| Gifts that make a difference and a new lilyskites adoption |
**The new adoption! Check out my linkware section to adopt this**
Hello my friends!
I hope your day has been a happy one. Well, as you know the Christmas holiday is right around the corner and some of you may already have your lists together and some of your gifts already taken care of. For those of you who do not have your gifts yet, below is a list of places where you can purchase gifts that will help others.
Hope For Women
On their about us page: We offer products exclusively made by women so they can take control of their lives and their futures.Hope For Women is a proud member of the Fair Trade Federation. Every woman is paid a fair, livable wage under safe and healthy working conditions.
Bead For Life
On their about us page: Our beaders and tailors are primarily impoverished women who are hardworking, intelligent, and strong in their desire to improve their lives. They make gorgeous handcrafted paper beads from recycled paper and turn them into necklaces, bracelets, and earrings. Because the beaders use recycled, colorful paper, the beads help prevent environmental degradation. What was trash becomes beauty, money, food, and hope.
Peacekeeper
On their about us page: peacekeeper cause-metics is the first cosmetics line to give all of its after-tax distributable profits to women’s health advocacy and urgent human rights issues. peacekeeper builds a bridge between extraordinary women in the land-of-plenty with extraordinary women who just by chance of birth don’t have our resources or opportunities.
Other important sites are : Heifer International and Women to Women International.
Blessings and Hope,
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| New DeviantArt Creations |
Hello Friends!
I hope all is well with you, I hope you are feeling good and staying warm. It has been chilly here (which I love) and the fall colors are always so lovely to me, no matter how often I see them. Below are some of my newest DeviantArt Creations. The first one is my new ID, the template was created by Stixman, *Thank You!* It actually features a doll I already had in my gallery. I am thinking about doing a Christmas ID. The second creation is a Panic disorder awareness doll. I made her because as you know I suffer from panic attacks and anxiety daily but also because so many others around the world (woman especially) suffer too and I just wanted to say,"Hey, your not alone." The doll base is from Hearts Enchanted(The very talented Amanda)
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| Another Math Rant |
My head is twisting and it hurts. For three days I have poured over the algebra and I am more in a fog then ever. I have a math exam tomorrow morning. I did well on my first math exam but this one.. THIS ONE, is a nightmare. A nightmare filled with equations that can not be solved without a million and two steps, with x2 - 5ax+(n -4) =(4-8a+2) and I must get a 70 to pass this course. If I don't pass this course, then I can not move forward and I can only take it one more time. Every degree program at my college, including art, dance and theatre require a knowledge of geometry, algebra, statistics, and the like in order for you to obtain a degree. I would not mind the tears and the stress and the cognitive suffering if I knew that I would use all of this math in my chosen profession but guess what? I have already asked kindergarten teachers if they use any of the math they were required to take and they all said no. They do use the basic math but THAT IS IT. I have tried really.. I have asked the teacher to explain it, I have read books like math doesn't suck or kiss my math my Danica McKeller (geared toward the middle school crowd) or algebra for dummies and still I just can't get it. I don't want this to ruin my chance to do something that matters, and I see that happening each time I just can't grasp the math.
Happiness and Hope,
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| Think on these things... |
I have noticed, as I am sure you have, how negative our society has become. We have scores of reality shows that celebrate the humiliation and rudeness of others. As I go about my day, I usually hear people complaining about what is wrong instead of being grateful for what is right. I am guilty of this from time to time but I have made a serious effort for some time now to change how I look at things. It just feels better to look on the bright side, to practice seeing what is RIGHT in each situation or each person.
Happiness to you,
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