Giveaway + A Great Cause

Last year me and my friends participated in the CIBC Run for the Cure. You can read about that here. The run raises money to benefit breast cancer research and you can read all about the run here. The nursing faculty at our school puts together a team every year and this year is no exception. We had such a great time last year and I am super excited to be participating again. Not only do we get to raise money for a great cause, but really, its another excuse to spend time with my friends how awesome is that? Here is where you come in. I am always so floored at the amazing sense of community between members of the blogging/craft world, even moreso with the support that I find from the followers of my blog and my blog bff’s. So naturally, I come to you asking for your assistance with this great cause.

Any amount you can donate will be super appreciated. I set my fundraising goal at $200 and I would be amazed to see that goal blown out of the water. I know it can be done.

To sweeten the pot a little bit I am going to add a little giveaway to this. I am not 100% sure what the giveaway will be, but I can assure you it will be a good one. I am thinking mixtapes, crafty goods, and possibly some etsy love. I will let you know for sure as soon as I know. If you donate (no matter the amount) leave a comment to tell me you donated, and your name will be entered into the drawing for a cutie little prize. If you blog/tweet/facebook/etc. about this giveaway link me up and you will get an extra entry for each time you do it ie. if you blog about it you get an extra entry, if you blog and tweet about it, you get two extra entries, if you blog about it three times, you get three extra entries etc. Just remember you must donate first (before you blog tweet etc) to get any entries. Easy right?How do you donate you ask? Click the donate button up there and you will be taken to my donation page. All you need is the internet and a credit card. Just fill out the form and there you have it, you have just donated to a great cause and put your name into the draw for a fun giveaway.

You can donate up until Sunday Oct 03, 2009 (the date of the run) and I will draw the winner on the Monday after that (Oct 4).

I know that in these times it is hard to find the extra money for things like this however every little bit counts, and I believe that by giving to this cause you will be blessed in addition to the many people that will be blessed by your donation.

Thank you so much in advance. You are all awesome!!

 

i looove youu!!

Dear Blog,

i have not forgotten about you or your followers. I promise. Its not just you either, I have been neglecting other blogs as well, all of the many, many, blogs that I follow. However I have been super busy which explains my absence from the online world. Getting settled back into the apartment, getting back into the routine of school, working on student’s council things you know, the usual. Anyways, I figure within the next week or so I will be back into the routine of things aka blogging.

Here however, is a small list of the things that have been going on lately that have been keeping me from blogging and a few other things, observations etc. 

- for my first class last week i had to read 39 pages from one book, 128 from another, and two studies in preparation. (love how they just me launch right into it)

- i sent out a fun little package to my sweet friend Vanessa. when i receive confirmation that she has the package in her hands i will share it with you. i had so much fun putting it together and there are a few things i want to share with you.

- i am beginning my duties on student’s council (i am VP social for the nursing faculty at my school) so i am responsible for planning all of the fun events that we put on during the year. it is proving to be a lot of work so far, but most of it is fun work and i’m glad to be involved.

-this boy is so stubborn, cute, mischievous, sweet, fun, etc. and i am loving getting to know him. (he is chillin right beside me as i write this lol)

-i need a haircut desperately. it hasn’t been done since may and its getting just a tad too long. i think i’m gonna keep it on the longer side though, but it needs to be touched up. especially since my head is going to be in the books for the next 8 months, it gets a tad annoying hanging in my eyes.

- i have been listening to a lot of these fellows.

-also, this is one of the loveliest things i’ve ever seen. so WATCH IT!

ok i think that is all for tonight. there’s probably more that i have to share with you but it is escaping me at the moment.

i will be back tomorrow with another post about something pretty special. so check back :)

looove jer.

taking the day off. . .

  [buy this cutie here]

. . . to be a robot. I’m guest blogging for my cute friend Vivianna at her blog PolkaDotRobot. Go on over there and check it out – its a good one. ha!

ilu. jer.

two of my favourite things.

First is flickr. Is there really any greater, broader source for inspiration? Second is Fd’s flickr toys mosaic maker. I love seeing my favourites from Flickr together in one mosaic. And I love that I don’t have to work so that I can share them with yoooou. Enjoy friends :) ilu.

1. Untitled, 2. Untitled, 3. Untitled, 4. Untitled, 5. august 25, 2009., 6. you*are*here, 7. Untitled, 8. engaged., 9. Untitled, 10. The Cherrybomb Family, 11. Untitled, 12. Untitled, 13. TTV display :), 14. the distant future... the year two thousand..., 15. Studio Space, 16. Untitled, 17. eloso, 18. Follow the Sparrows, 19. Le fruit, 20. 133/365, 21. Untitled, 22. lantern bed decor, 23. ., 24. Untitled, 25. russiandolls

Modern Day Time Travel

Scientists have called time travel an impossibility, however I stand before you today saying that time travel is in fact possible. Not only is it possible, it is easily achieved. Yes, you too can travel back to the stone age. All you have to do is go for an extended period of time without the internet. ha!

Seriously though, for those of you who thought it impossible, I have lived for two weeks without internet and not only that I have lived to tell about it. I will admit it was a pretty rough to weeks which is a bit of a shame that I rely so on the internet, however I have been online for as long as I can remember so what do you expect?

