PICTURED ABOVE IS MATILDA . I TOOK THESE PHOTOS IN FEBRUARY 2010

After two months of fundraising I am proud to announce to the purchasers of the “In a Perfect World” pendant set, that I am putting 50% of the money raised on this pendant towards the model for the artwork…”Matilda”.  That is $200.00 to help keep Mz. Matilda comfie and healthy at Animals Asia Foundation in Chengdu

Matilda (left) is the girl I mentioned who was practically glued to one of her exercise pen mates “Bottom”  (right)  Thank you to Animals Asia Founder Jill Robinson, Nic and Alice for ID’ing these two bears for me.  Keeping track of names was not easy as I was so overwhelmed with bears and Jill’s stories….. and photographing them while I had this incredible opportunity I missed writing down a lot of names

We were on a wonderful overlook platform viewing the bears a distance so the long lens came in handy.  I’m really pleased with the closeups I got of the moonbears from such a great distance.  Jill on right, Gayle on Left

Above image shows how far the bears were away from where we were standing on  the platform.  This was new since my 2006 visit and I could have stayed up there for hours observing the bears and their behaviors and antics.  What a feeling it must be to have this freedom!!!

Matilda just melts me and I know she will melt you too!!!!

Matilda and Bottom just hangin out and being FREE.  Its hard to  imagine any of these bears, now rescued, in such beautiful coat weight and condition, having been squeezed into body sized coffin style cages , with no freedom, very little nourishment, sick with infection…. mentally and socially deprived as well.

The trust and lack of fear so many of these bears exhibit are testament to the constant and loving care which  the AAF staff and volunteers provide  the moonbears in their charge 24/7.  The resiliency of the rescued bile farm bears dumbfounds me!!

Animals Asia keeps this pile of crush cages which they rescued the bile farm bears from as a grim reminder of the past for those bears but also a reminder of the new and better life for those who are now free.  Some unfortunate moonbears never had the chance to live long following their rescue due to the horrendous condition they were found in…….. but they are also no longer suffering which is a blessing .

Matilda on the left…Bottom on the right

SO THANK YOU ONE AN ALL FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THIS FUNDRAISER!!!

I hope you all are enjoying your pendants and wear them often!!  Every person who asks , “what is on your pendant” opens the door for you all to spread the word about the incredible work Animals Asia Foundation does for the moonbears!!!

IN A PERFECT WORLD pendant peeps are below!

Valerie Gilb

Elise Ney

Rachel Lepree

Christie Harper

Deb Hethorn

Tuula Tammelin

Deonaha Conlin

Michelle Padula

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MY NEW BOOK BLINDSPOT IS ON THE SHELVES!! 100% TO THE PANDAS!!!

CLICK BOOK COVER TO PREVIEW AND PURCHASE

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Hi Sandra,

I hope you’re doing well! It’s hard to believe that it’s almost the end of September. Please share this recent update and adorable picture of your panda Xiao Hua (You You) with the Wood Tribe. He is so cute and he’s really grown!

You You:
Your baby was moved from Shanghai Zoo to Shanghai Wild Animal Park with other nine “Expo Pandas” on June 28 and met with the visitors on June 30.  To welcome them, the park specially built an “Expo Panda House”.  The Panda House occupies 10,000 sp. m, of which the exhibition area is 3,000 sq. m and the backyard and the bamboo forest is 7,000 sq. m.

The exhibition area was equipped with running water, trees, wooden swing, slides, etc, for them to play and climb.  In a word, the design of the Panda House reflected the concept of ecological environmental protection and fits for the giant pandas’ lively habit.  Your baby adapted to the new environment quickly.  Now its weight is 64.5 kg.  Every day it has bamboo of 12 kg, 600 g Wowotou, a small amount of apples and carrot and milk of two times.

Because of the hot weather these months, many pandas have less bamboo.  So does your baby. That’s why it lost weight.  On July 6, CCRCGP held a group birthday party for the ten “Expo Pandas” at Shanghai Wild Animal Park.  Many of their adopters from all over the world came to the park to celebrate for them and give their best wishes to them.  Because your baby is over two years old.  The keepers are going to ablactation for them.  Now they have reduced the thickness of the milk so that the pandas can finish ablactation smoothly.

