A thought from me...

I am officially going into the luney bin...I've now discovered my space, i mean come on is there anymore freaking networks i have to join, arg and dealing with 2 profiles is hectic...1 spread the word....2 Kelly-Leigh Blignaut.

WOW, my question to the world is -

IS IT POSSIBLE TO HANDLE STUDYING, NETWORKING, WORK, HOUSE CLEANING, GIRLFRIENDISM, SOCIAL LIFE, HEALTHY EATING, EXERCISE, ACTIVISM, CREATING GROUP EVENTS, BEING A DIPLOMATIC CITIZEN, DOING TAX?

IS IT POSSIBLE?

I can't give up anything it's to hard to choose...plus there is so much more i need to do...i need to help more...

All i know is that we as humans need to push our limits as much as we can because then we can achieve greatness.

The fact that I'm whining is that i need you all to understand that arriving for an anti-fur shoot or even protest, stopping eating meat or eggs and milk, changing from sunlight liquid to PnP dish washing liquid....all of these things help...take the most simplest one and try it, because i evolved by trying one.

Sarah Harrison has a 5 step plan as to how you can help animals...it is so simple that its scary as to why people don't try it.

My around the block point is...

If i can find time in my day to change my soap when i go to shops to one that doesn't test on animals then you sure as hell can change yours.

Need the info or help? Get hold of me i will help and lead you in the right direction...

Push yourself....because other need it.

Have a great Thursday :)

Kindness and Hope

Kelly-Leigh

Diarise...

So can you feel the anticipation of the photo's coming out of photo shop land?

I can, phew i can't wait for them to be done! Then i can hand them out to all the eager beavers :)

Just thought I'd tell you about my advent calender - well it's non existent, i have absolutely no clue how to put up a calender with all the event coming up so a strange post will have to do, here goes -

4 November - Seminar on Animal Rights
5 November - Show
6 November - Skin Trade movie
27 November - Fur Free Protest

Ok so the seminar on animal rights -This is the e-mail i got sent -

Dear All,

The South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human Rights and International Law (SAIFAC) invites you to a presentation on the topic of “Animal Rights in Practice: Defending Animals Through the Law” by Shannon Keith.


The details of the event are as follows:

Venue: SAIFAC Seminar Room, The Old Fort, Constitution Hill, Braamfontein, Johannesburg
Date: Thursday 4 November 2010
Time: 17h00 for 17h30 – 19h00

Shannon Keith is is an attorney in California, working on animal rights issues, as well as an award-winning documentary filmmaker for her documentary Behind the Mask. She has been involved with several precedent setting cases in California in the field of animal law and is a Professor at the Ventura College of Law. She has also formed a her non-profit organization ARME (Animal Rescue, Media & Education) and has her own production company, Uncaged Films (www.uncagedfilms.com). She has been brought to South Africa by Beauty Without Cruelty and will also speak at a screening of her new film, ‘The Skin Trade’ at Nu Metro Hyde Park on 06 November 2010.

Please RSVP to Dolores Joseph (Dolores@saifac.org.za) if you would like to come for catering purposes.

And as for the 2 movie nights - Here's what i got sent -

 

And as for the protest, all i know for now is it is in Hyde Park from 11am - 1pm on the islands near the mall...as soon as i know more i'll let you know :)

Yup and that's the update for the next few events, and we haven't even started the new plans of Spread The Words Events....Phew my diary is getting super busy!

Plus now i'm thinking of taking up a sporty type extra muriel...i need to get some form of exercise in, i mean im fulling to the brim with other things except sporty stuff, so that's next on my list ;)

Being a complete healthy, happy, good valued, working woman is hard especially cause it includes all the other stax of stuff that i have to do during the day....it's exhausting!

Anyway persistance is key and if i keep going at it hopefully it will become super easily...HOPEFULLY...YOU ALL BETTER BE HOLDING THUMBS!

I gotta dash...i've got a few things to pack away before i go home.

