Finally, a heartfelt purpose for my blog!

I'm in a bit of a rush today as I am getting ready for a Christmas show that will take place tomorrow, where I hope to sell a good amount of my jewelry and a few other gift items that my mom and I made especially for the show (beaded bookmarks, beaded keychains and cell-phone charms as well as some of my handmade 3D Christmas cards).

If you've read my last post (just below) and the comments posted, you will see that I made quite a discovery/learned something new and now that I know this information, I cannot turn a blind eye. I cannot "not care" because I really do love and care for animals, all of them, with all my heart.

My husband and I are very privileged in 'being owned' by two wonderful, ever so loving Yorkies that bring us an endless amount of joy and so much genuine love. We always say that there's nothing better in life than having "Yorkie Love" in our house :)

And not that I'm a huge jewelry seller (not yet but I aim to be!) or anything like that, and it's not like we're rich either (not money wise, but we are certainly rich with all the love our angels bring us - we call our Yorkies our 'angels' because they are)... but I know that every penny makes a real difference, and although I have donated money and change to various animal rescue/help fund raisers, etc, in the past, tomorrow I have the opportunity to launch my new 'pet' project:

As of tomorrow's show and this will be on-going on a permanent basis, I will not only be donating 5% of all my monthly sales to a selected local Animal Rescue Group, but as a family/household, we will also personally 'match' that 5% as well.

Since it's the end of the month already, tomorrow's fund-raising will be included with the month of December 2008.

So, this is to officially announce that 5% of December's sales (plus my family's matching amount) will be donated to AARCS which stands for "Alberta Animal Rescue Crew Society" - AARCS is a Non-Profit, NO KILL, Animal Rescue Organisation which does not receive any governement help and which is entirely run by volunteers in the province of Alberta.

There are several various animal rescue (including wildlife rescue) organisations in my City and Province and so effective immediately, I will select one of these organisations every month to make our donations to.

It's a first step in 'officially' showing where my heart is... I am a strong believer in animal therapy, I benefit from it myself every single day (animals are great to help battle depression, amongst other things) and so I am stepping forward and I am so happy with this.

So stay tuned, there will be much more to come on my blog!

I am very excited about all this!