<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-356382546882142081</id><updated>2012-01-11T10:38:59.353-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Crystals and Jewelry</title><subtitle type='html'>Yes, I'm eclectic: A crystal fanatic, intuitive jewelry artist, crazy cat lady, and a human.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crystalsandjewelry.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/356382546882142081/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crystalsandjewelry.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>HotMBC aka The Hotties</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10349891189125593155</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zPoLawrNY2g/SWtaxFrG6aI/AAAAAAAAAzc/rnEt4bmkdQ8/S220/hotmbc-mini-badge.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>3</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-356382546882142081.post-4445420569743489801</id><published>2012-01-11T10:38:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-11T10:38:59.360-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Seriously Peeps</title><content type='html'>I obviously don't blog here for reals. Srsly.&amp;nbsp;I really blog at&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://crystalsandjewelry.com/news/"&gt;CrystalsAndJewelry.com&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;At least 5 days a week for 2012. What a resolution to keep!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="Robyn" border="0" src="http://www.crystalsandjewelry.com/crystalsnjewelry_images/robynsig.gif" style="cursor: pointer; height: 69px; width: 78px;" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See my handmade jewelry creations with crystals at &lt;a href="http://www.crystalsandjewelry.com/"&gt;CrystalsAndJewelry.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;--------
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Cats all over the world and people too, are so much richer to have you in our lives every day. You keep the Cat Blogsophere going, in spite of overwhelming odds. And what's more, you love it! And you love your cats and our cats and us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We thought it was pawesome that you  ML and Daddy Charley gave &lt;a href="http://missyblueeyes.blogspot.com/search?q=charlie"&gt;Charlie Taylor Sherwood cat&lt;/a&gt; a chance after his purrson had to go into hospice. But we were absolutely blown away to hear that you were selling off things of your own so that you can keep him getting the best vet care with the magical Dr. Smith. And we know you still owe a something like squillion green papers for it. All this while Charley has been recovering from the series of strokes he's had recently, keeping the Cat Blogosphere going, and helping so many along the way. Never asking for a penny or pity for any of it. Amazing!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well,  we think you deserve some help. So we're helping out for your Birthday!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We'd have bought you something fancy, but knowing you, you'd rather have vet bills paid, and we know it will help. So a bunch of us cats and beans got together, and started scrounging under sofas for change. And we've come up with a birthday gift or several to help you out. We'll be sending you bux for Charlie cat's vet bills via PayPal from Mom Robyn, direct PayPal, auctions running now and starting soon, and getting up some games for fun in the near future. We'll be running this gift collection through June 1st and other things will be starting throughout the week and beyond (keep an eye on that Cat Realm for beyond hehe) and sending lots of love from all of us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Miss Peach has proclaimed this ML's Birthday Week Celebration!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We love you, ML. Thanks for being you!&lt;br /&gt;Happy Birthday!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Love,&lt;br /&gt;A whole danged bunch of kitties and beans from the &lt;a href="http://www.blog.catblogosphere.com/"&gt;Cat Blogosphere&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Momma Grace &amp;amp; Company&lt;br /&gt;The Taylor CatSSSSS &amp;amp; Auntie Deb&lt;br /&gt;The Meezers with added Gingersnap&lt;br /&gt;The Cats P&lt;br /&gt;The Creek Cats&lt;br /&gt;Gandalf and Grayson&lt;br /&gt;Laila and Minchie&lt;br /&gt;Jan's Funny Farm&lt;br /&gt;Camie's Kitties&lt;br /&gt;The Sumac Felines&lt;br /&gt;The Carolina Cats&lt;br /&gt;Kashim, Othello &amp;amp; Salome (oh and Momma Astrid too)&lt;br /&gt;The Cat Realm&lt;br /&gt;Ginger and Jasper&lt;br /&gt;Daisy and Harley&lt;br /&gt;Penny "Black Cat"&lt;br /&gt;Miss Peach&lt;br /&gt;Fin&lt;br /&gt;Kattonic Cats&lt;br /&gt;Castle &amp;amp; Timmy and their Mummies&lt;br /&gt;Cheysuli and Gemini&lt;br /&gt;The Island Cats&lt;br /&gt;Vampy Vic&lt;br /&gt;Ruis&lt;br /&gt;PB &amp;amp; J Cats&lt;br /&gt;Grandma Cat of