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2021 Sneak-a-Peek Appetizer Auction

Day One - Friday, November 26

201 Silver and Gold Toned 3 Necklace Set

Donated by Leslie Charlson

Necklace 1:

This 10-inch silver ball and bead chain features a clear glass ball filled with delicate white blossoms and capped with a silver tone topper.

Necklace 2:

This 9-inch gold serpentine chain features a silver and gold toned ball of lacy flower filigree with a silver clasp. Inside the ball is a lovely purple chime.

Necklace 3:

This necklace features a 9-inch adjustable chain with an antique finished bronze pendant. The face is steam punk style with gears and cogs surrounded by a pocket watch-like face. Inside the pendant is a piece of red felt. You can add your favorite scent of essential oil or perfume for a fragrance that lasts all day.

202 Amazfit Ban 5 Fitness Tracker with Alexa

Donated by ACB Board of Directors Koni Sims and Patrick Sheehan

Ask questions, get translations, set alarms, and timers, create shopping lists, check the weather, control your smart home devices and more.

Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitor: With Amazfit Band 5 you can measure your blood oxygen saturation and understand your physical state with OxygenBeats. Ideal during high-intensity workouts and sports such as marathons and gym workouts.

24/7 Heart Rate, Sleep and Activity Tracker: The Amazfit Band 5 precise optical heart rate monitoring allows you to accurately track real-time steps taken, all-day heart rate monitoring, distance traveled, calories burned, and sleeping patterns.

15-Day Battery Life: Say goodbye to daily recharge. With a fully charged Amazfit Band 5, you don’t need to bring a charger for two-week trip. On a single charge, has enough power to get you through two whole weeks.

203 Chocolate Delights

Donated by Karen A Blachowicz 

A half pound of Watson’s milk chocolate sponge candy, half pound of Watson’s orange chocolate sponge candy and half pound of Watson’s dark chocolate sponge candy for one basket and then the other will be half pound of coconut clusters, half pound of raisin clusters and half pound of peanut clusters from Watson’s the famous chocolate shop in New York. Wow, what a delight to either have for yourself or share with some friends or family over the holidays!

204 Two Dozen Homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies

Donated by Janeen Lee

These delicious homemade cookies are made with sugar, butter, flour, chocolate chips, and lots of friendship. Baked from the heart in my KitchenAid mixer. No nuts.

205 Count the Days Until Christmas Calendar

Donated by Keri Bishop

This fabric calendar is dark burgundy with a stuffed Santa head in the middle, around the Santa head are 24 little green fabric Santa bags for putting treats and other goodies in. Each bag is numbered from 1 to 24 to count the days till Christmas. Each day the kiddos can take a treat from the appropriate Santa bag. Santa’s head is stuffed fabric with yarn hair, a yarn beard and yarn mustache. He is wearing a red Santa cap with a brown jingle bell and there are brown stars hanging from the head band part of his cap. There is also a wood welcome sign that matches the advent calendar. The wood is painted burgundy and has white fleece in the center with the word welcome stitched into the fabric. At the end of the word welcome sits a red cardinal. Around the fleece on the burgundy word border a green vine is painted with white holly berries. Atop the sign are the heads and hands of two snowmen as if peering out from behind the sign. Snowmen’s hats and scarves are made from fabric that matches the advent calendar.

206 One pound of homemade fudge of your choice

Donated by Patty Slaby

Choose 1 kind to complete the pound or 2 favorites one half pound each. Choices include chocolate, gingerbread, or peanut butter. Enjoy this with someone special or just have it for yourself!

207 Knitted Cotton Hanging Dishtowel with Dishcloths Set and $25 Amazon Gift Card

Donated by Merrilee Hill-Kennedy and Arkansas Council of the Blind

A knitted cotton hanging dish towel in a feather and fan pattern with two matching cloths, one is in the feather and fan pattern, the other has the raised ACB knitted diagonally down the front. The towel has a buttonhole and button to be fastened around a handle. Also, a $25 Amazon Gift card to treat yourself to something special at Amazon!

