Artist, Mother, Geek – insights from a creative mind
Just in time to celebrate St. Patrick’s day, great favorite JGoode originals.
Here are but a few of the current designs available to show off your green…
*each design is available for purchase on a variety of t-shirts, hoodies, stickers, totes, buttons and more!
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[tags]jgoode,st patrick’s day,march,irish,shamrock[/tags]
Send your sweetie valentines with an extra bit of added love! You can send your Valentine’s Day cards to Loveland Colorado and have them remailed (for FREE) with an official Loveland stamp. Oh joy of joys!
for more information, visit the official Loveland Valentine Remailing info page
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February 2nd 2007 is National Wear Red Day!
“Everyone (men too!) can support the fight against heart disease in women by wearing red” – American Heart Association
So, in honor of this proactive day and (lucky me) in coordination with Illustration Friday’s topic for this week, Red, I’m sharing with you my design in support of Women’s Heart Disease Awareness…
Supporting Awareness of Women’s Heart Disease by JGoode
Help support awareness and recovery programs for Women’s Heart Disease.
An elegant image of a female holding a tiny red heart, and the message reads:
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart. Supporting Awareness of Women’s Heart Disease.”
To learn more about the GO RED campaign, visit the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women website.
[tags]american heart association, go red for women, wear red, heart disease, jgoode, illustration friday[/tags]
Frontier Airlines is now running a “Who’s Your Favorite Animal” campaign. Visitors can vote for their favorite plane tail critter to represent. I’m not sure if its just for Denver’s favorite animal or varies by city.
Obviously I’m going to have a biased opinion here. I mean, I love them all.. but hey, I say go for the penguins, and my penguin pal is always trying to gain new support… so go vote Penguins!
Frontier has put together a pretty cool presentation for the whole event. Not only can you vote, but you can view each candidate’s mini platform, campaign spots and buy limited edition gear. How fun is that??
Check it all out… Go to the virtual campaign headquarters…
then… vote for your favorite animal (penguins, penguins penguins!!)
pssst.. vote for the penguins.
You can even see who’s winning and where your vote stands.
The penguins need a boost right now.. so come on.. vote! (please)
Just for kicks, there’s also a forum, but it seems somewhat lacking. It’s more of a comment board than anything. However, it’s entertaining for about 47 second, so check that out too while you’re there.
So.. happy penguin voting!
Check out the exclusive JGoode Vote Penguin at cafePress and printfection.
[tags]penguins,vote penguin,frontier airline,jgoode[/tags]
Words that inspire and drive every day deserve to be remembered every day. I’d like to take a moment to celebrate the accomplishments and impact of a great man, Martin Luther King Jr. by sharing some of my favorite MLK Quotes that inspire MY every day…
” Life’s most urgent question is, what are you doing for others?”
” Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.”
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.“
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I was watching the news yesterday and heard about a local challange to Pay-It-Forward. It’s not a new concept by any means.
Pay It Foward, as a movement, really became an inspired community effort from a novel written by Catherine Ryan Hyde, which later released as a movie. If you haven’t seen the movie, ya gotta go get it now!
Apparently, back in November (2006), Oprah handed out $1000 debit cards to her 300 person audience with the challange to pay-it-foward. This single deed inspired hundreds to reach out and do good for others. Not only did the individuals in the audience come through.. but the story has since been told across the nation.
Now, my own local channel 4 news is challanging viewers to participate. They are asking that viewers submit an idea of how they’d pay-it-forward if they were given $1000. 5 of the submissions will be picked and individuals will each recieve $1000 to again… pay-it-forward.
So, anyway, this got me thinking…
What could I do?
What would you do?
What have I done… and what can I continue to do?
Here’s what I have done this year…I run a very small cafePress store, Design for a Cause, which currently offers 5 different original designs. Each focuses on a specific cause with 100% of my commissions being donated to related charities.
In addition, I have a number of additional designs scattered throughout other shops… donating a portion of the commission to the cause they represent (most all currently focus on Breast Cancer).
Some of the designs I donate with…
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I have to admit…
It’s very inspiring and uplifting to know that although I may not be able to donate time nor money out of pocket all the time… I can create something, offer it to someone else and between us, we can make a difference somewhere.
Isn’t that what it’s all about? Standing up and not only doing something.. but taking someone else’s hand and working together?
How many of Oprah’s audience members could have offered the support they did, without Oprah’s generation help? Sometimes helping does take money… and sometimes it just takes some time…
Either way, it always takes some effort and a bit of a warm heart.
Now I asked before… what can you do? I challange everryone who reads this, to stop for a moment and think of how you too can pay-it-forward!
Tell me about your ideas.. I’m all eyeballs.
😀 -jgoode
More info…
CBS’s Channel 4 Denver: Pay it forward Colorado
Pay It Foward, the movie – reallly inspiring, go rent it!
Pay it forward movement – message from Catherine Ryan Hyde
[tags] pass-it-forward,charity,donation,jgoode,oprah,giving,tuesdays topic[/tags]
Only 2 Days left to find perfect made-to-order gifts from JGoode Designs and ship in time for Christmas, so HURRY!
PLUS save $5. Use coupon code CAMERAFLASH during checkout. Shop Now! 
[tags] last minute gifts, jgoode, holiday, shopping, gift[/tags]
October is a Breast Cancer Awareness month. A time to celebrate the courage of women around the world, support women in their Race for a Cure and a time to come together to build awareness of this deadly disease. JGoode Designs has joined in the fight by creating unique designs available on a variety of t-shirts, hoodies, stickers and more… each featuring a BCA message of support. Profits from the sale of these items is donated to help support Breast Cancer Awareness, Research and Recovery efforts. So join in and pass on the pink!
[tags] breast cancer, october, jgoode, bca, pink ribbon[/tags]
