Today’s donation comes from a friend and fellow etsian who’s raised tens of thousands of dollars for different causes over the years, including The Weekend To End Breast Cancer. Jay is loopy4ewe, and her contribution is a Women’s Twist Visor Beanie — the buyer gets to choose the colour:

Colour choices are: 01 – Black / 02 – White / 05 – Pale Yellow / 08 – Brown / 09 – Pumpkin Orange / 11 – Burgundy / 13 – Fuchsia / 14- Soft Teal / 19 – Delft Blue / 24 – Navy Blue / 20 – Forest Green / 21 – Sage Green / 28 – Grape / 29 – Army Tan / 30 – Pastel Pink / 32 – Charcoal / 33 – Olive Green (as pictured) / 34 – Celery / 35 – Dark Grape / 36 – Abby Rose

If you’d like to know more about Jay, her hats and her fundraising, I featured her on my other blog… WOW — exactly a year ago today!

A big thank you, Jay — your hard work, creativity and big heart are all so inspiring!

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Today’s donation comes from dear friend and über-talented jewelry-maker, Melonie Higashi. Mel has been incredibly supportive of The D.A.D. Project from the get-go, and told me that she chose to contribute an Angel wing necklace “because I think you and Serena are both angels for coming up with this wonderful project.” How sweet is that?

Keeping company with the sterling silver angel wing are a Peruvian opal, a wire wrapped London blue topaz briolette, and a freshwater pearl. The angel wing measures 1-inch (or 2.5 cm) long. The chain measures 18″ (or 45.7 cm) long.

Love, protect, and inspire….

• Wings are generally symbols of protection.
• Blue Topaz and the Peruvian Opal are said to promote artistic inspiration/creativity.
• Freshwater pearls are said to enable someone to accept love.

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If you’d like to know a little more about Mel, her gorgeous work  and her quirky sense of humour, take a look at the feature I did on her last year.

Thanks Mel! I’ll share my wakame salad sushi rolls with you ANYtime ;)

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Today’s donation, two kids’ placemats, has been happily made by yours truly.  Each of these two placemats features its own “animalbetized” alphabet where each letter is associated with an animal that begins with that specific letter.

Here’s Animalbetized Placemat I (which has the “easier” animals):

And Animalbetized Placemat II (whose animals might be a littler harder to guess):

And to make sure that no one is left guessing, a full list of all the animals is printed on the backs of the placemats too … here’s to making mealtime fun and educational (please note: placemats are laminated in durable plastic sleeves for easy cleaning!).

Have a fun weekend everyone — make the most of summer while it’s still here!

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