208 Echo Dot

Donated by Randolph Shepard Vendors of Florida

Meet Echo Dot - Our most popular smart speaker with a fabric design. It is our most compact smart speaker that fits perfectly into small spaces. Better speaker quality than Echo Dot Gen 2 for richer and louder sound. Pair with a second Echo Dot for stereo sound. Built with multiple layers of privacy protections and controls, including a microphone off button that electronically disconnects the microphones.

209 One-Year License for Office 365

Donated by Jeff Bishop

Make the most of your Microsoft 365 Premium Office apps and more. Make life more creative, organized, and secure. Install Office apps on your favorite devices including Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. Now, it’s easier than ever to write, design, and share seamlessly across your devices. You get smart assistance features as soon as they are released in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint so you’re always working with the latest. Now you can manage multiple calendars in one view to stay on top of work meetings, remote schooling, and family time. Back up your files with 1 TB of OneDrive cloud storage.

210 Handcrafted Crocheted Blanket

Donated by Ann Harrison

A hand crocheted blanket measuring approximately four feet by four feet, made with red and white glitter yarn.

211 Mary Kay Satin Hands Set

Donated by Nancy Folsom

This 3-step process will leave your hands and feet feeling soft, smooth, and luxurious! The Satin Hands set softens, exfoliates, and moisturizes each time you use it. Now that we are washing our hands more than ever, this set is great for guys and gals to help keep your hands healthy! You will love how great your hands feel! You can use it on your feet as well.

212 Frosty the Snowman Christmas Wreath

Donated by Yolanda Ellison

This wreath is 24 by 24 inches. The center piece is a 10 by 10-inch picture of Frosty (made of tin), colored with red and white and of course his black hat, red with white polka-dots on his scarf.  The tin also has written on it “Let it Snow.”  Around the centerpiece is a lot of red and white mesh. There are colorful Christmas ribbons all around the wreath as well. Christmas ribbons have Ho, Ho, Ho on them, some have polka-dots and others have Christmas candy on them. There are Christmas bells and holly placed on them also. Also, there is red and green tubing added to ribbons.

213 Two Quart Presto Cool Daddy Deep Fryer

Donated by Carol Huff

This cool daddy fryer has a very large viewing window so you can supervise the frying and it is white in color. It has a removable pot for easy cleaning and an exterior basket to put the fried food in. It goes up to 375 degrees and has a timer and a pushbutton, pop up top.

214 Two 5G ATT Flip Phones

Donated by The Literacy Project

The AT&T Cingular FlipTM IV is designed so you can navigate with ease. See who is calling or just check the time with a quick glance at the 1.77-inch external display. The 2.8-inch main, internal display is made for easy viewing. The keypad has large, easy to see buttons for quick dialing and simple menu navigation. With its high-resolution video playback of 1080p, the AT&T Cingular FlipTM IV makes smart simple! These phones are black in color, and you can activate them with AT&T.

215 Avon Holiday Reed Diffusers (three sets)

Donated by Melissa Dubose

These fragrances bring your home to life for the holidays. Diffuse the scents of the season around your home. Available in Mahogany Suede- notes of mahogany, clove, cedarwood and amber; Frosted Balsam- Notes of mandarin, spruce needles, sequoia wood and frosted balsam and Pomegranate, blood orange, champagne, and red currant. 

216 $100 Visa Card

Donated by The Morning Force, Carol Mackey, Cheryl McNeil Fisher, Carol Lubecki and Pshon Barrett

Enjoy this card either dining or doing some shopping for you or someone special in your life!

217 Canadian Goodies

Donated by Josette Kernaghan

One Coffee Crisp Bar, Dark Milk Chocolate Aero Bar, one Jersey Milk Bar, one Purdy’s Dark Chocolate Bar, One Purdy’s Dark Chocolate Mint Melty Bar, One Purdy’s Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Bar, Eight Mini Dark Chocolate Swiss Bar, Four Mini Dark Chocolate Keto Snaps with Coconut, Four dark Chocolate Chelmain Noodle Cookies with Peanuts, Four Pieces of Dark Chocolate Almond Bark, Four Dark Chocolate Mint Rockmann’s Truffles and one bag of Scotch Mints.

