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The giveaway is back with a bang!
SumikoShop is the gorgeous handmade jewelry shop of the amazingly talented Evelyn - the 29 year old maker and mother of a beautiful boy named Brian.
Evelyn lives and works in a tourist town by the sea in gorgeous Italy.
Many of her items are one of a kind and others are made in limited quantities. Her accessories are mostly female and whimsical. She sometimes mixes vintage with modern materials to create simple everyday pieces that are just magical!
We are so lucky to have your choice of SumikoShop's gorgeous work for this week's giveaway.
WHAT YOU GET:
One lucky winner will receive a $30.00 Gift Certificate at SumikoShop!
HOW TO WIN:
It's easy, peasy - just leave your contact information below!
For additional entries:
(5) Twitter this post
(5) Blog about this contest; linking to this post
(5) Follow my blog
(5) Facebook this post
Let me know if you have done these things so I can give you additional entries. This contest is open to everyone.
DRAWING:
Enter by midnight on Sunday 9/25! Good Luck!
I am back from Seattle and Portland - the last of my big travel shows done for the year (thank goodness) - I haven't done a music festival in years
(my thinking was that people do not go there to shop; now this is my 'knowing')
girl at show (pointing at item with price marked) : "how much is this?"
me : "that's twenty four"
girl : "dollars?"
(it was that kind of show)
but it paid for my trip which included a day in Seattle when I wasn't working and 4 days in Portland visiting my sister and her family, so I am definitely not complaining. A great big thank you to Bill from House of Six Cats who loaned me 2 tables and my niece Miranda (locket2you) who loaned me everything else.
Today is back to work for me and a day of remembrance for all of us ..... there are some wonderful tributes here
I have been trying to think of the good things that have come out of 9/11, but have been having trouble with that one ... in the immediate aftermath, before it all became politicized and the people who profit from our fear set to work to capitalize on it, we came together around the world in a wonderful way .. so I am going to keep that feeling in my heart today ... that sense of connection.
..setting up at Bumbershoot today in Seattle! If you are coming, stop by and say "hi" - I will be near the fountain!
Have a wonderful holiday weekend all!
xo
Please vote for Kella and Chris HERE Suburban Camping Co - they are competing against established stores (who are offering specials and giveaways to people voting for them- is this legal?) and need our votes!!!
Tar Sands Action's sit-ins in Washington DC are succeeding in informing people about the Canadian tar sands and the extreme price we pay for gathering oil from them.
The protest revolves around the proposed Keystone XL pipeline project, which would speed the flow of crude oil from the tar sands to US refineries.
Approx. 20% of US oil comes from Canada and 40% of Canada's oil production is from tar sands.
So what are tar sands and why should we care? Tar sands, or oil sands are a mix of clay, sand, water and oil and particularly bitumen, which is a heavy, viscous material. Unlike drilled oil, tar sands have to be mined to get at the bitumen and refine it into oil.
Bitumen is highly carcinogenic and requires extensive processing to make it thin enough to flow through pipes. Four tons of sand and soil are removed and dumped for every one barrel of oil gained from tar sands
(Al Gore wrote a great book about the devastation from soil removal- not his book An Inconvenient Truth, but an older book, I believe from before he was Vice President, the title is slipping my mind - like alot of things these days- but if you google it, it is a great read)
and three barrels of water to extract just one barrel of oil. More than 400 million gallons of water per day ends up dumped in toxic tailing pools which leak 3 million gallons of contaminated water daily.
Tar sands oil production emits 3 times more carbon dioxide per barrel than traditional oil production and the tar sands of Alberta, Canada are located under Canada's Boreal forest which is one of the largest intact ecosystems remaining on the planet. Removing the carbon-storing forest ecosystem to get at the tar sands will be more and more detrimental.
By 2020 the Tar Sands will release twice as many greenhouse gases than currently produced by all the cars and trucks in Canada!
Local production negatively impacts birds and caribou and moose and the indigenous people ... and all of us.
If the U.S. government approves the pipeline, renowned climatologist James Hansen says it will be "game over" for the global climate.
There is a petition to Obama to stop this pipeline HERE
and to focus on developing clean, safe energy.
BTW if you haven't seen Bill Nye tackle this brain-dead climate skeptic at FOX news (again) you will love this
I mean, an earthquake and a hurricane all in one week? in New Jersey?
Global warming?
(Al?)
Well, maybe ... but my take on this is that God is seriously pissed off about all this Jersey TV - Housewives, Jersey Shore, Jerseylicious - she got one look at Snookie and said ... enough, already
(note to God - remember me, I'm the girl with the flat hair)
BTW at the post office the other day a bald man told me he has worked at the Jerseylicious salon for 15 years
(first he complimented another customer's hair, then looked at my hair and said ... nothing)
and only the mother and daughter on the show actually work there, everyone else is fake - I've never seen the show, so don't know how extensive this "fake people" thing is, but it sounds serious folks ...
As I am typing this my brother just called me and said his town is having mandatory evacuations and they need a place to go ... with their 5 cats and 2 birds - OMG
Then a friend called and said they are having an earthquake/hurricane party tonight and we are invited. I asked if I should bring some takeout
(and my brother, sister in law, 2 birds and 5 cats .. I kind of just whispered this part though)
and she said "I have a pot roast."
(grandma? sniffle)
Uh, isn't it still August? Who just happens to have a pot roast in August? But then she said the kicker that pretty much assured my participation
"I'll show you my new Dyson", she added
I mean a pot roast and a dyson demonstration just screams PAR-TAY in Jersey folks - unlike Snookie and the Situation this is how we really roll.
Off to clean my bathroom in case we have house guests this weekend .... stay safe and dry everyone.
