Eight Handmade Polymer Clay Buttons by gundowerks

Ok I just fell in love with these HOW AWESOME:

This set of eight square buttons come in two sizes and are funky and fresh.Each is made of a cool mottle of color: pinks, purples, blues and greens. Stamped with a star pattern and finished to a high gloss, these beads are carefully drilled and ready to attach to your finished art piece.Three beads measure approximately 1.25" and five measure .75". Garments finished with these buttons should be carefully handwashed and handdried to preserve the beauty of the clay. Treated well these beads can last for many, many years on your wearable art.I am available to create buttons for your art pieces - contact me and I will create a listing with your work in mind! for more of these awesome items please visit: http://www.artfire.com/users/gundowerks

Rooterville, A Sanctuary Inc. Mission Statement Encouraging compassion for all animals

Rooterville is a beautiful place, providing safe haven for over 100 rescued animals. We provide medical treatment and proper nourishment for unwanted, abused and abandoned animals of all species, particularly pot bellied pigs, as well as assist in the rescue, transport, placement and spaying/neutering of rescued animals. We have helped with many large rescues including the placement of hundreds of abused, neglected, abandoned or unwanted pet pigs. Believe it or not, there are way too many unwanted pot bellied pigs and we are one of only a handful of rescues that will help them. While there are many more rescue options available for dogs and cats, there are few for pigs. This is why the work we do at Rooterville is so very important and why we strive to educate the general public with respect to the true nature and characteristics of the potbellied pig and pigs in general and stress the importance of spaying and neutering them to prevent the birth of even more unwanted pets. Rooterville has many wonderful spayed/neutered pet pigs available for adoption to loving homes. Animals who do not get adopted will live their lives out here at the Sanctuary.
Often, we have helped pet pigs stay in their homes by providing adequate fencing, shelter and spay/neuter for those animals who, with our assistance, are then able to stay in their current homes. We also spend many hours providing education and support to pig guardians to help them cope with health and behavioral issues in an effort to keep animals in their current homes, as long as they are loved and will be properly cared for with our intervention and follow-up.
A large part of our time is dedicated to educating the general public on the nature and sentience of all animals as well as their need for compassionate treatment, particularly pigs, in comparison to modern factory farming, circuses, entertainment, etc. and we provide information and resources free of charge.
The BEST thing that you can do for your health, for the animals, for the planet and for the future is to adopt a plant based diet. At Rooterville, we believe that the most important thing we can do is to encourage the compassionate lifestyle of a vegetarian/vegan through: example, education, exhibiting, tabling, peaceful demonstration and outreach events whenever and wherever possible.
Through our network of other friends and rescues, we provide a means by which those interested in helping pot bellied pigs or other species of animals, can share information and join in common activities to help achieve the goals of no more homeless animals and the elimination of animal suffering at the hands of human kind.
Please join us as! The animals need us. http://www.rooterville.org/index.htm

Fountain of Youth Goats Milk Soap on a Pouf by AmbientLights

Fountain of Youth A luxury Spa type scent that is unique and wonderful! Based on fresh, clean scents with a just a hint of Japanese Grapefruit and soft florals. Everyone who smells this loves it, me included!

Soap Poufs are made with high quality glycerin Goats Milk Hand and Body Soap and a nylon shower pouf. This soap is great by itself but I've added a couple more good for the skin oils such as castor oil and soybean oil, which contains natural vitamin E.Each Pouf is embedded in 3oz of soap. Ambient Lights Goats Milk Soap rinses wonderfully from your skin and leaves you feeling extra clean and silky smooth, the fragrance will fill your shower and will linger softly on your skin afterwards.The added bonus of Soap on a Pouf is once you've used all your soap, you still have your pouf to use! for more of these awesome products please visit: http://www.artfire.com/users/AmbientLights

