Yayyyyyy for Lost Radio

I know a lot of folks in here are Lost fans (death_by_yarn, I'm looking at you). Well...our friend, our co-member, one of our sponsors,kaidysoft, got a super big surprise on Lost Radio tonight.

Jorge Garcia unexpectedly called in!!!! He is the one who plays Hurley on Lost, and he has also had roles on Curb Your Enthusiasm and Becker.

Considering that she was totally taken by surprise, and considering that like, she had just gotten called by Jorge freakin' Garcia, our kaidysoft did a FABULOUS job.

Go on over to http://www.lost-radio.com. Tonight's show should be up there soon and you can check it out.

kaidysoft also managed to work in a little plug for us, mostly cuz I was a pain and kept bugging her :( Sorry babe, but I appreciate it more than i can say.

Once again, everybody...http://www.lost-radio.com!

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Let's build this up!

Hey everybody,

I am still pretty new at this blogspot thing, but it does seem that one can search blogspot for blogs that might have similar interests.

I did a search for charity and happened upon a really really neat group called 25thingsforcharity(25thingsforcharity.blogspot.com). They have very similar rules as we do (as in like, none), but instead of counting as a community, their goal as individuals is to complete 25 items in a year.

I posted a comment to the mod over there letting her know that we are here now...I don't know how to help along the "friending" process over here, but y'all might want to check that group up and if you know how to post to other communities, perhaps let them know that their work could be double-counted if they joined us as well.

*off to look s'more*

March Summary

March's finished objects: 121
Total finished objects so far: 175

The Dulaan Project got a pair of socks from jpettibone and six sweaters from one of death_by_yarn's patients. Mrs. M.

afghans for Afghans got a pair of socks for their sock drive from thesnapemobile, two baby hats for their Mother's Day drive from death_by_yarn and a pair of socks from nehnhaa.

Warm up America got 76 squares (14 + 3 + 36 + 9 + 1 +7 + 6), which will be part of the community blanket drive, from jpettibone, theonlyevidence, funfairiegirl, fivesenses and joriejc2.

A local women's shelter got another five scarfs from joriejc2.

The Snuggles Project got a blanket from theonlyevidence and another blanket from funfairegirl.

Head Huggers got three hats from theonlyevidence (2 + 1).

Crafty Angels received a baby hat and two baby bibs from theonlyevidence.

The Victory Junction Gang Camp got an afghan from joriejc2.

The Preemie Project got a preemie baby hat from leftygirl02.

Project Linus got five afghans (3 + 2 + 1 + 2) from crazigriffen, doclegs and lindsoriah.

The American Cancer Society's Relay for Life got five hats from arian_diana.

A local chemo patient and her granddaughter got a hat and bag from arian_diana.

A local Helping Hands chapter received a hat and two purses from arian_diana.

A local animal shelter got small animal blanket from arian_diana.

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Other stuff that happened in March:

joriejc2 has a wish list for April.

We're getting mentioned in Lost Radio by kaidysoft.

We've added baked goods to our tally of charity items.

We had a naming contest for a website which arian_diana won with "crafting for a cause". We now have a blogspot blog at craftingforacause.blogspot.com set up by funfairiegirl. See here for more details on how it will be used and how to post etc. The livejournal RSS feed can be subscribed to here.

And there's a Frapper Map to show where we all are.

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January 2007 - 21
February 2007 - 33

February Summary

February's finished objects: 33
Total in 2007 so far: 54

A Scarf and hat for the Red Scarf Project and a local Pappas school in Phoenix by annilita.

Three pairs of socks for the Dulaan Project by jpettibone.

Five blue hats for the afghans for Afghans AMMC hat drive by joriejc2.

Eight hats for the afghans for Afghans AMMC hat drive by nehnhaa.

Pair of socks for the afghans for Afghans sock drive by nehnhaa.

Four scarves for the Red Scarf Project by pivyca.

Another four pairs of socks by jpettibone.

Two baby caps for an as yet unspecified charity by funfairiegirl.

Two items for afghans for Afghans by elenalda.

Two caps that will go to the Dulaan Project, by death_by_yarn.


Other things that happened around February:

funfairiegirl started a podcast in which she talks about the community.

We started a community square drive to make blankets for Warm up America. crazigriffen volunteered to sew together squares.

January Summary

January's Finished items: 21

Hat and scarf set by joriejc2.

Two pairs of Socks for the Dulaan project by jpettibone.

Eight Hats for the Dulaan project by jpettibone.

Four Scarfs for the Red Scarf Project by thesnapemobile".

Five scarves for a local Women's shelter by joriejc2.

Anonymity and "donated from" tags

i don't know how you all feel about this, but one thing that is important to me in cases of donating to charity is that a big deal isn't made out of it. Now, we are trying to grow this community, so it's kind of hard to keep mum about it and grow at the same time, but I don't want this to become something that people join because they want to be noted for any particular individual contribution here, if that makes sense.

At the same time, I would also love for other charitable organizations to come to understand that they could post here with specific needs, and we as a group could help them meet those needs. So, I was thinking about the following.

How would you feel about donating items under the name "crafting for a cause"? Of course, we have no way of monitoring this and won't be sticklers about it, but would you be interesting in maybe having a little note you could toss in with your FOs saying, "This item made and contributed by crafting for a cause, craftingforacause.blogspot.com" or something like that?

Let me know what you think.

Wow!

Today on Oprah is Finding your calling and doing good work for charity. I am seriously impressed by some of these things. I know we aren't big enough to make Oprah - but that's ok - we are enough as we are. I am proud of everyone who even lurks on this community as they are thinking of good things. Thank you all for making the dream come true for us (Jorie, Julie and me) and for helping so many others. And thank you for passing the word and exposing others to our cause. I have been talking the community up all over. I talked about it all over LA and I think I have made some GREAT connections. Once I know more, I will post about it. Suffice it to say - I am a happy happy girl! When I came home to 175 items (25 OVER the goal I asked if we could hit) I almost cried from happiness and gratitude to your helping spirits. Thank you all.