Do Good Wrap up - but does it?!

Does Doing Good Ever Wrap up? I don't think so!

22 projects were started, (that we know of) now I've heard what they all did the other night during the Wrap up Party at Home Bank - in the lobby no less, was a surprise that - & I still couldn't list them all, all the projects, all the people, all the side projects/people too...

Maybe Aileen's put them all up on her Blog? or there will be a book about all this someday soon & we can read about it?! (hope so!!) or there's the Facebook Page too...

2 projects I can add from last time that I didn't know about are Brian Holmes & Blake Lagneaux...

1 - Brian Holmes gave to a Kiva loan - he called his guy, the 'cereal guy' (simply he makes cereal, which is great...) So he needed a $75 loan & Brian used his given $50 & added to that (or am guessing he did that...) Which will be repaid & then reloaned out once again, over & over--so a gift that keeps on giving...

Link to Kiva Loans - Loans that Change Lives...
http://www.kiva.org/

2 - Blake Lagneaux is giving to our local Children's Museum & creative projects there by creating a Do Good (Always) Poster that will be sold for $15 plus shipping to go to this project...
It's on Etsy, so how cool is that--we can buy one or others can buy one, but it goes to our local Children's Museum...

I've ordered the light grey background with the pastel colored lettering on my poster--that I just can't wait to show up in the mail...at the Wrap up Party there was only 1 black background one with less pastel colored letters--but it was framed & it was given as a door prize (all I know is that I didn't win, so I had to order one--but in doing so got to get more fun colors I think?!)

With my new poster (can't wait for it to arrive in the mail, so I can get it framed--pronto?!) I'll have a great reminder for a wonderful Christmastime in 2011, helping out Do Good projects & the Wrap up Party stories & to continue on my own to Do Good Always--right?! of course!!

Link to find the Do Good (Always) Poster by Blake Lagneaux...
http://www.etsy.com/listing/90280677/do-good-project-poster
(note: there's 37 left to order, as of today?! 12" x 16" - shipped rolled up in a tube...)

Link to Aileen Bennett's Blog - Creating Clever...
http://creatingclever.com/

Link to the Do-Gooders Facebook page...
https://www.facebook.com/dogoodproject

Link to first/main sponsor - Home Bank...
www.facebook.com/homebankhelps

My List of Helping Out Do Good-er Projects...

gave big bag full of t-shirts to BBR, at the time it said she was trying to collect 600 of them
(note: she was not at the Do Good Wrap up Party because--wait for it--she's in Africa?! Not just handing out T-shirts, but also she has a son there--who am guessing is volunteering to do something helpful in Africa too?! I think it was a 3 part project, as some were - so 1 part of the T-shirts went to Africa, 1 part went to make Dog Toys...did I read that one right?!) & the last part went to another group intown, that right now I cannot remember - but they're doing good can you betcha'...)

note: when I was grabbing T-shirts to donate, think I may have grabbed my fav coffee shops T's...
so that's Carpe Diem & Cafe Cohen--prob off to Africa or could be a dog toy or ?? by now too?!

gave small bag full of CD's to Extra Mile after I missed the Rapper Concert
(note: these went to tweens/teens wrapped I think for Christmas & the other early Christmas gift was for this boy to Rap in front of a willing/live/happy/supporting audience--a great way to have a start & for it to be your first too...we'll have to get more posted on this new musician to the Rap scene in Lafayette--do we have a Rap scene? I wouldn't ever know, unless someone told me?!)

bought a week's worth of Mocha coffees from Cafe Cohen
(note: And I'm not a fan of chocolate/mocha coffee either)

 

donated 2 (maybe 3 - yes, 3 as I found the photo...) willowbranch planter cones from Klara Pil in Norway to Green Garden project for a teacher/school class - or - if they didn't want to use them then the Farm2Table Farmers would get next shot at them

note: don't know 'if' these are the bike lights ordered from a Portland, OR bike/light shop, but they'll be something like this - will await further news from Tony on when's the big bike light passing out event, a lot of surprised bike folks with big grins will soon be found out & about in town...

