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BLOGVILLE ROCKS This ‘N That Thursday

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Today we join our friends at 2 Brown Dawgs and Ruckus the Eskie for This ‘N That Thursday.

Calendar Fundraiser

By now most of you in the continental United States should have received your calendars.  (My apologies to my Canadian and international friends, I sent them the quickest way I could.) They came out awesome didn’t they?  And it’s all thanks to Julie at the Daily Dog Blog!

Thank you Julie, you rock!

So here’s the final dilly.  After collecting all monies, including donations (thank you Donna) I ended up ordering 100 calendars.  Minus shipping and processing (and miscellaneous PayPal fees) I was left with $1,261.19!!

Of course it’s bitter sweet as you know because Benny lost his fight just a few weeks ago.

December - Benny and Lily - Two French Bulldogs

December – Benny and Lily – Two French Bulldogs

 Run fast, run free Benny.

I just want to take a minute to thank you all, each and every one of you for supporting this fundraiser, for entering, voting, promoting and purchasing.  I wish I could hug each and every one of you!

You all rock!!

Run Fast, Run Free Norman

On another sad note, Norman of Sand Spring Chesapeakes (Mr. August in our calendar) went to the BRIDGE on Tuesday night.  His mom, JoAnn has a beautiful tribute to him on her blog today, but make sure to grab a box of tissues before you head over.  I literally bawled my make-up off.

August - Norman - Sand Spring Chesapeakes

August – Norman – Sand Spring Chesapeakes

 Run fast, run free Norman.

Custom Portrait Giveaway

So happy news in the beginning of the blog, sad news in the middle.  Let’s end on a happy shall we?

Do you have any portraits of your pets?  Personally I don’t, although I do have a couple of pictures that were printed to look like paintings.  And I love them!

I would also love a custom painting of my two favorite pupsters and so I’m going to enter a contest to win a custom painting.  And the best part is, you can too!!

So there’s this artist, AJ Emm (go ahead look at it, you know you want to) and she does these amazing paintings.  Check out the one she did of Koly and Felix from Kol’s Notes.

ANYHOO, Kol’s Notes is having a give-away of one of these custom paintings!  Siriusly you guys, there are only 47 more shopping days until Christmas.  If you aren’t giving out calendars, have you considered a custom portrait?

And if you don’t want a portrait of your fur baby (really?  WTF is wrong with you?) she does people portraits too.

If you order a portrait and you win?  AJ will refund your money or give you a second portrait at no charge!

Amazeballs, right?

BUT WAIT, there’s more.

How about a 25% discount on a custom portrait?  I know right? It feels like Christmas is already here!

You won’t see this discount code floating around just anywhere.  There are only a few of us bloggers who have it.

What is it?

Oh yeah, you need that right?  So to get your 25% discount, you need to type UNICORN when you purchase.   Why UNICORN  you ask?  Because UNICORNS rock!

Enter here.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Follow-Up Friday

I’m super excited to let you know that I have a newbie co-hostess joining me for Follow-Up Friday’s blog hop tomorrow.  It’s none other than Emma from My GBGV Life! Tomorrow is the day I highlight and answer comments, so be sure to tune in.

Happy Halloween!!

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Today we are joining the 2 Brown Dawgs and Ruckus the Eskie for This ‘N That Thursday, the Halloween Edition. Many thanks to our hosts.

Before I share our Halloween contribution, I’d like to share some extremely good news.  If you are my friend on Facebook you probably already know this.

Remember this girl?

Urgent

Last Tuesday I was bawling my eyes out because her photo was removed from Petfinder.  This Tuesday I was bawling my eyes out because I found out that she did indeed have a name and that name was Arista.  I’m not sure what she’s being called now, but I am beyond thrilled to share that she was saved!

While I’m certain that my blogging about her really had no bearing on her fate, I’m also almost certain that social media played a very large part and for that I am extremely grateful.

Halloween Fun

I have to commend those of you with the foresight to plan for holiday shoots and the patience it takes to work with one or multiple dogs.  I have trouble getting both of my dogs looking in the same direction, never mind at the camera.

None-the-less here for your viewing pleasure is our contribution to the Halloween edition of This ‘N That Thursday.

Halloween And for the record, Delilah was not amused.  I believe her exact words were, “Are you woofing kidding me?”