Please thank the Wood Tribe for their adoption! We appreciate their support.

Carrie

CLICK THE IMAGE TO PURCHASE THIS NECKLACE AND GIFT TIN SET

AND A REMINDER THAT THIS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2010 IS THE FINAL DAY FOR JOINING OUR MOONBEAR BEFRIENDING THROUGH YOUR NECKLACE PURCHASE.

Your purchase of this stunning limited production moonbear pendant  will have 50% of the proceeds going towards helping one of the moonbears at Animals Asia Foundation.  Our chosen bear will be announced next week!!

SEE THE VIDEO PROMO FOR  “IN A PERFECT WORLD” BELOW

And if all this isn’t excitement enough…………you can see from the sidebar that the long anticipated release of my panda book called BLINDSPOT is on the horizon……coming to the bookshelves THIS COMING FRIDAY, October 1 2010.  Stay tuned for my newsletter announcement coming Friday as well.

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Our new puppy Gracie has found a very clever way to recycle water when she can’t hold it in her cheeks..you see she’s teething BEARY much and has a temporary “dribble lip”

Her solution…the latest in gardening gadgets…..the Chow Watering Can!!!!

Ok, now for the cool panda stuff!! Check out my latest design on T’s , mugs, and cards!! WOWZA this looks great on pretty much everything I put it on and is EARTH DAY GREEN to boot!!!

CLICK THE PHOTOS TO BRING YOU TO MY ZAZZLE STORE . THERE ARE MANY NEW PANDA AND MOONBEAR ITEMS GOING UP IN THE NEXT TWO WEEKS!!

CHILLIN’ panda card by electra_cute

CHILLIN’ panda coffee mug by electra_cute

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CLICK HERE TO GO TO GRAFFITI GOSSIP TO SIGN UP FOR UPDATES

If you are not sure you are  subscribed, simply enter your email address in the upper right column and click to “subscribe”.  The system will tell you if you are already a subscriber OR will send you an email to verify your subscription if you are a new subscriber

ALSO..TAKE NOTE OF THE NEW QUICK REFERENCE WIDGET HERE  AT PANDARAZZI AT THE TOP OF  THE RIGHT HAND COLUMN .  YOU HAVE DIRECT ACCESS TO THE AUDIO , VIDEO AND TRAVEL BLOG POSTS FROM ONE CONVENIENT LOCATION.

ITS ALWAYS BEST TO SIGN UP AT GRAFFITIGOSSIP.COM IF YOU WOULD LIKE EMAIL UPDATES FROM THE ANIMAL CENTERS BUT THE WIDGET HERE IS HANDY TOO.

IT LOOKS LIKE THIS

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Hello everyone!! Pandarazzi site has been down all day and I have been itching to show you all these pix of the Jing Shui!!   I’ll post them on the blog when my server decides it’s time…but for now, you can see her updated page here …they are the last 3 photos on the slideshow and some new text just below that too.

CLICK HERE TO SEE JING SHUI’S ADOPTION PAGE

Also don’t forget that PANDAS INTERNATIONAL is having their Mothers Day Ebay auction in progress.  You dont’ want to miss all the wonderful panda goodies up for bid, including a “one of a kind” stretched canvas I created which will be the 2010 Pandas International anniversary design for their shirts and panda ware. !!!

The starting bid is only 1/5 of the gallery price of this ready to hang canvas over a stretcher frame and a stunning piece of unique panda art!!!  This is a one of a kind replica of the original.  NO OTHERS WILL BE MADE.

CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE AUCTIONS

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DONT FORGET THE DRAWING FOR THE CUSTOM JEWELRY IS TONITE AT THE BAMBOO TEAHOUSE

To get your name thrown into the hat you must be a Bamboo Teahouse Member…add your profile photo please

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Now a little teaser…… get those cameras out and start shooting wildlife (with the camera of course..lol).  I am in the midst of organizing an International photo contest which is going to be HOT STUFF!!!!  It is going to take a number of weeks to coordinate with my incredible helpers Elise and Camila…….but the muses are with us and this is going to be so incredible and far reaching! More to come soon!

