Love Drop- April Blog Post

Love Drop is a micro-giving network of people who unite as a community to make a difference in the lives of one person or family a month. By giving just $1.00, they make it easy for their members to change lives in a fun and super easy way.

At the end of every month, Nate and J$ show up in the town the families live in and present them with everything the team raised -- all the money, the gifts, whatever the community helped get. It's all on film, and it all ends with us making a difference! (And then it starts all over again the next month)

Last month Love Drop gave over $5,000 worth of cash and goods to their recipient, Katie, who had been battling a couple of brain tumors over the years, and it culminated with a surprise gift of 15+ friends showing up at her house to celebrate with her. It was awesome. You can watch how it all went down here.


This month they rally behind the Kahlen's - a family who has been hit hard by the economy, and by their daughter's serious medical condition, tuberous sclerosis. In addition to financial assistance, they're planning to unite the artistic community to help support Kent's glassmaking work.

Want to help? Here are two ways you can participate:

1. Give $1.00 - This is the best way to help out and join their team at the same time.

2. Donate a piece of art - Love Drop started their first art shop this month, and would love to feature your artwork in it. Proceeds go to help the Kahlen's this month, and is a great way to promote your work.

3. Join our blogger network - Blog about our Love Drops each month like I am :) It's easy, it's rewarding, and it REALLY helps spread the word (which in turn helps our families). Love Drop will give you all the content you need.

On A Morning Such As This

I got to lie in bed an extra hour or so waiting for the sun to rise.  The air is crisp and smells of fall.  I don't have to go into work until afternoon.  It could've been a morning such as this that my dad would've surprised me by showing up to go out for breakfast.  He would've of gotten a paper to read while we waited for our order- two eggs over medium with whole wheat toast.  I would read the funnies and chat about whatever interesting thing that had happened.  We probably would've walked around Tattered Cover and picked out new paperbacks.  When we said good bye he would've squeezed extra tight and want to make sure I was coming home this weekend. 

To My Loves

If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except for love's sake.  Do not say
'I love her for her smile . . her look . . her way
Of speaking gently, . . for a trick of thought
That falls in well with mine, and certes brought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day'--
For these things in themselves, Beloved, may
Be changed, or change for thee, ---and love, so
    wrought,
May be unwrought so.  Neither love me for
Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry,--
A creature might forget to weep, who bore
Thy comfort long, and lose they love thereby!
But love me for love's sake, that evermore
Thou may'st love on, through love's eternity.

ANOTHER Give away

Enter here for Wichser Studio's Give away.  It's Wichser Studio's very first give away and everything is adorable.  There will be a total of 3 winners and entering the give away is easy!

Awesome give away.

Treasures from the Heart is doing an amazing give away.  Click here to check it out.

Her rules are:

To enter you only need to leave a comment on the post I linked you too.
If you want to follow, another entry.
Post about it, another entry.
(If you are already a follower, please leave an entry telling her that.)
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It's your special special day so we all shout hooray!

As we sing Happy Birthday to youuuuuuuuuuuu.

Happy Birthday Mom. I love you more than there are stars in the sky. You're the best mom one could ask for.

buried in a sea of pink

This weekend we made valentines. I had to have one ready to mail by Friday for LAMC's swap. I think we were all too tired to really design anything great Saturday night but Sunday morning we had inspiration!

Here's my giant valentine to swap. I hope she likes it. :-D