I better watch out the next time there’s a human shaming hop. 😀

Dogs of Blogville Calendars

The calendars arrived yesterday!!  Yay!!  It will take me a few days to get them out.  I hope to really work on them tomorrow, but having to ship to so many people may take a little bit of time.

Plus I will probably have to raid a couple of Post Offices in order to get all the supplies I need. 🙂  (Note to self, if I do this again, it might be a wise idea to order the postal supplies.)

Follow-Up Friday

I wanted to respond to a comment posed in last week’s blog hop.

Earl Lover said, “I think I should know a bit more about blog hops before hosting/co-hosting, as I don’t want to volunteer then not know what I’m doing! But if its free, then I would be quite happy to co-host.”

First, it is definitely free!  If someone is charging you to co-host or join their blog hop that is not cool.

Second, I really have very few rules for my FUF co-hosts.  I personally like to go to the blogs who are participating and thank them for doing so.  As a co-host if you’d like to do that you are welcome to, but it is certainly not required.

I do ask that you mention you are co-hosting and provide a link to Heart Like a Dog in your post, but other than that, I have no rules.

If you are able to insert link code in your blog to have the hop show up, then you can be a co-host.  If you aren’t able to insert code but are able to add a link to my site and tell people they can get the code here, then you can be a co-host.

I provide the code to you typically sometime on Thursday, although if I’m being very proactive you might get it sooner. 😀 I also add your link to the hop so you don’t have to worry about getting up early and inserting your link.  It’s all part of the service.

It really is that easy.  And hopefully you’ll find some great new blogs to read and make some new friends.

That being said, my co-host for tomorrow’s hop is Jo-Ann from Sand Spring Chesapeakes.  If you are interested in co-hosting next week, please let me know in the comments, or drop me an e-mail at stone.jodi@ymail.com

That’s it for today, I look forward to recapping my week and answering some of your questions in tomorrow’s Follow-Up Friday post.

So I’ve Got This Paypal Button on my Blog

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January - Teach - Tails of Teach

January – Teach – Tails of Teach

 

You remember Teach?  He’s Mr. January in the 2014 Dogs of Blogville Calendar.  You can look at Teach every single day next January when you purchase the Dogs of Blogville Calendar.

Let’s cut right to the chase, you know technology challenges me.  Last year I did the calendars as a combination of e-mails and paypal and a spreadsheet.  This year since we had so many more entries, I anticipate a larger demand for calendars so I looked for an easier way to manage sales.

Last week I threw the plea out on Facebook and Kari sent me a link to a plug in.   Sweet, I downloaded it but that was where I bottomed out.

I curse you plug ins!  And you too widgets!

Enter Jodi Chick.  Dude this Chick is amazing. (he he, pun intended)  I mean with a cool name like Chick and being a female, how could you NOT have fun with it?   Well, she literally took over my computer remotely and told me step-by-step what I needed to do.  When I had finished and installed a Paypal button on my blog, she said “You did it!”

Um….no Jodi.  YOU did it.  If it wasn’t for her, I’d still be sitting on Paypal trying to figure out what category my blog fit into.

So I’ve got this Paypal button on my blog.

Because I anticipate selling more calendars than we sold last year, I opened a business account with Paypal.  This was to make sure Paypal didn’t get snarky and shut me off at a certain amount of sales. The trouble is the business account charges, and I want to make sure we get as much as we can for Benny, so the calendars are $21.00 each.  BUT that includes shipping and tax and everything else.

Like I mentioned in a previous post, if you can consolidate orders, we will realize a bigger profit which means more money for Benny.

I placed the Paypal button in the upper right side of the blog just under the subscriptions link.  You can use either your Paypal account or a major credit card, if that’s easier.  If for some reason Paypal or credit card doesn’t work for you, e-mail me at stone.jodi@ymail.com and we’ll figure something out.

Since I’m not sure how Paypal notifies me I’ll somehow be verifying with people who place orders that their orders are correct.  If Paypal includes an e-mail that would be great, if not I will try and contact you via your blog and if that doesn’t work, I’ll run a post on the first Saturday in October listing all the people who ordered.  I will also order a few extra calendars just in case.

I’m probably making this a lot more complicated than it needs to be, but I’m pretty sure some people wanted calendars last year that didn’t get them. 🙁

I’m going to accept orders from now through the end of September, which still gives us plenty of time to order the calendars and still be able to get them out before the holidays.

Ready or not, here we go!

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