Beelieve

a 5k, a cause, and a chance to win a prize :)

i know you haven't seen a lot of me lately...i am always on the run...or running.  some days it seems i am running in place but not this time.  i have decided to enter my first 5k...countdown is on and i am ready!

well...maybe not quite...here is where i beg and bribe

you see there is the genetic condition called MPS (Mucopolysaccharidoses) and the whole race is dedicated to raise money for cures, research and help to families affected by it.  Currently there is no cure...and not nearly enough awareness.  if i chose to,  i  could jerk those tears right out of your eyes this very minute...but i'm not going to.   We are going to think positive because i need those vibes and so do the families affected by MPS.   I will also disclose that i know a family affected by it, which is how i learned about how rare it is and how little funding goes to it

the cool coincidence in all this is that a little birdy told me i was ready to run my first 5k.  i surfed to find a nearby one...on a day i had off...that did not start too early....and WHAMO...just like that i found one and was all sorts of excited...my first one...woo hoo...then i saw the cause and tears started rolling out of my eyes...how perfect...how utterly perfect that the universe picked this race for me....SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...i have to do more!

i am raising as much money as i can by begging friends/family/coworkers for donations...still not enough

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO....

i am raffling off this perfect little ki-ki birdy painting who told me a thing or 2 about balance

 

ENTER TO WIN HERE:

i am asking for donations and anyone who donates here will be automatically entered in a drawing to win this painting  on Sunday September 26th

if you prefer to make a donation directly to the race you can do so by following the link near the bottom of the page here and just email me a copy of your receipt to be eligible to have your name entered to win..

Any amount you can offer will be fine, but it is a 5k and in my most humble opinion is at least worth $5 or more...oh...and the art is an original painting by me...love ya, mean it!

 

 

i have never used one of these handy dandy donation buttons so please feel free to let me know if there is a problem...and sorry about any grammar errors...i'm pooped...gotta save my energy for running :)

One World One Heart Give Away

Update again:  It is 10:15 and I need to go to bed so I will be closing comments now.  Thank you all who have commented here it has been my pleasure and I am just as excited to see the results via random generator tomorrow..once I figure it out :)

UPDATE:  COMMENTS WILL BE CLOSED ON FEBRUARY 11TH AROUND 11PM

If you have not heard about it yet you really need to check out the "One World One Heart" giveaway event.  The host Lisa, from A Whimsical Bohemian, has created an event to unite and connect artists around the world in such an exciting way.  I, being 100% Czechoslovakian by nationality, have it in my blood to stop everything and jump aboard this Gypsy Caravan of hers.  Currently there are over 400 participants GIVING AWAY THEIR ART OR GOODIES.  The rules are the same for everyone involved and contest comments will be closed in the late evening on Feb 11.

Without further babble, I am giving away this fun scrabble tile "French Gazebo" pendant complete with sterling silver chain and fun gift tin/traveling case.  I must thank my friend m heart for emailing this event link to me but glad to see some of my other friends are already on board!

SO LEAVE A COMMENT ON THIS POST TO ENTER!!!

(I have now moved this post from remaining on top of my blog)

 

 

Click on the badge below to find out more about this wonderful event!

*Comments will close at midnight EST on 12 February*

 

 

The Winner~hand picked and home grown style

Ah, we have a winner and soon we will all know who it is.  Having a great 41st  birthday by the way, and if the  winner guessed it then they will win bonus prize.   This is the second time doing this post by the way, the first one locked up for some reason and is still all locked up on another screen.  So sorry for the delay.

Let us review the rules shall we?

1. As summer closes tell me what you like about it...stay positive...I am going to bee cold too!
2. Comment only once here and only here to enter
3. Give away ends midnight Sept 6th, see above for official clock link
4. you must promise you will show me what you make with all these fun goodies!
5. if you figured out anything else about this impulsive give away, mention it and you will get an extra bonus surprise!  The answer will bee revealed on September 7th

One of the biggest thrills of this time of year for me is apple picking, especially this year with our first successful crop of apples.

So for all who entered you are taped to the bottom of an apple! (these are the only scissors I allow my husband to touch, hence the way they look)

without further ado, let me get the APPLE OF EVERYONE'S EYE...Pajama Girl!

pause playlist to the right if you want to hear this

The sun was very bright and I really thought the name would have showed better on the video clip once I got in on the computer, but we did take lots of pictures.

Congratulations to "Mayaluna" of maya*made!

An interesting discovery, as I poked around more on Maya's blog just yesterday and checked her links I realized she lives now very near my home town.  Next time I go to visit mom, I hope to try and bribe her to be my tour guide of all the cool new spots in Ithaca, NY.  If Pajama Girl did not have to go to Kindergarten we could pack up and go tomorrow and hand deliver the goods.  She has only been 2 days and I am already feeling the strain on my social life!  No more mid week road trips for a while.

I loved all of your answers and guesses about what today is and your positive energy regarding the change of season. 

Here is our winner's comment:

Karen,
Thanks for sending me your way! I think you knew I would flip out about this tremendous give-away. Looking at you stash, I'm certain that we are kindred spirits. I would appreciate each of the 41 items/categories with gusto and share my creations with you and folks reading maya*made...as I write, I keep scrolling up to look at everything again. I'm not just someone gushing because I want a "freebie"...I'd love to win, but more I'm just so happy to meet you and see we share a similar aesthetic! Okay... onto seasons:

Summer: swimming in the lake/creeks, eating from the garden, catching fireflies, summer dresses, flowers everywhere, my birthday,picking berries, hammocks, after dinner walks on a country road.