support the bike light give away, for now only bought an auto sticker for Bike Lafayette group - the lights are on order, then the give away will happen (I have seen a few bike/bikers who need lights on their bikes for night riding--to help be seen, flashing bright lights are a must for 'distracted drivers' right?!)

found out what #cajunkindness/aka Lauren was doing & added 3 gift cards from Cafe Cohen to hers - with the code word "JingleJingle" (after CajunKindness & DoGood I think were both taken already from someone else doing good - once at the coffee/gelato place downtown Lafayette?!)

note: from www.etsy.com Do Good Project Poster by Blake Lagneaux - this is the dark grey background, the one I didn't order (I ordered the light grey background, with more pastel letters - see above /\)

bought a do good-er poster, waiting for that to come in the mail & soon?!

  x 50

(photo credit: thumbnail Wikipedia)

Note: Really don't know which project got the $50 that I donated, it was just all pooled together to give all the Do Good-ers a $50 bill to do Do Good with--any of them are Welcome to think it was the 1 from me?!

So many more Do Good Projects - will try to remember more & find out if Aileen's webpage has them linked up or over on Facebook...because everyone was to agree to the Do Good, Document, Have Fun I think were the 2 plus a Laginappe deal to follow along the way...

#DoGood

Oh too one speaker before leaving the podium--who was that DollarMan? (was that FiberCorp Startup that did this - Argh, the memory...) left on the table where the mini Oscars were a pile of Do Good Dollar Bills with a sticker in the middle of each & 'do good' stamped all over it...to continue spreading the Do Good glow to all & also left an envelope on the table for anyone to put more money in for Aileen's next project (or would that be schenanigans?!)

(note: local shop photo - of all the things couldn't find just a pic of Mardi Gras beads say in a big pile or bag in my Lafayette photos that weren't around somebody's neck right...)
I picked up one, now what Do Good-ing can I do?! bought cat/dog food today for the Acadiana Animal Shelter to go with the big bag of Mardi Gras beads I was donating for the next Doggie Mardi Gras Parade (that was so fun last year, only I wanted to adopt a King Chihuahua...since then we've rescued 2 of them so we didn't get a Mardi Gras Parade King afterall?!) - but I could say the $1.00 went to that, but trouble is it's still on my desk in my home office (so does that count? prob not!)
(note: I was going to copy the fun money, but then I realized--wait it's real currency & I don't think the gov't/mint would appreciate that...you'll just have to believe me?!)


New Do Good Dollar Idea...

   $$$

Did you know there are Dollar Bills in Circulation that are stamped with 'Where's George' in Red ink on them - if you get one then you're suppose to go to this Webpage to Track your Dollar Bill (which you know has George Washington on it right--uh huh...)

See this link...
http://www.wheresgeorge.com/

Well, how aboutey (Yes, I felt like saying that madeup word--is it Pirate-ese, can't say...) we add to that 'George' with a DoGood stamp or decoration too...

Would love though if we could not only track where the Dollar Bill was or had been, but also what the Do Good-er did with it...

Help me--I need Aileen Be Good/Be You & Friends to get running with this one...

I say for the next Drink & Draw Night the graphic designs guys meeting up at Ameicas Coffeehouse, dedicate the evening to drawing on special Dollar Bills (OK--not to worry, I'll donate some to get started...)

And then somehow we'll track them out & about doing good, once they're done & passed on - or maybe when someone gets a cup of coffee Floyd could give the customer one of the special dollars...would be great if the DoGood facebook page address was stamped/written/drawn on their somewhere too & we start with watching a new batch of Do Good Dollar Bills on their way to DoGood-ing?!

(note: now I must go Tweet all night long on Twitter now to get this thing going--am I dreaming, or did I just type all that...hmmm...shhh--no, don't wake me up?! Zzzz...$$$...zzz...)

#DoGood Always <3

Oogie Doggie, Do Good, December

character credit: Disney.com Classics Collection
Nightmare Before Christmas - Oogie Boogie character
(note: taking special note of the stitches...)

Oogie Doggie...

ChiChi bad dog encounter--walking neighborhood to street corner, bad timing, big dog, medium dog, out their back door, thru the garage--not into the car, but into the street...crossing old ChiChi that apparently looked like a new rag dog early Christmas toy--so that's when medium dog decided it was his, called it, picked it up by the rear end & shook it, right?!

