WHEN ELISE ISN’T NAPPING WITH TAI..SHE IS COMPLETELY IMMERSED IN SUPPORTING IMPORTANT ANIMAL CAUSES!
My gosh Pandarazzi’s readership has simply skyrocketed since I made the shift from that difficult forum format to this easy to use blog to use for communication. Thank you all for bear-ing with me during the transition but growing pains and improvements always mean we are moving forward …which is an outstanding thing!!!
As part of this growing process, I have added 2 regular contributors to the blog and will invite guest authors to post as well. I am introducing them in no particular order. I just happen to have the pix ready to post of one of them, so today you all get to meet a wonderful friend and panda lover from the Washington DC area, Elise.
I met Elise via the Flickr group “Pandas Unlimited” and recently got to meet her in person when I traveled to the Smithsonian Zoo in DC for TaiShan’s 3rd birthday
ME GIVING MY TALK AT THE DC ZOO
Elise and I had all of maybe 10 minutes to chat in DC but have been emailing back and forth ever since. When I brought up the plight of the moonbears on the Pandas Unlimited list….Elise jumped on the bandwagon with guns a blazing…… and has been actively championing the little bears through petition signing, writing letters, and donating to Animals Asia and other anti bile farming organizations ever since.
The panda loves of her life are Tai Shan and the Tian panda family at the National Zoo. Elise is so lucky to be able to visit them in person and take these wonderful images you see here!! You can visit Elise’s photostream by clicking any of her Tai images
Elises’ alias on PANDARAZZI is “Bear it All” , so when you see her name in the comments and as the author of posts, you will know she took precious time away from hanging out with Tai in the hammock, drinking BEAR-Y coolers, to author our blog posts or help me organize the exciting fundraisers we have coming up for PROJECT PANDA! Elise is a MISSION MOONBEAR quilt square contributor.
THANK YOU ELISE FOR ALL YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS TO ANIMAL WELFARE AND PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF ENDANGERED SPECIES. YOUR HEART IS AS BIG AS THE UNIVERSE!
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As long as I was on a roll with the Elephant book, I decided it was time I finish my panda book as well. I plan to take a leather cover copy of this to give to the Panda Base when I return next year as a gift. I still have some proofing to do as well as insert a few of my more recent Project Panda jewelry designs…but for the most part, it is ready to publish.
What a job……my bottom is permanently molded to my computer chair but this is one of those projects that got put on the back burner until I could get my new computer. The old one was just too slow and frustrating to do graphics etc with.
There will eventually be a book/slideshow on each of the 4 headers in CAPS under RECENT PROJECTS in the sidebar to the left.
CLICK THE PHOTO OF THE PANDA TO BRING THE SHOW-UP NICE AND LARGE..CLICKING ON ANY IMAGE AGAIN WILL GIVE YOU SINGLE PAGES INSTEAD OF THE DOUBLE LAYOUT
And GREAT NEWS on the Mission Moonbear front!!! Only ONE sponsorship square is left so grab it while you can. All the sponsors for this moonbear will be sooooooooooo thrilled at the moonbear I was able to choose for us!!!!!!
As soon as I speak with the director of Animals Asia US again I will be able to release the details…hopefully, this week!!! You guys are gonna FREAK!! I hate keeping secrets!!
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I spent the better part of the weekend having some fun with the images from the Elephant Nature Park I took in February. For those of you who don’t remember that trip, it is a rescue for abused and neglected elephants in Thailand. An absolutely first class program run by all volunteers, under the guidance of the founder Lek. Clicking on the ELEPHANTS banner at the top of the blog will always get you to their site.
ELEPHANT NATURE PARK IN CHIANG MAI THAILAND
I will eventually be offering this as a hardcover book when I get the descriptions all in place. There is very little profit in printing these small run publications, but any profit I will put back into ENF.
My panda book will be published around the same time in early 2009
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