If you haven't visited
Liz over at
Wickedly Chic yet or if you haven't visited her lately I'd highly recommend stopping bye and spending some quality time. Liz is the voice and energy behind the company and quite honestly a force unto herself.
First let me just say that Liz has turned out to be one of the most wonderful people I've had the opportunity to meet since
Charming Sam started. Second she runs a great business and while I am an advertiser on the Wickedly Chic site it wouldn't be nearly the wonderful experience it is if Liz wasn't so amazing. She takes a lot of care to make sure each of the businesses that work with her get more then just some click
thru's. She works hard to help you promote your business or cause. Which brings me to why I am going on and on about how wonderful Liz and Wickedly Chic are. Liz has taken on a new project in the last week called "The Stephanie Fund".
One of Liz's loyal readers, "Lynn Underwood, has a daughter that needs help. Stephanie has malignant peritoneal mesothelioma caused by asbestos exposure. There are only 4 Dr.’s in the US that treat this and she is being seen by Dr. Robert Taub in NYC. She will be going to NYC for her first of 2 surgeries to put in the ports for chemo on June 3 and will have to stay there for 2 weeks. She will then start traveling to NYC once a week for 3 weeks out of the month for 6 months for chemo. She will then have another surgery to remove the ports.... probably in Dec. She will not be able to work for this period of time. She is a phlebotomist at Presbyterian Hospital in Greenville, TX and has a husband, Kyle, and 2 daughters, Jayden age 9 and Camryn age 7."
With that said, Liz has thrown herself in to promoting the Stephanie Fund as much as possible, rallying friends, advertisers, random people on the street and everyone she knows to help out. The cool thing in what would otherwise be a sad story? We are all happy to help in any way we can because it is a good thing to do and we feel genuinly sorry for Stephanie. But also because Liz is truely an amazing and wonderful person so if she says we need to help then guess what? We all pile in to help.
With all that said, I don't want you to get all teary eyed or anything. Instead take action, visit
Wickedly Chic often, buy stuff from independent businesses that Liz recommends and most importantly...visit
Jaycee Danielle to
contribue to the Stephanie Fund. There are
raffle items to buy or you can just buy some of the
great products from Jaycee because she is donating 20% of sales to the Stephanie Fund through the end of June.
Like I said, if Liz says do it, then "do it!"
The art she picks to showcase is really wonderful and after finding Katie Parker on her site I had to buy something from her store.
Where does she get all the time? Of course the first one is the Owl Ornament which is cool. Sam has been wanting to make another felt one for the last week and I've been too lazy to come up with a pattern. Now we have a project to do together! Yeah!
Of course since they are Louisiana natives there are lots of Fleur de lis in the line and this necklace and earring I especially like. Which reminds me that I've had a catalog from a casting and stamping manufacturer in Paris for about six months now and I guess its time I placed an order for some new stuff. Have fun at Grandmother's Button's jewelry!
