Let me introduce … Beth

Beth Harrington is a friend of mind, who is going through a tough time…Let me explain.

 

She was diagnosed with cervical cancer in July 2009, after a procedure, they thought it was gone. In September 2009, after more procedures and tests, they found the cancer to be more aggressive than they thought, and its back. Beth underwent a partial hysterectomy on October 8, 2009 (removal of her cervix & uterus, but her ovaries remain), so as not to worry the cancer would come back.

 

Well, with the medical procedures comes lots of medical bills, so to help her out some of her friends have come up with a raffle to help offset these bills.  So to help get the word out I thought I would post something here to direct you to her raffle site, if you would be interested in any of the goodies and helping out this kind lady :D

 

 

 

click image to be directed to her

raffle blog set up by

Danielle aka the Design Girl

 

 

Some of the cool things being raffled are:

 

A Gift Cert to Misty O’Brien’s Store

Lollipops and Truffles (you gotta go see these…they are just too cute!!! and not quite what you think!!!)

a $50 Gift Certificate to Macy’s

Custom Flower Photo

Blinkie Button by Meaghan (have you seen her stuff…it’s awesome!!!)

Pre~Made Blog Template by the Design Girl

and a Blog Remake by the Design Girl

 

Definitely, go check this out, get in on the fun of the raffle and help Beth offset her medical cost!!!

 

Thanks :D

2009 Green River Storm Precaution

Well, looks like we have another river to watch this storm season.  Seems to be that the Howard Hanson Dam abutment is having some problems to where they will have to let more of the waters flow out the dam therefore making the Green River flow to possible flooding stages, especially if there is huge amounts of rain this year.  And hey this is Seattle/Tacoma, it rains minimum of 9 months out of the year!!!  Usually the Day before the Memorial Day weekend in September clear to the day after the 4th of July BBQ.  Well, the Army Corps of Engineers have been doing Storm Precautions by putting miles of huge sand bags down the river’s course to protect the homes and businesses along it’s path.  You can check out the whole story here. 

 

Of course, Marc and I had to go photograph the work in progress, and then I of course had to do a LO about it…LOL!!!  I used this months awesome Guild Kit “This One’s for the Birds” by the Guild Designers.  It also coincided with one of the Notebook Challenges “Color Overlay Challenge” at the Guild.  Check out all the Challenges at the Guild this month here.

 

Storm Precaution

 

Here are the stunning products I used!!!

 

This One’s for the Birds
November Guild Membership Kit

by the Guild Designers

 

 

Posting Bonus Alpha

This is the posting bonus for the

“Just Write Challenge” at the Guild

By Dee~Bee Designs

Toot…Toot for me!!!

Today I got noticed in the DST Weekend Gallery Standouts OCT 31- NOV 1, just how cool is that.  I did the LO for two reasons, one is, it is another page of my Collective Soul Lyrics Coffee Table Book, the other is the inspiration came from two sources, one the Oct Artisan Notebook using Mosaics, and the other is Chrissy W over at Elemental Scraps template.  She came out with the template awhile ago, so when Collective Soul’s new self titled album came out with a song called “You”, I knew I was gonna use this template to do the LO, just had no Ideal how I was gonna do it, until the Oct Artisan Notebook came out with the Mosaic theme…it was just perfect!!!   So here is the LO and don’t forget to scroll down to check out the wonderful designs I used :D  LO is linked to my Guild Gallery and title is linked to my DST Gallery :D

 

YOU ~ Collective Soul

CREDITS:
Best Laid Plans: Sept 09 Membership Guild Kit by the Guild Designers
Pianissimo by Dee~Bee Designs
Time to Dream by Dee~Bee Designs
Sample Pack 14 by Chrissy W
Music notes by Amber Gray Designs
Inspiration from the Artisan Notebook
Lyrics from self titled Album "Collective Soul" by Collective Soul

 

Sample Pack 14

by Chrissy W at Elemental Scraps

 

 

 

           Pianissimo Mini Kit                                                   Time to Dream

by Dee~Bee Designs

available at NDISB

 

 

Best Laid Plans

Sept 09 Membership Kit 

by the Guild Designers

Membership** information available here

 

** With Guild Membership you get the beautiful Monthly kits and the Artisan Notebook, which is filled with wonderful inspiration and also has free gifts inside…What a deal!!!

 

I would also like to thank Amber Gray designs, cause she made me the musical notes that I used on the LO, that go with her awesome alpha “Gold Crackle”, but is no longer available :(