Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Naya's Christmas Warrior - Will you join me?

I have always had a special place in my heart for children, special needs and adoption. I'm not sure exactly how it came about but by the time I was in fourth grade I was determined that I would adopt a child with special needs.
Recently I came across a picture of a little girl, Naya. Naya is 5-years-old and has dwarfism.
She is one of a large number of children with special needs that Reece's Rainbow (a charity that promotes and facilitates international adoption and rescue for children with special needs, particularly Down Syndrome), is trying to find a forever family for.
You can view her profile HERE.
Naya is High Risk adoption due to her special needs and age. Most children with special needs in the Eastern European Countries that Reece's Rainbow works with are sent to institutions when they turn four. That's right. Four-years-old.
Naya's been lucky enough to remain in the orphanage as long as she has but needs to find her forever family and soon!

Here's where we can get involved. The cost of the international adoptions for these kids runs around $25,000 so in an effort to help the parents wanting to adopt these incredible kids, each child has an adoption fund.
Currently little Miss Naya has $10 in that fund.

I've decided to be Naya's Christmas Warrior and attempt to raise $1000 for her adoption fund before January 1st.

Instead of Christmas gifts this year, I'm hoping receive support in helping Naya instead.

If you would like to help me in the effort to being one step closer to this beautiful little girl having her own forever family, I've placed a donate button on the sidebar of my blog.
All of the money donated is tax deductible and will go to help Naya.

If you can't afford to donate monetarily but still would like to help participate in this effort feel free to take this button for your blog.



If you have any questions, feel free to email me at Summereyes91[at]yahoo[dot]com.
Thank you so much for your support!


John L. Pitts 1941-2009

My incredible godfather passed away this morning as the result of a massive stroke he had on Saturday.
It's hard to believe he's actually gone, I don't think it's really hit me yet.
He was one of those family friends that are closer than family.
I loved him so much and will never forget the time I had to spend with him.
He was always reaching beyond to help people and animals and accomplished an incredible amount of things in his life that will live on.

Just this month he celebrated the 45th wedding anniversary with his wife.

His memory will never be forgotten.

John L. Pitts 1941-September 28, 2009
Beloved husband, father, grandfather, godfather and friend.


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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

And the Winner Is...

The giveaway is officially closed!

The opening day had a wonderful turnout!
There were 81 entries for the necklace!
I also got 14 new followers! (Oh how I love to make new bloggy friends!)
Hopefully all you new friends will stick around!
In honor of making new friends I will be having another surprise in the next couple of days so stay tuned!

Now down to the oh so exciting good stuff...

So I drew a number (or rather clicked the number generator) at exactly 12:01 and low and behold
-Number 77!-

Which means the winner is...

Congratulations!


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Sunday, October 25, 2009

Halloween Blog Tour and The Moonlit Dandelion Grand Opening Giveaway!!

Welcome to all the witches, warlocks and bloggers from near and far to my blog! A special welcome to those of you who've wandered over on Mrs. B's Halloween Haunted blog tour!

Happy Monday!

I'm Krissy and welcome to Thinking of Blue, my little spot in the universe!

Here you will find a pinch of inspiration, a dash of sarcasm, some beautiful photographs and an entrance into my daily life!

I LOVE Halloween and all the fun and celebratory goodness that comes with holidays!
I love dressing up and decking the house out!
This year I've had some great fun making Halloween crafts!

You can find out how I made a Frankenstein Piggy Bank HERE!

You can see the witches cupboard ingredients I collected and glass jack-o-lanterns I crafted HERE!

Feel free to wander around but beware of the trick-or-treaters that you may run into!

Today is a doubly special day as not it's not only my haunted blog tour day but it is also the opening day of my Etsy shop The Moonlit Dandelion!


As part of the opening celebration I'll be giving away one of my favorite pieces from the shop!


The piece is shown with a pink Swarovski crystal but the winner will be able to choose any color they'd like!

There are two steps to enter the giveaway!
The first is to follow my blog (this is very important as this is where I will be announcing the winner)! If you're already a follower-(thank you!) that counts too!
The second is to go to the shop HERE, come back and tell me which color crystal charm you'd choose!

Now the options for extra entries! (You can get up to SIX extra entries!)
For each extra entry please leave a SEPARATE comment!
(It makes it so much easier for the random number picker to find a winner!)

1. Tell me the word that inspires you most!
2. Follow me on Twitter! @ThinkingOfBlue
3. Follow my shop The Moonlit Dandelion on Twitter! @TMDandelion
4. Become a Facebook Fan! HERE
5. Announce this giveaway on Twitter! (come back with the link!)
6. Write a post on your blog about this giveaway! (come back with the link!)

The giveaway will end Tuesday night at midnight pacific time!

Thanks for stopping by!! I hope I'll be seeing you around here soon!

Happy Halloween!!

Friday, October 23, 2009

It's Almost Here!

I know I've been MIA all week but that's because I've been getting my Etsy Shop ready!

My Etsy shop's grand opening will be on Monday so be sure to check back for a special treat!

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Monday, October 19, 2009

Saturday, October 17, 2009

2 Weeks Until Halloween! Crafts and Color Changing Leaves Galore!

In the few free minutes I've had lately I've been crafting away! I created some Halloween Glass Jars and some Witches Potion Ingredients!
I've also been trying to catch some of the beauty of the beautiful trees as their leaves change colors and the rain that was pouring down the first half of the week (It's bright and sunny now!)

Halloween "lanterns"!
The tea light inside is a battery operated one so I don't have to worry about walking away from it.


The "Potion Ingredients"!
(From left- poisinous catipillar, witches sticks, skelliton hands, bat fur and toxic potion)
I've already gathered up a few other ingrediants that I havn't packaged yet such as freeze dried spiders and mummy wrap!


The changing leaves!

The "raindrops on roses".

More Fall Tree Leaves.

Aren't they beautiful?

Hoping your weekend is full of excitement!

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