If anyone here has connections with a corporation (assosicated with wildlife/ecology) or a National camera store chain who might be interested in sponsoring this event please contact me. Yep…it’s THAT BIG of a contest!!!!

And the  PANDA JEWELRY IS BACK!!!  I will have some pieces ready for purchase next week and will announce it here.  A portion of the purchase price on all panda designs goes back in to the PROJECT PANDA fund which goes eventually to our projects with PANDAS INTERNATIONAL.

HAVE A PANTASTIC WEEKEND EVERYONE!!!!

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A call to all our TWITTER members and to any of you who would like to sign up for Twitter just to help us as well, to send out an appeal for the moonbears who so desperatly need your money.

READ BELOW ABOUT ACTOR HUGH JACKMAN’S GENEROUS OFFER

Here are mine and Elises TWEETS we did as examples. Be sure to mention ANIMALS ASIA in the post or this link http://animalsasia.org if there is room.  Remember you only have 140 characters or less to state your case.

GO TO “REAL HUGH JACKMAN” ON TWITTER , ADD YOURSELF AS A FOLLOWER THEN POST YOUR TWEET ON HIS TWITTER ACCOUNT

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MY TWITTER POST ON HUGH JACKMAN’S PROFILE

pandarazzi @RealHughJackman

Imagine YOU*In body sized cage*Open gut wound*Cry to end life of torture*YOU are a bile farm MOONBEAR* ANIMALS ASIA=FREEDOM

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ELISE NEY’S TWITTER POST

bearsrepeating @RealHughJackman

Existing in cages half their size. Bile harvested in an archaic practice. Longing to be FREE! Help!!  http://animalsasia.org

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Thank you all so much for your help!!! Your TWEETS alone are incredible advertising for the cause regardless of whether the moonbears are chosen or not.  Moonbears need exposure desperatly if we wish  to change the course of their tortured lives

Mission Moonbear supporter Elise Ney, told me about this opportunity the day it was announced. I had inteneded to post here earlier but “life happens” and haven’t hadn the chance till now…thank you Elise for your patience!!

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Article and photo below courtesy YAHOO NEWS

@RealHughJackman

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Hello my friends and Mission Moonbear #3 members!!! I’m very proud to announce we have all our money collected for our special sponsored bear and to give you a sneak peek. His name is WILFRED… aka “Watermelon”.  He got his name from the fact that all he would eat when he first was rescued was the sweet and tasty confection…. watermelon.

Above is a photo by Animals Asia as he arrived at AAF in his lifelong cage prison, having at taste of one of his  many “first” pleasures in his new world…….fresh watermelon…..click the link to see how our boy Wilfred  looks today and read his incredible story of survival!!

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE PAGE I CREATED JUST FOR WILFREDS SPONSORS

Thank you all so very much for your kind and generous donations to help house and feed this beautiful blind moonbear.  He is buddies with our previously adopted Mityan which is part of the reason I chose  Wilfred for our group.  I can’t wait to get to Chengdu to see these boys for myself again…especially now that I have names and stories to connect with each moonbear.

THESE PHOTOS ARE PROOF POSITIVE THAT YOUR SPONSORSIP DOLLARS ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN EACH INDIVIDUAL LIFE OF THE ENDANGERED MOONBEARS..WHO WEAR THE CRESCENT  MOON “SHIELD” OVER THEIR HEARTS!

Luna Ursa Hugs and eternal thanks!!!!!

