Something to Smile About: A SpReAd the Love Challenge

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll have heard about Richard Armitage’s biting debut as Francis Dolarhyde…aka The Tooth Fairy…on NBC’s Hannibal.  We here at STL like to mark special Armitage events, and this one is no different.  You might wonder how we are going to blend together kindness collection with an orally afflicted serial murderer…that’s easy!

Anyone else remember this from Captain Kangaroo??

In honor of the “Tooth Fairy” we are challenging ArmitageWorld to donate toothbrushes (and/or other oral hygiene products) to local or international organizations in need.  Dental health is directly connected to overall physical health, yet millions of people around the globe lack easy access to oral hygiene products.  Toothbrushes, dental floss, toothpaste and mouthwash regularly show up on the “Things We Need” list for homeless shelters and also for international relief agencies.  Here are just a few I know about:

Donate A Toothbrush

Global Dental Relief

Global Grins (this one accepts only money donations, but a $1 donation can supply up to 5 toothbrushes)

There are many, many local agencies that accept in kind donations of this type…to find one in your area in the US, click here.  If anyone has info on agencies in their area, outside of the US, please let us know in comments.

Tooth brush etc

So here’s the challenge…

Between now and the end of the “Tooth Fairy’s” run, collect and donate dental hygiene products to a charity in your local area or to an international agency, then report back to us and we’ll tally it all up for future reference and goodwill raising.

If you’d like to be collaboRAtor on this challenge, we always love to be able to double down on our in kind donations with a matching cash gift to one of Richard Armitage’s Just Giving Charities…contact us via the About tab if you’re interested.

Ready…set…BRUSH!

 

 

And The Winner Is…j

Heather!!! Get ahold of us via the About tab so ee can get your address.

Thanks to all of you who participated, your kindnesses were an absolute privilege to read! Heartfelt thanks to Servetus for going out of her way to get the poster into The Dude’s hands, and to The Dude for being such a Nice Guy and signing the thing. Keep your eyes peeled to this space because Obscura has another challenge coming up shortly. 

Rad ecard that I snaffled from Guylty

The Final Countdown…Bah-dah-dah-dah bah-dah-dah-dah-dah!

Wow, my Twitter TL is saucy tonight…’cause there’s eating of people and stuff and you need sauce and I’m just going to shut up now. Anyway, it’s the final week till the first appearance of Francis Dolarhyde on Hannibal and Obscura and I have something really cool to celebrate. Last summer during the run of The Crucible a friend of ours went out of her way to get us a poster signed by The Dude and now it’s time to give it away.

This one, in fact. Forgive the glare but check how legible the sig is!

So, to win this fabulous, signed by The Dude poster you know what to do, right? Leave a comment with a kindness that you’ve done or that’s been done for you and we’ll draw one name from all commenters next Saturday around 9PMish ET. Cool? Cool. Okay, cue the hairband and happy commenting!

 

 

 

RAPS for Charity – the DE-BRIEF

Guylty Pleasure

It has taken me a day to come down from the high that I felt yesterday in the final hours of and post-event. The RAPS for charity auctions, if I may say so myself, were a fantastic success. So much so that I found it impossible to put my gratitude, awe and general elation into words. You all have reinforced my continued happiness at being part of this community. The upshot is clear:

All joking aside, I know that you would like to hear the tally of the project. Let me just precede that by saying that I had not in my wildest dreams thought that we would raise so much money together. And not even in my sleepless hours pre-event last Saturday night when I was wondering whether I’d be able to convince three people to pay 35 US$ each in order to reach my target of a three-figure…

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Hair today….

Yet more Armitage fandom donation grooviness over at Itsy’s. 🙂

Do I Have A Blog?

Donate tomorrow!

This weekend, I took my boys to get haircuts, and decided it was time.

Yup!  I told the stylist to whack it off!!  I’ve got a 13.5 inch long braid ready to ship off to Locks of Love.

It sure feels good.   😀

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RAPS Auction #1: Red Dragon

Let the bidding begin!

Guylty Pleasure

Welcome to the RAPS for Charity auction in aid of Nepal Earthquake Relief! Here is your chance to get your hands on a ready-made RA pocket shrine, a one-of-its-kind collectible that was made for discreet and mobile droolingogling fangirling purposes. You could be part of a select group of (so far) 58 RAPSettes (RAPS owners) all over the world by bidding for this hand-made, exclusive, first interpretation of the Red Dragon/Francis Dolarhyde. No copies, a true rarity 😉

This is a mixed media piece of fan art, contained in a mint tin, dimensions 95mm (3.7″) length x 63mm (2.45″) width x 22mm (0.875″) depth. Includes two mini candles (gold) and holders.You can see it in more detail in my past post here.

If you would like to bid on this item, this is the procedure:

1. Send an e-mail with your bid to guylty@photographer.net, subject line “Bid for…

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Hellooo??? Anyone in there????

Oh HI!!!  Yes, we’re definitely still here, but spring sprang all over Jazzbaby and I….

