Hi My name is Susan Kelley and I live in Massachusetts and am a watercolor Artist and have my paintings in my gallery on care2.com and would love to make new friends and have them sign onto my friends as I have none because I am new.  I love to paint and try to paint everyday as well as care for my parrots. 

    My children are grown and gone from the house so it is just my hubby and myself and our parrots and yorkshire terrier.  So, I keep busy painting and working on the computer in here.  There aren't enough hours in a  day.  I am also involved in law enforcement as a retired police officer, but still involved as it is never far away...  So please visit my gallery susan Kelley and let me know what you think of my paintings.  Please sign on as a friend as I need friends to start getting green stars and friends.  Thank you very much.

Susan Kelley

artsy712@aol.com

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Hello to you both,

So glad to see that your up and running with this site now.  I know I've turned it over to good hands.  I'll pop in once in a while of course. 

Good luck to you both,

Shannon

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Hi, I do pencil work and dabble in watercolor and acrylics. I don't have any artwork online yet. Most fundraising work I do is for animal causes. I started a national animal rescue group. That is online and you can check it out at http://www.orgsites.com/in/naal

I've been on Care2 for a while but I haven't been here for some time due to an injury, but I'm back now and really busy catching up.

Mandy

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Hello, anyone here????

cheers, Jacki

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Just wanted to introduce myself. I live in Oregon and loving it. I am 50 years old, but not relinquishing my youth to numbers.

I am an artist, struggling, of course.  My mediums are clay and painting. 

I do have sites of my own if you are interested. They are listed on my profile. Feel free to peruse it and contribute to them, chatting contributions of course.

Thank you for listening!

Cheers, Jacki

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I look forward to working together with you for a better world through music, and love for life and people.
With Love, Music and Peace
 
Mohammad Iqbal Behleem
vist my website for MUSIC FOR PEACE

http://www.behleem.com

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A patriotic vagina
by Mrs. Waldon
9/29/05

i revolt on you,

comfortable couch-potatoe outsider,

who criticize bourgeois grammar

and colorful spellin'.

I hear a sinking call,

heavy rain sheets

of divine artistic wisdom

fellin’ ove’ wrung-out oppressed

and castrated, almost grooved machineries.

My body: dicks, %#&!*% and asses

won’t be aside while

steel pinheads control

my ways.

Think stained-glass, touch rappe’ dreams,

‘lift up wrists’ vs. ‘eternal separation,’

the emmas, the henrys, the king jrs., the malcom x’s,

the dylans, the martyrs, the voltaires,

the madelaine murray o’hairs,

the roes,

the revolutionaries…

submissively

switched by writers of bibles

ove’ yer fellas’ lives and wills.

My courts, my say, my white house,

my pavement recruiting pure air,

allowing real babies

to come and sit on powe' kegs,

yet mo’ cash if one speaks alone,

landslide forecasts

on the way.

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Poetry squeezing patriotic songs,

and a reverend said to our momma:

‘no tyrant hand shall smite.’

And Here’s to question mr. greentwood:

how free you think we know we are

when one cannot ever question it to oneself?

It rolls and rolls the tv shows,

with Smiley beautiful beings

selling the world behind their gods,

I heard there’s no such a cuffin,

how lovely their permanent puritan shrouds.

Skydom roofs protecting these fools

off the records, you got your marines

loaded with nukes for the good of these free,

laws for we few reversed in a gig,

little girls may never see,

read or conceive.

There’s mo' than plain tea

or material consumption in Katrina,

perchance a daily natural catastrophe

shall give generosity a genuine exit.

here’s to Revolt your hair

and fire the status quo square,

pink ladies freeze yer color

as Women dress colorless pain

and classless neon skins

that may lead others to kill.

Wars are not necessary,

we tell the genetic pigs

as headlines popped up ‘terror-alert elevated’

headlines in return

on new justice robertson’s fireworks head.

three years right from the 21st

uprising Thoughts

in my prose, in my rose

in this poem

leaping, vaulting from their side,

I smell filth from the mouths

of holy uniforms

between 'ame' and 'rika''s

‘braggin balance,’

digging craters to bury rights,

yet, amazon fury, you may revolt,

play by the rule of the lionhearted,

buzzin’ the bells of our obliterated philly

deafened your ears by the two-party willy

mustn’t we stir rainbow plasma

in the bones of our wrists

while we scream: my house, my vagina,

my country.

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Hello, all!

My name is Yvonne, and I'm a budding painter that hails from Ontario, Canada. I'm obsessed with fantasy art, but my mission is to sell paintings with some of the proceeds to go to my favorite charities. (And maybe even make a dollar or two for myself!) I paint in acrylics on canvas, or anything that will hold still long enough! 
Some of my work is in My Photos... have a look, let me know what you think! I love feedback!

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Heehehehehehe... I love it!

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Greetings,

I write novels, or try to, live on the proceeds (in London), have cats and a bicycle, work in a room painted yellow with loads of books, and um, the novels all have a theme in common - mainly the little person threatened by forces much greater than themselves. It's not cozy fiction certainly wouldn't be on Tony Bliar's list of preferred bedside reading. So won't get an OBE or an obituary in the Daily Telegraph. Who'd want 'em anyway? oh, well, tough.

I give you my favourite (Scots) toast:

Here's ta us

Whae's like us?

Damn few, and they're all dead.

Yours,

John  

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Hi. I am Jim.  I spend most of my time behind the scenes providing income to charities.  I give any legitimate nonprofit a completely free way to raise money with no effort.  I basically do everything for them to make them successful.  I have over 1,500 of the best-known internet merchants on board.  Whenever anybody shops online, these stores send up to 25% of the sale to either an enrolled charity, or a basket of the best charities serving each cause.  I get great satisfaction knowing that I am able to support so many good charities with the income they so vitally need. 

