First item for the silent auction...48forlarry

The silent auction will start at 10% of the value of the item...
10.00...1.00
25.00...2.50
There are so many fantastic items being donated and great deals to be purchased and proceeds going to a great cause.
Please, help get the word out to help an artisan in need!
Please, donate, buy from the Auction....OR.....Blog about the Blockhead Radio Silent Auction...48forLarry!

48for Larry

Larry Hamm over at Chelsea Lynn Designs on Artfire is a friend of many in the world of handmade, he is also the voice of The Crazy Train on Blockhead Radio. Larry has a fantastic wife Janet, and an 8 year old son Jacob who live with him in Lansing, NC deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Larry is a friend to everyone and just an all around swell guy. He is most definitely the “shirt off your back” kind of friend. Right now, all of Larry’s friends and Blockhead radio are teaming up to help him out in a tough time.
Larry is a disabled diabetic who currently has lost his health insurance. His medication alone monthly is over $2,000. Larry is not receiving disability, he has not been approved yet. His wife is the only source of income and she doesn’t make enough to cover his medications. Larry’s doctors have given him an outlook of only 18 months to live if he doesn’t receive a $17,000 gastric bypass surgery as soon as possible. Larry and his family need all the help from their family and friends they can get! Jacob and Janet need Larry to hang around here with them as long as he possibly can! All of his friends surely want Larry to stick around too!
All of us at Blockhead Radio are gearing up for the biggest Radiothon you’ll ever be a part of! July 24th at 6pm until July 26th at 6pm, Blockhead Rod will be live on the radio for 48 hours straight raising money for our friend Larry. A silent auction of donated handmade goods will also be going up on the home page of Blockhead Radio with 100% of the proceeds going to Larry.
If you would like to be a part of this wonderful event, please email DeDe Sorensen at: 48forlarry@blockheadradio.com Please donate any handmade items you can for the silent auction have your emails in with your donations by July 22nd. If you would like to donate cash for Larry’s prescriptions and surgery please visit Blockhead Radio July 24th through July 26th. There will be plenty of ways to get your donations in.
Keep listening to Blockhead Radio for fantastic indie music, and how you can help Larry Hamm of Chelsea Lynn Designs.
Help spread the work.....link this post or feel free to copy and paste it on your blog...thanks.
48forLarry

Happy 4th...

Saw this offer this morning for FREE quart of paint....

Free quart of eggshell finish paint:

glidden.com/promotions/free-paint-giveaway

Terms & Conditions

• This promotional offer is only available on glidden.com or by calling 1-800-GLIDDEN
• Offer good through July 2, 2009 or while supplies last
• One quart per household
• Quart is Eggshell finish
• Continental U.S. only
• No P.O. boxes
• No military APO or FPO addresses
• Valid e-mail address required

7/01/09...Update on this promotion:
Thank you for your interest in the new Glidden^™ paint and our National Free Paint Giveaway. Because of overwhelming demand, our supply of free quarts has been spoken for. But we'd still like to help you get started and brighten things up. So please accept this $5 rebate on any size can or color of our new Glidden paint. To find the perfect color for your home, explore our full color palette. Then go to The Home Depot nearest you— and start rolling. You don't have to be a painter to love Glidden^™. Glidden Gets You Going^™.

hoffeeandanuffin.....Sock Monkey Card

From her Artfire Studio:
This listing is for an actual matte photograph of my very own handmade sock monkeys to share and send greetings to friends and family. The 4"x6" photo is inserted in a 5"x7" photo card and is suitable for framing.

This card is blank inside so you may write your own personal message and comes with an envelope stamped with an original hand-carved sock monkey image.

Card will be delivered in a plastic sleeve in a durable cardboard mailer.

Happy Father's Day!

I hope it is a happy and healthy one.......

Breakfast for your boo boo

 

perpetualkid.com 

TheChainMailleLady

Cream Pearls and Swirls Sterling Silver ChainMaille Bracelet

Chain,

You have created another gorgeous classic chainmaile masterpiece.....!!!

Big...Big...Bead Giveaway.......

In making the blog rounds this morning, I ran across a blog post about a Big Bead Giveaway on silverparrotdesigns

...ends on Friday, June 12th

How do you enter this Fantastic Bead Giveaway???

Post on your blogs and leave a link in the comments on

silverparrotdesigns to your posting before midnight

on Friday, June 12th, to be entered!

Artfire Artisan.....Ellyloo

Ellyloo''s Big Round Floral pendant

Women Soldiers of the Civil War

Women Soldiers of the Civil War
By DeAnne Blanton

Disguised as a man (left), Frances Clayton served many months in Missouri artillery and cavalry units. (By courtesy of the Trustees of the Boston Public Library)

It is an accepted convention that the Civil War was a man's fight. Images of women during that conflict center on self-sacrificing nurses, romantic spies, or brave ladies maintaining the home front in the absence of their men. The men, of course, marched off to war, lived in germ-ridden camps, engaged in heinous battle, languished in appalling prison camps, and died horribly, yet heroically. This conventional picture of gender roles during the Civil War does not tell the entire story. Men were not the only ones to fight that war. Women bore arms and charged into battle, too. Like the men, there were women who lived in camp, suffered in prisons, and died for their respective causes.

..........Read the rest of the story........ HERE