So this is my first attempt at blogging... I guess I’m a little behind! haha.

A few months ago I started selling bracelets and little monsters on Etsy.com ( www.etsy.com/shop/thisbluewing ), mostly to people I know, which is great because I am a little bit attached to everything I make and its been nice to know who they are going too. Now it has been going beyond just people who know me... Two weeks ago I started and Artfire.com page ( http://www.artfire.com/users/ThisBlueWing ) and love it too.

Over the last year or so I have been trying to find a way to put some money aside to help fund a group that is helping people/children who are being sold as slaves, for sex or anything else. So I decided to start making whatever came into my head and trying to sell it, putting a large portion (25%) of each sale into a saving account to be donated to one or more groups at the end of this year (so December 2010). I read the book "The Road of Lost Innocence" by Somaly Mam (www.somaly.org) (she was sold as a child and now rescues children who face the same horrible childhood that she had.) I was inspired to try to raise some money to help her cause, and also wanted to help here in the US as well. I have been working pretty steadily on it and have been blessed by the support I have gotten over the last year, and super excited to see where this all leads!

This blog will be about my adventures this next 9 months!