New Awesome Site for Skin care and health!

There is a great new blog and shop out there that can help you will all your skin needs. I just became a fan and entered in their scavenger hunt. You can become a fan here: http://www.facebook.com/NaturalSkinShop?ref=ts
Natural Skin Shop is hosting a Scavenger Hunt for the next seven days starting today. Make sure to check back each day as there will be a new clue every day. On Monday, June 21, 2010 we will announce a $1000.00 grand prize winner and 3 runners up. This will be a random raffle drawing the more entries you get the better your chances of winning.
So, if you are interested please, become a fan and enter the contest as well. With me planning the benefit I have been entering contests all over the place in the hopes that I can win and donate it to the benefit. It would be fantastic if you all entered as well. Get the word out there. There are some amazing tips on this blog; I particularly like the one about dark circles under the eyes, because I suffer from that very badly. So, if you want to know all the new and awesome information about skin care, make up, and just all around health for your skin, check out the blog: http://www.naturalskinshop.blogspot.com/ It also has a link where you can buy the recommended products and other cool items for your skin! If you want to view the store, check it out here: http://www.naturalskinshop.com/Skin_Peel_s/1.htm
I hope you will all check it out and join me in the hunt! Love Love Jettychan

Apology for being away for so long! Whats goin on you may wonder??

I am sorry I have not written on here in a long while. I have been so very busy with some big things in my life. I have been looking for an agent for the book and it has proved to be a difficult trek. I hope to find another one to queue shortly. I am also adding and updating pages for the website what feels like every day. Although the tags don’t look like it, it takes many days to make those pages, so I do hope you find them handy. I have always thought that my book was unique and that it could help all different kinds of people. It could open eye to an artistic way of looking at a cancer diagnosis and you could read about how staying realistically positive saved my life. However, I guess lots of people write books about cancer and they aren’t exactly best sellers so there is a lot of trepidation to pick up a cancer book, let alone a cancer art book with 89 pages of photos murals! So, I have been working on those two aspects, plus today was my last day, save final day, of my Japanese class I had been sitting in on for a refresher. It is so nice to hear and be forced to speak Japanese again. I truly love that language. I am also planning a cross country move to Seattle (more than likely) and have been struggling to figure out ways to make money, so I decided to sell a majority of my stuff on a Facebook Group here: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?saved&preview&suggest¬e_id=389792114591#!/group.php?gid=116470708364543&ref=ts and I am selling a cool fundraiser for anyone who is in the hospital a lot of travels a lot these little Chemo Pets (custom made and hand sewn!!): http://www.jettysbrainbook.com/Chemopets.html . I am also putting together a HUGE Yound Adult Cancer Awareness Benefit Concert/Silent Auction/raffle where part of the money will go to my 4 favorite groups! It is very daunting though and I find myself spending lots of time on research for it as well! It is going to be hard and going to take a lot of time but with 4 colleges in this area it is so very important that I get some information out to people. So, please forgive me for never writing! :-P I will try and be better but I am trying to keep all the pieces in my life from spiraling out of control! I am almost there, the strings are slowly breaking and I have to struggle to keep them together. If you want to help with my fundraising please click the links above and keep an eye out for the benefit news, I would love if you would spread it out everywhere!! Love Love Jettychan

Cards 4 Cancer and Spirit Jump are THE best ways to pay it forward!