the Hotties&lt;br /&gt;Maggy, Zoey and Mom Ann of Zoolatry&lt;br /&gt;Sniffie and the Florida Furkids&lt;br /&gt;Topcat Rules: Pye, Trixie and Tigger&lt;br /&gt;Meowers from Missouri&lt;br /&gt;The Hotties and Mom Robyn&lt;br /&gt;The Fab Five&lt;br /&gt;Sweet Praline&lt;br /&gt;Samantha, Mr. Tigger and Maverick&lt;br /&gt;The Chesney Cats&lt;br /&gt;Peggy and the Cats&lt;br /&gt;Eric &amp;amp; Flynn and Mum Jackie&lt;br /&gt;Darling Millie&lt;br /&gt;Taz, Runt, Charles, and their mommy, Anna&lt;br /&gt;Snuggles, Fuzzy, and mom Jana&lt;br /&gt;Smokey and Purrl&lt;br /&gt;Snuggles, Fuzzy and Mom&lt;br /&gt;Fat Eric&lt;br /&gt;Zeke, Sushi, Tiger Lily and Ruckus&lt;br /&gt;Purrchance to Dream&lt;br /&gt;Teri and the cats of Furrydance&lt;br /&gt;Grr, Midnight, Cocoa, Rascal &amp;amp; Riley&lt;br /&gt;Housecat Confidential&lt;br /&gt;House of Cats&lt;br /&gt;Hansel, Tesla and Benny&lt;br /&gt;Oreo of 'Fur'ginia&lt;br /&gt;Kaika and the Yosemite cats&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;To name a few (and more to be added as folks get back&lt;br /&gt;from holiday  - email if you've helped ML and&lt;br /&gt;I missed showing your name!)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;***************************************&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Welcome to my Cat Blogosphere Friends and friends of ML!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;As you &lt;s&gt;probably&lt;/s&gt; know by now&lt;/span&gt;, ML, aka Momma ML of &lt;a href="http://missyblueeyes.blogspot.com/"&gt;KC and the Sherwood Bunch&lt;/a&gt;, has a birthday &lt;s&gt;tomorrow&lt;/s&gt;, Caturday, May 23rd.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zPoLawrNY2g/ShaqXc_SuPI/AAAAAAAABFQ/Bu4GPXJ_IRg/s1600-h/forMLbirthday09.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 212px; height: 203px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zPoLawrNY2g/ShaqXc_SuPI/AAAAAAAABFQ/Bu4GPXJ_IRg/s400/forMLbirthday09.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338641728189675762" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;What you probably don't know&lt;/span&gt; is the lengths that ML and her husband Charley have gone to give &lt;a href="http://missyblueeyes.blogspot.com/search?q=charlie"&gt;Charlie Taylor Sherwood cat&lt;/a&gt; a chance after his purrson had to go into hospice. They've sold off possessions of their own so that they can keep him getting the best vet care, and they still owe a something like squillion green papers, which Dr. Smith is allowing them to make payments on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While being busy selling off things she owned, with her husband Charley recovering from another series of strokes that disabled him years ago, she's kept the Cat Blogosphere blog going, and helped so many cats and people along the way, and she's never once asked for a penny for any of it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So let's help her out, please.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you can give a couple of bucks -- it adds up, trust me on that one! -- there are several ways you can help.  If bux are too sparse on the ground, I am sharing another way you can help her out that she'd love.For visitors, if you want to give a birthday gift, here's things that would help ML and she would love.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Give direct to ML's PayPal&lt;/span&gt; for Charlie Cat's vet bills.  There's a PayPal button direct to her at &lt;a href="http://furriendsofcb.blogspot.com/"&gt;Furriends of CB&lt;/a&gt; on the top right.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) &lt;a href="http://hanselsauctions.blogspot.com/2009/05/happy-kitten-blanket-raffle.html"&gt;Hansel's Auctions for Charlie Cat's vet bills&lt;/a&gt; - Go for it!  They're to help out too!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3) &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Give a gift here through Mom Robyn&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;She's covering the PayPal fees as part of her birthday gift to ML.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;input name="cmd" value="_s-xclick" type="hidden"&gt;&lt;input name="hosted_button_id" value="5598041" type="hidden"&gt;&lt;table&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;input name="on0" value="Gift Amount" type="hidden"&gt;Gift for ML Sherwood - for Charlie Cat&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;select name="os0"&gt;&lt;option value="$2"&gt;$2 $2.00 &lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="$5"&gt;$5 $5.00&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="$10"&gt;$10.00&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="$25"&gt;$25 $25.00&lt;/option&gt;&lt;/select&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;input name="currency_code" value="USD" type="hidden"&gt;&lt;input src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_cart_SM.gif" name="submit" alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!" border="0" type="image"&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" border="0" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/form&gt;4) You can send &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;a check gift direct to ML&lt;/span&gt;.  