UPDATE: beads LOTS of beads for kittles.......

NOW CLOSED.......... Thank-you for all who help to raise $1100 toward furnishing Mitzi's Room at the CNY SPCA. You can continue to help by going to either of these websites:

http://cnyspca.org
http://felinesnoozers.com

UPDATE: Here are some pictures of what your generous donations purchased for the CNY SPCA.

What they had......

 The building of the towers....

All set up.....

Original post:

ouldn't this be nice? 

Of course it would..... if you are a cat....

They depend on us to help.....

The next two pictures were shared from Feline Snoozers.

 

MaryAnn Carroll

If you are a jewelry lover and you happen to be an animal lover, this post might be for you. You could help the cats at our local CNY SPCA to refurnish their room.  The SPCA is the home to hundreds of cats. Some of those cats are super cat friendly as well as people friendly, so their time there is spent in a room called "Mitzi's Room."

This is my granddaughter Chloe, who is a cat lover like her Mom. She is not as big a fan of dogs, but was in her glory inside of Mitzi's Room.

The SPCA did have some cat furniture, but it was time to get rid of it! Now the cats are left with a large room, some furniture (mostly patio chairs) and are in need of something new.

There is a site called Feline Snoozers that makes cat furniture that is durable and easy to clean. They use PVC pipe to put it together. It is a much bigger version of the dog beds that the SPCA uses for their dogs.


My hope is to raise $1000. If you check out their link you can see that a set up like this could get very pricey.

If we don't raise enough to purchase something like this, my talented husband Bill did come up with a materials plan and we will make one similar ourselves (well, I will be the assistant).

We spent hours on this yesterday. I also spent hours going through my pre-artbead making stash. I priced all of them (fortunately, I organized prices years ago) and packaged them for a giveaway.  This group includes turquoise, faux coral, jasper, onyx, glass, vintage, copper, chrysocolla, fresh water pearls, cut glass, miscellaneous stones and much more. There will also be some surprise art beads included in the package.


There are over $500 worth of beads. If you would like a chance at winning these, it is $5 for 1 entry and $10 for 3 and so on. For example, $15 would give you 4 entries, $20 would give you 6.

 

Even if you are uninterested in winning the beads, a donation of $5 toward our project will help so much. If you cannot give that much, please just do what you can.


*added 10/16:

I have added an additional five giveaways to everyone who is entered in this drawing. These include my handmade wood-fired beads, handmade enamel beads and handmade porcelain beads. I will also include some of my handmade beads in the grand prize above.

enameled beads

 

wood-fired beads

wood-fired beads

wood-fired beads

porcelain beads

If you just want to donate and not be entered to win, please add a note letting me know. I will keep you posted with updates once we get the towers all set up! The drawing for these beads will be Sunday, October 20th. Please share this post with friends. The more I get, the more towers I will be purchasing. ALL money will go to this project.

Thanks so much :o)
MaryAnn