For anyone who knows me, they know I am constantly pushing Spirit Jump. Spirit Jump is THE easiest way to interact and help make someone with cancer’s life a whole lot better. With the smallest gesture comes the biggest rewards, a simple card and a 42 cent stamp can make all the difference in the world. Plus if you want to give more, small presents or care packages it is as easy as filing a box and mailing it. I love doing Spirit Jumps and even when I have no money I still send out cards whenever I can. If you are friends with me and have not heard of Spirit Jump then you have not been paying very good attention. If you want to learn more, which you should, or you or someone you know could use a jump, please check them out: http://spiritjump.blogspot.com/ . So when I heard that Spirit Jump was funding a new annual day to send cards I immediately started getting the word out to my friends, adding links to my page and an event to the book page. However, more pushing is needed to get it to even more people. Card 4 Cancer is a very special day where cards are made or gathered for local cancer centers and hospitals and delivered on April 10 (or around then for centers that are not open). April 10th from now on out is Cards 4 Cancer Day. It is so very easy to participate, and you can join a team already formed or make you own. You can sign up here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dDNlemJPbXNwTXo0bjF2MGFxZWg4Tnc6MA. If you would like to me on my team it is called Brain Book Team, we would be glad to have you. We are taking our cards to the Community Cancer Center in Normal, IL
Some general Guidelines from the website are
1- Try to stay away from “Get Well”. Unfortunately some of the recipients of your cards will not get well and this message, while a positive one, can be hard for some. Because we do not know specifically who will receive your cards its a good idea to stay away from any type of “Get Well” messages.
2- “Thinking of You” “Wishing You Well” “You Are In Our Thoughts” “Encouraging You Through Your Battle’ etc…are all great messages to include in your cards.
3- Uplifting quotes are always great
4- Drawings without any message at all work too.
5-Try to stay gender and age neutral as you do not know who will be receiving your cards. However, if you know you are delivering to a childrens center, woman’s center etc….you can be more specific.
6- We ask that you include spiritjump.org somewhere in your card so that people who want to receive more cards know about our services.
7- Hospitals have asked that people not include religious messages in their cards.
8- Hospitals have asked not to store cards in a home where someone smokes cigarettes and that they are kept in a smoke free environment.
If you have any questions or need some more suggestions please email cards4cancer@spiritjump.org
For more information please check out their site: http://cards4cancer.org/
Right now we need as many people to participate as possible to really help as many people as possible. It is that simple. So, please take the time to check it out and sign up. Trust me the feeling you will get, knowing that you are making someone’s day is greater than anything I could ever attempt to explain through a blog. Try it for yourself!
Love Love Jettychan

Average Jetty

For a long time I have known that I am an average person. There is nothing really special about me; I am average at everything I do. I am not great at anything and I am not horribly bad at anything. This may seem strange but it is true. I am an artist but not a great one, I am just average. I love to play sports but I am not great at them. I have always come in second on everything but one thing in my whole life. I have never been the person who excels at everything. I got good grades in school but never valedictorian or even salutatorian. I graduated with honors everywhere I have gone, and would have graduated the Art Institute with a 3.9 GPA if I didn’t have to drop out. The point of this is, I have many skills but nothing sets me apart from the crowd. I am exactly like everyone else. In high school, I was not popular; I have never been the pretty one. I am relatively funny and I can make people laugh but again I am not the funniest person in the room. Contrary to what people who meet me/ know me think, I am not particularly great at anything. I realized this last night as I tried to redraw a character that Fish made for me. My husband Fish is great at everything, he has lots of talent. My only real talent is that I am good with people and I can sell anything. I am quite the salesperson, too bad it has never been my goal to be in sales. I am very outgoing that’s a great trait of mine. So, for the past few years I have come to accept that I am average, I am good at things, I enjoy doing things but I am not great at anything in life. Most people never stop to think about what they are truly good at but I think about it all the time. The reason I think about it all the time is that I am constantly overloading myself with things to do. Things that I feel need to be done no matter what. In fact while I am writing this I am thinking of 10 other things I could be doing. I have paintings stacked up from upwards of 5 years ago, I am constantly collecting things to “do something with them” but they end up in stacks or drawers in my studio. I know one day I will have time to complete them but for now they just sit. I have no job right now, have been unable to find a job that suites my talents (or lack thereof) so I technically have the time right now while I look but alas nothing get finished. I am incredibly organized but overwhelm myself all the time. I wonder if I finish this website and book if I can finally find something I am incredibly good at. For the longest time I thought I was a fair modeler. I can make anything you want. If you asked me to make your favorite place or object, I could do it. However even this I am not good enough at. I have been working at a studio for almost 3 years and yet I still cannot find a job in the art industry. I know when I can clear my mind I will find my one true talent. Where is this coming from you may ask? I have been watching many movies recently, unlike normal movie viewers; I am a fully immersed viewer. Every time I see a preview for Whip It, it makes me want to go skating, I love skating both ice and regular. However, I am not good enough to be on a team or anything like that. I am really good at badminton and pretty good at Volleyball but I would never play on a team. I do not think I would do a team any good. Anyway, I just wanted to write a bit about what I have been thinking of recently. I am completely overwhelmed in areas that are nowhere near my specialty. I am a 3D Modeler not a web designer. I am an artist not a writer. Yay for first blog entries! :-D Love Love Jettychan

Jetty Brain Book Blog

For now this blog is on here, but I hope I can get it on the working brain book site soon. I just wanted to make sure that I could get a blog looking nice and working properly now before I get the page up and running on my end! :-P Love Love Jettychan