People mom screaming from her inner girl place, before Oh Yeah I'm the Mom, kicked in & swat big dog, pick up old now wounded ChiChi with her rescue sister spinning like a top loose from the zippy leash--wind her in & away we go...off the 2 blocks home a fast pace - ignoring bad dog owner on the run, next to me, I think talking to me, but all People mom can do is focus--must make it to the car to get to the doggie hospital ASAP--call ahead when home, take gross photo of ripped up rear end, wrap in towel, take off at a controled safe speed...so on arrival in record time, the enthusiastic Vet starts telling old war stories about working at a Vet clinic next door to a Bark Park--seems at least 2 ripped up doggies a day was the norm, so this little old lady ChiChi is a piece of cake/walk in the park?!

People mom leaves room, can't sit still, gives them her cell phone number & calling ahead takes off to a luckily nearby dearest friend's house to calm down with a cup of hot green tea - is there enough anti-oxin in one cup to counteract all this stress, hmmm...(sadly too this is what you do when you can't down a shot or mix a cocktail or grab a beer or even have a classy glass of wine...because there will be migraines following...sigh...) 

OK, fortified & after pouring out guts of hurt - back to Vet to find out can't take Franken-butt home just yet...she'll have to spend the night...they have her tongue clipped out of her mouth on the operating table, waiting to come to, so she's still got a tube down her throat & an IV taped under cute pink tape on her foreleg (Oh, the stupid things you notice when you're trying not to look at drain tube & big stitches & red/black skin/fur...)

No, I am 'not' a wanna be Vet's Assistant thank you very much...but I am a practiced 2 son's Mom with a boy child who has been at death's door before (in the hospital with a different sort of drain in his side...) & sadly have previously also had another, much bigger dog, be attacked & end up with drains & even worse looking ripped off hide we had to hide before re-attachment under a T-shirt--done by the pack of domestic dogs gone wild up in the mountains of Colorado where we were living at the time...basically--I can take it, but I surely don't like it one bit...

Well, I tell myself--she will live & she's already ugly so there's no worries there (No, she is 'not' a showdog rescue...) they'll take care of her, then tomorrow & for the next 2 weeks it will not be a good day for this dog...tube in the butt from tail to leg until Monday, this being Friday, that's a long ow-y weekend...Ah, but pain med's & antibiotics on the one hand will help & cleaning solution for gauze to play doogie nurse on the other sad shakey hand will help too but for her not so much as the previous--later we'll find the poor old ChiChi will scream like her inner hurt puppy to even touch her rear end let alone swab it down with cold wet blue stuff?!

Merry Christmas Angel (that's her name, not a heavenly angel--tho I do wonder where her doggie angel was when we crossed that street...) you now have a large upside down L-shaped stitched up to be scar down your right leg to match the quarter size burn on the same side that no fur will grow on, which you came with from being rescued from doggie shelter in Belle Chasse...feeling guilty rescue people Mom is not happy with not being able to keep you safe from any further hurt or pain?!

But to take the pain of paying away, there is the $350 first Vet bill (Oh, yeah, there could be more--if the skin will hold maybe not, if not then there will be more bills to come...) to be delivered to the 'bad dog' owner--& a reminder from the show-all Vet that there is indeed a 'leash law' here in town?! Feeling the hurt of an extra bill during Christmas is not something you ask Santa for huh?! The price of a bad dog leash woulda been sooo much cheaper - hind sight - but back to wearing a new hat at my house--doggie nurse care giver & a 2 week wait before stitches come out & back to normal again (or Yes I'm an ugly dog on 2 counts & may well put myself up for 'the' Ugliest Dog after the stitches come out & before the butt fur grows back?!)

We can hope for an up dog in the New Year looking a lot less like a live version of say a 'Nightmare Before Christmas' puppy dog (emphasis on big sewed stitches up the backside--only it's real fur/skin & not just animated or was that stop action? for a movie character?!)

