Guess what folks?!? It's my 100th blog post. And what am I gonna do with that post? Well I'll tell you. I'm going to have a giveaway! I'm so excited! This is my first (and hopefully not last) giveaway on the blog.
So remember last week when I posted about the super rad Lesley's new Etsy shop? Well... I did... and its new... and you should check it out. The poster prints are awesome! I can't wait to get mine. I'm ordering the Love print (the one of the far right) and its going right up on my shelf above the couch, along with some photos from our shoot with Will. I'll say its the best idea ever, even though I'm totally un-original and I'm stealing the idea from right in her picture. hehe. Anyway... I don't want you to feel left out so I'm giving one away. Its your choice, you can get the Joy print (which is lovely), the Sunshine print (which will make the clouds go away but this is not a fact so don't sue me) or the LOVE print (which I'm getting) So it's you choice. You have 5 ways to enter. So get to entering! This is open until Monday 2/20/12 midnight EST.
P.S. Rafflecopter is helping me present this super fun entry system soooo make sure to click I DID THIS after each entry otherwise your entries wont get counted and you wont win and you'll be sad!
P.P.S. I'll post about Valentines Day tomorrow for now I'm a
little distracted with a sick kitty. Here is me and the babe at the Cat Dr. He looks so sad
with his cold. On a side note I didn't even know kitties could get
colds. But he has an Upper Respiratory Infection... they think. For now
he's on antibiotics after that we'll see.
This is not a do it yourself craft, not a fun tip, trick or technique but more of something that's been on my heart over the past few weeks. So you have been warned, you can skip Day 9 and move onto Day 10 tomorrow if you'd prefer but I'd like you to read it.
I actually wrote this post the other day, it was something that was sitting on my heart and I wanted to post it but felt like it wasn't finished. Until this morning. I knew how it needed to end. So here is the Giving post.
I will be the first to tell you that I am not a giving person. I want to be but I'm selfish. At least I can admit it. I am a selfish bratty person. But I want to be better. I want to give without wanting something in return. And by return I mean give without getting something out of it, in my mind. Like the "Wow, I just did a good thing" feeling. It makes me think of that Friends episode where Pheobe keeps trying to do good without feeling good about it, like when she got stung by a bee so that the bee would feel really cool and macho in front of its other bee friends, but then she realized that it died after stinging her. I want to give to others in need and not expect to feel awesome about it. The thing about that Friends episode is that it reminds me that its okay to give and feel good about what you did. Tomorrow I will be participating in the Help Portrait Program along with thousands of other photographers and volunteers. Its something that means a lot to me. Here is what it's about, I stole this from the site and watch the video too please:
In December, photographers around the world will be grabbing their cameras, finding people in need and taking their picture. When the prints are ready, the photographs get delivered.
Growing up we didn't have much money. My parents are divorced and between both households it was rough growing up. We were never able to have the luxury of a fancy photo until we were older and finances where better and that's only if you consider JCPenney a fancy photo studio. Looking back I wish that there had been something like this available for our family to take part in. I hound on this a lot, but photos are important. Remembering your life is important. And that is what Help Portrait does. It helps you remember your memories by photographers getting together and taking your photo and asking for nothing in return. I have a small background in Photography, but I don't plan on being there to photograph. We have enough awesome photographers here in Nashville that I don't feel like that is where I am needed. I want to be there to help out in whatever way they need me to. I just want to be there to help. I am huge sap, I cry at the video from Help Portrait maybe because I can understand some of the people who might be there, maybe because I can sympathize with them or maybe because I just can't understand what they are going through. I don't know why it is that I cry when I watch that video, but I do. I know that tomorrow what I will be doing wont be to benefit me, to make me feel better as a person, I know tomorrow will be about the people who are in need, financially, physically and mentally, those people are who need my support, my shoulder to cry on, and my strength to help them. And maybe, just maybe we can help them feel like that one day is a good day among all the things that they've been going through (both know and unknown).
That is all. Now that you've just heard my ramblings of stuff.
The fact is that I have an amazing friend, Kayla Aimee, who has an amazing daughter, Scarlette, who was born at the age of 25 weeks. She was a super micro-preemie, weighing in at 1 pound 8.6 ounces. I have yet to meet this wonderful babe, this amazingly strong babe, but I am forever changed by her strength and thankful that she was one of the very very lucky ones who survived being a micro-preemie and that I will have the opportunity to meet her when the winter quarantine has passed. :) You hear that K.A. I'm coming to get ya. ;)
K.A. shared a story on her blog yesterday that really tugged at my heart, it actually made me cry... while in public. Don't judge, I'm an emotional girl. Its just a really touching thing. I'll let you read it here and then you can come back... Don't worry, I'll wait. I even made the link open in another window. ;) So since you read her story you know what I'm about to ask you to do. Please take a moment to make a Christmas or holiday beanie. They are pretty easy to make. You could probably even use one of those knitting looms from Walmart and double up the yarn to make it tiny. Those knifty knitter looms are super easy to use. You can donate it to her NICU and comment on her blog post about it, or you can even donate to one of your local NICU's. It won't bother me one bit, just do it. Sometimes, and 99% of all times, it's the little things that can make your day brighter, so why not bring just a little sunshine to someone who doesn't expect it, or someone who is having a rough time knowing that their little babe is sitting in the NICU on one of those holiday's that mean the most to you. Wow. That was an intesnsly long run-on sentence. But really guys and gals, this would mean so much to me, but more for K.A. if you could do this!
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