For Japan With Love
I just found out about For Japan With Love thanks to Jen of Delightful Delicacies. For Japan With Love is a combined effort of Lydia from Ever Ours and Lucia & Henny from Utterly Engaged.
We have handpicked ShelterBox as the organization we’d like to donate to. We know that their volunteers are already there in Japan helping, so please be assured that your donations are being put to good use. ShelterBox provides emergency shelter and lifesaving supplies for families around the world who are affected by disasters at the time when they need it the most. Each large, green ShelterBox is tailored to a disaster but typically contains a disaster relief tent for an extended family, blankets, water storage and purification equipment, cooking utensils, a stove, a basic tool kit, a children’s activity pack and other vital items.
They started out with a goal of $5,000 but have already received over $16,000—the power of the blogging world seriously amazes me at times. Honestly, that number gives me the warmest of warm fuzzies!
I just clicked over and donated (DONATE HERE) and will also be taking part in the Blogger’s Day of Silence tomorrow.
Because I’ll be taking tomorrow off to observe this day of silence, you all will have to wait another week for the next Slow Cooker Anyday installment. I will be spending the day doing pilates, getting my hair done (seems so trivial in light of what this post is about, but it has been over seven weeks) and finishing up some really fun cupcakes—even though my first attempt at cake pops would earn me about a C+ with extra credit—for my cousin’s baby shower. Oh, and prepping the rest of the food for aforementioned baby shower (chicken salad croissant sandwiches; spinach salad with sliced strawberries, feta cheese, sugar-glazed walnuts and homemade poppy seed dressing; and mason jars with sparkling cran-raspberry punch).
I will also be tweeting about For Japan With Love and throwing in a Facebook status update or two about the cause. If at all possible, I think you should do the same.
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Miss you lady. We need to get together for lunch or a dinner date with our hubbies! Let me know if anything works for you! Talk soon!!!!
Brandie´s deep thought ~ A Little Surprised
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Emily Reply:
March 17th, 2011 at 8:55 pm
I know! I totally miss you! We need to do the double date thing here very soon. Let’s figure it out!
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What a great thing to do! My Daisy Scouts are working a mobilizing their school to gather money for diaster relief:-)
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Emily Reply:
March 18th, 2011 at 9:48 am
Wow, Susie! That is SO awesome! Tell those girls good luck for me!
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I just heard about this! Obviously, I didn’t participate in the day of silence:(
debbie´s deep thought ~ Getting Busy In The Kitchen
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Emily Reply:
March 18th, 2011 at 7:24 pm
I only found out late yesterday afternoon. I should have broadcast it better. So sorry! :(
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I just found out too so I will post the announcement – I just did my own post – it makes me so sad! Have a great weekend!
Kim at Beehive Blog´s deep thought ~ Japan Needs Our Help
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Emily Reply:
March 19th, 2011 at 6:10 am
I think better late than never is always good advice when it comes to something like this. Thank you for posting!
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