One World, One Heart Give away

I have been seeing blog give aways all over blog land in the past few weeks and have been itching to participate.I have been leaving comments all over the blog world but would really like to have something to give back to at least one person. It has been a great carpet ride so far and I have found some wonderful artists in many media in the process.

The whole movement was started in 2007 by Lisa Swifka and has grown like topsy ever since.

Here is what Lisa Says on her blog

WHAT IS ONE WORLD ONE HEART?

I created this event in 2007. The original idea behind this giveaway event was to bring bloggers together from around the world who may never ordinarily meet. It closes the gap of the blog community and enables us to interact, discover new and wonderful people, and in the process possibly win a prize or many prizes along the way. 2007 had roughly 85-90 participants and many connections were made because of it......friendships that are still going strong.
We had a strong showing the first year for sure, and then in 2008 we had just about tripled that number. In 2009 there were 911 participants, to say I was amazed is an understatement. 28 countries were represented in the 2009 event as well.
This is more than wanting to win something.......that is only the means.......in the end it's about finding kindred spirits. Someone who may be fairly new to blogging, not sure how to navigate, find others and have others find them....Some are long time bloggers and in some cases well known in the blogging community. Whatever the case it brings all of them together. This is an INTERNATIONAL event that has and had participants from the US, Canada, France, Sweden, Germany, Finland, Malaysia, Brazil, The Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, Scotland, Ireland, England,Wales, Slovenia and more. It transcends geographical location, socio economics, political affiliation, religious beliefs......it's a coming together like the giant community we are on this planet. If only it took a simple giveaway to create PEACE everywhere, in the mean time here we give from our hearts. We are not solving the worlds problems nor are we curing anything nor are we changing the world. We are merely generating a closer community between humans through blogging. What more could I ask for, my little idea has surpassed my wildest dreams of what it could become.

So here are the rules:
1. You need to have a blog to participate
2. Leave me a comment on THIS post to enter my give away
3. Make sure there is a way I can link back to you or your email address in your comment.

On the 15th of February 2010 I will announce the winner and contect you for your snail mail address so I can forward your prize to you. 
If there are lots of comments I might even select a few more random winners for  a surprise gift.

Want to know the give away?

 


This is a soldered charm I made of a collage today. I have been learning more with each practice of soldering  and love this little girl. I often need to be reminded to play so the saying on the back is apt. I have some other charms ready for another post but this one is the give away so hope you like it.

Now leave a comment and join the fun. I hope you enjoy the many other blogs in this year's event as well.

Edit:

I am in Australia and the 15th February starts early here compared to the rest of the world. I will do my draw at 10:00 Australian eastern standard time on the 16th February to maximise the number of entries. This is 18:00 pm EST ( New York Time)
Sorry if that means some people miss out

16/02/2010
Comments are now closed at 256 comments. Thanks to everyone who entered.