About Us

Wonderful Witchy Women was founded in 2006 by Cheryl Bailey.

After listening to a sermon at her church in Saratoga, Cheryl felt called to do something more
meaningful with her group of friends who met annually to have lunch and wear fun Halloween hats
just before Halloween. She asked the group if they would get behind her to raise donations for the Heritage
Home in San Jose, California, a home for unwed and pregnant women and their small babies.
The women were excited about the idea and together they sent two truckloads of useful household items, baby clothes, personal care products and so much more. The event was held this 2nd year at Steamers Restaurant in Los Gatos, California.

The following year, Margie Montgomery, also of Saratoga, California, stepped up as Co-Chair.
Together, with 125 women from the local communities in attendance, they raised over $4,200.00 plus a van loaded with more donated new items for the home, mothers and children. The event was held this 3rd year at California Cafe in Los Gatos.

The event will always be held the Monday preceeding Halloween.

Event Information

WITCHY WOMEN RIDES AGAIN!
SAVE THE DATE!!!! Thurs Oct 27, 2011.

NEW LOCATION!! San Jose Fairmont Hotel
Time: 10:30am-2:30pm
Cost: 95$ pp
Tables of ten may be reserved - watch for release of ticket sales in late August
To get the invite: email cbailey676@aol.com

Click here to download 2011 SAVE THE DATE press release.

If you would like to make a donation - cash to a charity, item for the auction table or in-kind service,
please email Cheryl Bailey cbailey676@aol.com

Past Years Events

2010 Results and Event Highlights: We raised over $100,000.00!!!!
Thank you for all of your donations! Together we can make a difference in other people's lives.

The event was attended by over 250 beautifully attired women wearing Halloween and witch hats. The event is all about having a great afternoon while raising funds for people helping themselves.
We benefitted Heritage Home in San Jose and Opportunity International. Speakers from both organization were on hand to tell us about what they do and why. Funds were raised through the silent auction, raffled item and major donor gifts.
A homemade hat contest and the raffle were some of the highlights of the event only upstaged by a beautiful young woman and her baby who attended the event from The Heritage Home.
Leslie Robideux, owner of Bettinas Boutique in Los Gatos, and her models presented a lovely fashion show as well.

Special Thank you to our major donors:
Joe Escobar Diamonds donated a lovely 18K white gold and baroque pearl bracelet we auctioned off. Value was $1,500.
Dr. Iris Gin or Kalia Dermatology in Los Gatos donated a new treatment valued at $2,400.00 we auctioned off.
Two anonymous major donors--thank you for making it possible by doubling our raised funds!!!

Thank you to our many wonderful and generous auction donors:
AAA Fence Company
Jay and Kyra Adams
Jane Ardell Tutoring
Auction Donors
Almaden Valley Aesthetics
Athletic Performance
Jim and Cheryl Bailey, Aero Bailey
Bay Shore Lyric Children’s Opera
Burke Williams
California Living, Saratoga
Cathy O’Brien and Joe Malone Products
Cheryl Bailey, CB’s Bags
Cherish by Erica
Cindy Zuccarino, Carlisle Collection
Classic Kids Photography
Benefit, Los Gatos
Bettina’s Boutique
Bianco
Bob Gilmores’s
BowWowser
Brighton, Westfield
Camp Cardinale Dog Care
Courtside Tennis Pros/ Gordon Collins and staff
Courtside Club Personal Training
Cover Story, Los Altos
Deep Reflections Car Detailing
Donati Family Vineyards
Enoteca La Storia
Faces by Design
Fields Family Chiropractic
Frankie Bella Hair Salon
Gene’s Fine Foods
Go Smile
Golden State Warriors
Tony and Denise Matley, Creative Drinks
Happy PC’s
Harlows
Haute House
IFly - SF
Scott and Carol Hutchings
Kennebeck Fine Art
Scott and Joanie Kriens
La Rinconada Country Club
Cheri Leroy, Road and Fields Skin Care
Lori Rose Photography
Margie Montgomery
Nordstrom, Westfield Mall
Obsession Box
Petroglyphs
Pier 39
Mary Preston, Professional Piano Teacher
Perfect One Nails
Tangles Hair Salon
The Los Gatos Company Store
MaryAnn Scolari Interior Design
Nimbus Salon
Nothing Bundt Cakes
Screen Solutions
Southern Coins and Precious Metals
Tassels
We’ve Got Your Back Store
Rick and Caron Whitacre
Ukulele Jams