Email Mom Robyn at catsnmom AT houseofthemostlyblackcats DOT com and I'll get the address to you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5) You can make a small (or big if you're rich LOL) payment direct the Houston Cat Hospital. Email Mom Robyn at catsnmom AT houseofthemostlyblackcats DOT com and I'll get that information to you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6) &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Help out at or around the Cat Blogosphere sometime with &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;just plain fun stuff&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; She would absolutely love it if you'd work with her to do fun contests or something like that. Nothing for money or big prizes, just something like bragging rights and a special badge that would be a blast. She does so much work helping out the blogging cats, that all too often the fun gets set aside. She needs more fun. So ideas for games, contests, treasure hunts, trivia, and help to get them running, she'd love it. Especially if it went on all year long.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7) Darling Millie's Mom is &lt;a href="http://darlingmillie.blogspot.com/2009/05/millie-monday.html"&gt;raffling a Gizzy Quilt&lt;/a&gt; to help out. The cats loooooooove Gizzy Quilts. And we humans are pretty darned fond of them too. Enter for a chance (or several) to win by May 31st.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8) Commentathons and auctions and all sorts of stuff are sprouting up around the blogosphere and I can't keep track here. Check the &lt;a href="http://www.blog.catblogosphere.com"&gt;Cat Blogosphere&lt;/a&gt; daily for more free and inexpensive ways to help.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'll keep posting new fun and helpful things through June 1, since it's a holiday weekend. So we can all celebrate somewhere along the way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 78px; height: 69px;" src="http://www.crystalsandjewelry.com/crystalsnjewelry_images/robynsig.gif" alt="Robyn" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.crystalsandjewelry.com/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;--------
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See my creations and crystals at http://www.crystalsandjewelry.com&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/356382546882142081-7769548866433586768?l=crystalsandjewelry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crystalsandjewelry.blogspot.com/feeds/7769548866433586768/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=356382546882142081&amp;postID=7769548866433586768' title='26 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/356382546882142081/posts/default/7769548866433586768'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/356382546882142081/posts/default/7769548866433586768'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crystalsandjewelry.blogspot.com/2009/05/birthday-gift-for-ml.html' title='A Birthday Gift For ML'/><author><name>HotMBC aka The Hotties</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10349891189125593155</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zPoLawrNY2g/SWtaxFrG6aI/AAAAAAAAAzc/rnEt4bmkdQ8/S220/hotmbc-mini-badge.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zPoLawrNY2g/ShaqXc_SuPI/AAAAAAAABFQ/Bu4GPXJ_IRg/s72-c/forMLbirthday09.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>26</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-356382546882142081.post-947480204580183867</id><published>2009-05-06T09:59:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-06T10:01:24.476-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Woo hoo!</title><content type='html'>I decided that the cats can no longer be the only ones with a blogspot blog. Sorry kitties!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My main blog at &lt;a href="http://crystalsandjewelry.com/news/"&gt;CrystalsAndJewelry.com Blog &amp;amp; News&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and smy creations and crystals at &lt;a href="http://www.crystalsandjewelry.com/"&gt;CrystalsAndJewelry.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And now I have a little blogspot blog too.  Just in case I ever want to say anything over here. Or make a comment on a blog here. :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 78px; height: 69px;" src="http://www.crystalsandjewelry.com/crystalsnjewelry_images/robynsig.gif" alt="Robyn" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.crystalsandjewelry.com/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;--------
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