Origami Owl Custom Jewelry Giveaway!

Well, it's time for the giveaway I have been teasing you with for days!

Are you ready to win an awesome prize package, all from Origami Owl?

Origami Owl Custom Jewelry is a fun and fashionable direct sales company with a unique twist.  As an  Independent Designer, I hold interactive events where I help women of all ages create living lockets that hold charms that represent what is important in their lives.

These lockets are completely hypo-allergenic, and amazingly beautiful! You can add, remove, and change everything about them, from the charms and plates you put inside it, to the dangles and tags that you can clip to any of their great chains.

This giveaway is for a medium silver locket with crystals, a silver ball station chain, a heart tag, and ONE charm of your choice from the three shown above. There is a butterfly, a heart, or a cross!

The total for this prize would normally be over $50, but you can enter to win it below!

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Love and Lightning Bugs,
 

Click to Cure

In the thousands of years since the invention of medicine, we have cured and almost completely eradicated hundreds of disease, such as smallpox, polio, and the bubonic plague. One disease that we have yet to cure however, has been cancer. In fact, cancer is one of the most mindboggling diseases known to us. There is no guaranteed treatment that will be 100% effective, and to even stand a chance against it, you have to undergo horrible chemicals pumped into your body, radiation, and risky surgeries to remove it. Research into what causes, and can cure this disease, has been at a crawl due to the millions of factors that effect it. Trying to figure out all the variables, and how they effect a cancer cell would be something that only hundreds of supercomputers could do...or you know...you could ask the internet for help.

Cancer Research UK created an online interactive database called Click to Cure, that invites Internet users to aid in the fight against cancer, as long as they're willing to do a boring, repetitive task for free. Let's be honest, that's what we usually do anyway! I mean, how often can you harvest your virtual crops before it gets mind-numbing?

The idea came from various projects developed by astronomers, which use crowdsourcing to document millions of galaxies. Even though slides of human tissue are, as a whole, a lot less enthralling to look at than the eternal mysteries of the deep cosmos, people seem to be taking up the cause. When users log in to Click to Cure, they are met with a quick tutorial that demonstrates how to identify cancer cells by identifying their irregular shape and yellow color. After this, they're shown a series of slides and asked to identify what they see in each, and note the proportion of irregular cells that exist. This information gives crucial insight to researchers in determining which treatments are effective for each different type of cancer cell.

At the time this post went live, the combined force of cancer hatred on the Internet has analyzed over 1,072,203 of these cancerous images, and Cancer Research UK is convinced that a major cancer breakthrough is buried somewhere within their data. They estimate that they can condense research that normally would have taken years into only a few months.

So take a few minutes each day, let your virtual crops wait, an help kick cancer in the ass!


Love and Lightning Bugs,
 

Some Girls like to Make-Out With Strangers...I Prefer Eskimo Kisses with a Deerling

Wow, it has been a long time since I last updated!

I'm so sorry! I've had so much going on, with a horrible car accident, to a death in the family...just so much has been going on that the blog has fallen behind a bit...but I'm back!

So what have I been up to in the meantime? Why more costuming of course!

This past weekend I went out with my friends, in our Ren Fair garb, and helped to promote the Great Plains Ren Fair which is this weekend.

You'll note our animal like appearances...well there's a good reason for that, we're putting together a show! Together with my friends Mickie, Jolene, and Georgia, we plan on attending various Ren fairs and Steampunk conventions, and putting on a song and joke act. Will it ever be anything big? Who knows...but we can have a blast doing it anyway.

Jolene has yet to flesh out her character, but may I introduce the rest of us... Viviette the Vixen, Deena the Deerling, and Glinda the Grumpy Goat.

Please feel free to enjoy some more photos below!

You can't tell, but there are two of us helping her tighten her corset. Sometimes it takes four hands!

Some girls like to get drunk and make out with strangers. I prefer to stay sober, and share Eskimo kisses with a deerling. (This one was snagged from my Instagram, so bear with the large watermark please.)

 Poor Deena....she got caught in the headlights!

Love and Lightning Bugs,
 

Berlin

Well, someone sent this to me, and I thought it would be kind of fun to post here. After all, I love finding out what other people listen to.

 So let's begin shall we?

1. Put your MP3 player, iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc. on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. You must write down the song title, no matter how silly it sounds.

IF SOMEONE SAYS 'ARE YOU OKAY' YOU SAY?
"Dancing for Rain" (by Rise Against)

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF?
"Catch" (by The Cure)

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
"Roman Paradox" (on the Doctor Who Soundtrack)

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
"December" (by Lydia)

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
"All Hail the Heartbreaker" (by The Spill Canvas)

WHAT'S YOUR MOTTO?
"An Accent Beyond" (from the Portal 2 Soundtrack)

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
"Teenage Rebel" (by Chameleon Circuit)

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
"Rose of Alabama" (by Bobby Horton)

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
"Yellow" (by Yann Tiersen)

WHAT IS 2 + 2?
"Bone Broke" (by The White Stripes)

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
"Bro, Ashley's Here" (by Attack Attack!)

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
"Going for the Gold" (by Bright Eyes)

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
"Poor Thing" (from the Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street Soundtrack)

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
"We are all on Drugs" (by Weezer)

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
"Les Jours Tristes" (by Neil Hannon and Yann Tiersen)

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
"Into the West" (by Annie Lennox) *Side note, this is the ACTUAL song I want played at my funeral...creepy.

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
"Haunted" (by Evanescence)

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR?
"Young Americans" (by The Cure)

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
"Gunpowder and Lead" (by Miranda Lambert)

WHAT DO YOU WANT RIGHT NOW?
"Beauty*2" (by Ladytron)

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
"We Share Our Mother's Health" (by The Knife)

WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
Berlin (by Amanda Palmer)



Well, that was interesting. Actually a few of my favorite songs on here. Please feel free to check out some of them!

Love and Lightning Bugs,