Quicklinks: post-prom

Raffle winner list: click here
Contact us: click here (Kimmy or Kirsten, at the bottom of the page)
Early reporting: click here
Dress exchange returns: click here
Lost and found/where to get your food dishes back: click here
Mason jars: click here

Please let me know if you think of other things we need to add to the blog as we close down this event :).  -- Kirsten

commemorative mason jars: are you missing yours?, and care of

Hello, attendees:

Some of you went home without your mason jar ... if you want it back (or want a new one), please contact one of the prom team co-chairs, Kirsten or Kimmy (see email links at the bottom of this linked page [click here]).

For those who are interested in such things, all of the jars are marked for 5 oz, 8 oz, and 12 oz pours:

5oz:  the bottom point of the bottom left star

8oz:  the top point of the bottom left star

12 oz:  the top point of the big star on the right

(the top left star is merely for artistic balance ;) )

Care of the mason jars:
The glass paint is pretty sturdy; in testing, it has lasted just fine through repeated dishwashing, boiling water in the microwave, and hand washing ... but if you take something abrasive and scrub quite hard, it will start to wear off.

P.S. If anyone wants 96 unused canning lids, please contact Kirsten by the end of May ;).  Otherwise they will go to Goodwill :).

Congratulations to the Starry Night raffle winners!

Winners, Friday, May 10, at school:

• Dining gift certificates (6): Katie O'Neill, Allison Bonifay, Amy Lyden, Jennifer Elting, Jennifer Elting, Jane Graybill
• Dr. Martens gift certificate: Irene Veldstra
• Woman's updo certificates (2): Carie Folz, Jeanette Slay
• Hair Services gift certificate: Emily Clayton
• Massage gift certificates (3): Christine Hinrichs, Erica Banka, Carie Folz
• Portrait Session: Andrew Kurkinen

Winners, Saturday, May 18, at Starry Night:

• Yoga classes card: Travis Neumeyer
• Portland Revels tickets: Janice Lucas
• Columbia Sportswear passes (2): Lind Mizar, Lind Mizar
• bag o' crafty goodness: Kristen Wiljenen
• ¿Por Que No? for four: Annie Adams
• Tattoo credit: Allison Bonifay
• GeerCrest Farm family stay: Francis Fernandez
• Reserved PVS parking space: John Ceniceros

Winners should contact Kirsten Rayhawk if they have not yet received their prizes -- look in the school directory (or contact the school office) for her contact information.

(This notice was also posted in the Portland Village School Weekly Digest of May 20, 2013.)

Starry Night: early reporting

Thank you to everyone who attended, donated time or money, or otherwise contributed to Portland Village School's spring fundraiser, “Starry Night”! 

We had a great time Saturday night.  The decoration team transformed the basketball gym into a gracefully canopied space crowned by our old – but newly-bejeweled! – giant turnip.  Many attendees went all-out on their outfits, and there was a flash mob "Walk Like an Egyptian" that will be talked about for ages!

Our initial receipts are looking very solid, which is great news.

For additional practical or ongoing information (lost and found, dress exchange): pvsprom2013.blogspot.com

Thank you!

Your Prom Team Co-Chairs,

Kirsten Rayhawk and Kimmy Scarpine

(this notice was also published in the Portland Village School Weekly Digest of May 20, 2013)

Closing buisness: dishes and lost and found

Within the next 24 hours I plan to set up a lost-and-found box and a dishes-return box in the main (basement) kitchen, on the central shelves that act as a room divider.

If you helped clean up and graciously adopted an orphan pan or dish to take home at that end of Starry Night, please bring it back to school (cleaned ;) ) and leave it for pickup in the kitchen downstairs.

If you, like me, were one of the latest cleanup crew and ended up taking miscellaneous personal left-items home, please bring those (cleaned if needed ;) ) to the basement kitchen as soon as possible also.

Ideally, ALL homeless items would be in the pickup area by *this Friday,* May 24, so people have three weeks to remember to pick them up before school ends!