Keep smiling!

Kindness, Hope and a touch of Inspiration :)

Kelly-Leigh

All around cute...

 

Well lets do a bit of catch up,

Saturday went very well, everyone looked very nervous  but when they came out they looked like completely different people, personally i was hoping it was due to the feeling of being brave for lil one out there in pain, but i rate it was the nerves that were trying to calm down ;)

A few were asking SOOOOO many questions, it's sad to think that in order to feel comfortable in a situation or with a person that you actually have to question EVERYTHING about them....

I had SO many people asking me -

Why do i consider myself an activist?
How do i play a role in this event?
Can i have a disclaimer saying that the pictures are going to PETA only?
How long will i have to wait, I'm in a rush?

The list continues, here is what i have to say -  F%&@ OFF!
Seriously, if you had to be interrogated like i had to from all these strangers,you'd say it to, it's so wrong, it's like South Africans have evolved into a non trusting whining race....WTF?
When i was over sea's and a stranger invited me to go out, i went out with them, i never asked where are we going? what do you do for a living? how do you feel inviting strangers out etc

Seriously - WHY DON'T WE TRUST ONE ANOTHER ANYMORE?

I made sure i greeted everyone there and find out how they were feeling for the shoot, in case they were nervous and needed a pep talk, but as i slowly went round i could see people were weirded out by me making conversation with them since i don't know them............HELLO......what the hell is wrong with that?I thought i was being very hospitable, and that's how i was raised in my family, you greet someone with the intention to learn something about them. Not how they do it nowadays -

Hello how u? Good thanks and you? Good.

Really take a look the next time a South African greets you, sometimes they don't even wait around to hear how you are, it's my pet peeve - when you ask someone how they are and then walk away while they are about to say fine. ARG!

My point after ranting is - IF YOU LIVE AMONGST THE ANIMAL CARING VEGANS TYPE DON'T EXPECT US NOT TO GREET YOU AT OUR EVENTS CAUSE WE ARE ACTUALLY VERY FRIENDLY PEOPLE WHO AREN'T OUT TO SCAM YOU, WE JUST SINCERELY WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW YOU ARE DOING!! WE ARE VERY COMPASSIONATE.

But onto a better note, we had 47 people in total arrive which was a great turn out especially because it's a NAKED event, hehe.

At 4pm we did a group photo which involved having a whole bunch of strangers take off their kit to pose together...it was great fun thanks to Dina and Andre the photographers from Funk Foto's, they were great through out the whole experience,thanks guys :)

I must give a well done to the lesbian community as we had a lot of them showing face for this charitable event...they were amazing and some were even jumping to pose with my sweet naked boyfriend, hehe.

I made so many Halloween sweets and I'm not force feeding the Fizzers and Sugus to my friend Nicole, she's a meat eater and I'm keeping the Sparkles ;)
In fact Chantelle and i were doing a bit of an FYI that we both knew about but i then realized that alot of you might not know...

Fizzers have egg in them so shout out to all the Vegans and Sugus has gelatin...so Sparkles are the only safe bits for Vegans ;)
Don't Forget!

Through out this post i have posted pictures of cute lil reasons why i get out of bed in the morning and sit here and write, and plan my events and the list goes on...i got these pictures on an e-mail and i had a huge smile on my face throughout the whole thing. The fact of the matter is i get drive from the cuteness of animals and the hardship of them too, both extreme sides inspire me to change there lives to something better...they deserve WAY more respect than we actually give them and since we have done all this damage we will have to undo it - so Mary Kate and Ashley and Victoria Beckam...keep wearing those fur items, soon you'll be totally out of fashion and depending on how much force we have, your mink coats may be even illegal!

Well that's my afternoon post...my 60th post to be precise...

 
 
 

A pinch and a punch for the first of the month
Don't forget to say white rabbit...it's good luck ;)

Kindness hope and Thanks
Kelly-Leigh