I don't know if my vote counts, but I agree---no free tickets. I think everyone participated in this out of the goodness of their hearts, not in hopes of a little edge with a free ticket. I'm not even going to buy a ticket myself because I don't think it would be right if I won one of the decks. There have been soooo many people working so hard on this project that I think it should remain a fair playing ground, with everyone buying tickets. Maybe there's time enough that if a person can't afford a ticket any other way, they could put up a sale thread to offer a deck or two of their own to get the money for a ticket or two if they badly want to participate.
I'm so very touched and amazed at the hard work that went into this and the interest that's been shown---it leaves me speechless, almost. Rodney's parting with part of the proceeds from his own decks to help keep the Nonny thread afloat and then this project are beautiful gestures by beautiful, generous people who make AT what it really is.
More packages are in the works, to be mailed hopefully by the end of this week, by the way, for those who watch that thread. I've tried not to mail out everything at once so as to make Rodney's donation cover a little time rather than to just mail all at once. It seems better that way, since the project has been pretty quiet for so long.
OK back to combing the forums for recipients. If anyone cares to give me some nominees, it would be greatly appreciated.
In the meantime, we know gregory's coffers are overflowing with deck-buying, ticket-buying money. Would someone please sew her purse shut? She's ruthless in pursuit of a rare deck!
(Just kidding, of course.)