It is that time again. Time to add my voice to the many who have already contributed their blog posts for today at least to Mimi’s yearly BlogBlast for Peace.
The recent news of the teen suicides, although I’m sure many more have gone unnoticed by the media over the years, has broken my heart. We have lived too long in a world filled with cruelty and violence when parents and educators just accept the harassment, bullying and torture as normal kid behavior. It’s not normal kid behavior. It’s wild animal behavior. It’s the pack mentality that in nature culls the weak or sickly from the herd and has been somehow assimilated by humanity to cull the different and unique. The children who don’t fit the demographic. Who is teaching these children, these bullies, to hate? To prey on these gay kids? Their parents- society. It breaks my heart. So today in honor of the BlogBlast for Peace I ask you to:
So it seems that there is something drastically wrong with my blog. I’m so sorry to anyone who happens by and finds all my links broken, including the contact page and comments forms. Just when I felt like writing a bit and have some exciting new art creations to share with you all. Boooo!
Stop by my etsy store and see what’s cookin’ while I try to get this blog fixed! Mwaaaah!
That’s right! Yay Shelly, it’s Share a Square 2010! I won’t (although I could) tell you at great length about The Share a Square project. I could tell you about it’s awesome inception by a crazy Texas RedHead with a heart as big as her home state, about the amazing bloggers and other folks from around the world who made squares and sent them to Shelly to be sewn together into colorful expressions of love and support for the kids with cancer, (about the huge mess in Shelly’s spare bedroom that overflowed into the rest of her house… hahaha); but I won’t. I’ll let you go check it out at This Eclectic Life if you want to know more about the history if this great project.
Instead I’ll direct you to the FaceBook group page that Shelly has set up for this year, and the FAQ that she put together with her experience of 2 years doing this great thing.
What I’m here to do today, is give ya’ll some visual images and ideas for making your tags. (I’ll be crocheting like a madwoman come Fall/Winter. In the first place it’s too darn hot in the Mojave Desert to crochet in Summer; in the second- I admit… I’m a last minute kinda gal). Having learned the lesson of crumpled and torn tags in previous years, and knowing that part of the thrill for the kids is being able to see and keep the tags from 150 different people from all around the world, Shelly has come up with a basic format for tags this year, and has graciously added to her workload by offering to laminate, punch and tie them all on to our squares when we send them. She’d like them to be standard business card size, and plans to include a binder ring for the kids to use to keep their tags. Idea Number 1:
What I did last year was to use my business card. This may seem impersonal to some of you and I suppose it depends on your business, but I kinda thought the kids might get a kick out of having a square crocheted by a tattoo artist (and my cards are pretty colorful, which I like.) If you choose this option, be sure to write a personal note on the back! It will mean so much to the kids. Idea Number 2:
Print your own and cut them with a paper cutter. Easy to do. Most WP programs these days have business card templates that make it super easy. Just pick something colorful or fun and type your message and print n cut! Perfect! My printer is having fits right now, and jams the paper every time, so I think I’ll be mixing my tags up between Idea 1 above, and Idea Number 3:
Buy a pack of blank (or already decorated) micro perf business cards and add your own personal flair. I’m using stickers and a hand written message, (but if I can dig out my stamping and embossing stuff I may do some of that, too. If I do, I’ll post pics.) Have fun and do good. What’s better than that?!
Peace!
"Whoooo are you?", The caterpillar asked Alice.
"Why, I'm not quite sure at the moment, Sir. You see, I knew who I was when I got up this morning, but I must have changed a thousand times since then."
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