Featured Item: Delectable Custom Cake for 100

Here’s your chance to bid on a show-stopper cake for your next big event!

Piedmont Harvest Festival prizewinner and Beach mom Maria Holmes’ cakes not only look incredible, they taste absolutely delicious. Let your imagination soar — Maria will create a tiered or sculpted cake for you baked from scratch using organic and local ingredients.

Your delectable dessert centerpiece can be virtually any flavor. Tried-and-true recipes favor the European layer cake tradition, with pastry crème, dark chocolate, and liqueurs often being key ingredients. Choose your own theme or colors to generate ideas, or send a picture of the object you’d like reproduced in cake.

Your guests will be amazed!

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Featured Item: A Tahoe Winter Wonderland Cabin

Imagine spending a week in December in a Tahoe winter wonderland. Celebrate your winter holiday in this spacious cabin and spend your days skiing, snowboarding, sledding, playing in the snow, and relaxing in a hot tub under the stars.

At 4 bedrooms and 3 baths, the Callahan-Harris family cabin in Tahoe Donner sleeps 10 comfortably and is perfect for two families.

Located just minutes off the I-80 freeway, the cabin is four minutes to the local Tahoe Donner Ski Resort and a short drive to Squaw Valley, Alpine Meadows, Boreal, and Northstar. If you need a little retail therapy after all that snow activity, enjoy the shops of Old Town Truckee and the restaurants and amenities of the Tahoe Donner Association.

Cabin equipped with wifi and cable.

Ready to bid? Go to the Spring Fling auction site now!

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Bajapalooza III — Piedmont’s Own Music Festival

Gather all your friends for the Third Annual Bajapalooza, Piedmont’s rocking music festival!

Last year’s concert featured the awesome The Welcome Matt — this year’s concert will be held at The Wooden Duck in Berkeley, and two performers will be a surprise! (Who could they be?! We’ll never tell.)

To find out, join us on The Wooden Duck’s expansive outdoor patio complete with stage and bar. We’ll have great food, cold drinks, twinkling lights, incredible music, and tons of fun.

Buy tickets online now at the Spring Fling auction website!

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Monster Bash — A Scary Good Halloween Party

Are you ready to party the way you did in the days before you had kids?

Buy your tickets to Monster Bash 2012 and get ready for a frighteningly thrilling Halloween weekend party at one of San Francisco’s hottest underground clubs.

Costumes are suggested, and a gourmet food truck, open bar, live DJ, and dance floor carnage are guaranteed. Watch out for the resident poltergeist!

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Win a Puerto Vallarta Getaway

Enjoy a week in a tropical paradise!

Win the chance to stay in this fabulous Puerto Vallarta home and you’ll experience living in old Mexico while enjoying the modern conveniences of a brand-new deluxe apartment that’s just steps from the best shops, art galleries, and world class gourmet restaurants in the center of Puerto Vallarta’s charming Old Town.

There’s plenty of room for more than one family — the apartment sleeps four adults in two airy, well-lit bedrooms and any number of children, on air mattresses, in the 412 sq. ft roofed portal.

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Sneak Preview: Silent and Live Auctions

Get ready to bid on some amazing items at the silent auction and live auction Saturday, May 5! Event catalogs will be distributed to ticket holders starting this Friday.

Win unique experiences that you won’t find anywhere else — you can be the first to see Brave, the new and hotly anticipated release from Disney/Pixar, directed by Piedmont’s own Mark Andrews, at an exclusive screening at Pixar studios in Emeryville. Or you can bid to win an exceptional private dinner for six at the Reverie Winery in Napa prepared by Rob Lam of Butterfly Restaurant on Pier 33 on the Embarcadero.

Incredible experiences for the whole family include behind-the-scenes tours of Fenton’s Creamery and the brand new Baia Pasta factory in Jack London Square, a very special American Girl doll, and a delectable entire year of desserts made by some of Piedmont’s very best bakers!

And don’t forget to look out for fabulous vacations — destinations include Palm Springs, Hawaii, and Cabo San Lucas — or to be prepared to cast your bids for sought-after tickets to top sporting events and restaurants, exclusive wines, and stunning jewelry.

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Step Back in Time — Arrive at Spring Fling in A Vintage Car!

Get into the Gatsby spirit with a very special ride to Spring Fling. Imagine being chauffeured to the event in this amazing 1932 Cadillac Z16 Dual Cowl Phaeton — one of only three ever built!

This fabulous car seats three passengers comfortably — pair up with another one of the three other vintage rides on offer and arrive in style with a group of friends.

Bid now for this truly a once-in-a-lifetime experience!

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