Month: January 2013

Film Friday – 148 + 148 = $296 for charity, but which one?

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I love when I have participation on my blog.  It makes me happy 🙂  I want to thank all of you who add your thoughts (and 5 words) to my monthly 5 word movie reviews.  For the second year in a row I’ve tied it to money for charity.   In November, Kay (formerly of Purple Sage and Scorpions) offered to match my charity donation, thinking it was going to be $100.  Well, since we were coming to the end of the year I opened the door for extra money to be earned and by the 31st, we had 148 reviews.  When I contacted Kay she awesomely matched the $148 that I donated.  We are lucky to know Kay.

With the deadline looming, Heather (Gofita’s Pages) went on a reviewing rampage and finished the year with 57 reviews!  I guess she really wanted that money for the charity of her choice!  Let me give you a hint for the charity she chose.

2012-12-23 20.34.132012-12-23 20.41.15OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAThese are her kitties and the charity Heather chose is

The Humane Society! 

Here’s what Heather had to say

“My favorite charity is The Humane Society. I love animals and the Humane Society is one way I can give back, along with having a rescue cat and two other cats.  It can go to the main organization or to your local one. Either way, I know it’ll be used to help animals! Here are pictures of my kitties. I adore them!”

I think this is a great charity, especially since both Scout and Max are rescues too.  Thanks to Heather (and Kay) $296 was donated to the national organization. I hope you’ll hop on over to their website to discover all of the wonderful things they do.  And why not check out Heather’s blog too?  She’s got some cute pictures of her son posted.  I think Gage and Gabe would be friends 🙂

A world of Postcrossing

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When Meg (Write Meg) wrote about her love affair with Postcrossing I was intrigued by the thought of exchanging mail with people from around the world.  When I checked out the website, Postcrossing.com, it seemed so easy to get started, so in November I signed up and immediately sent out four postcards, to China, Germany, Brazil, and Russia.  Then I waited.  It takes a while for all that travel! Once the person receives your card they register the ID number and then you receive a card from someone else.  So I waited some more.  And then I got my first postcard!!  From Alabama 😦  Okay, okay, the frowny face seems wrong, but I was disappointed.  So, I sent out two more postcards, both to Germany.  The week before Christmas, on the same day, I received two postcards, one from Taiwan and one from England.  Now that’s more like it 🙂  Then came one from Germany and this week I retrieved a beautiful postcard from Spain from the mailbox.  Of the six I’ve sent, two are still travelling, but the other four combined to travel over 34,000 km!   Of the 5 I’ve received so far, only the one from Taiwan wanted to become pen pals, the others it was more of a one time thing, which is okay for me these days.  All in all those 5 postcards travelled over 34,000 km to get here.

I took December off but plan for more postcard fun in 2013.  I recommend it for those who love to write and received letters (because c’mon, who has time for that these days?!) and for those curious about meeting people from around the world.

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As you can see, the postcards are fun and they made me realize that I really need to work on my handwriting!  My favorite photo is the one from Spain and the note I liked best was from the UK but the writer is from the Czech Republic and she wrote about her Christmas traditions there.

Meg has now sent over 500 postcards!  Thanks to her inspiration I may get there someday too.  If you’re interested I highly recommend checking out the site.  It’s easy to start and use and a cheap way to travel 🙂