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Last Call for Cash & Prizes!

Hey everyone, Happy Spring!

First of all, yes, I am well aware that I have sucked ass lately with blogging. Work has been stressful and I’ve been down with a strained back for the past two weeks. I’ve actually fleshed out a few ideas already for blog posts (including a review of the new Rocco Dispirito cookbook Now Eat This), so I hope to start posting more regularly again this week. *fingers crossed*

I wanted to post a quick reminder for everyone that today is the LAST CALL for the Team Shrinking Jeans Bash to help us raise money for Team in Training & the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Not only are we all working hard on our training for the half marathon in June, but we’ve put together an amazing array of prizes that we’re giving away to you, our awesome supporters! This is a great way to help out Team Shrinking Jeans, and maybe win something for yourself in the process!

What is this Bash I speak of, you might be asking? It’s a HUGE party with door prizes worth hundreds of dollars and an awesome Grand Prize of $400 cash! Yes, cash! So, if you’ve been meaning to donate over the past couple of weeks in order to be entered in the giveaway, TODAY IS THE DAY! Go, get thee to the BASH for a chance at some CASH!

Until next time …

28 March 2010

Misc.

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Cookbooks, Giveaway, Rocco Dispirito, Sisterhood, Team in Training

Bloggy Giveaway Goodness

Check out this awesome giveaway Terrie over at Sprinkles is having!

It’s the chart & floss pack for Jenny Bean’s Humble Servant Sampler from Shakespeare’s Peddler. Wow, what a generous giveaway!! Head over to her blog for all the details on how to enter. The drawing will be held on March 31.

Until next time …

19 March 2010

Cross Stitch

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Giveaway, Jenny Bean, Shakespeare's Peddler, Sprinkles

Happy Mail Day

I was a very happy stitcher yesterday when I opened my mailbox and found a pretty pink package from Joan. We are both participating in a Friends Stitching Through the Seasons exchange group and she has my name for the year. Since Spring was our first exchange, we have all been very eagerly awaiting our first mailing date to see who had our name.

Here is what I received:

Joan definitely spoiled me with a beautiful tuffet (Hearts & Roses by Dinky Dyes Designs) and lots of stitching goodies. Joan’s stitching on the tuffet is perfection! She did such a beautiful job on all of those Rhodes hearts! It doesn’t really show up in the photo, but in addition to each of the four hearts on the top & bottom of the tuffet, there are also five alternating Rhodes hearts on each side, too! Since this was a Spring exchange, she stitched it using DMC Variations 4060, 4180, and 4190 because she felt they looked like “spring” colors and I couldn’t agree more.

As for the stitching goodies, she sent some really fun flower shaped buttons, a hank of Crescent Color’s Belle Soie silk in their new color Boysenbeauty (I *LOVE* Belle Soie silks!), a beautiful Blackbird Designs chart from my wish list, and a pack of size 28 needles. As if all that weren’t enough, she also sent me a gorgeous project bag that she made herself!

Thank you so much for all the wonderful goodies, Joan! Oh, and to answer your question in the card, yes, the tuffet will fit beautifully in my collection of smalls.

I dropped off my outgoing exchange package at the Post Office before going to work. I sent it via Priority Mail, so it should arrive at its new home in a couple of days, hopefully. Once it has been received by my exchange partner, I’ll post pics of what I sent.

In closing, as an Irish lass, it would be remiss of me not to wish you all a very Happy St. Patrick’s Day. Go out and enjoy the one day of the year that you all get to pretend to be one of us.

Until next time … Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig oraibh!

17 March 2010

Cross Stitch, Misc.

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Exchange, Friends Stitching Through the Seasons, Joan, St. Patrick's Day

Come Party for a Chance at Prizes & CASH!

If you’ve been following my blog, you know I’m training to walk a half marathon for cancer research. Well now there’s a new way you can help me out, and maybe win something for yourself!

For the next two weeks over at the Sisterhood, we are having a Team Shrinking Jeans Bash! What is this Bash I speak of, you might be asking? It’s a HUGE party with door prizes worth hundreds of dollars and an awesome Grand Prize of $400 cash! Yes, cash!

What is Team Shrinking Jeans anyway? Well, a group of 16 Sisters and one Brother are training to either run or walk the San Diego Rock N Roll 1/2 Marathon through the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) Team in Training (TNT) program. Through TNT, Team Shrinking Jeans will be training for the race AND raising nearly $50,000(!) for LLS. Isn’t that incredible?!!

