She is about 5 1/2 months now. This is video taken at about 5 months.

I just wanted to let everyone know that our land phone line will be disconnected at the end of this week.


If you do not have our mobile numbers or want to update that, you can email me or reach me on facebook.




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Well, it's no mystery to those of you who know me, that I like to bake. And since I haven't been doing much baking since the conception of Theodora, I thought the Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale would be the perfect opportunity to get back into it!

Let me know if you have any special requests!
I decided to hold the bake sale from my home, so yes, I will be shipping!

Some of you may want to participate. The profits aren't designated to anything specific, so, you could keep them if you wanted to.
Anywhoo, check out the links in this post: creatureszine.tinyurl.com

The 'Zine!

A.K.A the Peace 'Zine, Creature 'Zine...

Contains topics such as  art, animals, veg'n diet, health, social and green issues, and much more!

High-quality laser printed, hand bound with hemp cord. Comes with extra goodies like postcards, buttons, etc.

Writers & artists from the U.S., Canada and Europe.
Designed and edited by me and my fabulous friend Jessi. Visit her shop at GingerCardCo.etsy.com - jewelry, note cards, notebooks, and more.

10% goes to these charities: 5% to Pet Rescue by Judy & 5% to For The Animals Sanctuary

Check it out online: creatureszine.blogspot.com

There are no shortages of organizations giving out free vegetarian starter kits, or guides.
Most of them will come as printed material. Go Vegan Now lists theirs as either print or a downloadable pdf.
Google "Free Vegetarian Starter Kit" and you will get a plenitude (What? That's a word!) of options.

{The following is an excerpt from a weekly email from Jason Doucette, TasteBetter.com; You can subscribe to your own copy by clicking the newsletter.

Your ideal life starts with breakfast!
I'm in love with that phrase.  What we eat, and maybe more importantly, how, when and with whom we eat, is the foundation for so many things in life. 

I want you to take a moment to think about what your ideal life would be like, but in particular, I want you to think about the food aspect of it, since that's where I can help the most.

You can do this in five minutes, or you could meditate on it for hours.  Picture yourself at each meal.

Don't think about the "how" behind any of this.  In your ideal world, you've already figured all this out.  What I'd like you to do here is to find a few quiet moments and imagine you've got your ideal life, and think a bit about how food mixes into it.

Here are some seed questions to get you started:

How many meals do you eat per day?

Who do you eat with?

How long does a meal take?

Where do you eat lunch?  Dinner?

Do you cook?  Are you in a restaurant?  Is there a Star Trek food replicator gizmo?

Who does the dishes?  Or are there dishes?

How do these meals mix with your day-to-day activities?  What did you do just before lunch?  What do you do right after breakfast?

What about snacks?  When and where?  And why?

Remember, in your ideal life, there's no reason you can't eat what, how, and when you want.  The obstacles are gone.  Think big!

Most people try to design their lives around their jobs.  A few will flip that and design their jobs around their lives.  Here's the third option: with three to six meals a day for the average person, food can be the anchor that the rest of your life is built around.

If you decide what's really important to you, the rest is just a jigsaw puzzle, really, where you fill in those gaps.  Sure, some of them are huge, but let's start with food.

I want to focus some of the work we do on helping you realize your ideal meals, which I believe can lead to an ideal life.  If this exercise has inspired you to share, please let me know one or two insights that you got from it so I can better tune the stuff we produce to help you get there!

And hey, did you come up with any insights that you can put into practice right now?  What were they?

Thank you It's A Vegan Dog's Life for bringing light the hypocrisy of a so called "Humane" product containing inhumane ingredients. Especially when there are humane alternatives readily available.

Unfortunately, this is not the first disappointing idea that HSUS has presented. Like many animal welfare groups, I do not fully support them. Sure, they have good ideas and run effective  campaigns. But then they go and do things like hire Mike Vick. {Boy, I sure hope that works out for them & mostly the dogs.}

Any how, please read the post over at It's A Vegan Dog's Life & write into to  HSUS.

On our way to Colorado Springs today, Sophie & I were admiring the fresh fallen snow. On a meadowy (It's a word) stretch between the highway & a heavily forested area we noted tracks. When Sophie wondered what might have made the trail of prints, I answered that, "it could have been a deer, a rabbit, maybe a coyote or an elk...."  [hear: "elf"]
She exclaimed, "Elves!! I didn't we had elves in our forest!!"

I would be happy to put together a collection of designs just for you! Let me know if you are interested!

Meanwhile, enjoy my current collection!

Animal lovers everywhere, here is a story you won't want to miss.

Jodi of the amazing VET shop This Is It! Creations made a terrible discovery over the weekend: that these three bulls who graze on her property were to be sold for slaughter in short order. Being a person of high ideals, naturally Jodi immediately started looking for an answer - that is, a way to keep these three gorgeous animals from such a brutal and unnecessary death. The solution? Buy them! But cows don't come cheap; their freedom can indeed be purchased, but it will come to the tune of about $3600. Not only that, but the payment must be made by the end of next week!

And so, friends, we ask for your help. Chip in to save Pooka Cow, Spotty Friend, and Less Spotty Friend!
[Important note: though the ChipIn widget says that the final date to donate is March 13, in reality it is February 13!

Several VET member shops including 3 AM Art Productions, Veganosaurus, Holistically Heather, and Cards and Jewelry by Michele as well as Etsy for Animals' Lola Lynn are donating portions of sales through the zero hour. More shops are adding sales donations all the time - Jodi is keeping an updated list on her own This Is It blog. Jodi's own shop will be putting 100% of all sales from today, Wednesday February 3, towards saving the boys. So get shopping already!

Just a few dollars from each of us can make a big difference. These lives matter! Help Jodi to help her friends. What's their alternative to a terrifying slaughterhouse? Says Jodi:
"We've been asked where the cows will go if we do raise enough money to save them - they will stay here, at least for the short term. We have 11 acres of land, a barn, and a stream. We are planning to create a line of products where all of the profits will go toward their care (hay, vet bills, fence mending, etc.) If we can find a loving family with enough land to adopt them, we are definitely open to that as well."Country idyll or the abattoir - three lives are on the line. So, wanna buy a journal?

UPDATE:
So far, $800+ has been raised!!
Here are the shops:
thisisit.etsy.com - donating 100% of sales on both 2/3 and 2/10
veganosaurus.etsy.com - donating 50% of sales through 2/13
mvegan5.etsy.com - donating 10% of sales through 2/15
holisticallyheather.etsy.com - donating 100% of sales through 2/13
auntflospads.etsy.com - donationg 100% of sales through 2/13
aktie9.etsy.com - donating 100% of sales through 2/13
lolalynn.etsy.com - donating 100% of bracelet sales through 2/13
leandogpottery.etsy.com - donating 20% of sales through 2/13
kimbascritters.etsy.com - donating 50% of sales through 2/11
oooohshiny.etsy.com - donating 50% of sales through 2/13