Special Thank You to Leslie Robideaux, Owner, Bettina’s Boutique, Los Gatos and her models for providing a fabulous fashion show and La Rinconada Country Club for providing another beautiful venue.
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2009 Results/Event Highlights:
WWW raised over $32,000.00 plus sent two car loads of donations to the Heritage Home this year!
After our expenses, we gave a check for $25,000.00 to the Heritage Home.
Over 210 people attended the event at La Rinconada Country Club in Los Gatos.

Joe Escobar Diamonds donated a lovely pair of diamond earring which were raffled off after three handsome
men sold Godiva Chocolates, donated by Godiva Chocolate Boutique in San Jose. We raised over $2,700 on that item alone.
Other highlights include a beautiful peridot and diamond pendant generously donated by Deja Jewelers in Saratoga which was highlighted in the auction. Joanie and Scott Kriens donated a ride in a prestine 1930's Lincoln and dinner for two at La Foret Restaurant in San Jose. That sold three times! Cheryl and Jim Bailey donated a romantic champange plane ride for four over the San Francisco Bay at dusk.
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2008 event made over $20,000.00!!! Many individual donations and auction items accounted
for increasing our numbers from $4,200.oo in 2007 to this big jump. Many thanks to all of you for helping get us there!!!

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To be added to the Evite:
- please send your email address to cbailey676@aol.com

About Our Charities

Opportunity International's Greg Davis, Cheryl Bailey and Carolyn Harrell

2011 Charities- We are adding two new charities to benefit:

Angels on Stage - a local program which annually places children with all types and degrees of disabilities into a stage production
www.angelsonstage.org

Breakthrough Silicon Valley - prepares academically motivated middle school students with limited educational opportunities for success in rigorous college-preparatory high school programs and entry into four-year colleges
www.breakthroughsv.org

Heritage Home- our primary benefactor
www.cityteam.org/san-jose/heritage-home/

HERITAGE HOME - ONE WOMAN'S TESTIMONY

A Testimony of God’s Goodness & Transforming Power:

My life before Heritage Home was a complete disaster. It all started with my childhood, how I was raised, the role models I had, and the horrifying experiences I went through. I had been through so much by the age of 14 that I dealt with my feelings of anger, sadness, fear and even happiness by using drugs. That’s how my story begins.

I ran away numerous times and was in and out of Juvenile Hall until I was 18 years old. After that, I got deeper into my drug addiction. I was homeless and doing anything to feed my addiction. The next thing I knew, I was pregnant, homeless and living in an abandoned trailer with no food, water or heat. One morning I woke up and realized I needed help. For once in my life, I put someone else first: my daughter. Something inside me told me to call my dad and ask for help. Four hours later, I was on a bus and then on the internet, looking for a place for pregnant women. I left everything behind; drugs, my boyfriend and even old memories. I called Heritage Home, went for an interview and was accepted an hour later. I walked out with a big smile on my face, saying “Thank you!”

While being at Heritage Home, I have discovered who my higher power is, God. God has helped me with my addiction and with my daughter. He has given me strength, courage and a willingness to change my whole outlook. He has given me life, and helped me accept myself and others.
My life has changed dramatically since coming to Heritage Home. The program staff and volunteers have taught me many life skills including: parenting skills, relationship skills, financial planning, respecting myself and others, how to be independent, how to view things from another perspective, as well as how to overcome my addiction through the twelve–step program. The schooling provided has helped me start the process of getting my GED. Most importantly, Heritage Home has given me the right skills to become a good mom to Gracie Lynne, my beautiful daughter.

Brittany

Heritage Home's Nellie Lee with the WWW Team

Click for more Heritage Home testimonies and for Haritage Home quarterly newsletter.

