Blue Print Hosts WOKC Guild Spring Fling

Blue Print Store in Uptown was the venue for the WOKC Guild’s Spring Fling on Thursday, April 21.  Blue Print is a new home décor store located in a gorgeous 1920’s house on Fairmount Street recently opened by a group of Park Cities women:  Cynthia Collins, Caroline Davis, Leslie Jenkins, Carrie Jane Pogoloff, and Lucy Ward (four are interior designers).  The property also features a beautiful backyard with a brick patio and pool that makes it perfect for entertaining inside and outside. 

The setting was perfect for the ladies’ night out as it offered all the things we like best: shopping, friends, cocktails and food!  After a day of rain, the skies cleared and temperatures were perfect for the 75+ guests to mingle outside and meander through the two-story house to view the exquisite selection of contemporary furniture and accessories, antiques and jewelry.  Guild Officers Kristi Cole, Blair Lechtenberger, Katherine Coker, Kelley McDonald & Evelyn Costolo were on hand to greet the guests as were Blue Print Hosts; Lucy Ward, Cynthia Collins, Caroline Davis & Lisa Barnes.  Blue Print donated a beautiful $300 necklace to the WOKC Guild for a raffle prize.  Libby Godlove was the lucky winner!  Blue Print also purchased party favors for the guests, a blue (is there any other color?) umbrella with both the Blue Print logo and the WOKC logo. 

Guests included Carol & Frank Riddick, Lynn McBee, Tina Mathews, Heidi Schaller, Emily Smith, Amy Gibbs, Hallie Lawrence, Lisa Besserer, Shelley Koeijmans, Rachel Wallace and Lara Ross.  WOKC Board members included Ann Podeszwa, Gail Horton, Ann Cain and Mary Dowling. Quite a bit of shopping was mixed into the evening with home accessories and jewelry being the hits of the party.   

Guests were asked to bring an item or a $5 donation for the Wipe Out Kids’ Cancer Buddy Bags.  A WOKC Buddy Bag is filled with hospital stay necessities and personal items, and given to each child admitted to Children's Medical Center Dallas/Legacy for cancer treatment.  The Buddy Bag program was designed to help ease the transition from home to hospital for these newly diagnosed families and to send a message to the children and their families that there are people who care about them at a time when they need to know that the most.  

The Guild is the women’s auxiliary for Wipe Out Kids’ Cancer and is passionate about making a difference in the world of pediatric cancer and to supporting the vision of a day when children are living… cancer free. The Guild has three evening events for women during the year with the purpose of raising awareness and support for finding better treatments and a cure for pediatric cancer.

 For a complete album of pictures from the Guild Spring Fling click here