Practical Tips for Dealing with your Potbelly in a time of Disaster

Practical Tips for Dealing with your Potbellyin a time of Disaster ~ By Jacque, Proud Owner of Lily the pbp
Fire! Fire! The skies are filling up with black smoke everywhere. It was time to get thinking what we would do with our animals in case of emergency. The biggest question was could we deal with our animals in an emergency? It does not matter if you have a pot belly or just a wonderful old dog; the question is what would you do? This mind set was a thought after the last huge fire that ran through the Yorba Linda and Brea area just recently.
I set out to ask some questions. Patty Williams, agriculture teacher for Orange High School, was a wonderful resource. She has assisted in the evacuation and rescue of large livestock with Hurricane Katrina and our local Santiago Fire. Her live stock area at the high school is deemed as an official rescue site for large livestock for the Orange County area and she has trained her students in the assistance for this. Most recently she opened up the live stock area at the high school for the Yorba Linda Fires. Her most practical advice is to create a grab and go bag. It should consist of food, water, health essentials, bedding, and vet info if needed. Next is to practice, practice, and practice the loading of the animals. Have a disaster drill! In this most recent fire they were expecting four potbelly pigs but the pigs did not make it to her shelter because they would not load.
What is your emergency plan? Where will you take the animals? Many people do not have a way to transport them. It is the owner’s responsibility to evacuate them because animal control and other rescue groups most likely will not be able to get to everyone. For example, last year several horses had to be left in the back of Dove Canyon because the owners did not listen to the evacuation warning.
I am new to being a potbelly caregiver. I have to ask questions of everyone. It’s like having a baby and not knowing what to do. I do know this…..I’m planning on taking the dog and the pig for a ride in my truck on a regular basis.

for more on this subject please visit: http://www.scampp.com/PiggyInfo.html

Save The Piggies Giveaway

This is a very special giveaway. I was given this save the pigs pendant by patsdesign. This will be the main item given away for this giveaway. sooooo cute, I had a great time trying to create this little piggy.. It is on a 3/4 copper disc. I added a 16inch sterling silver box chain, if you want it longer please let me know. A great way to create a cute little animal with letter stamps. I can add anything you want to it! OINK by http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6600983 .

Here is what makes his giveaway so special.

Noahs Ark PBP Sanctuary in Port Richey Florida is having a really bad year. They have a lot of residents that are getting up there in years and are starting to have major health problems.http://www.patdesigns.etsy.com/ wanted to help so on top of donating a pendant for the giveaway she desided she would donate $3.00 of every pig pendant sold to noahs ark pbp sanct. http://www.noahsarkpbprescue.org/ Is that awesome or what.

okay here are the giveaway rules:

First go to Pats designs shop http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6600983 and find something you like and post comment with link to the item on this giveaway comments section. Extra chances: If you purchase item let me know for extra chance to win item. Twitter and/or Plurk about this item. Follow this blog. or http://www.pigatopia.blogspot.com/ You can enter multiple comments about different items or post for more chances to win. Each comment gets you another chance to win.
I will pay to ship the items to you no charge.
How am I going to pick the winner you guys are going to love this. I am going to carve the numbers into apple and let the pigs pick the winners. we are going to try and get it on video for you to watch and also I am going to take pigtures. The piggers will be doing the drawing on July 25th

As always I will be giving away extra prizes. ;8)
P.S. if you have not figured it out already I give out extra free prizes.
please feel free to add your shop links to the comments section

FACE OFF BHR STYLE

The BHR crew is gearing up for a weekly throw down! That's right... we just love goodhearted competition and talking smack to each other.Each member of the crew will be picking a little something something to feature every Monday in the Face Off and we need you to vote for your favorite item!How does the crew pick? Each featured item is something that has caught a crew members' eye. With such a diverse crew and tastes that run a huge gambit, things are bound to be interesting....Why? Completely for fun and because any BHR host just loves to beat another host! Bragging rights, baby! It also helps us to achieve the BHR mission of exposing indie artisans to the world!The featured selection that gets the most votes will get hooked up with several plugs on the air, some linkage on the BHR page, and an invitation to call in and tell us a bit more about themselves and their craft!Of course the crew is counting on your votes too. Who will be the first to get their bragging rights? So you wanna see what pigatopia picks check it out and vote for my pick hehehe oink. ;8)

