giving

The first part of this post I borrowed from Kelly Light and her blog Ripple. If you don't know about it yet please pay her a visit. If you are a lover of art, nature and our planet, this will be terribly important to you.

From Kelly:
Donation Details - How this works
Each sketch card on this blog is $10.00. The $10.00 is a donation to help the animal victims of the Deep Water Horizon Gulf Oil Spill. Every penny is donated. The two Non-Profits that are benefiting are The Institute for Marine Mammal Studies and The International Bird Rescue Research Center. You can purchase a card if you donate directly to one of the non-profits and email me the confirmation and your address to ripplesketches@verizon.net. The artist will mail you the signed card.

We don't have to feel helpless. We can help. Our small actions together will ripple outward.

In all human affairs, there are efforts and there are results. The strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

Thank you for reading about Ripple, and thank you if you go. I think you'll see a lot of your friends there, donating their art. I still can't believe how brilliant an idea this is. I read one of the artists say that maybe it will be your ten dollars that will pay for a bottle of shampoo to clean an oil covered bird. Please donate.


I want to give something too, but I'm really not an artist. Then, I had an idea, for every comment left here i'll donate a dollar to Ripple. And to say thank you to you, I made up something for a give~a~way. Please leave a comment if you would like to be in a drawing (see photos below) I also hope that anonymous readers will say hello and make a comment too, I would really like that. I just realized that lori times five has had over 46,000 visits and over 65,000 page views in the almost two years i've had it. Thank you truly.

This bottle (which at one time held olive oil, i scrubbed it really well) is full of sea glass, I counted for awhile and then lost it after 150, so that is a lot of glass! i also added some pretty pieces of abalone shell and one or two worn pottery pieces (i love those). There's plenty of aqua (my favorite) and green, white, brown and blue. I don't know what i did with the cork, so i used a very large piece of sea glass in the opening. I made a tag out of a vintage topographic map, to give an idea where this glass was collected.

If you would like to have this bottle please leave a comment by next Tuesday, June 22, 6 p.m. pacific standard time. I'll post the winner shortly after. And yes, I'll happily ship it anywhere.

Thank you for being such kind souls and good friends, I really truly appreciate you. Madly and deeply too.

♥ lori