218 $50 Gift Card to Eileen’s Colossal Cookies

Donated by Nebraska Council of the Blind

At Eileen’s Colossal Cookies, we bake more than delicious treats our customers love to eat. We bake memories, celebrations, messages of encouragement, and so much more! We are more than cookie connoisseurs. We create delicious, uncomplicated opportunities to bring a smile to your face and fun to your day.

219 Two Hours of Assistive Technology

Donated by Myrna Votta

Myrna has been using and working in the field of assistive technology since 1980. She has used and instructed people in the use of various blindness products. She can help people with PC’s with either JAWS or NVDA, various Braille displays connected to a PC, the iPhone, the iPad, and the use of various notetakers. Please contact Myrna to set up your time for this package at 347 986-0579.

220 Animal Lover’s Throw Pillows

Donated by Connie Jacomini

Four throw pillows (two gray and two blue). Each color set comes with one 18-inch square pillow and one 24-inch rectangular pillow. Note:  all pillow sizes are approximate. Pillows have cute phrases on them to let your pet know how much you love them. Phrases include the following: “paws and enjoy the good life,” “friends fur ever”, “love is a four-legged word” and “reserved for the dog”.

221 One Cat Necklace and One Cat Keychain

Donated by Leslie Charlson

The silver tone necklace with 10” bead ball chain, lobster claw clasp with 3 charms: 

  1. A paw print, 
  2. An Angel wing with rose, and 
  3. A coin-like medallion that reads “If love could have saved you, you would have lived forever.” It is embellished with two tiny paw prints.

The keychain has 4 cute silver toned charms:

  1. An angel wing with a rose
  2. Fish bones
  3. A round medallion showing a sweet cat
  4. And another medallion that reads “My cat flies with angels” and includes a little kitten and paw print.

222 Homedics Adjustable Lumbar Massager

Donated by Melissa Dubose

Shiatsu back shoulder and neck massager with heat. Features include adjustable height, and invigorating massage. It’s portable and convenient for the car or at home. Comes with both a home power adapter and a car charger.

223 Children’s Book, Adam’s Accessible Airport Adventure, by Michelle Grenevitch, a Toy Delta Airplane, and a $40 Seedlings Gift Certificate  

Donated by Marsha Farrow

Adam goes to the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport to see what his Uncle Steve does for work. During his tour, he learns about different areas in the airport that help people better access the airport. Adam learns that with a little help, public areas can be accessed by people with different abilities. In the storyline, he meets people from different cultures with different disabilities, and learns to observe the small details that make a big difference each and every day. Plus, a $40 Seedlings certificate for children’s books and a toy Delta airplane.

Day Two - Saturday, November 27

224 One dozen chocolate rose pops infused with Doterra oils.

Made and Donated by Keri Bishop and Hayley Agers

Choose from these delicious flavors. Flavors made with white chocolate: peppermint, wintergreen, lemon, orange, or lemon and lavender.

Milk Chocolate flavors: chocolate/ peppermint, chocolate/cinnamon, chocolate/orange, or chocolate/lemon.

225 Holiday Goodies

Donated by Patty Slaby

Choose 3 dozen of your favorite cookies, bars, or candy.

Cookie choices: peanut blossoms, Ande's mint chocolate, peppermint swirls, tea cakes

Bar choices: mixed nut bars, salted nut rolls

Candy choices: chocolate peanut clusters, crunchy marshmallow balls, rum balls, peanut butter balls and many others.

226 Knitted Baby Outfit and Blanket with a Tote Bag

Donated by Merrilee Hill-Kennedy

This set is for either a girl or boy and includes a knitted baby sweater, matching hat, booties, blanket, and small tote bag. The sweater is a cardigan style with multi-colored fish buttons down the front. It will fit a 9- to 12-month-old.

227 $100 Gift Certificate to Guidelights and Gadgets

Donated by Georgia Council of the Blind

Guidelights and Gadgets offers an array of unique products that meet the needs of the blind and low vision community. This $100 certificate is a wonderful opportunity to purchase holiday gifts for those you love or find something special for yourself!

