Tuesday, July 27, 2010

More Help Needed!

The Beads of Courage program is stalled at 13th! We MUST make it to 10th place or better before the end of this month.

So I'm doing another give away on this blog. If you voted on the other post, I'll throw your name in the hat again!

IF YOU REPOST ON YOUR BLOG, I'LL GIVE YOU FIVE CHANCES TO WIN!

You MUST tell me how many days you voted and provide links if you reposted!!!


OR...You can text your vote Text* 100217 to Pepsi (73774)


Here's what you are playing for:

This heart was made as a prototype for one of my Memorial Glass Beads. It is very special to me as the final bead was to contain the ashes of a dear canine friend. You can see the final version containing Allie's ashes HERE.

And, 2nd place will be a $20 gift certificate to either Holly's Folly Glass Beads / Sweet Stampen Rubber Stamps or Modern Rubber Stamps  - Winner's choice.


This giveaway is not endorsed by Beads of Courage or Pepsi!

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Help!

This is a charity that every beadmaker I know is involved with!  It's a wonderful charity that allows a child with a serious illness to tell their story with beads. Beads of Courage has applied for a $25,000  grant from Pepsi. Pepsi is giving away over a million every month and allowing the public to decide who gets the money!


Since voting began on the 1st, we've been steadily moving up. But only the top 10 charities in the $25K category can win. And now, we've not only stalled, we've moved back a step! So...I'm imploring ALL my friends to PLEASE VOTE! If you are on Facebook, you don't even have to give them your email.




And did I mention??? You can VOTE ONCE A DAY????  For you pet lovers, there's some amazing pet charities in the running for funds. I myself am a sucker for vets (veterans) and pets!  But please vote for Beads of Courage! Watch the movie... it will make you cry!


And... for those of you voting this weekend, I'm having a give away on my bead blog. If you vote, please note the rank number in the comments of the bead blog and I will enter you in my give away!

Da fine print: Neither Pepsi Co nor Beads of Courage endorses or supports this even in any way shape or form. This is my way of getting help for a fantastic cause!

Monday, July 19, 2010

More Grossness

I was headed to the pool for my nightly swim when I almost stepped on this!

Two dead birds in less than a week! And the weird thing was, I heard on the radio the day before that we are supposed to notify... somebody... about dead birds. I hope they consider this proper notification!

Friday, July 16, 2010

All About the People

Oskar is asking all the dogs to write about their people this weekend. Click on Oskar's logo to participate or read more about doggie bloggers.  So here's our "tail" straight from the dog's paws:
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This blog is officially my mom's ... but clearly, I am the star.

My mom hates having her picture taken. She literally hides from the camera but this is her Facebook profile picture:


This is one of her favorite photos of the two of us:
O.K. so she likes being all mysterious but those two pictures should tell you a lot. She laughs a lot...usually at me or herself and ... she loves ME!

I don't know a lot about my mom before I came along but I do know that she came from far away from here. She used to put me in a box and take me there...it's probably called Lucyana or something like that but I call it Granny's and Bailey's. My Granny and my cousin Bailey live just 10 houses apart. There's good eatin' at Granny's and I run off all the extra calories chasing Bailey. I don't get to go there with mom any more because the airlines charge too much money for that box. Mom wishes they would just let us sit together. But it's O.K. because I hated that stupid box and my Granny comes here every so often to cook for me.

My mom is home every day working on her computer, torching her glass beads or we go to the shop where she makes her rubber stamps. Mom also teaches classes at the local colleges - mostly on cookie decorating or beading. I can't go with her there but I supervise all the packing and unpacking that she has to do for that.

Mom says she used to have to leave home every day for work. She's done that a few times since I came here and I hated it. Mostly we are together all the time but she tells me that when she had my older sis, Maggie May, she was gone a lot and it would make her cry and she prayed and prayed to be a "work at home dog mommy." The last year of Maggie's life, Mom got her wish. But, now, she tells me she doesn't have enough work and that she needs to go back to working away from home. I know she worries a lot so I try to get her out to the creek as much as I can. That makes both of us really happy.

A few years after I got here, Mom had to have surgery on her feet and she was in a wheelchair for a long time. She gained some weight and that's why she's so funny about having her picture taken. But she told me I could put up this video of us that my auntie took on New Year's Day.

My mom was trying to help my auntie shoot a photo of Twinkie crossing a log in the stream. Only, we had a flood and there were no logs. Finally we found a small tree and every time Mom went to place it across the stream, I would steal it. I made my mom laugh soooo hard! We never did get to take a picture of Twinkie because I kept stealing that tree!

My mom says she loves to see me smile and that's why she takes me out to the creek every day. She is always making treats for me and she takes me out for cream when she meets friends at Starbucks or Coffee Bean. And she buys me an ice cream when it's hot. And she always cuddles with me on the sofa and sleeps with me.

I had a lot of other homes in my first four months. People would take me home and take me back to jail the very next day. I was sad. Then my Mom came and got me and I think I hit the doggie jackpot.

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Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Uh, That's B A R TEEEE

More evidence of my dork-hood (or aging!):

Hiking Buddy (a/k/a Hank & Sue's Mom): "Wow, Bart is so pretty!"

Me: "Yes, she was Miss Los Angeles."

HB: "The dog??"

Me: "Oh. I thought you said Barb."