Piggies looking for awesome homes

tell me these 2 piggers are not the cutest little pigers you have seen before. they are just some of the many pigs www.farec.org is trying to find homes for These two little ones are now about 12 weeks old and are ready for a loving "forever" home. To adopt them, contact Sue at 321-726-0916.6/18/2008 for more pigtures stories and ways to help please visit: www.farec.org

Tilt Creations Clearance sale

CLEARANCE...to make room for a new direction this summer.This roomy bag can hold more than your everyday basics. I made this bag before I began designing my own. It was based on the McCalls pattern 4936d, with changes for the flap and straps. The exterior is made from a sturdy outdoor canvas fabric with a vinyl flap. It closes with a zipper and the flap shuts with a magnetic snap. One stone pendant adorns the front flap. Inside the bag there is a back wall zippered pocket and one open pocket on the front wall. There is a swivel clasp on a tab inside to keep your keys handy. The lining is a thick poly cotton fabric with a little shine.Specs: 14"w x 7"h x 5" deep24" vinyl strap with metal O-ringsconical metal feetinterface used to give some shape and stabilityRecommended washing instructions: spot or dry clean. If wash, do by hand or cold water gentle cycle: iron will be needed due to interfacing. visit: http://www.artfire.com/users/tiltcreations for mroe awesome items

48 FOR LARRY

Larry Hamm over at Chelsea Lynn Designs on Artfire is a friend of many in the world of handmade, he is also the voice of The Crazy Train on Blockhead Radio. Larry has a fantastic wife Janet, and an 8 year old son Jacob who live with him in Lansing, NC deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Larry is a friend to everyone and just an all around swell guy. He is most definitely the "shirt off your back" kind of friend. Right now, all of Larry´s friends and Blockhead Radio are teaming up to help him out in a tough time.
Larry is a disabled diabetic who currently has lost his health insurance. His medication alone monthly is over $2,000. Larry is not receiving disability, he has not been approved yet. His wife is the only source of income and she doesn´t make enough to cover his medications. Larry´s doctors have given him an outlook of only 18 months to live if he doesn´t receive a $17,000 gastric bypass surgery as soon as possible. Larry and his family need all the help from their family and friends they can get! Jacob and Janet need Larry to hang around here with them as long as he possibly can! All of his friends surely want Larry to stick around too!
All of us at Blockhead Radio are gearing up for the biggest Radiothon you´ll ever be a part of! July 24th at 6pm until July 26th at 6pm, Blockhead Rod will be live on the radio for 48 hours straight raising money for our friend Larry. A silent auction of donated handmade goods will also be going up on the home page of Blockhead Radio with 100% of the proceeds going to Larry.
If you would like to be a part of this wonderful event, please email DeDe Sorensen at: 48forlarry@blockheadradio.com Please donate any handmade items you can for the silent auction have your emails in with your donations by July 22nd. If you would like to donate cash for Larry’s prescriptions and surgery please visit Blockhead Radio July 24th through July 26th. There will be plenty of ways to get your donations in.
Keep listening to Blockhead Radio for fantastic indie music, and how you can help Larry Hamm of Chelsea Lynn Designs.
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Fuzzy Baby Blanket by Love To Stamp

I just love this blanket. what an awesome shop. This blanket it so soft. It's got a fuzzy side and a soft flannel side. Nice to snuggle up to. The size is 36inx27in.I have pre-washed to start the softness. for more of thsese awesome items please visit: http://www.artfire.com/modules.php?name=Shop&op=listing&product_id=202046