Last month Craftside in conjunction with Interweave hosted a Q & A about dolls to celebrate the release of our new book. the winner would receive this Fashionista Dada :
so congrats and enjoy Shari Jensen -- your Dada is on her way.
and we're on our way to San Miguel De Allende and will have lots of great pics when we return.
we know it's been awhile since our last post and all we can say is "life happens", but now that we're winding down a bit, we wanted to call your attention to this most worthy cause.
this project began about a year ago and all of the information and the completed doll can be found at http://projecttiesthatbind.blogspot.com
but the gist of it all is, if 500 people donated $20 over the next four months, we can raise $10,000.00 - imagine that - $10,000.00!
that breaks down to only 6 people donating $20.00 per contributing artist.
we can do this.
tickets are one for $5.00 or six for $20.00
visit http://www.scrapbookroyalty.com/tiesthatbind.html to purchase yours.
we have until sept. 30th so please spread the word and let's make this happen and thank you.
It's that time again for another fantastic blog give-a-way started by Lisa Oceandreamer 3 years ago!
Her original idea behind this giveaway event was to bring bloggers together from around the world who may never ordinarily meet. It closes the gap of the blog community and enables us to interact, discover new and wonderful people, and in the process possibly win a prize or many prizes along the way...This is more than wanting to win something.......that is only the means.......in the end it's about finding kindred spirits. Someone who may be fairly new to blogging, not sure how to navigate, find others and have others find them....Some are long time bloggers and in some cases well known in the art community. Whatever the case it brings all of them together...We are not solving the worlds problems nor are we curing anything nor are we changing the world. We are merely generating a closer community between humans through blogging."
How To Enter:
In celebration this year, we offering our original music CD - Strange Tales.
Our giveaway is open to all! You can enter by just leaving your blog address or email addy on this post only in the comments area. Be sure that you leave the correct addy so we can reach you! The random drawing will end on February 10th so we can contact you for your mailing address and mail it by Feb. 12th, before we leave to teach in Mexico. It's a few days early, but we wanted to particiapte.
Good Luck - Have Fun - and let's build a stronger art community!
A year ago this week a close friend of ours died from cancer.
Her death was immediately followed by the death of two
more friends, leaving Opie and me with a void in our hearts.
Each of them died before their time.
When we were invited to create a charm for this most worthy cause, we were more than happy to.
This charm has been etched with positive affirmations and wrapped with teal sinew. A spiral, which represents Eternity, completes it.
My father died of cancer when I was five. He was in his 30's.
An incredible doll is being created from hand made charms and altered ties created by several artists, too numerous to mention in this post. 100% of the profit will go to the OCRF, in support of their mission to help ovarian cancer patients and their loved ones. For more information about the doll and the project, please click on The Ties That Bind link in the right sidebar.
We were recently asked to participate in a most worthy cause and would like to share this information with everyone.
The mission is simple in concept. Artists united in their creativity to benefit Ovarian Cancer Research Fund.
Our project: Ties That Bind.
A hand made doll created with heart and soul, donning hand embellished men's dress ties and hand born charms.
100% of the profit goes to the OCRF, in support of their mission to help ovarian cancer patients and their loved ones.
There will be more information to follow, so please check back for updates.
In the meantime, we're happy to say that after our absence these past two months due to a combination of family illness, unexpected surgery and shooting the first quarter of our new book, we'll be updating our blog shortly.
We invite You to join the party!
On behalf of the182 pink artists everywhere, we'd like to personally invite you to join the festivities, a joyous blog party happening August 1- October 15, 2008 on our blogs and in our homes. Mark those calendars to attend an event orchestrated by The Pink Artists to raise awareness & donations for breast cancer research.
For additional information PLEASE visit Monica Magness at http://girl-gone-thread-wild.blogspot.com (as i haven't quite mastered the "ART" of the link)... there you can also click the link to see prizes.
We're fighting back with ART! Won't you join us?
-How you can help:-
Mark those calendars: Mark your calendar and give BIG between August 1- October 15, 2008
Post the group button to your blog or site: You can help us spread the word about our art drawing by posting our group button to the sidebar of your blog, in a blog post and/or on your website with a link back to this post. How to do this on Blogger: right click photo and save to your PC. Click on the "customize" tab from top righthand corner of Blogger, select "add a page element" and when window pops up click "picture." From there, upload photo from your PC. Under link, manually type in http://girl-gone-thread-wild.blogspot.com/2008/05/pink-artist-drawing-august-1-october-15.html and hit save. Our button should show up as a clickable image bringing viewer to our drawing details. If it does not, please check the link address to make sure it is written just as it is seen here. Thank you!
How to give: Donations will be accepted following our dolls debut in Art Doll Quarterly magazine(Aug. 1) up until October 15, which is the OFFICIAL day of the drawing. The month of October is as you know Breast Cancer Awareness month. Together we'll make this a fun & rewarding way to HELP others. Donations being accepted are money orders made out to Susan G. Komen and mailed to Monica Magness PO Box 2206 Madison, AL 35758 where your name will be entered into our drawing & donations will be collected and sent in to our charity on Oct. 22nd. Sorry, no personal checks. Cash sent at your own risk. Or you can paypal your donation to MLMagness@aol.com with the subject header: THE PINK ARTIST DRAWING and your name will go into our drawing and funds will be forwarded to our charity. Please note that paypal takes a fee to operate, be sure to take this into consideration when making your donation. Please make sure your name and address are legible (typed is best for accuracy). Though ANY donation amount is cheerfully accepted, for every $10 donation you send in your name will be entered into our drawing twice.
Lisa Oceandreamer of Heart of the Nest and Imagination Cafe is hosting the 2nd annual ONE World-ONE Heart Event, starting Feb.1 and ending late night on Feb.13, with the winners of the artworks being announced on Feb. 14.
we have decided to join the One World-One Heart blog give-away, designed to bring bloggers together and introduce them to each other and expand our blogging world. we love this idea and while we're still finding our way as to how to put up links, buttons and badges, we'll give it our best shot. everybody participating is giving away something. all you have to DO is visit the participating blogs and leave a comment - that way you will go into the draw to win that particular piece of art!
for more info and a list of participants, the blog address is
http://oneworldevent.blogspot.com/2008/01/this-years-event-information.html
If you would like to participate in this give-away, leave a comment with your name and blog address and tell us that you would like to enter the give-away. Make sure we can contact you either at your blog or email. we will draw from the names and select a winner before 8 p.m.. February 14 Eastern Standard Time. we will post who the winner is and send off one of these beautiful hand made tin nicho angel brooches, complete with sterling silver bezel and cabochon, from our tin nicho series, but yours will have a special brass heart dangle to commemorate Valentine's Day.
Good luck and don't forget to leave a comment here if you'd like a chance to receive a tin nicho angel brooch!