--Kirsten, Prom Team Co-Chair and also Lost-and-Found Maven :)

Closing business: dress exchange dresses

To the women who have borrowed dresses from the dress exchange ("borrowed," meaning, there was a name on the dress, which means the owner wanted it returned): please make sure you have the dress cleaned and ready to return by next Friday (May 31).  Unless you have heard otherwise from the owner, please have the dress professionally dry-cleaned.

You can either contact the owner using your school directory and return the dress directly to her, or bring the dress to the scrip table and Carie Folz will make sure it gets home :).

MORE SOON

Thank you to everyone involved -- including especially attendees and donors! -- for a great event!

Coming soon: updates on money, how to return borrowed dresses, where to find the dishes you left at the event, raffle winners, etc.

YAY :)!!

New raffles! -- see this post:

New and bigger raffles!  Added item 5/16! (¿Por Que No?)

on going stag, going with friends, going with a partner ...

... it's allllll good.  We want everyone to show up and have a good time :).

click these links to FIND IT FAST

• Basic event info
• Ticket prices information
• Ticket assistance: offering and asking, the Bright Stars Fund
• BUY TICKET(S)
• going stag/going with a partner/dating/going with friends

  

• Current raffles (NEW 5/14!!! Drawings 5/18!!!)
• BUY RAFFLE TICKETS (pending)

  

• Dress code
• VOLUNTEERS NEEDED -- PVS 5th and 6th grade families are especially encouraged to represent as volunteers for this event :)!!
• Making food for prom ... and, signing up to tell us you are doing so :)
• babysitting resources

Songs so far requested ...

On our sales-table order forms, we have are asking for song recommendations for this event ... we might not get to every song suggested, but we hope they will give our DJ some idea of the audience :).

Many people don't have a song on the top of their minds, so we have way fewer suggestions than the 65(!) tickets we've thus far sold, but here are the answers we have received:

• Groove is in the Heart, by DeeLite
• "anything by Journey"
• Hey Mickey (You're So Fine)
• Bloody Sunday
• Lights Out, by Santigold
• Let's Groove Tonight, by Earth, Wind, and Fire
• Little Heaven, by Toad the Wet Sprocket ("this is 'our song'")
• One More Night, by Phil Collins
• I'll Melt with You, by Modern English
• Salt-N-Peppa (unspecified)
• Unchained Melody
• Michael Jackson (unspecified)
• Madonna (unspecified)
• Like a Prayer, by Madonna
• I Can't Help Falling in Love
• Red, Red Wine, by "UB40 or real version"

Added:

• Macklemore's "Thrift Shop" (radio version)

Updates as more ticketholders get their suggestions to us!

babysitting during prom

Looking for babysitting?  Don't forget to ask the older PVS kids!

Not sponsored by the school, some 6th graders from Mr O'Brien's class, along with PVS mom Janice Lucas, have offered to watch some kids just across the street from the event, at the Peninsula Park Commons' common space.  (Two PVS families live in Peninsula Park Commons -- the orange condos with the vibrant gardens, the donuts at Halloween, and the huge ice-cream party in the summer :).)

Janice and the 6th graders are asking $5/child for 7pm-10:15pm (please pick up your child(ren) promptly by 10:15pm).  By reservation only, contact Janice (see information in the school directory*) if you are interested.

* We don't publish contact information on the blog because that would lead to spam emails and spam phonecalls.  You can ask at the front office if you have misplaced your directory.

New and bigger raffles!

Raffle tickets for these new raffles will be available at our online purchase site, soon if not now (see link at top of page), and at the "Starry Night" sales table, before and after school!

All raffles are still $5/ticket.

We will draw the winning ticket(s) for ALL of the following items (and maybe a few more!) at the "Starry Night" event on May 18 (this Saturday!).  You need not be present to win -- we'll contact you :)!

Check out these great items (ADDED ITEM 5/16: #2007!):

Pkg#: 2000 Raffle: 

GeerCrest FarmFamily Stay (value $160)

A ticket for a chance to win a two-day, one-night Family Stay (up to four people) at PVS-beloved GeerCrest Farm!

For families who haven't yet had a third grader attend the Farm Trip, you can find out about visits to GeerCrest by clicking here.

