Ben
and Khonnie Andrews are professional auctioneers – who just so happened to live
in the ward where I grew up. I remember
several fund raisers featuring cakes or baked goods which Ben and Khonnie would
take turns auctioning off. It was
wild. A lot of competitiveness among
certain ward members. Some with deeper
pockets than others.
I
remember doing two cobblers one year – a blueberry and a cherry. One sold for 35 and the other one sold at
5-10 dollars less. And that was one of
the lower priced items. There were cakes
that had sold for 80 dollars or more during various years. It kind of put my second ward to shame as 25
was actually among the highest bids and the hand-picked auctioneer had little experience at auctioning. My second ward was a poorer area than my first
homeward.
We
attended an auction for the third time in this ward. The last two times have been fund raisers for
the Young Women, but last night’s event was for the cub scouts. Hawaiian haystacks
were the featured dish for all who showed up to eat. It didn’t seem to be well attended from my
point of view – well, perhaps the dinner itself was, but not so much the
auction that was presented afterward.
First
there was a skit about Peter Pan and the lost boys making plans to rescue Tiger
Lily from Captain Hook’s lair – but they couldn’t follow through with their
plans because they hadn’t attended scout camp and so were unprepared. If we raised enough money through the
auction, we would be able to send each of the boys to camp and the skit would
turn out much differently – for they would have the needed skills to not only
save Princess Tiger Lily, but be prepared for real life situations as well.
Jenna
had gone to an auction only a few weeks ago with one of her brothers. She is the one who suggested that we make a campfire cake – which Roland looked up on the internet
and found a picture. Jaime and I made a
practice cake on Monday; Roland and I
decorated it Monday night. It looked
good. I wasn’t as impressed with the
taste of the cake. But it did go rather
quickly. The last piece was being eaten
while the donation cake was being cooked.
Overall,
I liked the appearance of the first a lot better – although I did borrow the
marshmellow idea from this blog and liked the way it enhanced the look of the cake. So thank you,Jessica for sharing this. Your
cake looked the most impressive.
I think we might have found a better choice of candy as we never had a true orangish look. I thought the flames on the second cake appeared more like Dorito’s chips with chicken pox.
I think we might have found a better choice of candy as we never had a true orangish look. I thought the flames on the second cake appeared more like Dorito’s chips with chicken pox.
Roland
decided to match the price that the cake sold for – thus ours was the highest
sold item at 51.00. Had he not matched
the price, the highest bid-on item would be the éclairs that went for 35.00
and apparently were devoured as the auction continued. And I think the auctioneer had actually paid 40 for chocolate chip cookies that she wouldn't even give opportunity for the rest of us to bid on.
There
was a large variety of desserts and more than enough to bid on. Some sold quickly – some not so much. Our auctioneer has a really great sense of humor. It wasn't professional like Khonnie and Ben's, but it was fun.
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