Everyone is so sad

Well the news is out, most of us know by now that the Ning network is shutting all of our Free sites down sometime in May.
Like so many of us, I belong to almost 10 ning groups, all of which I love for their own uniqueness. Each offers something new to experience and new friends to meet.

While most of the grouups I'm in are all trying to figure out what there going to do, charge a fee to belong or move to another free site, like Yahoo groups.

My main Ning group is Creative Souls and I don't want to have it change. Izabella has put so much into the making of such a warm and welcoming group. I have my own group on her wonderful group site, Sharing Techniques. I sure don't want to see all the hard work I've done go away or to try and transfer all that information from all 222 of my members. I can't imagine how Izabella feels with over 2 thousand members.

We're all in a state of limbo for now, waiting to see what is going to happen in May. I for one am going to start to save as many of my groups techniques in the hopes that they will not be lost if things go the wrong way for us all.

Art Creations Friday

This is my entry for the Art Creations Friday challenge

Thanks to the wonderful Ladies at Outsider-Artists

Click here to see the wonderful art of the ladies of Outsider-Artists

Here are a few of my works done with the photos given by these gracious ladies. Thank you so much for all the beautiful photos ladies, you've made my art sing.

Hugs

Bernie

Mind Wide Open

Mind Wide Open

Join in the fun at Gail's web contest Mind Wide Open, it's the most fun I've had just seeing the entrants and the winners of this wonderfully creative contest.

Army of Women

Our revolutionary initiative has two key goals:
To recruit one million healthy women of every age and ethnicity, including breast cancer survivors and women at high-risk for the disease, to partner with breast cancer researchers and directly participate in the research that will eradicate breast cancer once and for all.
To challenge the scientific community to expand its current focus to include breast cancer prevention research conducted on healthy women.
"Breast cancer has been around for decades, but it does not have to be our future. We can be the generation that stops breast cancer once and for all by figuring out what causes this disease and how to prevent it!" "Sign up for your sister, mother, daughter, granddaughter, best friend, and the woman you met last week. This is YOUR chance to be part of the research that will end breast cancer."
Army of Women : You can click on the title of this blog Army of Women to go directly to their page.
https://www.armyofwomen.org/getinvolved

Welcome to the Love/Avon Army of Women, a revolutionary movement to bring women and researchers together to eradicate breast cancer.
As a proud Army of Women member, you will regularly receive emails from us that announce new research studies as well as other Army of Women activities.
You will need to login into your account in order to sign up for any research studies or participate in our Town Hall.
The Army is dedicated to representing ALL women in research so that the research results will apply to ALL women. This means we need you to help us recruit women of all ages, ethnicities, sizes, and shapes. We need women who have had breast cancer and women who have not. We need African American women, Asian women, white women, Latinas, and lesbians to be involved.
You can do your part to help us spread the word about the Army and reach our goal of one million women by:
Emailing an invitation to your friends and family members to join the Army. Send an email today!
Inviting your church, school, professional organization, social group, or sorority, to join the Army. Email us for more information about group affiliations.
Using our “Share/Send to a Friend” feature to let friends or family members know about information we have on our site that might interest them.
Forward emails you receive from the Army to family members and friends.
Talk to your friends and family members about the Army and the studies you take part in.
Link to http://mailing.armyofwomen.org/rd/9z1zsvaf1usiuqaip7spgf396u0i2rpb8amafgego40 from your social networking page, website, or blog.
Thank you for joining the movement to go beyond a cure to eradicate breast cancer.

"PRINCESS PINK"Her name is Princess PinkWhat else could it be?She prefers the color pinkIn everything she sees!No matter where she's goingOr what it is you thinkOne thing you can be sure ofShe's always wearing pink!-donna "cookie" gotlib
I haven't had a giveaway in a while so I decided that this is a good time to have one. As most of you know, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I've decided to give away a hand signed 8 x 10 matted and framed copy of my original illustration and rhyme "Princess Pink".
HERE'S WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO TO WIN: Notice the Princess Pink button on the sidebar of my blog. Please post that on your blog, then create a post on your blog letting your readers know about my giveaway. Once you have done this, return to my blog, locate this post and leave me a comment letting me know that your Princess Pink button is up and your post has been published. I'll list your name on my sidebar with a link to your site then stop by and leave you a comment to let you know you've been included in the drawing. On November 1st, my nephew Mike Hopper and I will do another video drawing and we will announce the winner!
Cancer.org says "For information about breast cancer, please visit www.cancer.org/breastcancer, or call us toll free at 1-800-ACS-2345, anytime, day or night."

http://cookiesunshine.blogspot.com/2008/10/give-away-for-breast-cancer-awareness.html