For this large raffle package, each ticket is a 1 in 150 chance.  The drawing will be during the event, on May 18.

Dates subject to availability.  Farm closed in December.

Pkg#: 2001 Raffle: 

two tickets to the 2013 Portland Revels opening night (value $80)

A chance to win two tickets to opening night of the Portland Revels' 2013 performances -- in recent years the Revels have consistently had many Portland Village School cast members, in addition to being a popular Portland holiday ticket!

Pkg#: 2006 Raffle: 

a reserved PVS parking space for pickup times and events! 

(value: priceless)

The winner of this raffle will receive the parking space of their choice in the central lot, to be reserved exclusively for their vehicle during school pickup times and any on-campus events during which that lot is open, from now until next year's spring fundraising event!

We will create a sign honoring the lucky winner, to mark their new parking spot.

Chosen parking spot must be a marked parking spot, and cannot be within two parking-space widths of the school playground.  Due to drop-off patterns in the morning, this space is for use during pickup time, and during on-campus events with parking in the central lot, only.  Winner will talk to the Principal to arrange their spot.

Expires during the next year's spring fundraising event.

Pkg#: 2002 Raffle: 

$100 tattoo credit at The Parlour St. Johns

This one will look familiar, because we've been selling tickets for since last week: A chance to win $100 tattoo credit with Mare Jordan at The Parlour St.  Johns -- get your ink on!

We are all excited to cheer and holler for the person who gets this :)!!

Weekend appointments may not be available.  Gift certificate expires October 2013.

Pkg#: 2003 Raffle: 

two Columbia Sportswear Guest Passes

A chance to win two Columbia Sportswear Company Guest Passes to the employee store! (We have two packages of two guest passes each to award.) 

Please note that each Guest Pass expires June 30, 2013!

Pkg#: 2004 Raffle: 

Yoga: 5-class card (value $60) 

Each of these tickets is a chance to win a 5-class card to yoga classes with PVS' Signa Cheney at Mandala Yoga Studio on SE Belmont. 

Expires Nov 18, 2013 (six months). 

Pkg#: 2007 Raffle: 

¿Por Que No? for four ($100 gift certificate) 

Some late-breaking awesome just came in: Buy this ticket for a chance to win a $100 gift certificate from ¿Por Que No? ... this is designed to be dinner-for-four! 

Be sure to buy your tickets!

A great way to participate even if you aren't coming to the event :)!

Food? Food. Food! Yeah :)!!

Alright, ticket sales are underway, our first raffles are about to be awarded, and the event is next Saturday ... let's talk about food :)!

We are asking PVS families to donate the food for the "Starry Night" event.  If you love to cook (or to buy and provide) food, you can sign up to help here

[click to go to the food signup page]

or on the pale blue signup sheets at school [posted outside every classroom and in both entrances].

To go with the "prom" theme, we are asking that people think about bringing high-school noshies: what did you like to eat at parties when you were in high school?  We'll need both sweet and savory.

To add a challenging twist, we are asking for all food to be reasonably tidy finger-food (we plan to provide cocktail plates and napkins, but not utensils).

So, here's where you get to be creative, One-Bite style: how can you make your favorite high-school food (1) finger-food sized, (2) tidy, and, if needed, (3) adjusted so that it's tasty to an adult palate?

Your contribution can be store-bought or homemade.  (Please label ingredients if possible.)  We will of course be happy to see all food contributions, since high school was not always an inspiring period in everyone's food history ;).

If you have some mad gluten-free skillz or other specialized dietary cooking know-how, please lay that on us and label your dish(es) loud-and-proud, so that everyone who attends can find something to enjoy eating that night :).

We are looking forward to seeing what people bring to share with our community:)!!

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Need ideas?

For the determined chef, perhaps you could bring salad rolls or rice balls.  How about sliders (small-sized versions of your favorite burger or sandwich)? Two-bite pieces of meatloaf? Three-bite pieces of pizza?  Buffalo wings?  Were you an early adopter of sushi?

