Today's Best on Zazzle!

Valentine, love is calling! square sticker
by noboringwhite

I guess I must thank Lady Gaga and Beyoncé. They made this oldfashioned object fashionable again. I know it's a cute button.* Cupid call time everybody!

It was nice! It has a been a while since I got my last TBA. Thank you Zazzle!


The original product has been delected but this is the design that got the TBA.

Valentine's postcards for straight, gay and lesbian people

Lesbian couple kissing Valentine's Day Holiday Card
by noboringwhite

Couple kissing Valentine's Day Holiday Card
by noboringwhite

Gay couple kissing Valentine's Day Holiday Card
by noboringwhite

I am just fed up with nonsense comments on Carlos Castro death. The story has the right amount of ingredients to make big headlines: gay men, murder, luxury environments, and sadness. Police found the beaten and castrated naked body of a 65-year-old man in a luxury suite at the Intercontinental Hotel in Times Square, maybe on the first week of this month. He was laying face-up in a pool of blood inside his 34th-floor room. He was killed by the 20-year-old companion, model Renato Seabra, who confessed. Renato had been visiting New York with Castro. He was taken into police custody and admitted to Bellevue Hospital Center for a psychiatric evaluation. Castro had covered fashion and celebrities and was a well-known gay rights advocate. Seabra had recently been a finalist on a Portuguese reality show, “Face Model of the Year.” The details of Carlos Castro’s murder are shocking and gruesome. His burial was kind of pathetic and I honestly pity the man’s fortune. He had stated in his biography that he wanted his ashes to be scattered in Manhattan as he loved the city very much- New York was the city of his life, he said. So his sisters kneeled down and poured the ashes of their brother into the grate at W. 44th St. and Broadway as onlookers walked by. Gossip columnists are not into my favorite professionals. I do not read what they write. I disliked Castro very much not because he was gay but because what he did for a living. WTF! I do not care with whom he goes to bed. It was his personal life. Renato’s was a stranger to me. He was an aspiring model. Well, I do not dig models very much either! He must have a pretty screwed up sense of right and wrong. But humans can do the most impossible things! Now he’s facing a wasted life in an American jail. As a former lawyer, I think that this is a dramatic case that should be properly investigated by the authorities. Renato does not have enough money to get a proper defense and his mom is selling the house to pay for it. This woman must be living the most terrible days in her life. She is another victim. But he must face the consequences of his actions. Was he in love with Castro or just trying to profit on his social connections and wealth or both? Were they in a kind of honey moon? That is not of much importance to me. I just think that this is a very sad story.

It’s important that people realize that violent situations happen regardless of sexual orientation and that many times, the main target is women, not men. Can you guess how many women are killed for a year in Portugal by their mates, boyfriends, husbands or ex-husbands? 39 women were killed in 2010!

In Portuguese society, there is a deep-rooted homophobia feeling. I think that we saw it all over the internet following the media treatment of the Carlos Castro murder case. I just read pretty awful comments everywhere especially if one doesn’t need to sign bellow in comment boxes of blogs, portals, and online news sites.

Following these events, I was influenced to create Valentine postcards and gifts for straight, gay and lesbian persons. As I read somewhere Love is Love. We may not understand it, we may not agree with it but we should respect it. Consider this: make a list of persons you admire. Probably you’ll find that some of them are gay or lesbian (or bisexual). Does it change anything in the way you are moved by with they do?

My short list just to get you thinking: Cole Porter, Martina Navratilova, Jodie Foster, Stephen Fry, Alexander, The Great, Hans Christian Andersen, Freddy Mercury, Leonard Bernstein, Alec Guiness…See what I mean?

Happy Valentine's Day greeting cards and gifts!

Red riding hood and woolf Valentines for kids Holiday Card
by noboringwhite

Upside down love Kids Valentine's Day card
by noboringwhite

Love is in the air kids Valentine's Day Holiday Card
by noboringwhite

The arithmetic of love Valentine's Day Holiday Card
by noboringwhite

Lovebirds, Love is in the air Valentine's Day Holiday Card
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It's time for love Valentine Holiday Card
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Christmas Greetings to all my friends!

Do you remember your summer vacations?

Please take some time to get to know The Fresh Air Fund Project!

What do Fresh Air children enjoy?

•Playing in the backyard

•Laughing in the sunshine

•Catching fireflies

•Riding bicycles

•Learning to swim

•Running barefoot through the grass

•Gazing at the stars on moonlit nights

•Building sandcastles

•Making new friends

•Simple pleasures of life away from the inner-city

Summer may seem far away, but NYC children are currently participating in Fresh Air programs, from weekly tutoring sessions to job shadowings to weekend retreats at Fund camps in upstate New York! FAF Career Awareness Program serves more than 300 youngsters in middle and high school. It also has new leadership programs for young women to develop their “can-do” attitudes!

No matter the season, Fresh Air children remain involved, excited and forward-thinking. The Fresh Air Found need loyal friends like you to continue serving thousands of New York City children throughout the year.

Every year, The Fresh Air Fund gives thousands of inner-city children the priceless gift of fun – and opens the door to a lifetime of opportunities. Whether it's a two-week trip to the country to visit a volunteer host family or a fun-filled and educational stay at one of our fund camps, our programs make for unforgettable memories – and open a world of new friendships and fresh possibilities.