228 Vintage Avon Mugs and Cocoa Gift Set

Donated by Keri Bishop

This set includes 4 Avon mugs from the Avon 1987 gift collection. Mugs are the “Christmas cheer mug” with a tiny stuffed reindeer from Avon that comes with each mug. Mugs come in the original box. Each mug depicts a group of carolers consisting of a snowman, a reindeer, a family of Penguins, a polar bear in a Santa cap, a penguin drinking cocoa, and another reindeer. The words “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” is printed above the carolers. Set also comes with a gift package of assorted hot cocoa including four envelopes of each of the following flavors of milk chocolate, peppermint, marshmallow, and caramel.

229 Echo Dot

Donated by Randolph Shepherd Vendors of Florida

Meet Echo Dot - Our most popular smart speaker with a fabric design. It is our most compact smart speaker that fits perfectly into small spaces. Better speaker quality than Echo Dot Gen 2 for richer and louder sound. Pair with a second Echo Dot for stereo sound. Built with multiple layers of privacy protections and controls, including a microphone off button that electronically disconnects the microphones.

230 Hand Knitted Dishcloths and $25 Starbucks Gift Card

Donated by Roberta McCall

Enjoy five beautiful hand knitted dishcloths. The cotton cloths come in a variety of colors: lemon yellow, soft violet, coral, denim blue, medium blue, green, and others. You will receive a random collection of colors. Each cloth is approximately 7 by 7 inches square. Plus, a $25 Starbucks card to enjoy.

231 Luxurious Traveling Dog Backpack with Treats and Toys

Donated by Connie Jacomini

This package includes:

A mobile dog luggage backpack made by Shop Mobile Dog Gear This backpack has collapsible bowls, mat, food dispenser, places for dog treats and toys plus three bacon flavored dog treats, three stuffed toys, a cactus, sheep, and a happy face.

232 Homemade Caramels

Donated by Kaila Allen

These delicious hand-crafted caramels are made with homemade sweetened condensed milk and honey. The chewy caramel is topped with layer of chocolate for the perfect combination of chocolate and caramel.

233 Chocolate Oat Bars

Donated by Melissa Dubose

This adorable tin is an 8 by 5-inch red oval with festive holiday scenes on the lid.  The bars made with semi-sweet chocolate, pecans, and oats are sure to make your mouth water. What a holiday delight!

234 Handcrafted Men and Women Scarves

Donated by Mitsy Kit and made by Jeanette Kutash

The infinity scarf is 6.5 inches wide by 39 inches long and is made out of three 13-inch fleece pieces with a white fleece ribbon border. The fleece fabric is black with white deer and moose silhouettes, green pine trees, and large white and red snowflake prints. This item is generally considered more stylish for women.

The other long scarf is 6.5 inches wide by 52 inches long and is made out of several 13-inch fleece pieces with a white fleece ribbon border. The fleece fabric is black, with white deer and moose silhouettes, green pine trees, and large white and red snowflake prints. This item is generally considered more stylish for men.

235 Delectable Sweets Just for You!

Donated by Catalina Martinez and her guide dog Elroy

Enjoy the wonderful assortment of goodies. This excellent package includes one pound of assorted saltwater taffy, one-half pound of each: chocolate fudge, chocolate walnut fudge, cookies and cream fudge, peanut butter, and chocolate fudge; and medium size bags of each: caramel popcorn, Main Street mix (combination of caramel, cheddar and buttered) popcorn, caramel cashew popcorn, dark chocolate sea salt popcorn, and cheese lover’s popcorn. Share with friends and family or just keep this delicious assortment for yourself. Package will be shipped directly to the winner since all items are made fresh daily. Hayward Gourmet Popcorn, https://popcornalicious.haywardgourmet.com

236 Silver Tone, 3 Necklace Steam Punk Set

Donated by Leslie Charlson

Necklace 1:

8-inch ball and bead chain in silver tone, features a replica of the inner workings of a pocket watch adorned with two multi-colored Swarovski crystals.

Necklace 2:

Silver tone necklace on a 9-inch adjustable link chain. The pendant has antique silver and black tones. The face is steam punk style. It has gears and cogs surrounded by a pocket watch-like face. Inside the pendant is a piece of turquoise-colored felt that peeks through the pendant face. To add a dab of your favorite essential oil or perfume on the felt piece, Remove the chain to open the pendant.

