Today's Faves- Eye Candy, Zero Calories

More info here http://www.flickr.com/photos/12448123@N07/favorites/.

Newest Flickr Faves-Such Talent!

Love, love, love all the artists from my various groups, and my latest obsession, Blythe (more on that later). Go here for more info on these photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/12448123@N07/favorites/

On My Vacation Part 1, Curly Birds

Doesn't everyone make glittery bird thingies on vacation? I saw this curly-feathered bird at Michael's and couldn't resist making a bird princess like I saw by Cerri at http://littlepinkstudio.typepad.com/. She sells these at Glitter and Grunge and on Etsy. While reading her blog and looking at her Flickr photos, I was also inspired to join the "Pink Ornament Swap," which should come in handy since my white tree will be fuschia and silver this year, after a couple of years as turquoise and brown.

With a bunch of glitter, porcelain roses, ribbon, pearls on eyepins, moss, rhinestones and a crown as well as netting and a grapevine nest, I whipped this up last night. Not to worry, I've been on the beach today (in case anyone thinks I am a 'nerd,' I do plan to have some real vacation). But, it is such a treat to have all day to do whatever I want, and what I want to do is make stuff. In fact, I'm headed out later for more curly birdies.

Speaking of last year's tree, here it is on a particularly bad day. Yes, some people are already thinking of Christmas. I don't like to shop early, but I like to think about my decorating.

Never Enough Pink!

Here are some fab photos from my Flickr friends in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Passionately Pink for the Cure- a Flickr and Yahoo! endeavor for the Komen Foundation. Thought I would share them with you. What's better than doggies in dresses and cupcakes with an edible bag to carry them?!

More Flickr Faves Eye Candy

1. Lobster Pot - Salt Rose, 2. Flawed beauty, 3. Vanilla Daisy Cupcakes, 4. TMNT cupcakes, 5. Sophie Dandridge! Sepia!, 6. Wand for Halloween swap Oct 07, 7. 1 Cat 9 lives, 8. Loni Sugarplume's Magical Garden!, 9. paper+dress+swap+007, 10. Art in Motion, 11. Archway, 12. polka dot tea set, 13. fish-88, 14. As requested ........, 15. SOLDERING scrabble letters, 16. nest girl assemblage, 17. Fairy, 18. DARE TO BE ME, 19. Bathing Beauty, 20. paintings from my daughter Gen, 21. "Jar Fairy" front., 22. Halloween Swap - Faerie Zine Group, 23. Follow Your Heart, 24. Midsummer Nights Tea! Neon!, 25. Green Bottles Line Up, 26. ahh to be 16 again, 27. Pink Ribbon Rose, 28. Sneak Peek for Teah, 29. Special Order, 30. Princess Claire

Blossoms for a Cure

Blossoms
Originally uploaded by annulla

Another gorgeous photo to share by Annulla from Flickr's Passionately Pink for the Cure. Don't miss out- this is an absolutely beautiful and inspiring photo log to behold. Only six days into the month, and we are already at 40% of our goal to post 50,000 photos, for which Yahoo! will donate $50,000 to Komen for the Cure. It's impossible not to be moved by this display of community by strangers with a common desire. Check the link in the post below.

Support Passionately Pink for a Cure

loop-di-loop
Originally uploaded by PositiveVibrations

In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Yahoo! is donating $1 to Komen for the Cure for each pink photo added to this pool: http://www.flickr.com/groups/passionatelypinkforthecure/
up to $50k to be exact. The photo collection is stunning. This is a close-up photo of grevillea by PositiveVibrations.

Susan G. Komen for the Cure was formed by
Nancy G. Brinker who promised her dying sister, Susan G. Komen, that she would do everything in her power to end breast cancer forever.

In 1982, that promise became Susan G. Komen for the Cure and launched the global breast cancer movement. Today, Komen for the Cure is the world's largest grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists fighting to save lives, empower people, ensure quality care for all and energize science to find the cures.

Thanks to events like Passionately Pink for the Cure, Komen for the Cure has invested nearly $1 billion to fulfill the promise, becoming the largest source of nonprofit funds dedicated to the fight against breast cancer in the world.


In just five days there are already 6,027 members of this group as I write and nearly 19,000 photos already uploaded. More are being added literally every minute.