For more information on the Heritage Home: www.cityteam.org/heritagehome

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Erica Rix Funding contact: mccall_jen@yahoo.com

Donations may be made directly to the Erica Rix fund:
Erica Rix Fund c/o Jennifer McCall 16190 Los Gatos Blvd Suite 102 Los Gatos, CA 95032

Recent news story on Erica Rix
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26850113/

News stories:
http://www.nbc11.com/news/17527229/detail.html?dl=mainclick

Donors help girl, 6, whose hand was severed
Meredith May, Chronicle Staff Writer

Monday, September 22, 2008

(09-21) 19:10 PDT Los Gatos --
The Bay Area is coming to the aid of a first-grader whose hand was severed in a bizarre jump-rope accident.

More Bay Area News:

Painting crews on the Golden Gate Bridge have taken up a collection, and teachers are offering to tutor 6-year-old Erica Rix of Los Gatos. The family phone keeps ringing with fundraising offers.
Two weeks ago, Erica was riding in the back of her mother's Chevy Suburban with one end of her jump rope wrapped around her wrist when the other end dangled from the back window, got caught in one of the wheels and caused her hand to be cut off.
"I heard a thunk and thought, 'What was that?' " her mother Allison Rix, 32, said Sunday.
Her daughter started to scream. Rix pulled over on Danes Road and saw blood shooting from her daughter's wrist.

Rix believes her daughter would have died if not for the drivers who stopped to help.
One of them, 48-year-old Jim Bailey of Saratoga, "whipped off his belt like a superhero," Rix said, and made a tourniquet to stop the blood.
He held Erica while she asked him what happened, and whether she was going to get a cast like the one she admired on a classmate.
Motorist Gail Andrews located the girl's hand in the street, with the jump rope still wrapped around it. She stood over it and prevented traffic from hitting it, Rix said.
After 10 hours of surgery and nine days in intensive care, Erica's hand is reattached.
She's recovering at home, taking visits from well-wishers and playing the game Sorry with her mother.
Surgeons repaired the bones, veins and arteries in Erica's hand. She doesn't have feeling or movement, but doctors hope she will regain sensation after upcoming surgeries to work on her tendons and nerves.
"She's the luckiest little girl in the world," Rix said.
"She had a couple days of depression when she got home, but now she's back at full energy," she said.

E-mail Meredith May at mmay@sfchronicle.com.
This article appeared on page B - 2 of the San Francisco Chronicle

Press Media

2010 Press coverage: http://www.mercurynews.com/saratoga/ci_16253128?source=rss&nclick_check=1

www.svcn.com/archives/lgwt/20061220/style1.shtml

How Can I Help?

You can be a part of our mission to help others in many ways. Please consider joining us in our efforts to help others through the following ways:

1- Financial donations to the designated charities found under About Our Charities tab

2- Buy a ticket to the event. Everyone is welcome to come to the event.
(We expect this years event to sell out, our capacity is 150, so send in checks early! In the event the luncheon is sold out, checks will be returned un-cashed to sender).

3- Donate a new item, restaurant coupon, goods or services or any other usable item for our silent auction

4- Donating items directly to the Heritage Heritage Home

Here is the list of items:

1. Baby bath tubs
2. Baby Hygiene
(Shampoo, lotion, baby Q-tips, oil ECT.)
3. New born diapers
4. 0-3 month pacifiers
5. 0-6 month clothes (boy & girls)
6. bottle liners
7. slippers (s-xl)
8. robes ( l & xl)
9. New socks & underwear (for mothers)
10. Alarm Clocks
11. Larger Maternity clothing (xxl & xxxl)
12. Baby wipes
13. Night lights & Batteries
14 Burp Rags
15 Receiving Blankets
16. Twin Blankets & Comforters
17. Throw Rugs 3’-5’
18. Glue sticks
19. Light weight vacuums
20. Brooms & Mops
21. Deodorant
22. Newborn Hand Mittens
23. Strollers & car seats
24. Laundry detergents
25. Binder paper
26. Spiral Notebooks
27. Toothpaste & Toothbrush
28. Shampoo & Conditioner
29. Small cribs
30. Baby monitors
31. Garden tools
32. Meat
33. House painting
34. Blinds for the dining room
35. Picnic table

· Layette Cloths – New born gowns Newborn PJ’s
· Sleeping Wedges
· Car seat holders (Snap N-go)
· Q tips, nail scissors, diaper ointment, diaper wipe warmers
· Breast feeding pads
· Disposable cameras