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DFW Home Staging Professional's Spring Fling in Photos - Fundraiser, Fun & Friendship!

Yesterday we had a great time at our annual DFW IAHSP Fundraiser. Kathy LaMarr & Karen Otto

Once again it was co-hosted by our valued and much appreciated business partner CORT Furniture Rental at their Inwood Showroom.

Kathy LaMarr, CORT Rep. extraordinaire & our local home stager supporter & innovator, once again out did herself.The food, showroom and tables-capes were great! Thank you Kathy for arranging that!

This once a year free event, is open to the public and benefits our Chapter's philanthropies. This year we have chosen Promise House as our project for World Wide Staging Service Week 2008.

So far we've raised close to $3,000 from the benefit!

All proceeds go to Promise House and the IAHSP Foundation which furthers the cause of other worthy organizations throughout the country.

Lorrie Semler & Karen It was great to see Lorrie Semler a fellow Active Rainer! We got a good chat in and shared a cookie (yes Lorrie, I ate the other half and then some....;-) We also put on the calendar a tentative date for an Active Rain gathering locally. Check out Lorrie's Blog for more info.

The Silent Auction Items were great. Here some of our DIRC Board and members checked out & won some of the items.

great food!

The food was really fantastic!For those that missed it, you could've eaten really well last night! Spicy meatballs, bow-tie pasta salad, mini stuffed potatoes, a mountain of chips and salsa, shrimp cocktails in cocktail glasses, mini canapes and tons of chocolate frosted brownies, chocolate chunk and to die for peanut butter cookies. more great food

Thank you to all who attended! We truly appreciate your support!

Posted by Karen Otto, Collin County, Plano, TX Home Stager on 05/01/2008 11:36 AM

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9 Comments on DFW Home Staging Professional's Spring Fling in Photos - Fundraiser, Fun & Friendship!

Good food, good fun, good times and great people! Thanks, Karen!

05/01/2008 11:44 AM

by Lorrie Semler, GRI, e-PRO (Keller Williams)

Let's hope our local AR gathering has a great turnout Lorrie! If not, it'll be you, me and Tom again!

05/01/2008 11:49 AM

by Karen Otto, Collin County, Plano, TX Home Stager (Home Star Staging)

Thanks for sharing, Karen. I always enjoy seeing other stagers' meetings from different organizations. The cameraderie is awesome...the food sounded good too! =)

05/01/2008 12:42 PM

by Abby Reilly; NW Atlanta Home Stager (ALR Home Staging and Showcasing, LLC)

Thank you for reading Abby - wouldn't it be great to have a national gathering of us stagers? Who knows, maybe RESA will set something up! Have a great day!

05/01/2008 01:13 PM

by Karen Otto, Collin County, Plano, TX Home Stager (Home Star Staging)

Karen Congrats on your success raising money for staging week. Im embarrassed we havent done anything like this yet . Thank you for the idea !!

05/01/2008 04:23 PM

by Fernando Rosado ASP, president IAHSP PBC 561-906-0050 or 561-840-8950 (Eclectic Home Staging of the Palm Beaches)

Our chapter really is a great group Fernando. There's still plenty of time for your chapter - last year we scrambled and got something together in about 2 months over the summer (you can check old blogs of mine for what we did last summer) We were able to raise about the same last year and less time so it can be done.

05/01/2008 08:07 PM

by Karen Otto, Collin County, Plano, TX Home Stager (Home Star Staging)

Wonderful event Karen. It is such fun to have a cohesive group that enjoys working with each other. Lucky you. Nice job.

05/02/2008 03:49 AM

by Terrylynn Fisher StagersLIST.com Buy Stage Sell (Diablo Realty)

Terrylynn you cannot be up at 3:49 AM reading this stuff! get to bed girl ;-)!

05/02/2008 09:18 PM

by Karen Otto, Collin County, Plano, TX Home Stager (Home Star Staging)

Looks like a wonderful event. Well done!

05/04/2008 08:20 AM

by Beth Patnode, Minnesota Home Staging Firm (Minnesota Home Staging Network~ MN's Top Home Staging Firm)

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