For those who don't like to cook, were you the person who always brought the 2 lb bag of M&Ms?  (That was me ;).)  Bring the M&Ms in a fancy bowl (because now you are a grownup ;) ) -- one and done!  Or make it a little more adult / Portland / slow-food: pick up some bulk, organic, chocolate-covered almonds at New Seasons (you can even pick them up on the way to the party, if you are coming from west of the highway, but remember your serving bowl ;)! ) ... or pick up something (just about anything!) from Trader Joe's the day before :)!

Cheese cubes or slices of salami are classic party tray staples -- you can go pure high school with Hormel, or amp it up by buying from a local charcuterie or cheesemongery counter (aka, a deli ;) ).

Baked goods that can be cut into finger-food-sized pieces are awesome: not just cookies/brownies, but how about a savory item, like cheese-bread?  I recall discovering bread bowls with spinach dip right around the time I graduated high school ... (mmmm, spinach dip ... also very tasty with some sturdy, store-bought corn chips ... )

This morning -- without exposing the source, since I don't know whether she plans to bring these or not (although I hope she does, because I totally want to try them!) -- a PVS mom, when asked what she liked to eat in high school, said she and her friends loved bagels spread with cream cheese, with barbeque potato chips on top(!) ... a high school food like that can become fingerfood just by slicing it into smallish segments :).  (If she doesn't bring those, I'm totally going to have to buy some Kettle Chips and try it at home, yum!)

Yay food :)!!  Go PVS community :)!!

Again, signups will be online (see top of post), or on paper at school (hopefully sometime Friday May 10).

-- Kirsten :)!

Bright Stars Fund: Would you like to help another family attend?

If you can afford a bit more and would like to support families that would otherwise find the event ticket prices out of reach, you can give $5, $10, or more (any amount in multiples of $5) to our "Bright Stars Fund."

You can donate to the Bright Stars Fund at the Starry Night online purchasing page (look at the bottom of the list of options) or at the prom table before and after school.

If you would like to ask for financial assistance from the PVS 2013 Prom Bright Stars Fund, please contact one of the Prom Team Co-Chairs, Kimmy or Kirsten (contact info).

Any unused Bright Stars funds will be added to the overall funds raised at the event to directly support the school's programming.  Thank you so much for making this event a community-wide success!

The felted corsage flowers

We have already sold about half of these beautiful creations, but for those of you who haven't had a chance to stop by the prom table and see them, this is what the "Felted corsages" listed on the Starry Night buy-page look(ed) like:

Thank you again to Vicky Medley for bringing the Waldorf-wool / Portland-crafting / re-usable ethic so gorgeously to the prom theme!

Stop by the prom table, before or after school, to pick one up ... only $15 for instant, touchable, reusable gratification!  These can be attached to an elastic wristband, a barrette, or a pin :).

UPDATE 5/8: Vicky made and brought in several more -- if you didn't see your favorites earlier this week, come look at our colors again :)!

Raffles raffles raffles :)!

Alright!  In a short timeframe we got some awesome stuff donated!  Thank you to the community members and businesses who stepped up to support Portland Village School!

We have several fun raffles--most will be drawn next Friday, May 10, at 3:20pm (in front of the school), so the winners can use them to amp up their prom night.  Some larger, non-prom-theme prizes will be awarded at the event itself, on May 18, between 7 and 10pm.  You do not need to be present to win, in either case -- we will contact the winners!

( ... Drum roll please .... )

And here they are!

DINING GIFT CERTIFICATES

(pale orange tickets)

Several restaurants have donated gift certificates to PVS, and a few more might still be incoming, so keep an eye on this blog or our display at school!  We will draw for winners in the order of this list; if you are present at the drawing at 3:20pm Friday, May 10, you can choose to trade once, but only for the next item down -- and no take-backs ;).

• Tasty n Sons (N Williams Ave), $20
• Cacao (two downtown locations), 1st gift certificate: two flights of their three drinking chocolates
• Lompoc Pubs and Brewery (four locations), $30 (correction 5/6, but your chance of winning was not affected -- Lompoc donated a keg for the event instead :)! )
• Toro Bravo (120 NE Russell St), $20
• Cacao (two downtown locations), 2nd gift certificate: two flights of their three drinking chocolates
• we have at least three additional dining gift certificates expected by the end of the week ... but we can't announce them here until they are confirmed!
• ADDED 5/8: red e cafe (N Killingsworth), $20
• ADDED 5/9: The Mississippi Pizza Pub (N Mississippi Ave), $20

Drawing Friday, May 10, at 3:20, at PVS.  Chances of winning this raffle are 1:25 or better (depending on ticket sales).

