I’m not sure how many of my Pandarazzi followers are bead collectors, or jewelry makers, or have friends who would appreciate my travel finds, but if you haven’t been following my GRAFFITI GOSSIP blog, I didn’t’ want to leave anyone here out of the loop!!!
This Sunday I am having a LIVE online BEAD AND PENDANT TRUNK SHOW to raise money to foster another elephant in Chiang Mai Thailand!! I’m so excited I can hardly stand it! This show is the first of it’s kind that I have done and will be a grand experiment and I guarantee a lot of fun!!
Read much more about the show at GRAFFITI GOSSIP by clicking HERE
If you are wanting to be involved in the fostering but not really interested in beads or pendants, you can donate what you can via the CHIPIN widget on this LINK and I will include you in the sponsorship list!!!
I hope you all are doing well and looking forward to a fabulous Thanksgiving!!! Even in these trying times, we all have so much to be thankful for. I for one am so grateful for my family and friends ……..you all are the lights of my life and the fuel that keeps me going day to day. THANK you for your continued friendship and generous support of all my wild endeavors!!!!
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THIS VIDEO HAS AUDIO SO TURN IT UP!!! WOO HOO!!!
Above is the preview I did of some of the beads in the show as well as a taste of the elephant fostering “mission” I am determined to accomplish
I would LOVE to see you all on Sunday whether or not you are in the buying frame of mind!! Let us all have an Ellie partay!!
Welcome my Pantastic Friends to the NEW AND IMPROVED Pandarazzi!!
Now that we have finalized our 4 Panda Tribe adoptions through Pandas International, I discovered that the forum was not going to work as well as I had hoped. I went to update this weekend and got hit with a storage fee and various other limitations that I was not willing to live with. Any extra money should go to the pandas and other needed causes and not in the pocket of a “Free Blog” service…lol!
So after a lot of thought as to what to do, I decided that I adore blogging as I do on GRAFFITI GOSSIP. I am religious about it and know my way around the Word Press admin very very well by now! I am in the process of transferring all our Panda Tribe info over to a really nice storyboard html page that will link from here. We can add our baby photos to the albums as we get them.
You will see my 4 favorite pet projects are above in the photo links. Each will take you to the corresponding charity that I personally visited in those countries and can attest to the care and dedication these folks give the animals in their charge. These will be the 4 species I will concentrate on working to raise funds for via Project Panda.
There is much more to come. I just wanted to make sure you all didn’t wonder if you were going crazy when this blog came up instead of the Pandarazzi Forum. Please comment on the posts as often as you like and feel free to leave suggestions. This is going to be a very GREEN blog with a variety of helpful suggestions for all of us to create a happier planet
Panda Hugs to all!
Sandra
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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 comfy 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 hanging out and being FREE. It’s 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 testaments 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!!
