Hi Melinda! Just let me know which date you'd prefer. All the black dates are available.
As for a PP, it's not mandatory to offer one. But if you do want to try to find one, the first place I'd check is the sponsors list. There's a link to all the sponsors at the top of the page. I'll bet if you contact one or two of them, you'll get a positive response. The only one I wouldn't suggest right away is Keystone Scraps (even though they are awesome about donating) because they've donated quite a few recently and we can't expect them to give away all their ideas.