A few observations from my time ‘offline’:

1 – My cell battery dies a lot more quickly than usual. Normally I have to charge it about once every two or three days give or take. However, without internet I was using my cell as my primary link to the outside world. Responding to important emails (I was right in the midst of registering for classes, applying for loans etc.), checking tweets, tweeting for myself etc. Using my phone this much in a day caused the battery to die almost every day. Poor thing took a lot of wear and tear over the last couple of weeks.

2 – On the same note, I hate replying to emails on my cell. Absolutely hate it.

3 – I read a TON without internet. I normally read a lot during the summer months anyways (*forget* pleasure reading during the school year) but without internet I read a ton more. Over the course of my two weeks in the stone age I:

- finished The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards.

- started and finished The Birth House by Ami McKay.

- reread Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life by Amy Krouse Rosenthal.

- started and finished The Patient by Michael Palmer

- started and finished The Condition by Jennifer Haigh.

- started Kiss by Ted Dekker and Erin Healy.

ps. all of these books are highly recommended. Seriously if you are looking for a book to read, pick up any one of these and you won’t be disappointed.

4- My studio is still insanely messy regardless of whether or not I am connected to the internet.

5 – I almost never turned on my computer. Music was listened to solely through the iPod and the computer was basically only turned on to charge the iPod and edit a few pictures.

6 – I seem to take a lot more pictures when I don’t have internet. This may have been due to the fact that the two weeks without internet happened to provide very nice light for photo taking.

7 – I seemed to acquire a lot of magazines over the past two weeks. (I’ve gotta get my eye candy somehow!!) Some faves included: August Nylon with Sienna Miller on the cover and the September Marie Claire with Ashley Olsen on the cover.

8 – I should really have redone my inspiration wires in my room. Lame!

9 – I wished I was in my apartment in the city so I could steal – uhhm – borrow internet from those poor suckers around me who don’t put a password on their wireless. Or so I could walk to the Starbucks five minutes away from my apartment.

10 – I missed all of yoooouuuu!!!!

 

xoxo j

a layout and a life without internet

here is a layout from last week.

the buttons are from such sweet tierney and the lyrics are from arcade fire [love both and so should you].

as of tomorrow I will have been without internet for a week. ugh! there have been a number of phone calls made – some not so pleasant – but apparently someone is coming out to check it out for us. i am excited to move back to school and have reliable internet again.

i found some internet at the coffee shop. i wanted to share this layout so badly. i’ve read a few blogs. opened sooo many blogs so i can read them later at my leisure. and downloaded a few songs.

when internet is restored to my home i will blog about what it was like to live in the 1800s. ha!

i miss youuu xoxo

this past week – its a long one.

i don’t know what it is, but i always seem to blog on friday evenings. hmm. just an observation.

well i have been planning to blog literally all week. everyday i was like, hmmm i’ll blog today, but then didn’t. i always seem to blog on friday evenings. i don’t know what it is but that always seems to be my blogging day.

moving on. today i had lunch and spent the afternoon with this beauty. i had such a lovely time (and also a delicious grilled veggie sandwich but that’s beside the point). this is my oldest friend, we’ve been friends since grade one and it always feels comfortable, easy when we get together. we started by going for lunch and coffee. we both had chai lattes and then finished with irish cream iced coffees. we then browsed around town a bit with our iced coffees enjoying the sun. ps it has been so so nice here this past week. i think summer may just be here to stay for a while.

i scored some yummy thrifted yarn today as well as some good vintage fabrics (in yummy fall plaids) i have a few projects in mind for these things – more about this later. i was shopping specifically for nice fall-ish colours. i only got one teeny bit of yellow yarn and i would have liked some nicer, deeper, more mustardy yellows but hey, beggars can’t be choosers right? i did however get a ton of balls of grey yarn. i don’t know why but just kept picking them up, it is so pretty – grey yarn is definitely my favorite colour of yarn.

also this past week i secured my spot here: i am so so excited and it is the reason for my fall yarn shopping and my fall fabric shopping. if you read this blog at all you know how much i loved the last class that rachel and elsie did and the projects look so amazing this time around i couldn’t miss out on this one. also, it is the fall class and again, if you read this blog you know how much i love fall. aanyways, the combo of those things plus the amazing experience i had last time made it very easy for me to dish out the money to pay for this class. also, if you know the font in that banner would you link me up? i love it.

this past week i also started uploading to the SIStv gallery again. i started my account back in the spring but never uploaded anything to the gallery. i started uploading again this week and i was very warmly welcomed. so if you are visiting from SIS welcome! and please come back any time.

also regarding sis my sweet friend jen got some lovely news this week. big congrats to her.

this week i applied for my student loan and this morning i payed my tuition. it went through this evening and i am now nearly $6000 poorer than i was when i woke up this morning.

this week i was watching jimmy fallon and saw this:

so amazing. i’ve listened to it too many times to count.

also on the youtube subject there is a new where the wild things are trailer. watch it here. it is even better than the first one. i am so excited for this movie to come out later this year. so so excited.

i have a new favorite blog – terrible, yellow eyes. it is a bunch of artists who are making projects in their medium of choice inspired by where the wild things are. it is absolutely amazing. some of my faves:

so magical. i especially love that last one. definitely following that blog now. i will be checking it every day, you can count on that. after all the where the wild things are inspiration today i went looking for my copy of the book, however i can’t find it anywhere so i have had someone read it to me here on youtube like 10 times today. ha! i’m a bit obsessed.

tonight, i will be rolling more yarn into balls (because its so much prettier than the rolls they come in) and i hope to do some scrapping. gooood night.