...and acknowledgment in it (when it’s published.*) *CAVEAT: I’m asking for this amount because I don’t know what form the finished book will take yet (it might be self published, or I might pitch it to editors.) Your funding at this level will make it financially possible to sustain work on this project after the 90 fund drive is over. I intend to complete the project AND have a publishing venue secured by February 2011. Hang on for a wild, glorious ride and know that I am hugely, beyond words grateful for your support.

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For $ 200 or more, you'll get all of the previous reward, plus a set of 12 HIGH QUALITY PRINTS OF POSTCARDS used in the book.

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2 Backers • Limited Reward (18 of 20 remaining)

For $500 or more, you'll get all of the previous reward, plus an ORIGINAL POSTCARD USED IN THE BOOK.

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1 Backer • Limited Reward (14 of 15 remaining)

For $750 or more, you'll get all of the previous reward plus an ORIGINAL 9X12(or larger) painting.

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Christina Rosalie Sbarro is a writer, artist and mother.

Her short fiction and essays have recently appeared in the Sun, Mothering, Blue Print Review; with a new story forthcoming in the L.A. Review.

Her story, “The Things You Forget,” was nominated for a Pushcart prize and her her story "If You Fall It Is Your Fault" won the Red Hen Press Short Fiction 2009 Award judged by Judith Freeman.

Christina is currently working on her first novel. She also blogs at http://mytopography.com