“And then we continued blissfully into this small but perfect piece of our forever.”

Wasn’t that the perfect vision for the end of Breaking Dawn and the whole Twilight Saga? It wraps things up in a very nice way, huh? Well, my friends, it’s also time for Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge to wrap it up and shut the doors, too. Like an extremely good book, it’s hard to get to the end. It’s bittersweet. If you drag it on…it’ll ruin itself. Even still, it’s hard to let go.

We have had a wonderful time during our year and a half and I cannot ever begin to express my love for the friends I’ve made, the readers I’ve met, the projects I’ve seen…This has truly been a remarkable ride! It has never failed to amaze me how talented our participants are! And the friends on the forum!!! You ladies ROCK! Honestly, that might be a highly overused statement, but it’s the truth! You ladies really do rock!

I have to tell you this is a sad time for most of us on the team. There are many who might wonder why, why, why? And the simple truth is…it’s just time. Our challenge has been extremely specific to the Twilight saga and the end is drawing near.

Luckily for you, there has been an explosion of challenge blogs that cover all sorts of themes. There are so many great challenges out there and it’s so much fun to try new ones and old favorites. But, it’s also time-consuming and I think that this is an issue that many of us are afraid to talk about. Competing to get on design teams, win challenges, participate in multiple challenges—it all becomes a full time job! Last week, Jamie wrote this awesome post about it all. I feel what Jamie is talking about and she really nailed it well.

So! We’ll be doing two more Tuesday challenges and will end on February 16th. On that day, we’ll do a final blog hop among our design team and give away some prizes. So please, come celebrate with us!

Blog Maintanence

Howdy all. I’m going to be doing a bit of blog updating tonight. Please excuse the mess… the main part of the blog should work just fine but the side bars and footers will be wonky for a bit.

Have a great night!!

Let’s Help TwilightMoms Help Justin Furstenfeld & Blue October!

The following is reposted from www.TwilightMoms.com with permission.

We at TT love both TwilightMoms and Blue October. I’m sure everyone knows that I personally claim Justin Furstenfeld as my fake-bff!!! I am very, very pleased to announce that Blue October will be able to keep their scheduled tour dates in Austin on November 20 & 21—and I am going!!!

Unfortunately, the rest of the concert is cancelled, meaning all the sales are lost and the charities aren’t getting the same awareness as they could’ve. So please read TMs post below and see how you can show Justin & Blue October your support. I will be donating on behalf of myself and TTIC…will you join me?

Amy’s Post:

Some of you will remember my blog post about Blue October’s Pick Up the Phone tour. Sadly it was announced yesterday that the tour has been cancelled due to the lead singer of Blue October, Justin Furstenfeld, being hospitalized. 

The Pick Up The Phone Tour 2009 has been canceled due to the hospitalization of Justin Furstenfeld, lead singer of the tour’s headlining band Blue October. Furstenfeld, who was also the spokesperson for Pick Up The Phone Tour 2009, is being treated for suffering from an extreme mental anxiety attack. His doctors have ordered that the tour—which was committed to reducing the stigma associated with mental health, depression, and suicide—be canceled to allow for his recovery.

“Mental health diseases are unpredictable,” says Furstenfeld. “And on the eve of this tour in support of a cause that means the world to me, I am in need of time to heal from a setback in my own personal life, which is severe enough for me to seek hospitalization. I hope that my action to seek the strength and safety of treatment will inspire others that are suffering to do the same.”

The Pick Up The Phone Tour was to benefit suicide prevention and was created through a partnership between the non-profit organizations To Write Love on Her Arms (TWLOHA), Postsecret.com, Synclive.com, and 1-800-SUICIDE—The National Hopeline Network.

My heart is heavy because of this news.  As you all know I’ve become a bit of a Blue October fangirl since Stephenie introduced me to their music through her playlists and the Breaking Dawn tour.  I know that I am not the only TwilightMOM that has fallen in love with Blue October and their music.  Even if you haven’t reached the same level of fangirly-ness that I have I know that most of the Twilight fandom has cried their way through “Hate Me” or “My Never” as we associate these brilliant lyrics with our beloved Edward and Jacob.

Almost immediatly after this news hit the internet there were discussions about how to show our love and support for Justin and the whole band.  We thought of get well cards and gifts but that didn’t seem to be the right fit. We wanted to do something that would be more meaningful and permanent than a card and a plate of cookies (although the cookies are very appropriate since so many of our members are Moms )

We know how important the cause behind the Pick Up the Phone tour is to Blue October so we felt that the best way to show our support and say thank you would be to raise money for the other organizations associated with the tour. Depending on the amount we raise we will either randomly pick one of the organizations or we will split it equally between them.  

We will be taking donations up through next Friday October 30th.  You can donate right here in this post via PayPal.  If you do not have a PayPal account and would like to donate through check please email me at Amy@TwilightMOMS.com and I’ll provide a mailing address. 

DONATE AT TWILIGHTMOMS HERE!!!

Happy Birthday Tonya!!

It’s our creator and fearless leaders birthday today!! Happy Birthday Tonya!!

I hope you are having a fantastic day! We love you can’t imagine what life would be like without you and without TTIC!

Twilight Challenge #45: Welcome Back, Margie & Name Your Challenge!

Wow! This summer has flown by hasn’t it? The kids are all starting back to school and I’m exhausted! How about you all? This week, we have some major announcements so I’d like to begin with those.

• Next Tuesday, September 8th, will be a vacation day for the TTIC team. We’ll return to our scheduled challenges the following Tuesday. Everyone have a safe and happy Labor Day!
• Design Team Changes! I am very pleased and excited to announce that the entire guest design team has been asked to become permanent members of the TTIC DT. They have all accepted and we’re very excited to continue as a team together!
  • Additionally, Jacquie has been asked to be the design team manager and she has accepted. Thank you, Jacquie! We’re excited to have your help!!
    
  • Finally, both Beth and I are going to serve as more “honorary” type design team members than permanent ones. So this means we won’t be playing along each week. We have good intentions to play along, but as most of you probably know by now, we’ve both started business ventures that are demanding our immediate attention. You can check out our personal blogs for more info on that if you’d like.

Now on to the reason you came here! The challenge for the week!

We are excited to welcome Margie back from her hiatus! So much is happening with school starting back that we’ve decided to do a “free day” for our challenge this week.

The challenge portion is simply to create any Twilight themed project you desire and share it with us! No hard thinking this week!!

The comment portion is to tell us if you are getting excited about the New Moon premiere coming up and if you are making any special plans for it.

For posting to a blog: Please indicate that you are playing along with the Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge on Twilighttuesday.com and please provide a link back to our site.

For posting on another gallery, such as Splitcoast Stampers or Flickr: Please indicate that you are playing along with the Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge on Twilighttuesday.com and please provide a link back to our site. Please use the appropriate keywords for our challenges; an example is TTIC45 for challenge 45. No number signs (#) or spaces are needed in the keyword. You can also add in more general keywords for Splitcoast/Flickr (such as Twilight, Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge, etc.). Thank you for your help with this!

Comments/Posting your link: Please leave a comment with the link to your challenge piece to tell us that you played along with us! Then we can all visit you and leave lovely comments for you. (We are no longer using Mr. Linky as we were having quite a few spam issues and downtime.) We are big fans of comments around here!  And don’t forget — leaving a comment on this post will get you entered into this month’s blog candy giveaway!

And as always, our Design Team has fantastic projects to display for this week’s challenge – please go and check them out!

Alison ~ Dani ~ Donna ~  Eve ~ Erica

Jacquie ~ Jen ~ Julie ~ Margie ~ Rebecca

&

Tonya!