Let your imagination run free

MZURI Women's Empowerment's Comments

Comment Wall (21 comments)

You need to be a member of Creative Cafe to add comments!

Join this Ning Network

At 7:28pm on December 21, 2008, Jill said…: Happy Holidays to you

Glitter Graphics

At 10:22pm on October 29, 2008, Jill said…: Glitter Graphics

At 6:27pm on October 18, 2008, Jill said…: glitter-graphics.com

At 11:32am on June 23, 2008, Jill said…: Hi

I'm a bit late for Midsummer now but here is Vivien Leigh as Titania in a Midsummer's Nights Dream for you anyway.

glitter-graphics.com

At 2:31pm on June 8, 2008, Jill said…: glitter-graphics.com

At 6:58am on May 29, 2008, Jill said…: Hi

If you would like to add yourself to the map I have put up it is HERE

Hope all goes well.
Bye for Now
Jill

At 2:02pm on April 4, 2008, Jill said…

Now that we are getting to be a bigger group it is

important all our members can still feel they are

being heard. Your opinions and contributions are

what make Creative Cafe a lively community.

We want everyone to join in and be involved.

To help with this you can now chose the members

photos which go up in the Mainpage Spotlight

Slideshow. Ten new photos are featured every few

days and you can chose the ones you want

HERE

We now have a Blog of the Week feature so the

more blogs you write the more chance yours will

be chosen to go in the limelight on top of the Main

page. Vote for which Blogs of the Week you want

HERE

Write discussions about your own projects & websites

and these will be found in their own Category

HERE

The more active a member you are on Creative Cafe

the more your contributions will be recognised and

the more your voice will be heard.

And please don't forget to support our Salesrooms

HERE

At 7:40pm on March 12, 2008, Jill said…

This week with my own hands I have set up a new group

on Creative Cafe for anything to do with disability which

you may like to join? And isn’t it handy that we have a lot

of interesting discussions going on at the moment. Please

don’t be shy and at least give us a helping hand with the

one where members introduce themselves. And hands

up if you have thought of buying any of the lovely

things in our Salesrooms lately? That would be a truly

handsome thing to do. Finally I have to rush off now

because I have my hands full sending round this comment!

Free Image Hosting at allyoucanupload.com

At 2:55pm on February 28, 2008, Jill said…: Hope thinks are going well with the beads?

Here is a horse sculpture made from recycled tyres

At 3:51pm on February 14, 2008, Jill said…: Glitter Graphics

At 12:49am on February 7, 2008, Jill said…: If you have time read this article
How the Internet Redefined Art
It says the internet has redefined art and is going for the Wow factor and the Novelty value instead of quality works.
I admit when I have been putting round comments on your page I have gone for novelty. The painting elephants, the dancing parrot, the green graffiti. And here is another novelty The Four Seasons Tree from the article above which was voted best art on Digg and had 240000+ views on flicr. The article says this is a dumbing down of art and that its hard to get 'real' art education on the internet. Have a look and see what you think and let me know if you want me to bring around novelty or 'serious' to your page?

Bye for Now
Jill

At 9:42am on January 23, 2008, Jill said…: Hi Kirstie

Its lovely to see all the beautiful bead pictures you put up.
Will you have any time to put any up for sale in our Salesrooms do you think?

This week's silly video is of a dancing parrot called Snowball!

At 1:38pm on January 4, 2008, Jill said…: Have you seen this?

At 5:30pm on December 29, 2007, Jill said…

glitter-graphics.com

So here is a double Cafe news for you with

Week 7 being our last for 2007 and

Week 8 our first for 2008.

Looking back since we opened many

thanks to Richard Spasoff for being our

award winning photographer in the

Spotlight for our opening,to zarumbatus

for giving us his characterful artworks

in Week 2, to Phil Lancaster for his

fabulous digital images in Week 3

and to all the members who have made

contributions to Creative Cafe for being

in the Spotlight in Weeks 4 and 5.

That brings us to last week with our

festive and trees theme and many thanks to

all those who participated. I have now taken

the story of the Tate Modern playing Scrouge

to a discussion and would be glad to hear

any comments you have on that.

For Weeks Seven and Eight because we

members seem to love animals and pets

these are the theme and I have made up

a Spotlight slideshow of members artworks

Please put up more animal and pet photos

if you want yours added to the slideshow

I do hope everyone has been having

a good time over the Holidays and

wish you all a very HAPPY NEW YEAR

We now have quite a few new members

so a BIG WELCOME to you all.

The theme for the next week will be

on NEW works that have not been

featured in the Spotlight yet so please

keep putting up your photos and see

if your work will go on the main page?

I usually ask members to keep inviting

more people to join us and to support our

Salesrooms and this week is no exception!

It is also good to see members making

friends and communicating with each

other more in recent weeks. Creative Cafe is

YOUR site and I hope we have an interesting

and friendly year ahead here in 2008.

All suggestions are welcome.

Bye for Now

Jill

At 2:39pm on December 18, 2007, Jill said…

Featuring

See the Festive and Trees Slideshow

of members work and other tree items

on the main page. Thanks to members

who have made the effort to contribute.

Read about the Tate Modern and

the Living Wage campaign. Are they

being modern Scrouges ?

I have now taken out quite a few

widgets and some slideshows and

hope the site runs faster. More about this

is in the discussion Internet Connectivity.