Necklace 3:

This silver tone necklace is a 1-1/2 inch tall horned owl with a pair of brilliant crystal eyes. The owl is perched on a curving piece of metal that swoops up above its head. A small crescent moon sits between the owl and the top of the pendant. Cradled in the curve of the crescent moon sits another sparkling crystal.

237 Special Spa Experience

Donated by Terry Suarez

Enjoy an expert led spa experience using the highest quality skin care using Dead Sea minerals and, Dead Sea Salt and even Dead Sea mud! You will receive this experience via home delivery, and then schedule your experience with your expert Consultant!

238 Annie Chiappetta Book Bundle

Donated by Friends In Art

Four books in the bundle and yes, all in print. A book bundle of Annie’s softcover print books, all signed and shipped to the winner. She will also include audible listening codes for two books, Titles: Upwelling: Poems, Follow Your Dog a Story of Love and Trust, Words of Life: Poems and Essays and A String of Stories from the Heart to the Future. The last two also from Audible.com

239 Panasonic Cordless System Phone

Donated by ACB of Connecticut

This cordless phone Has a Full-Duplex Hands-Free Speakerphone, 3000 Station Phone Directory, Talking Caller ID Call Block, Bilingual Menu Support (English / Spanish), 4 HandsetsHear clear, Talking Caller ID alerts in English and Spanish from both base unit and handsets when calls are received.

240 The Pocket Bible

Donated by Rev. Ray Raysor, President DC Council of the Blind 

The Pocket Bible is a self-contained digital device that contains the entire Bible. It is about the size of the old cassette tapes and has navigation buttons that allow forward and backward movement by both book and chapter. It has no moving parts and is rugged and water resistant. The Pocket Bible Player has both an internal speaker and an earphone jack.

  • English Standard Version
  • King James Version
  • New King James Version
  • New American Standard Bible
  • New International Version (NIV)
  • New Living Translation ®
  • Audio Bibles in Spanish Also Available

241 Canadian Holiday Goodies

Donated by Josette Kernaghan

Two dozen homemade holiday whipped shortbread cookies topped with holiday sprinkles and dark chocolate walnut fudge. Yummy!

242 $100 Gift Card to Urbane Salon in Omaha Nebraska

Donated by Ann Brash

Enjoy pampering yourself while in Omaha over a busy week during convention. You can look spectacular for the banquet. Urbane Salon and Day Spa is a full service, Aveda salon offering excellent hair care services for men, women, and children and exceptional spa services. Our skilled stylists will provide you with the quality service you deserve and the style you will love. This salon is three blocks from the hotel in Omaha.

243 AfterShokz OpenComm Wireless Stereo Bone Conduction Bluetooth Headset with Noise-Canceling Boom Microphone

Donated by Leslie Spoone 

Open-Ear Comfort - Patented bone conduction technology delivers premium audio through the cheekbone, keeping you connected and comfortable while working or in transportation, industrial, or business settings.

Multifunction Button - Easy controls to play, pause, skip, activate voice assistant, and answer calls.

Noise-Canceling Boom Microphone - Boom mic cuts out background noise and allows you to make calls in loud environments.

16 Hours of Talk Time - Up to 16 hours of talk time and 8 hours of listen time on a single charge.

244 Homemade Decadent Chocolate Cake Balls

Donated by Linda Allison

Death by Chocolate Cake Balls: Three dozen triple chocolate chunk cake balls. Delectably moist chocolate chunk cake rolled into one-inch balls and dipped in premium milk chocolate. Shipped to the winner.

245 Handcrafted Crocheted Afghan

Donated by Keri Bishop

This handcrafted afghan is white, tan, hunter green and royal blue. The afghan is in a 6 by 6 block pattern each block has a square of white in the lower right corner. Then the square is bordered on the top and left sides with tan, followed by green, then blue. The squares are joined with white crochet and the entire Afghan is bordered in green. This throw-sized afghan measures 43 by 43 inches.