Sandra Miller
founder MISSION MOONBEAR
sandra@pandarazzi.com

VISIT ANIMALS ASIA FOUNDATION

http://animalsasia.org

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DONT’ FORGET TO START YOUR BLISS PAGE AND SEND ME YOUR MOONBEAR HAIKU!!! THE BOOK IS GROWING FAST

CLICK THE BAMBOO TEAHOUSE BADGE IN THE LEFTHAND COLUMN TO START

ABOVE..RESCUED MOONBEAR AT AAF CHINA ON OUR TRIP IN 2008

Well  my friends …we did it!!! With the generous support of our Pandarazzi family and additonal Moonbear Luv from our new friends at URSA FREEDOM PROJECT….we made our goal of $600.00 (plus some) to adopt/sponsor a third moonbear!!!

THANK YOU CONTRIBUTORS

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Marilyn Kamna
Jan Lockhart
Lynn Richardson
Sabina Holdsworth
Judy Young
Joseph Brady
Tanya Ross
Margaret Schindel
Deb Hethorn

James Shaw

Elizabeth Wilson

Dania Gerhardt
Gay Noland
Primeclass Traders
Allan Birmantes
Elise Ney

I am in the process of talking to AAF and studying Jills blog to choose our special rescue (tough job..they ALL are special).  Thank you all so very much for answering the call to action for this project!!  I’ll have much more news soon!!!

AND CHECK OUT JILLS BLOG AAF BELOW WITH SOME INTERESTING TIDBITS ABOUT JANE GOODALL AND OUR BOY MANDELA!!!  CLICK IMAGE TO ACCESS JILLS BLOG FOR MORE UPDATES

ARTICLE COURTESY ANIMALS ASIA FOUNDATION

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*haiku (HY-koo) noun; A form of Japanese verse having three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables respectively, involving allusions and references to nature or seasons.

I adore Haiku…the formula for these rhymeless poems is as follows

*haiku (HY-koo) noun; A form of Japanese verse having three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables respectively, involving allusions and references to nature or seasons.

The above Haiku is my own wordage…Please send yours to me and it will be featured on my website
pandarazzi.ning.com

…replacing my words under the graphic with your Haiku and your name. You can download and print your special moonbear prose as well!!

READ MORE ABOUT MOONBEARS AT ANIMALS ASIA FOUNDATION to get in touch with your inner moonbear zen frame of mind!!

And dont miss out on the party at

THE BAMBOO TEAHOUSE !!

Start your page to help motivate and support the pandas and moonbears. You can post your adopted cubs at your customized page as well!!!

PLEASE PRIVATE MESSAGE ME WITH YOUR HAIKU AND NAME SO I CAN PREPARE YOUR PROSE PROPERLY!!   WOO HOO!!
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We, the Pandarazzi peeps, are making this pledge to help feed and care for our one special Moonbear for the next 12 months at Animals Asia Foundation Chengdu China.  This is our 3rd fundraiser with the 2 previous ones being hugely succesful in “adopting” Mandela and the blind moonbear Mityan.

By helping care for these special needs bears who are in the throws of recovering from years of torturous bile farming, it helps free up other funds coming to AAF that they desperately need as well to help do the actual rescue projects and close down the bile farms

Donations can be made via Paypal right here at Pandarazzi in the left column or at the THE BAMBOO TEAHOUSE .  …again in the upper left column.  Your names will be added onto the list as the funds arriveHere is the Paypal widget again for your convenience

All donations, large and small add up fast so please consider even a 10.00 contribution.  The ultimate goal is $600.00 in 6 days!!! We have done it before and I know we can do it again!!!!  You guys rock!

We will be choosing our moonbear from one of the most recent rescues that AAF has done.  The staff has been extremely generous in letting our Mission Moonbear community decide who we want to sponsor.  Eventually I hope we can sponsor them ALL!!

A reminder to please join us at the BAMBOO TEAHOUSE as well and start your own beautiful pages to blog and network about your love of animals, nature and art!    http://pandarazzi.ning.com

Thank you for your consideration of this important project.  As a community we can make a large sum of $600.00 seem not so daunting by each of us giving whatever we can afford from our Paypal “change jars”

READ ABOUT OUR PREVIOUS SPONSORSHIPS HERE

Big Luna Ursa Hugs to all of you and thanks in advance for all your continued support of the moonbears !!

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