Thanks to Desik, Tina Donavan, Rebecca,

Green Tambourine Designs, Margaret Hamilton

of Slackstitches, Leslie Wilson-Rutterford

and Lionel Ross for being the first seven

members to list their work in our Salesrooms.

They all win either a fairtrade friendship

bracelet or a handmade wooden pen and

there are still 3 more of these prizes

for being in the first 10 to be won

I want to wish everyone very Happy Holidays

but also a word of warning that this

can be a difficult time of year for many.

Calls to helplines for all kinds of problems

and depression rise by nearly ten per cent

during the festive season. Creatve Cafe

will be open all over the holidays

and I hope to put up some quizzes,

competitions, puzzles, jokes

and so on next week for entertainment.

If you have any contributions

please do add these and make an effort

to communicate with other members.

Thanks for all your contributions

to Creative Cafe since we opened

six weeks ago.

Bye for Now

Jill

At 5:09am on December 10, 2007, Jill said…: Hi Kirstie
Can you tell us anything about winter festivities in Uganda for next weeks main page? I know you are busy but it would be nice to have Uganda represented.
Here is the weeks Cafe news

Featuring:

Three more members are now listed on the main page for
having made contributions to Creative Cafe in the last week.
According to the site analytics those members who have
made contributions and have been listed on the main page
have many more visits to their own pages and their own
site links. So the moral of this story is : join in on
Creative Cafe and you will become famous!

Thank you to new member Gabrielle Swain for giving
permission for her item ‘The Creative Personality’ to be
put up as a discussion topic. Hope to see lots of comments
on this subject this week.

I am hoping to have a festive theme on the main page next
week and am looking for as many contributions as you can
all deliver about our winter holidays season, from wherever
you live in the world and whichever festivals you celebrate.
We are a multi festivals site. (The more holidays the
better as far as I am concerned!) So please put up your
festive pics, music, videos, blogs, discussions, crafts,
decorations, jokes and anything else you fancy so I can put
items on the main page next weekend.

There seems to have been one error on the Salesrooms
site which is to do with resizing of images and we are
waiting for Rainworx who run the software to amend this
situation. There should be no problems listing your items
but let me know if you do have any issues. Several more
sales have been and are being negotiated as I write so it is
worth listing your items to catch the last minute present
buyers.

I am glad to write that we now have over 70 members on
Creative Cafe and it is lovely to have you with us. I know
this is a busy time of year for everyone but please do invite
new members along to join us.

Thanks and Bye for Now

Jill

At 3:26am on December 3, 2007, Jill said…: Hi Kirstie
Just popping by your page with this weeks Cafe news!

As promised last week all our members who have contributed to Creative Cafe are on our main page in the Spotlight.
Thirty members’ names and links to their pages are up. This means they have done more than just writing a profile, putting up their web link and adding some comments. I know members are busy but it really helps build our Creative Cafe community when members contribute and communicate. So thanks to everyone in our Spotlight this week. Next week we will keep this spotlight and add more details about members’ contributions so there is still time to have your name added and Spotlight expanded.

December 3rd is International Disability Day and there is a blog post up with some information. Please add to this if you know more and I will just add my usual comment on this subject which is: Don't let Disability Mean Inequality

So far 5 members have put things up for sale in our Salesrooms and 3 have listings at the moment. There have been 2 sales so far with at least one other being negotiated now. I am hoping we will have a lot more listing and sales soon so please support our SALESROOMS as sellers and as buyers.

I would like opinions on whether members want various widgets and gadgets taken out and if so which ones? Having fewer may speed up the page loading times and to this end I have already reduced the number of slideshows (a bit!) Anyway there is a discussion on problems with the site already started and I hope members will voice their opinions freely.

I will be away some of Tuesday, all of Wednesday and some of Thursday next week and will not be able to be on the computer much at all so please ask Azzami Bell if you have any questions. Also please welcome any new members that might arrive and take it in turns to make the Cafe coffee!
And I will hope to see lots more creative and interesting stuff on here when I return!
Hope you all have a very good week.
Bye for Now
Jill

At 4:44am on December 1, 2007, Jill said…: Hi Kirstie,

I understand that you are the Uk representative for the beads but are you selling in large quantities your self or as individual items or both? Our Salesrooms site is geared up to the sale of individual items but there is a way of putting up classified ads if you are trying to get more in the way of bulk orders. As you say you are very busy at the moment already and it must be hard to fit everything in. If you have any suggestions of how we can help then let me know Ok.
Bye for Now
Jill

At 2:26pm on November 30, 2007, Jill said…: Hi

I have looked at your website and it seems you are not selling your beads direct at the moment but have a UK representative. Is that right? If you need me to do anything so that your beads can go up for sale in our Salesrooms then please let me know. I am keen to help in any way that I can.
Bye for Now
Jill

At 7:06pm on November 28, 2007, Mandy Lawrence said…: Hallo,

I don't know your name which stumped me when introducing myself. I wanted to say hallo and put your name after (politeness and personal touch) but no big shakes. My name is Mandy, by the way.

So you are part of a women's empowerment movement. I like to think I am part of a movement that helps people with mental illness get their views heard but don't think it is all that successful. Not as yet, but will keep plugging away here.

I am a member of Amnesty International and in the latest magazine it spoke of women in Asia who are trying to get the Japanese Govenment to make a formal apology for the female trafficking that took place during the second world war.

The trafficking of women and children has now become nightmare in proportion in the world. Once again vulnerable people being abused in the making of money.

I wish your project all the very best and will buy some products (when I have enough money).