"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't often happen to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."
-Margery Williams, "The Velveteen Rabbit"
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So - counting all of the donation cards I've received so far and the ones I've completed, I have a total of 20 cards! Which is wonderful! I should have no trouble at all getting to the 40 goal.
I'm so confident that after I received some cards from

that looked stunning in ATC sleeves - I decided to make some of my own from old photo sleeves I had lying around. They look so much nicer now. (My apologies to any of you that received cards without these.

A pity I didn't think of making them/buying them sooner.)
So the contest is moving right along.
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is working on something kind of cool and worth sharing. He's made a heart frame and in the middle he's painting the names of loved ones. Anyone and everyone's loved ones. I've noted him a name. And you should do the same. (Ack! Rhyming. Too much Dr. Seuss!)
But yes... here's the piece -
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CONTESTS!
There are so many awesome ones that I have a feeling that I will forget. Let's see...

is running a contest called Letters to Loved Ones. The entries can be anything you like... written or art. In fact I think I'll be judging the visual entries. <3
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is doing something neat. It's called Operation KIND. Basically it starts with you being nice to someone you don't know (or perhaps someone you do know that really needs some kindness.)
More information here:
[link]And

have started a new contest. The theme this go round is "balloon". Rules and everything can be found here :
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<3 Last thing - I started one of these:
[link]It's like twitter and blogspot had a baby! It's so much fun and easy to use. I think it's my new thing. If you have one/make one let me know.
Okay- back to making transparent ATCs... ? We'll see how they turn out.
Hope everyone is doing well.
I'm going to be sending out notes on the 1st of September to see how everyone did and collect the addresses. I imagine that it will take a bit of time to collect them.
No worries. And thank you thank you thank you for contributing.
That's why I like you.
<3 So glad you're back - sort of.
Just drop me a line if you need some more contributions.
And thanks for sharing the awesome contest links!
And you're most welcome. I thought these were pretty cool.
Hope everything is good <3
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I think yours looks good. I'm not a fan of mine at the moment. Not enough time to play around with the themes yet. <3
Hope all is well with you too!
All is well, just been a bit ill );
More time in bed sorting this tumblr page out
I've found some really nice templates but I can't find the "use custom template" thing... I'm assuming that they just took it out, which is a shame.
So now I'm just trying to find one that's on there that I like as much as the other one.
But yay! I'm so happy to have a friend there.
Sorry to hear you've been ill. Get better soon. *hands over soup*