I’ve just been dusting things off a bit to get ready to give SpReAd the Love a little jumpstart, since lots of things have been happening on the kindness front.  A little further housekeeping is in order though, before we get to some new things…

The Children’s Book Challenge exceeded the fifty books to max out our anonymous donor’s matching cash donation pledge.  The funds were donated to Richard Armitage’s Just Giving page for Young Minds all the way back in March.  It is such a great experience to hear so many people talk about books that touched them and their desire to share that with a child.  Maybe I should build a “virtual library” page here with links to all our SpReAd the Love Children’s Book Challenge titles…future projects  🙂

Now, back to current events on the kindness front:

Over at Ancient Armitage, I am happy to report that I can still rely on the kindness of strangers to avert massive mortification…

The recent devastating earthquakes in Nepal have moved Guylty to lend her creative genius to charitable works…check out the plans for a relief fund raising RAPS auction…

And last but not least, a promised kindness from the mutual OOA on the doodle front…

With 2 days and 21 hours left, the “diddly doodle” in question should raise a nice amount for Neurofibromatosis Network.  As of this “press time”, the leading bid is $2125.  Click here if you’re ready to bid.

Tons of great stuff going on…watch this space in the next few weeks for a carnassial challenge to mark Richard Armitage’s debut on NBC’s Hannibal.  

As always, we are delighted to hear of SpReAding the Love with reports of any kindness given or received…click over to the ABOUT page and drop us a line!

 

 

SpReAd The Love Children’s Book Challenge: REMARKABLE by Lizzie K. Foley

One of the things that I love about children’s books in general is that authors tend to be gleefully absurd, although it may say something about me that my sense of humor is still right around that of the average ten-year-old. Remarkable by Lizzie K. Foley charmed me the moment I saw the blurb on the front cover. I mean, could you resist this?

“Welcome to the Town of Remarkable where Every Day in this Remarkable place filled with Remarkable people is Positively Remarkable for absolutely Everyone*

*except Jane”

Poor Jane Doe. She’s a middle kid, sandwiched between her brilliant painter older brother and her equally brilliant mathematician little sister. She’s also the only student at the public school because her siblings, and all of the other kids in town, attend Remarkable’s School for the Remarkably Gifted. She’s kind of a loner (her own father has “Ask Jane about her day” as Action Item #27 on his remarkably never-ending to-do list) until she meets Remarkable’s very own ten-year-old Criminal Masterminds, the Gimlet Twins. There’s a Lake Monster, too (because of course there is), and a crew of pirates come calling and then it might be up to Jane’s unremarkableness to save the day. This book is laugh-out-loud funny and sweet and anyone who’s ever felt overlooked can definitely relate to Jane. A copy of Remarkable, along with a few other books this week, is being donated to the library on the pediatric floor at my local hospital.

We are blogging all this week and possibly a little beyond to celebrate Dr. Seuss’s birthday. Other posts include

Suzy at SilverBlueLining

Saraleee at Saraleee’s blog

Frenz at RAFrenzy

If you’d like to participate in the SpReAd The Love Children’s Book Challenge there’s still plenty of time. Just fill out the Contact Form on the About tab and either Obscura or I will get in touch. If you’d prefer to donate a book without blogging just let us know what and where you donated so that we can keep track. An Anonymous Co-Conspirator is donating $50 to one of the charities supported by Richard Armitage via JustGiving in honor of this event and we’d like to thank that person for his/her generosity!

SpReAd the Love Book Challenge 2015

Frenz from RAFrenzy joins us to SpReAd some love at her local children’s hospital, check out her fun choices below!

RAFrenzy

This post is part of the SpReAd the Love movement started in the Richard Armitage fandom by JazzBaby1 and Obscura. It has included all sorts of giving with this time being an annual event of book giving in honor of Dr. Seuss’s birthday. In that interest, I’ve decided to give some books to my “local” children’s hospital. I put local in quotes because the hospital is four hours from where I am, but I consider it my local children’s hospital, and it also holds a special place for SO and me.

During the weeks after SO received his transplant, he and I stayed at a hotel across the street from the children’s hospital and came to know many parents and grandparents of patients, also got to know their stories, and in some cases made some good friends. One of the recurring comments among these family members was the desire to…

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SpReAd The Love “Children’s Book Challenge” for Dr. Seuss’ Birthday!

Saraleee joins us with reviews of two books she’s enjoyed with her son. Check it out!

Saraleee

March 1^st is the birthday of beloved children’s book author, Doctor Seuss. Coincidentally, the first week of March is also Read Across America week here in the US, and elementary schools across the country will be celebrating with activities, author visits, and other events to share the joy of reading with kids.

In honor of Dr. Theodore Seuss Geisel, the SpReAd the Love group has organized the Children’s Book Challenge! Fans of Richard Armitage everywhere are encouraged to write a review of a children’s book that you love and then donate it to a school, library, children’s hospital, Ronald McDonald House, or a child in your own life.

I think that sounds great! I’ve chosen two books that my son and I loved and cherished when he was small: No, David, by David Shannon and the Encyclopedia Prehistorica – Dinosaurs by Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart.

No, David!
This…

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