Fall: plucking apples from a tree, leaves on fire, carving pumpkins, making costumes, nippy mornings, knitting needles emerging, and little yellow school buses driving down the road.
I'm a great rambler...not so good at riddles. I assumed you were turning 41...but I loved how Gabrielle related it to bees....clever! I'll bee visiting again soon,
Maya

Ok, off to do something chocolate in honor of my bee-day!

Hmmmmmm

what does this mean?

Time is running out...

...for my Mixed Media Mania give away.  Please go there now for your last chance to win a fabulous stash of goodies for a long winter of creating.

time is also running out for me....had to use an old picture of the clock and have to bee at the cage in minutes....thank goodness it is only 3 miles away!

...ps...i just looked at this clock and time has run out on the batteries as well.  Please cheer on the man of my dreams today to put new batteries in it while I am at work!

Mixed Media Mania GIVE AWAY CONTEST

Everyone who knows me, knows I like to bee warm.  Where we live we are fortunate to have 4 seasons but winter is the longest as I joke we have 2 seasons...Winter and August.  One of the things I look forward to at the close of summer is my plans to organize and create since there is going to be increasingly more time inside.  This year is no exception with Pajama Girl starting kindergarten (full day) more guilt free time to myself to create.  I have noticed around the hive a TON of wonderful things that I wish I could send to all of you beecause I know you will love them and put it to good use.  Without further ado I will tell you about the contest. All numbers involved have special meanings.  In 1 week...7 days I will be celebrating by drawing the lucky winner of 41 fabulous categories of mixed media materials.  That is right...September 7th I will draw the lucky, lucky, lucky artist who will receive a care package of supplies big enough to last all winter long and then some!  Comments must be here by midnight September 6th, EDT. 

I am still organizing and gathering so this post will update on a regular basis with pictures to come.

The list of 41 goodies so far,(watch for updates I am multi-tasking right now!) in no particular order is as follows:

1. tickets, 41 of each of pink, green and a reddish brown
2. several  bingo cards of different colors
3. FUN vintage playing cards...several of them...so unique!
4. wooden clothes pins
5. small various new canvas boards
6. inchie bases, masonite and Bazzill chips
7. vintage large spools of thread
8. 3 letters (A,R,T) from my latest score of a basket of old hand cut signs letters.
9. some slide tins and circle favor tins
10. buttons
11. birds
12. sheet music
13. wine corks
14. old sewing machine bobbins
15. metal i-yi's  (rhymes with eye-eye and is various metal washers and electronic parts?)
16. 3 old spoons...one tiny one sooooo cute
17. old postage stamps...random grab from my box
18. foreign language pages
19. small card stocks
20. origami and collage sheets
21. magnetic picture frames
22. 3 little wooden skiers
23. old wooden children's toys
24. mini flowers, paper and felt
25. green wooden bingo markers
26. bingo calling chips
27. misc. metal beads
28. misc. metal charms/etc
29. a ring of rings
30. Lego's
31. hair pins to embellish
32. post cards
33. wooden pieces
34. paper umbrellas
35. ATC size papers
36. poker chips
37. dominoes
38. misc game pieces
39. seam bindings
40. bag o' ephemura
41. bag o' bits & bops

Whew!  This could change as I continue and items listed here might end up combined on a line!  Not everything will be photographed either. This is fun!!!

A few pictures and more to list

Music, letters, buttons and birds

bingo and playing cards

The next list is of the rules.

1. As summer closes tell me what you like about it...stay positive...I am going to bee cold too!
2. Comment only once here and only here to enter
3. Give away ends midnight Sept 6th, see above for official clock link
4. you must promise you will show me what you make with all these fun goodies!
5. if you figured out anything else about this impulsive give away, mention it and you will get an extra bonus surprise!  The answer will bee revealed on September 7th.

...and oh yes...I will ship anywhere in the world!

Drum roll please...

Lauren is finally awake, and yes the pj's have been washed since the tractor ride!

Time to see who won this here give away o mine.

Eleven lucky rose petals in the blue bee candy dish are ready for picking!

...to make it fair (she can read a little bit) we took out the blindfold left over from a "pin the tail on the mermaid" game at her 4th birthday party.

who will it bee?  I could not wait to put the camera down to be able to see the lucky rose petal...

...had to pick the camera right back up to get this shot .

Congratulations m. heart!  Just feel free to email me your address when you discover your good fortune from today!  The wild thing about all this is I had a gut feeling it was going to bee the 7th comment in the beginning and out of curiosity just checked now...yep...m was the 7th!  Lots of number talking going on out there right now...save that for another time though.

Right now I have to go tell Lauren it is ok to take off the blindfold! 

Hurry....

...time is almost up!  If you want to win this lovely art piece, you must enter here by midnight tonight EDT.  (Eastern Daylight Time...midnight in NY,USA)

A give away from the land I make, "Beelieve"

When July started I had several fun, simple pieces in my "Fresh as Green" line so posting daily was as simple as the fresh art.  Then I sort of challenged myself to post every day the month of July, lets call it an experiment.  From challenge to experiment...to obsession and addiction.   I could not stay away and found it did not really consume a major part of my time, in fact it defined why I started keeping a web log to begin with.  To keep track of the thought, feeling and inspiration behind my art.  Posting daily is something I enjoy and a lot easier then I might of thought from the beegining of "Beelieve" since thoughts are fresh.    So without further rambling I would like to give a chance for all who have supported me as well as those I have not found yet a chance to win the piece you inspired.  All you need to do is leave a comment here as your chance to win.  I will put the names in my blue bee candy dish and have Lauren pick the winner.  Should there bee too many names for the candy dish...we will put them in a bee skep...if it gets beeyond that well I will have to figure out those computer random selection thingys.  The drawing will be held a week from today (I am big on the number 7) so in 7 days it will be August 7th.  I hope my lucky number is as lucky for you.