DR MARTEN'S GIFT CERTIFICATE

(dark green tickets)

If you want your prom getup to show what a Very Portland Prom "Starry Night" can be ... 

Buy a chance to win a gift certificate for a new pair of shoes or boots, value up to $150, at the downtown store!

Drawing Friday, May 10, at 3:20, at PVS.  Chances of winning this raffle are 1:50 or better (depending on ticket sales).

DRESS ALTERATION GIFT CERTIFICATE

(pale green tickets)

One of PVS' professional seamstress/tailors, Irene Veldstra, has offered to alter a dress for prom -- be sure to call her ASAP if you win, because she'd like to have enough time before "Starry Night" to do your dress right!

Drawing Friday, May 10, at 3:20, at PVS.  Chances of winning this raffle are 1:25 or better (depending on ticket sales).

WOMAN'S UPDO APPOINTMENTS

(fuschia tickets)

Gift certificates from local hairstylists for specific appointments the afternoon of May 18, to get your hair professionally styled for prom night!  These appointment times are not negotiable -- the stylists have reserved them especially to give prom-goers time for catching dinner before the event :)!

• 3:30pm, with Catherine J Schmitz at the Chameleon Salon and Day Spa (N Lombard)
• 4:30pm, with Caitlin Lindgren at The Parlour St. Johns (in St. Johns)

Drawing Friday, May 10, at 3:20, at PVS.  Chances of winning this raffle are 1:25 or better (depending on ticket sales).

HAIR SERVICES GIFT CERTIFICATE

(red tickets)

A $55 gift certificate for hair services (men or women) with Jessica Radke at Studio Luxe (NW 13th Ave).

Drawing Friday, May 10, at 3:20, at PVS.  Chances of winning this raffle are 1:25 or better (depending on ticket sales).

MASSAGE GIFT CERTIFICATES

(sea blue tickets)

Do you need some extra relaxation before prom, or maybe you expect to need some recovery-time afterwards ;)?  Buy one of these tickets for a chance to win a one-hour massage!

Right now we have two gift certificates donated, each for a one-hour, deep-tissue massage by Jane Graybill, LMT (office in N Portland).  ADDED 5/7: An Aroma Touch Massage has been donated by Tracey Schmidt.

Drawing Friday, May 10, at 3:20, at PVS.  Chances of winning this raffle are 1:25 or better (depending on ticket sales).

PORTRAIT SESSION AND PRINTS GIFT CERTIFICATE

(yellow tickets)

Professional PVS photographer Amy McMullen has donated a gift certificate for a portrait session and $100 of print-credit.

This is a great prize for everyone, whether you are going to "Starry Night" or not, and might be especially fun for grandparents to buy chances on so they get a set of grandkid portraits!  Online purchasing means buyers don't even have to be local :).

Drawing Friday, May 10, at 3:20, at PVS.  Chances of winning this raffle are 1:25 or better (depending on ticket sales).

$100 TATTOO CREDIT GIFT CERTIFICATE

(neon red tickets)

Mare Jordan at The Parlour St. John's has offered PVS raffle-buyers a chance to win a $100 towards a tattoo -- you know you've been thinking about one ;).  Win this and you are on your way!

The drawing for this certificate will be AT "STARRY NIGHT," Saturday, May 18, between 7 and 10pm.

AND A FEW MORE PENDING, SOME LARGE, SOME SMALL

(Keep an eye on this blog and our display table at school :)! )

To BUY YOUR TICKETS (to the event and/or your raffle tickets),

CLICK HERE!

TICKETS AVAILABLE!!!

Event tickets and raffle tickets are now available for purchase online!

CLICK HERE

to purchase your event tickets, 

raffle tickets, 

and other goodies

Posts coming soon describing the raffle packages (and other goodies) in more detail :).