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Finnspiration: One Very Special Bear

December 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment

It is not often that I post twice on the same day, but I was captured by a post on hummingbird604.com that tugged at my heart strings.

Raul is hosting a contest around a Teddy Bear called Finnspiration. Now this isn’t just any Teddy Bear, but one designed with the love and laughter of Baird and Sarah Sullivan, who lost their brother Finn to cancer.

Baird and Sarah gave Finnspiration big brown eyes just like their brother, and a touch of pink – Finn’s favourite colour. They gave the bear long bunny ears, like their brother’s much-loved ‘Pink Bear’, a soft rabbit stuffie that brought him comfort through his illness, and even added rabbits to Finnspiration’s paws to capture Finn’s joyful and energetic mantra.

Baird, Finnspiration & Sarah

Aside from being a wonderful and comforting reminder of their brother, Finn, Baird and Sarah designed Finnspiration to raise money and awareness to the Starlight Children’s Foundation in their goals to grant wishes and create beautiful memories for seriously ill children and their families.

I am not really one for the commercial side of Hanukkah, Christmas and other winter holidays, but I have to say this is one toy I’d be willing to buy for my nieces this Holiday season, especially knowing that the gift gives joy to other families during some pretty rough times.  I wonder how I can share this idea with my nieces, so they know just what a special bear Finnspiration is.

If you want to spread the love and awareness for Finnspiration you can comment on Raul’s post with your inspiration (it says the contest closed yesterday, but based on his tweets it sounds like it’s been extended until tomorrow, December 7th) or you can purchase a bear for $20.00 at any Toy R Us nationwide or online.

Okay I think I need to go have a little cry.

Kisses,

Emme xoxo

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Public Service Announcement: #yff11 Early Bird Special

December 6, 2010 By 2 Comments

If you have yet to go to the Yorkton Film Festival then I am afraid to say there are no two ways about it, you are missing out.  Between the wackiness of the festival itself and the nutty, but absolutely lovable characters it attracts this is my top pick for film festivals in this country (now – don’t you go getting your panties in a knot, I likely haven’t made it to your film festival yet, and if I have, I apologize, but yff is just so damn special to me).

Where else can you share a toilet with Jarrett Rusnak and Katrina Ham in the middle of a gun range?

So why this Public Service Announcement?  Well, I just wanted to draw it to your attention that submissions are open for the #yff11 Golden Sheaf Awards (until January 31st, 2011) and if you are smart (or at least organized) and get your entry in by December 15th, 2010, then you can take advantage of the Early Bird Special.

So whose eligible?  Canadian Produced video content under 60-minutes in length or International Co-Productions with a Canadian Director, that’s been completed between February 1, 2010 and January 31, 2011.  And yes, this does include web series and other video produced for the web.

Charlotte Engle flaunting a few Golden Sheafs from #yff10. (Photo by Liz Kearsley)

You can read more here and fill out the online entry form here.

Kisses,

Emme xoxo

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My Movember

November 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Admittedly, Movember has left me a rather confused young lady.  You see, being rather fond of the prostrate, I wanted to do my part to save it, but I’ve never grown a beard before and didn’t really know where to start.  Yes, yes, before you start protesting at me, I know, its suppose to be a Mo, not a beard, but the only facial hair I’ve ever been able to grow is the odd hair in my chinny, chin, chin, so let a gal dream will yeah.  So try as I might, I was in a similar conundrum as Debs Anne …

… I just wish I had the singing and dancing fairy mo father.

Without a fairy Mo father, I tried growing my pits and then my legs … yes, once again, not mos, and not at all conducive to my dating life, which has resulted in an increased use of the razor then the rest of the year.  For one scary moment I actually considered a merkin for my upper lip, thanks to a man that puts far too many warped ideas in my head.  Yes, HR, that will amount to a few more of my therapy bills for you to cover. And before I knew it it was November 30th with no Mo to show.

No mo, but the confusing reality that I find mos on women so much sexier than mos on men. I mean I sat at work today horrified by the parade of creepy looking men sporting mos past me (amazing how few can pull them off), yet everywhere I look online these days, I keep seeing hot, hot women sporting their mos in-style. I gotta grow me a mo next year.