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I take Healing photos of nature.Been compared to Georiga O'Keef ...never seen her work or even heard of her. Grew upo in Westen North Carolina,1 son who has 3 step grandchildren and 1 of his own. My greates desire is to someday sell my artwork in order to give a big % to abused children in order to some how some way give them hope, courage, faith, wisdom and a life they feel worth living. Educating them so they do not feel the guilt, or shame for what has happened to them, but to use it to help other's to heal and be all that they can be.

I started my healing gallery in 2005, just after I crashed from depression , due to many years of childhood and 20 years into adulthood of sexual, physical, emotional abuse (somehow, I raised a wonderful 25 year old son & managed to have a very good Corp. Career) until Sept 2004 when I went off the deep end of life due to past and present issues. My Dream....and desire is to help the children who are suffering, Teach all children they have a RIGHT to say NO and STOP the abuse and to help young adults who like I dhave done suffered for 20 - 30 plus years.

My web site is under construction as my soulmate was the one who put it all to gether.Since sept 2004 I have taken 1000's os photos and I am going to change the website around ..but for now

www.morningdovegallery.com    will at least take you there , my best phot's are not published just yet.,....Still waiting  for the Right time and guidence from my inner soul....because my very goal is to help those still sufferring.....just as I do.

Morning Dove

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Hello my name is Zelda D. and I live in Dallas,Texas. I am both an oil painting artist and a watercolorist. I do not combine the two.  I do oil paintings because that is what I love,but I do watercolor because it keeps me on my toes; Watercolor is very demanding.  

I have never done any charity work but I am up for a challenge.

Love Zelda

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Hi, I didn't talk when I was here the last time...LOL

I am from Sweden, an oil, acrylic, aquarelle painter, work w/ clay (as cernit) and have written some poems.

Love from Me

Lady Athena

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Hello all from Granite Falls, NC.  I am a ceramacist not a potter. I am looking for space to open a traditional ceramic shop.  Plus I dabble in candles. 

Getting used to seeing the sun year round after living in Cleveland, OH for most of my life - where the sun goes away in October and may come back in April. 

I use the candles for fundraising and currently belong to a Soft Coated Wheaton Rescue Group, volunteer at the local humane society in Hickory. Dogs are my children. 

Have an awesome day all!!!

Corine

www.bilbosceramics.com

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just to introduce my self , my name is paul batou I am a native Iraqi artist , I am  in Los Angeles

www.paulbatou.com .

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Hey,
My name is Daniel. I am 15 and I am just starting out in art. I like to draw and paint realistic images. I am somewhat good at it, I improve everytime I do a picture. I also like to do art with recycled materials. To view some of my art, take a look at my deviantART gallery: http://skullmage550.deviantart.com/

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Hi! I'm Marisa, and I am the Director of Operations for Dance Broward. We are a 501(c)(3) dance troupe that encompasses all studios and schools in the Fort Lauderdale area. While we don't have a charity per say, we partner with other organizations to help their fundraising causes. We have performed at events for both Women in Distress and Food For The Poor. Mostly, the organization was designed to give back in the community, and teach dancers that there is a big world out there that they can help fix.

We are brand new to this site - a terrific find! So hello to all!

www.dancebroward.org

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Hi, I am new and just thought I would introduce myself.  I live in Alabama.  Married with 3 Children.  I love to try new art forms.  I have been painting for over 35 years.  Landscapes are my favorite.  I also do Fairy art and Gothic.    Sometimes it is just hard to find the time to paint.  My Girls and their Husbands live with us so it is very busy around here.  I want to open a little art co-op in a building on our property.   Then part of all earnings could go towards a few of my favorite causes.  I am mostly into Child welfare and animal causes.  I worked for the Domestic crisis center in our town ,  I support them also.  Well I guess that is about it.   Glad to be here.  

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Hi too from me!! I loves to draw, Art has been much of my life ever since I was able to pick up a pencil now I am 50 and going through my second childhood I am rekindling what I missed when work and responsibility got in the road, I also dabble in oils and acrylics charcoals and many types of meduims, as we as cartoon and graphics, I also write poetry and story. I have spent many years in repression of what I do was never good enough, but now is the time to say THWI ,and getout and show the world what " I " can do, and maybe help thoughs in need from what I can do.

Mick da Artist   

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http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/861296

This share explains how a fund raiser will save the average residence up to $1000 per year on utility bills, while at the same time raising money for their favorite charity, church, animal rights group, health group, other cause or even a club... Non profit status is not required.

This is a formal fund raising program, complete with professional marketing materials. There is no cost to the supporters or members of the group that is desiring to raise funds.

Please note associated news story at

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Join group if you are interested in learning more or just to stay in the loop about this for the future;

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Hi, My name is Marek. With my friend Josef we wrote a song "A friendly hand" which reflects our activities of which details you can learn by clicking on: www.peace365.org We do disseminate a message to all that there is a way to the global peace forever. As a contribution to the Cause we would like to introduce our song to the vast majority of audience in the world. Please do help us and take it on your schedule and perform it wherever possible. In Peace Forever Marek

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Hi, My name is Amy, and I handcraft, wood burn and hand paint. I currently live in Eastport Maine, and my husband and I donate a percentage of all our animal themed work to animal shelters and rescues in our area. Animals are our passion, and we are "owned" by 9 parrots, who we have rescued over the years. my website is
ww.woodonwater.com  I am looking forward to talking with others here! Thanks!

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