•Just $10 will send one child on a bus ride to his or her Friendly Town host family.

•$24 provides a child with a week of swimming lessons.

•$42 provides a day of Career Awareness classes.

•A gift of $50 can fund a camp counselor for a day.

•If you can give as much as $91, you provide a child at camp with meals for a week.


The Fresh Air Fund is a not-for-profit agency and depends on tax-deductible donations from people like you to keep their vital programs flourishing. Since 1877, The Fresh Air Fund has been giving inner-city children the joy of summer vacation with volunteer host families and at Fund camps, creating unforgettable memories and fresh possibilities.

Shopping at Zazzle is a great experience!

Top 100 creative shops: I am in!

Just found a Top 100 Creative Shops and joined. 

People can vote for my shop there. Promotion!

Christmas Season and Zazzle Greeting Cards you can buy online

Receiving Christmas Cards in my childhood was as good as getting presents. I loved to display it on a table. My mother probably told her friends and family that I enjoyed it very much. So I got cards from her friends as they always sent an extra card for me. Later I learned how to write and soon I was also sending cards. In my teenage years, an early celebration of Christmas started with an early visit to local shops to buy a small pile of cards at the beginning of the month of December. As a result of it I have a huge collection of cards and still love to receive it, send it and create it.

At Zazzle.com it's possible to upload our designs and sell them. Last year I sold my first Zazzle Christmas Postcard. It was a great feeling! Today I create Christmas cards and spent a lot of time enjoying other Zazzle creators' work too. I hope you like this special Christmas feature. I'll be showing a lot of Christmas cards in the next weeks!!

 

It's hard to pick just one, they are all great, I know. But I am sure that most people have more than just one friend. The secret is to pick the right Christmas Postcard to each friend. Zazzle artists create so many different cards that we can find the perfect one! And we can do it online, it's really easy!

Instead of paper cards, many send electronic Christmas card. Making and sending a virtual Christmas card is easy and the normal thing to do for generations raised without handwritten letters. We just pick a site and follow the instructions at each step. Not very creative but with animation and sound E-cards are a lot of fun. Recent concern over the environmental impact of printing, mailing and delivering cards has fueled an increase in e-cards choice.


These are not e-cards! I Handpicked each at Zazzle.com! It took me ages!! I am all for paper cards tradition...still! These are paper and irresistible. And you can buy it if you want. Click and follow instructions.

Calendar 2011 CD Box : a Christmas gift for you!

Have you got a calendar for the next year? Let me give you one! Easy to do and almost free. Keep it to yourself or give it to a friend. It presents 12 cute characters that will please kids. In 2011 avoid secondhand smoke exposure everyday! It is harmful to you and your kids health!

Here's how to do it!

1º Go to my SCRIBD page to download the 7 pages PDF file.

2º Print the file in your office printer using a good size A4 paper.

3º Cut it with X acto knife and ruler using the printed guides.

4º Use a CD jewel box as a stand-flip.

5º Keep all the sheets inside the CD box.

6º Avoid secondhand smoke exposure all year!

The Fresh Air Fund needs host families for the Summer!

Visit the site!

Note to my readers! I am making this post because I believe in The Fresh Air Fund value. This is not a paid ad or anything like that. Please take some time to know this agency and its work with children. Thank you!

THE FRESH AIR FUND, an independent, not-for-profit agency, has provided free summer vacations to more than 1.7 million New York City children from low-income communities since 1877. Nearly 10,000 New York City children enjoy free Fresh Air Fund programs annually. In 2008, close to 5,000 children visited volunteer host families in suburbs and small town communities across 13 states from Virginia to Maine and Canada. 3,000 children also attended five Fresh Air camps on a 2,300-acre site in Fishkill, New York. The Fund’s year-round camping program serves an additional 2,000 young people each year.

In 2009, The Fresh Air Fund's Volunteer Host Family program, called Friendly Town, gave close to 5,000 New York City boys and girls, ages six to 18, free summer experiences in the country and the suburbs. Volunteer host families shared their friendship and homes up to two weeks or more in 13 Northeastern states from Virginia to Maine and Canada. The Fresh Air Fund relies on donations to provide memorable summers to NYC children. The Fresh Air Fund needs hosts for the summer of 2010. More than 65% of all Fresh Air children are reinvited to stay with their host family, year after year.

Thanks to host families who open up their homes for a few weeks each summer, children growing up in New York City’s toughest neighborhoods have experienced the joys of Fresh Air experiences.Fresh Air Fund Host Families

"It is rewarding to see the smile on our Fresh Air child's face as she enjoys the simple things we take for granted..."Friendly Town host families are volunteers who live in the suburbs or small town communities. Host families range in size, ethnicity, and background, but share the desire to open their hearts and homes to give city children an experience they will never forget. Hosts say the Fresh Air experience is as enriching for their own families, as it is for the inner-city children. There are no financial requirements for hosting a child. Volunteers may request the age-group and gender of the Fresh Air youngster they would like to host. Stories about real Fresh Air host families and their New York City visitors are just a click away!

Click here to learn more about becoming a host or call (800) 367-0003!