For this donation drive, you’ll definitely want to catch ’em all! We have the Pokemon Evolution Carved Leather Notebook Cover Set created by our amazing crafter, Sam McKoy (aka korvys). With this set of 3 leather notebook covers, you can keep the record of your adventures through the world safe in style, and for years to come (just remember to apply oil or other leather conditioning products occasionally).
Each cover will fit a standard pocket sized Moleskine hardcover notebook (included), which can be replaced as needed.

The covers feature hand-tooled designs of the Generation 1 starter Pokèmon and their evolutions, are dyed to match, and have a snap fastened strap to hold them closed in your bag.

These covers are made from vegetable tanned cowhide leather, and stitched with waxed nylon thread.

Donate $8.02 (or multiples thereof) for a chance to win this prize. We’ll run this donation drive until 4:15am PST.

Hoooooooly Bus. This Epic Pokemon Needlepoint has been shown on camera extensively now, but let me put it in perspective. The crafter on this spent over A YEAR creating this needlepoint. It is around half a Kathleen tall from what I could see and contains every original Pokemon from Gen 1.

This DONATION DRIVE could be yours! Any donations of $14.30 or multiples thereof until 5:00 PM will get you an entrance to win this one way ticket to Pokemon Masterdom.

Pokemon Needlepoint

Created & Donated by Keroan

Haven’t you always wanted to catch them all? Let’s assume that for nostalgia’s sake, we can draw the line at the original 151 Pokemon – now YOU can indeed be the proud owner of a full collection without walking entirely around Australia and hoping your phone battery doesn’t die, or struggling with your old gameboy cables. This Pokemon piece is truly epic; for its completion, its crafter Keroan put in over 1 year of daily stitching for a couple hours a day! Enjoy it as an art piece to make your neighbors jealous or as a totem to complete your Dratini summoning circle – the choice is yours. If you want to be the very best like no one ever was, help out some children and become the Pokemon collector you were born to be!

Materials:
This needlepoint is made of traditional needle pointing aria, DMC pearl & matte floss. It measures 29″ by 16″ (borders are all approximately one inch for mounting).

The original pattern for this piece was created by Servotron on the Sprite Stitch forum boards.

About the Artist:
Kelly, aka Keroan, first learned to sew from her mother, who hoped to teach her to quilt and needlepoint rugs. But Kelly realized one can only have so many cats the walls before it looks too ridiculous to have friends over. Therefore, Kelly turned her needle to more geeky purposes and has ascended to a higher plane of sewing.

We are extremely fortunate to have a last-minute giveaway item make it to the Lunar Module Mk.2. We will be running this beautiful Pokemon Cross Stitch Sampler as a Donation Drive! Featuring the starters from the first generation of games front and center, the cuteness factor of this piece has already been rated over 9000 by Jamie of Child’s Play.

Any donations of $8.40 or multiples thereof until 5:05 PM PST will get you entries to win this piece.

As dawn approaches, three of our silent auction lots are coming to a close. Remember, in addition to the live auctions and giveaways we run on air, we also have silent auctions running around the clock here on desertbus.org. Here’s the Silent Auctions that are ending very soon (click the thumbnail to hop directly to the auction)…

While your on our Silent Auctions page, be sure to check out the other auctions we have coming up throughout the rest of the run. And, as always, a special thanks to all our crafters and donators whom have contributed these great items for this year’s auctions and giveaways!

All right, lovelies, you have 90 minutes to bid on these great items in our silent auctions!

Gentlemen Geek Lot

So many things in here for the nerdy gentleman in your life! Just a tiny selection of all the stuff in the lot: An Earl Grey Tea patch, a Badger patch and an owl patch from Doctor Geof, a Dead Rising 3 t-shirt (unisex size M) and a copy of Dead Rising 3 signed by the dev team. A Twilight Zone notebook, a set of Rooster Teeth Achievement Hunter buttons, a Minecraft keychain, and a glass Desert Bus keychain made by Helen Cowart. There is so much more in the lot so go check it out!

Hand-drawn Pokemon Buttons

These hand-drawn, hand-assembled pins carry on the tradition from last year’s set; they’re now in their second forms! So adorable!

Wooden Dragon Painting

This is an acrylic painting of a dragon mid-attack, by talented illustrator Tina Bongorno. It’s gorgeous and will be an excellent centrepiece for any geek’s room!

It’s that time again, kiddos! If you donate $5.18 or a multiple for the next 45 minutes (until 5:38am), you will be entered for a chance to win a fabulous games pack for the Nintendo DS! Prize pack includes: Pokemon Conquest, Magical Starsign, Pokemon Black version 2, Pokemon White version 2, Transformers Prime and The Amazing Spiderman.

These games are REGION-FREE and we’ve thrown in some really delicious pig sweeteners too!

Every multiple of $5.18 is a chance to win!

Get yourself poké or Portal gear. Driver Cam has been so engrossing: challenges, giveaways, general goofiness. While Andy takes us through a tension-release exercise (or is it tension-retention?), I’m writing to ensure the busking doesn’t cause you to tragically miss out on silent auctions. (The “I” in this case is Shandi.)

set of 3 Pokemon Eevee-lutions Venetian Carnival Masks

by Cultureshock

Portal ‘Keep Calm’ Needlepoint

by Julisana

Pokemon coasters

by Jen Bagdasian

These auctions end in approximately 2 hours from this posting time, at 10 a.m. PST.
Check out all the silent auctions remaining here: https://desertbus.org/silent-auctions/.

Bidders away.