It was a flurry of activity during the 2007 American Music Awards Celebrity Gift Mart. We were guaranteed meeting 30 celebs over the two day period, and there were 60+ celebs who came in the first day!
There were only two of us womaning my table, myself and a family friend, Aura. When the onslaught of celebs began, we were both scampering like squirrels trying to meet everyone, explain the concept of the auction, take pictures, get celeb signatures, make a note of who signed what, write down the celeb names as they were announced, pay attention to the organizational announcements that were made by the Celebrity Gift Mart folks and keep an eye out for our favorite celebs.
Some of the particulars slipped through the cracks.
Returning home, my job was to match celeb pictures and names to the items they signed. Sounds easy, right? Oh, my, hours became days, days became weeks.
I emailed celeb pictures and copies of signatures to my connections, family and music students. Between all of them they identified two celebs.
In a state of desperation, I called my friend Terrie, owner of Terrie O’Dowd Consulting. We set up a time when her teen daughter Tracey could come along to help, estimating the time needed to be a couple of hours.
They were buffaloed also. Lots of time spent at IMDB and Celebrity-Signatures.com. The weeks became a month, and that month was intermingled with the holidays.
Some of the particulars continued to slip through the cracks.
We did what we could, finally identifying all of the celebs and all but two of the signatures.
One of the mystery signatures is on this beautiful doggie dress designed and created by Kim at Eperney. The other is a signature on one of the Tshirts – all we could decipher was the XOXOXO above the signature.
Bid on this beautiful dress so your pampered pooch can be the first on her block to have a dress signed by a mystery celebrity! If you decipher the signature, let me know!
The XOXOXO Tshirt has only one other signature on it – Ken Davitian of ‘Borat’ fame. Place your bid!
Ready, Set, BID! Remember, U2CanHelptheAnimals!
Harmony,
Janet Roper
