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About Me

I am involved in a project co-founded with a dear friend of mine. It was called "3,000 in 2007" but now it is called Crafting for a Cause, and our goal is to gather crafters together and donate 3,000 homemade items in 2007.Why 3,000? As of the end of 2006, approximately 3,000 US soliders had died in Iraq. We want to do something in their memory and honor their memory by sending some good out into the world.
Links you might want to check out:
Rebuilding Greensburg Block by Block Knit squares for Greensburg, Kansas, recently devastated by a horrible tornado
A Million Thanks , collecting thank you cards for US troops
Warm With Love , an online charity database that has already been SO good to us!
Knit for a Cause , a blog of one of our newest members, she knits, she gives to charity, and she gathers other charitable group info!
Mary Read Memorial Knit Along Blog
25 things for charity --make 25 things in a year for charity!
Crafting for a Cause (our new blogger site)
Afghans for Afghans
The Dulaan Project
Head Huggers
Project Linus
Warm Up America
Knitting for Virginia Tech
Quilting for Hokies...Project Hope
a podcast by my good friend Aimee...about knitting, yarn, charity, and everything else under the sun!)

My Interests

Music, movies, Civil War, History, Middle Ages, Queen Elizabeth, charity, the homeless, somalia, ethiopia, sudan, iraq, iran, afghanistan, syria, lebanon, israel, palestine, diplomacy, peace, love, unity, having fun, crocheting, knitting, quilting, Virginia Tech, Hurricane Katrina, The Homeless, the terminally ill, the under-privileged, paying it forward, and many others.

I'd like to meet:

People who are with me.Here is stuff that has been made by Crafting for a Cause so far.

Music:

Animals, Joseph Arthur, Beatles, Beethoven, Blur, Elvis Costello, Cranberries, Charlatans, Depeche Mode, Eels, Garbage, Go-Betweens, Indigo Girls, Sean Lennon, Julian Lennon, Mozart, Modest Mouse,Morrisey, Nirvana, Roy Orbison, Pearl Jam, Portishead, Radiohead, REM, Smiths, Stone Roses, Stone Temple Pilots, Trash Can Sinatras, Neil Young. And many more :)

Movies:

Shrek I and II, Monsters Inc, Secret of Nimh, O Brother Where Art Thou, Fargo, Pulp Fiction, LOTR I-III, A Mighty Wind, Chicken Run, Big, Saving Private Ryan, X Men I-II, Raising Arizona, Elizabeth, Sense and Sensibility, Monty Python & the Holy Grail, Life of Brian, Team America World Police, Nightmare Before Christmas, Motorcycle Diaries, and many more :)Five MILLION dollars to the person who can name what movie the line at the top of my profile comes from! What? I'm good for it.........

Television:

All My Children, Lost, South Park, TLC, Family Guy, Aquateen Hunger Force, Futurama, The Brak Show, The Simpsons, The Daily Show, Reno 911, The History Channel, Heroes, House, PBS, um...anything educational, interesting, or not a reality show....

Books:

Lord of the Rings trilogy, A Wrinkle in Time, Charlotte's Web, the Little House books, Anne of Green Gables series, Diary of Sarah Morgan, Catch 22, Infinite Jest

Heroes:

Those who do what they can to bring sunshine where shadows reign.

My Blog

Goals, the future, and Interaction.org

We have gotten some great responses to This Post about what everyone would like to see in this community. There were some great ideas, including trying to create kind of a brain center and have local ...
Posted by Crafting for a Cause on Wed, 23 May 2007 03:59:00 PST

Two New Initiatives

We are jumpstarting two new projects this week. Both are linked here at myspace and over at our livejournal community profile page.The first is one you may have heard of (at the very least cuz I just ...
Posted by Crafting for a Cause on Thu, 17 May 2007 08:15:00 PST

We're in the spotlight

The gods of livejournal have placed us in the tip-top spotlight position on the livejournal homepage. This is extremely exciting, as we have been hoping that something would come along that would let ...
Posted by Crafting for a Cause on Fri, 11 May 2007 05:52:00 PST

Why Poppy Flower Fibers is awesome

So, we haven't had this myspace customized to be our charity's space for very long, but already we have encountered some very very cool people here in the myspace world. Who thought it could happen?On...
Posted by Crafting for a Cause on Wed, 09 May 2007 07:58:00 PST

New Pictures are up!

Please check out the latest finished objects (FOs) added to our slideshow! Not only are folks making a LOT of stuff...but all of it is beautiful (excluding my stuff...I'm no braggart) :)
Posted by Crafting for a Cause on Fri, 04 May 2007 06:17:00 PST

Our new goal is set

So some new and fairly aggressive goals have been set.By June 30th, we want to have 750 items finished, which would be a whopping 25% of our final goal.Do you think we can do it?Do you want to help?Do...
Posted by Crafting for a Cause on Tue, 01 May 2007 07:32:00 PST

Project Bag O'Sunshine

For a couple of months, we have been talking about starting up something for the troops in May, in correspondence with Memorial Day, that falls at the end of the month.Nothing is solidified yet, but w...
Posted by Crafting for a Cause on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 08:37:00 PST

More opportuntities to suppport Virginia Tech

Aimee made me aware of this one. There is a new blog community that is crafting for Virginia Tech...it's run by the same folks who are doing the Mary Read Memorial KAL.They are collecting items for th...
Posted by Crafting for a Cause on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 05:10:00 PST

Another opportunity to support V Tech

Priscilla made us aware of this one:On Whip Up this morning there was a notice about a yarn shop in Blacksburg, VA that is going to be collecting 8" X 8" squares to make afghans for the families of th...
Posted by Crafting for a Cause on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 06:04:00 PST

Pictures pictures pictures!

I have added a bunch more pictures here, and this is still but a fraction of what Crafting for a Cause members have made in 2007 so far. Mad props to everybody. You can see what I mean about the amazi...
Posted by Crafting for a Cause on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 07:10:00 PST