Such Fun to Give

January 31, 2012

Tuesday Treasury: Lace Blossom Valentines Charity

All these items benefit charity. Click on listing to see where and how much is donated. (Some items may list this info in the main page in stead). Check back every Tuesday for more hand-made gifts for charity!

Sweetheart Barrette / H... angelsandcraft... $5.95	Faith HumblePye $30.00	Hand for Haiti 8 x 10 thewheatfield $15.00
panda sleeping, size 12... BubbaluBaby $51.00	Christmas Flower Fancy ... greersjewelsof... $12.00	Kawaii Sticker Japanes... KawaiiTokyo $4.98
Darling Red and Aqua or... Sanguinaria $10.00	American Heart Angel ( ... angelsandcraft... $11.00	Aqua and Red Flowers iP... pippichick $23.99
Pretty in Red by Allie ... localhoneymark... $14.00	Catnip Toy Heart "... thedots $9.00	Valentine Card with Jap... Vamperstein $3.00
Set of 6 Blank Notes DragonflyPaper... $5.99	love birds in purple fo... BubbaluBaby $45.00	Cherry Blossom Coasters... LaMaisonLuxe $30.00

Treasury tool by Red Row Studio.

Hearts Should Be Free - First Winner!

I'm happy to announce the first winner of the Hearts Should Be Free giveaways!

Cerena Leigh won 20 Scribbleprints Valentines with her "Blog about Slavery" entry. She shared the 10 Facts about Modern Slavery on her blog, Ma Voix, Mes Mots, Ma Vie. Thanks so much for spreading awareness, Cerena!

There's more giveaways to be won going on still!
Click the button below to see them!

January 26, 2012

Hearts Should Be Free Giveaway - Tiggy's House

At Tiggy's House Etsy Shop you'll find beautiful handmade jewelery. You'll also find a vision....a vision to help children who have been abused in the child sex trafficking industry; to give them a home and a place to heal.

Tiggy's House is named after Dana Harvey's young son, who died at 21 months of age. It is also the name that will be given to the children's home she is raising funds to build through Tiny Hands International, an organization which helps child victims of sex trafficking. 100% of the profits from her shop go to support this project.

The prices at Tiggy's House shop are really reasonable too. I was surprised to find many items for under $5, like the bracelet above.

You will have a chance to win an item of your choice from Tiggy's House. To enter, watch the short video below about Child Trafficking, and then fill out the Rafflecopter form below (sometimes the form takes a few minutes to load).

a Rafflecopter giveaway

This is just ONE of the items I'm giving away to spread awareness about modern slavery. I have more giveaways going RIGHT NOW, and later this month will have a multi-item giveaway which will include a bracelet from Tiggy's House.

Squidoo Blog Hop

Hello, and welcome fellow Squido Lensmasters! For those who aren't travelling here by blog hop and don't know what Squidoo is, it's just a place where you can make nifty little web pages about any topic you choose, and maybe earn a little money for yourself or a charity in the process.

Got some exciting stuff to share this week!

I THINK I GOT ON THE FRONT PAGE OF SQUIDOO!
Last month I entered My Nazareth Lens (my only purple star) in the Purple Star Quest, a quest you could enter which gave you the chance to get on the Squidoo front page. On Jan 23 squidoo sent a note thanking me for entering and saying to "Stop by the Squidoo homepage during the week of 1/23/2012 to see if your lens was included in the rotation there." On the 23rd I started to get a bunch of likes and comments, and both my lensrank and my hits have shot up. In the last week I got 137 visits (usually get about 20 a week on that lens) and the lensrank, which was up to 12,000 something, is now down to 4,331. So, I MUST have been featured., though I've gone to the homepage gobs of times and can't find it.

NEW LENS AND AN EVENT TO FIGHT SLAVERY!

Some of you know about the event I'm holding here at this blog. It's a giveaway event to spread awareness of modern slavery, which affects as many as 27 million people today. One of the extra entry methods I'm offering for my giveaway is to blog about slavery, and I wanted to offer bloggers some resources...so I made a Squidoo Page with tips and tools people could use when they blogged about this issue. This is the second Squidoo lens I've made about modern slavery. The first was my Shop 2 Fight Slavery Lens. Another excellent lens on this subject (not by me) is Stop Human Trafficking.

January 24, 2012

Easy Wins: Low Entry Giveaways

The cool thing about blog giveaways is you can usually tell now many people are entered. The less entered, the better your chances to win. Here's some I found with low entries ending soon.

Ends January 25

Mermaid Crown (10 entered)

Sanborn Western Adventure Camp (44 entered)

Ends January 27

Fit Moms For Life (37 entered)

Ends January 29
Amy's Organics (3 entries)

If you have a giveaway with less than 60 entries per prize ending in the next 5 days, please click here to submit it.

Please Also Visit Our Giveaway Event

to spread awareness about modern slavery!

(Added to Easy Wins Blogs List).

Tuesday Treasury: Hearts 4 Charity

Every Tuesday I feature a treasury of charity items from etsy. All of the hearts below benifit charity. To find about how much is donated and to where, click on the listing (a few of these shops list this info on their main shop page, not in individual listings...so try there next if you don't see it in the listing).

Love Christchurch Penda... cloudninecreat... $49.95	Pink Valentine Love Hea... LatreiaDesigns $15.00	Boo Boo Heart - Benefit... janiexy $18.00
Catnip Toy Heart "... thedots $10.00	Horse ornament - Charit... oneeyeddog $8.00	Chain of Love Hand Stam... MudballMermaid $15.00
Valentine heart jewelry... OneEyeCatStudi... $62.00	I LOVE Piano Music Char... ARTISANNE $14.00	Child's Painting fo... CowboyBallerin... $10.00
Heart Home Decor: Heart... EtsyItaliaTeam $10.00	Love Project Silver blojewelry $30.00	Little Pink Heart Plush... brokenbiscuits $6.50
Catnip Toy Heart &quo... thedots $9.00	Scissor / Key Fob, Ado... Tangerine8 $6.00	Red Hot Heart with Blac... PolymerClayfor... $10.00