You can read more about our fantabulous team here. You can also find out why each of us is doing this here.

How can you join the Bash? Simple! Donate to Team Shrinking Jeans through our secure online team fundraising page. For every $5 you donate, you’ll be entered to win one of over 30 fabulous door prizes. If you donate $25 or more, not only will you get 5 chances to win door prizes, but you’ll also be entered to win the granddaddy of all prizes: CASH!

Did you know?

Every four minutes one person is diagnosed with a blood cancer.
An estimated 139,860 people in the United States will be diagnosed with leukemia, lymphoma or myeloma in 2009. New cases of leukemia, Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphoma and myeloma account for 9.5 percent of the 1,479,350 new cancer cases diagnosed in the United States this year*.
Overall incidence rates per 100,000 population for leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma are almost identical for data reported in 2008 and 2009 [{leukemia 12.2, 2009 vs.12.3, 2008}; (NHL, 19.5, each year); (Hodgkin lymphoma, 2.8, each year); (myeloma, 5.6, each year)].
Leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma will cause the deaths of an estimated 53,240 people in the United States this year. These blood cancers will account for nearly 9.5 percent of the deaths from cancer in 2009 based on the 562,340 total cancer-related deaths.
Every 10 minutes, someone dies from a blood cancer. This statistic represents nearly 146 people each day, or more than six people every hour.
Leukemia causes more deaths than any other cancer among children and young adults under the age of 20. In general, the likelihood of dying from most types of leukemia, lymphoma or myeloma decreased from 1996 to 2005 (the most recent data available).
In addition to their amazing work with blood cancers, LLS also does research in the areas of breast cancer, prostate cancer, and AIDS.
*Facts and statistics from Leukemia, Lymphoma, Myeloma Facts 2009-2010, June 2009.

Those are some pretty eye-opening statistics, huh?

So head on over and join in the Bash! Check out the fabulous prizes, make a donation, and be sure to check in every day during our two-week bash for Happy Hour!

Until next time …

15 March 2010

Misc.

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Half Marathon, Sisterhood, Team in Training, Team Shrinking Jeans

Come Party for a Chance at Prizes & CASH!

If you’ve been following my blog, you know I’m training to walk a half marathon for cancer research. Well now there’s a new way you can help me out, and maybe win something for yourself!

You can read more about our fantabulous team here. You can also find out why each of us is doing this here.

Did you know?

Every four minutes one person is diagnosed with a blood cancer.
An estimated 139,860 people in the United States will be diagnosed with leukemia, lymphoma or myeloma in 2009. New cases of leukemia, Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphoma and myeloma account for 9.5 percent of the 1,479,350 new cancer cases diagnosed in the United States this year*.
Overall incidence rates per 100,000 population for leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma are almost identical for data reported in 2008 and 2009 [{leukemia 12.2, 2009 vs.12.3, 2008}; (NHL, 19.5, each year); (Hodgkin lymphoma, 2.8, each year); (myeloma, 5.6, each year)].
Leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma will cause the deaths of an estimated 53,240 people in the United States this year. These blood cancers will account for nearly 9.5 percent of the deaths from cancer in 2009 based on the 562,340 total cancer-related deaths.
Every 10 minutes, someone dies from a blood cancer. This statistic represents nearly 146 people each day, or more than six people every hour.
Leukemia causes more deaths than any other cancer among children and young adults under the age of 20. In general, the likelihood of dying from most types of leukemia, lymphoma or myeloma decreased from 1996 to 2005 (the most recent data available).
In addition to their amazing work with blood cancers, LLS also does research in the areas of breast cancer, prostate cancer, and AIDS.
*Facts and statistics from Leukemia, Lymphoma, Myeloma Facts 2009-2010, June 2009.

Those are some pretty eye-opening statistics, huh?

So head on over and join in the Bash! Check out the fabulous prizes, make a donation, and be sure to check in every day during our two-week bash for Happy Hour!

Until next time …

15 March 2010

Misc.

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Half Marathon, Sisterhood, Team in Training, Team Shrinking Jeans

Ever have one of those days?

Sorry for the long delay since my last post. Life has been crazy the past few weeks between travel, work, half marathon training, and life in general. I’ll try and post something more meaningful in the next few days.

Until then …