Photos? Oh there are--but should I share...am thinking not...if you have a strong stomach, let me know--can send a few along directly...especially if you're one of the graphic artists in town & you'd like a subject for something along the lines of 'rag dog' or Tim Burton/Henry Selick stand-in street dog/oogie doggie?!

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text credit--borrowed from Facebook page of same name, thank you Aileen Bennett?!



Do Good...

Tuesday Night 5:45pm at Carpe Diem Gelato Espresso, downtown Lafayette, LA
Aileen Bennett (aka Be You/Using People author) along with helpers/friends/folks serving coffee or gelato...& Creative types, 18 - 20 or 22 or them (depending on who's counting--how did they ever narrow that long/growing list down, I don't know...there are a lot of creative types in this town?!) - who will now be let loose to become Do Gooders ...+Sponsors - since money does 'not' grow on trees...

All received a "Do Good" black & white button pin...
Do Gooders - as their names were called - received a red Home Bank bag & instructions (I think they were) printed out to go with their $50 check, to take & creatively "Do Good" - a Give/Give project...

"I Did Good" button...jingle, jingle...

Find them on Facebook, Watch what they do...
I will be, can't wait to find out--it will be like unwrapping a surprise Christmas gift?!

Link to KATC article - The Do Good Project...
http://www.katc.com/news/do-good-project/


Link to Aileen Bennett webpage...
www.thatspeaker.com
(forgive if there's maint. going on)

or find her on Twitter...  @AileenBe

photo credit: Aileen Bennett...her idea table was on (IKEA)Lifehacker.com
just one of her multitudinous creative ideas (to be cont'd ad infin....)

Link to her Blog - Creating Clever...
http://creatingclever.com/

Link to the Do-Gooders Facebook page...
https://www.facebook.com/dogoodproject
(let the creative fun/do-gooding begin?!)

Aileen's 2 Rules for the Do-Gooders...
1) Do Good
2) Document
3) Have Fun
(Yes, she can count--but there are 3 Rules--she likes to slip in a lil' something extra...here in Louisiana we'd call that lagniappe?!)

Link to The Advertiser article - Writer takes her own advice--not holding back...
http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20111206/LIFESTYLE/112060323/Writer-takes-her-own-advice-not-holding-back

Link to Sponsor--Home Bank Facebook Page...
http://www.facebook.com/homebankhelps
(I'm a liking what they do?! & they like what they call the paying it forward program...)

Note: now to track down these 20-22 creative people out doing good - for their links too, or if nothing else we'll be following them on the Do Gooder Facebook page or maybe over on Aileen's Creating Clever Blog too...

"Abi Augello, Krista Richmond, Doug Meaux, Tracy Wirtz, Flo Meadows, Jan Risher, Brian Holmes, Geoff Daily, Cherie Hebert, Sharon Moss, Blake Lagneaux, Floyd Willis, Susannah Craig, Seth Falvo, Tony Bonomolo, Lauren Auverset, Killian Williams, Madelene Boudreaux, Chris Segura, Marcus Mire"

Wait--I only count 20, there must be 2 more last minutes that didn't get included in the newspaper articles...And--Wow?! I know some of these people too...OK, so I 'know' them on Twitter & I have met them too, some of them...but look forward to meeting more to all of 'em, especially once they've Done Did Good with Do Gooder Do Gooding....YeeHah?!

Found them on 'the dogooders' handout from last night's event...
Add these 2 to the list: Brian Bille & Zachary Barker, so there--that makes the full 22 on the list of the First DoGooders?!

Great time to be Creative - and - Living in Lafayette, LA?!
I think something just got started...there will be more...Happy Do Gooder New Year?!

Note: an aside & a link...but it's still a Do Gooder...it's the Do Good Bus?!
http://dogoodbus.com/
Get on the Community Bus & Do Good...I like this, must share--Oh, I just did?!
For Dec 17th I can't be in Orange County to get on the bus with Trading Buckets...
"...doing good holiday style" (I like that too?!)

Check out what the Do Good Bus & Foster the People did...
http://dogoodbus.com/fosterthepeople.html

image credit: do good bus/foster the people

check out the link above for more about this Do Good/Great Idea?!
(maybe we could have a Do Good Trolley here...hmmm...)