One very sexy Mo Gal, as shot by Bob Lai Photography

In the meantime, here’s my pick for donating.

Whiskery Kisses,

Emme xoxo

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Randy Goulden: The Mother of All Rider’s Fans

November 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Celebrating the Grey Cup Half time by using my blog to shamelessly brag about one of my friends, Randy Goulden.

My Gal Randy, as captured by Richard Gustin

Was never really a football fan growing up.  Didn’t really get the men in tights, slapping each others asses. That’s been changed, at least as far as the Saskatchewan Roughriders are concerned.  You see I think those sneaky little Prairie boys and girls have been somehow brainwashing me amoungst my many adventures through their fields of golden wheat.  I can’t proof anything, but …

How can little green men be anything, but infectious!?!

No, in all seriousness, their love of the game is infectious.  And I’m not alone.  After a summer in Regina, it seems to have got a hold of my buddy Richard Yearwood too. For me it’s a combination of meeting a local football star (albeit one playing for Edmonton), Graeme Bell, serving drinks at a local Saskatoon watering hole (Winston’s Pub – he’s no longer there), seeing him treat my 70+ year old friend as the most beautiful woman and most important person in the bar, and the intoxicating infectious pride Saskatchewanites have for their team the Roughriders.  Quite surprised that nobody has called a Provincial Holiday yet to celebrate them in the Grey Cup or to celebrate Rider Nation receiving the CFL Commissioners’ Award.  An award that my friend, Randy accepted on behalf of Roughrider fans with her son and granchildren – all Riders fans.  Way to go Randy!

GO RIDERS GO!

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Win Tickets to Launch Party 10 (aka Van City’s Digital Coming Out Party)

November 24, 2010 By 10 Comments

I’m a busy gal and I can’t make it out to everything or write about everything, although I’d love to, but there is one event I always do my darnedest to get to and that is Vancouver’s Launch Party.  LPV was started up by the sexy cats at Strutta and carried on under Maura Rodgers and Danny Robinson’s new endeavor, the Bootup Entrepreneurial Society. The next of which is on Wednesday December 1st at 6 pm at Canvas Lounge.

A few of LPV2's Sexy Cats as taken by Phillip Jeffrey

I cheekily call Launch Party ‘Van City’s Digital Coming Out Party’, because for me it was just that.  Way back at the first ever Launch Party, which involved more than a few beverages, dancing the night away, some sexy new technologies, and even sexier tech geeks (one of whom shall remain unnamed offered to buy me a house at LPV1 – I told him I could buy my own house), I had my own coming out tech style. Yep, even though I was not one of the technologies on exhibition, that party was my launch into the digital sphere and many of the sexy geeks in the room that night helped to launch me to where I am today.  How?  Well, you’ll have to bribe them with alcohol and see if they’ll tell you. So what’s Launch Party to me?  It’s my Homecoming, where I go to celebrate all those sexy techies who helped make me who I am, and a place to check out and help launch the latest in sexy technologies, many of which end up aiding me in my storytelling.

Shenanigans at LPV2 as taken by Mike Macadaan

What’s Launch Party to others?

A lively mixer for the city’s brightest entrepreneurs, tech junkies, and bloggers, who are doing it, have done it or want to make their ideas happen here. The goal of the event is to connect BC’s growing community of Internet and new media leaders with investors and other trailblazers across Canada and abroad.

A few locals will tell you right here what Launch Party is to them, through their favourite Launch Party moments:

Now, thanks to Launch Party, I have a pair of tickets to give away to LPV10 this coming Wednesday.  All you have to do is drop me a line in the comments and tell me why you want to attend LPV10 – whether it’s to check out the latest technologies, flirt with geeks or mix and mingle with some cool cats, I don’t care, as long as you have a reason.  Then at 9 pm on Saturday November 27th, I will stick the names of all of the commenters in a hat and draw the name of one lucky winner of the pair of tickets..

Look forward to seeing you at LPV10!

Kisses,

Emme xoxo

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