"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

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This month's featured artist winner is..... Bernice Wagnitz!!!!!!


I would like to thank those of you that truly feel this honor should be bestowed upon me.
As I mentioned to Izabella, I have not been published, my art has not been in any galleries or even sold on etsy or ebay. My art is my own expression of my inner feelings bursting with the excitement that this new medium (digital) has brought me.
I have only been doing my digital works for a mere few weeks. I don't have the newest programs and aids that would allow me to take my art further. What I do have is a very old program that my computer seems to think is a virus and wants to destroy. LOL
What my digital art has done for me is to allow me to finally create after such a long time of not doing any art. It's been 11 years since I last did a painting or a sketch. The joy my art once gave me left me suddenly with the loss of my family. It has been a long road back and not an easy one.
Joy left my life along with the joy I felt in creating and for too many years it brought sadness instead of joy. Sadness because I associated so much of the joy with my daughter, my muse, my biggest supporter and the reason I kept doing my art.
The digital art, being so different from what I had done in the past brought back that joy I had once felt. It excited me and gave me my voice back; it allowed me to shout with color and expression again.
I am an artist, these words don't come easy for I am just learning that to be an artist one doesn’t have to be published or have their art hang in galleries. To be an artist one only has to do what comes from the deepest feelings they feel inside. The need to create, to take the feelings and give them a medium to express themselves. I do my art because I feel my art and for no other reason. It is an outward expression of what my inner feelings are.
Bernie

Creative Soul page~ http://creativesouls.ning.com/profile/BerniceWagnitz
ZNE~ http://zneiscrafty.ning.com/profile/Bernice97
Myspace~ http://myspace.com/berniceanthologyofart

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For My Jennifer

If I could blow that dandelion
And make my wish come true
I'd wish the very nicest things
In all the world for you
I'd ask the fairies please to leave
The stardust in your eyes
And not disturb the shinning dreams
You hope to realize
I'd ask the shadows not to cross
Your pathway to the sun
And then I'd ask
That you'd always be blessed
Little One.
MOM