Glitzy Gives Back

Fully Invested Foundation

2011-05-16T13:52:00.000-07:00

As you know, my husband coaches at BYU as an Intern for the Football team. I have been able to be a part of the committee of the Thursday's Heroes Program.

There is an auction to raise money for the non-profit. Glitzy Glass Stars has donated these items below, for the program.

If you wish to donate to their organization visit http://www.broncomendenhall.com/ to make a donation. Any other questions contact us at GlityzGlassStars@gmail.com

Mini "Y" for the car

"Y" Belt Buckle

Vase and Long Reeds to go in Vase.

Y Monogram

Earrings

Gift Certificate

"PROVO, Utah (April 1, 2011) – BYU football head coach Bronco Mendenhall and his wife, Holly, will host the inaugural Cowboy Ball on Saturday, May 21 at 6 p.m. MT. The Fully Invested Foundation, a non-profit organization created by the Mendenhalls in 2010, sponsors the event. The Cowboy Ball will feature dinner, dancing and a silent and live auction, with proceeds going to benefit the Thursday’s Heroes Program.
Auction items include, a 2009 Harley-Davidson Fat Boy, Bronco and Holly’s personal paddle boards and a week-long stay at a Montana dude ranch. Guests will have the opportunity to bid on one-on-one dinners with various BYU football assistant coaches and their wives. A variety of BYU football memorabilia will also be up for auction.
Guests will hear live music from the band Mister Pickens while enjoying the cowboy-themed atmosphere provided at Stephen’s Foxtrotters Family Farm in Wallsburg, Utah. A mechanical bull and cowboy poetry will also serve as entertainment.
Tickets for the event are $100 per person, available for purchase at www.broncomendenhall.com. Ticket sales will close on Friday, May 13.
The Fully Invested Foundation aims to provide inspiration, resources and hope to children and families facing significant life challenges.
As part of that initiative, the Foundation supports the Thursday’s Heroes Program. Every week during the college football season, as well as spring practices, an individual or family with special needs is identified and invited to attend a BYU team practice. At the conclusion of practice, “Thursday’s Hero” is introduced and recognized by Bronco and the team." (click here to see source)

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What is One Heart Bulgaria?

2011-01-06T12:27:00.000-08:00

Every Purchase Makes A Difference

We donate 3% of profit to One Heart Bulgaria every purchase, every time. You can visit them at www.oneheart-bg.org
Every Purchase Makes A Difference

We donate 3% of profit to One Heart Bulgaria. You can visit them at www.oneheart-bg.org
Is a non-profit humanitarian organization dedicated to improving the
quality of life for Bulgarian orphans. We do this by providing supplemental food, hygiene items, and access to medicines and medical care. In addition, and most importantly, our programs are designed to provide the emotional support, guidance, and love that the Bulgarian orphans so desperately need in order to truly thrive.

In the past, not much has been known or exposed about Bulgarian orphans and the orphanages in which they live. As a result, very little attention and humanitarian aid has been given to these invisible children. One Heart Bulgaria invites you, your families, and civic groups to join us in changing the lives of approximately 8,700 Bulgarian orphans living in 144 orphanages.

GLITZY GLASS ALSO PROVIDES SPECIAL MADE PENDANTS FOR THE ONE HEART BULGARIA WHERE 50% GOES TO ONE HEART BULGARIA!!! See post below.

One Heart Bulgaria

2010-11-01T14:38:00.000-07:00

To help others see what a difference they can make, Proceeds of (50%) going to directly benefit the children. Deborah Gardner (founder of One Heart Bulgaria) has designed each pendant just for 'the children'. These pendants will be available for purchase off my blog, or email me at glitzyglassstars@gmail.com
To see what One Heart Bulgaria is all about click here.

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO DONATE TO ONE HEART BULGARIA:

You can choose where your donation will go, whether it is to aid the children in education, or my favorite, to have grandmothers hold the children (orphans lack from love and affection). Each penny goes straight to the benefit of the children. Visit by clicking here to make a donation DIRECTLY to their webpage. Any amount is always appreciated.

Glitzy Glass Stars always donates three percent of all proceeds to One Heart Bulgaria.

Auction for Love

2010-10-14T19:50:00.000-07:00

I had a friend introduce me to Kim,who's Mother passed away from Cancer. They were doing an auction to help Fight The Cause. Glitzy Glass donated a special order pendant and some colored glass items. Below is a thank you card from Kim.

Dear Jen-
Thank you so much for your generous donation to my fundraiser. I'm happy to say it was a huge success thanks to you & other incredible artists. Anna speaks so highly of you- & it so happens my sister won your items & entirely delighted. Thank you for helping me celebrate & honor my mom in this amazing way.
Live, Love, Laugh-
Kim

When you give, you get back. I have received far more than I have ever given. I am grateful for all the good people who in essence "give back" to society.

Tribute to Rex J. Walker

2010-05-26T10:31:00.000-07:00

I made these pendants as a gift--instead of flowers...to all the close women. I was grateful to give them the chance to remember their father each day they chose to wear it.

My uncle Rex Walker aka R.J. passed away last week. We loved him so so dearly. He was the best uncle ever...He was so fun at the family parties. He would be mischevious and have waterfights, and tickle like crazy till you said "Mercy!Mercy!"

AMERICAN FORK — For the second time in two days, someone fell off a cliff at Timpanogos Cave National Monument, and Thursday it was a monument employee who fell to his death.

Rex Walker, a maintenance worker for the monument, had driven off in a two-wheeled motorized trail bike around 1:30 p.m. to fix some lighting outages. He was fairly close to the cave when he somehow drove off of the trail and fell more than 500 feet to his death, Utah County Sheriff's Sgt. Spencer Cannon said. Park officials said he fell near the cave exit on a portion of the 1.5-mile, paved trail that leads visitors to and from the cave.

"We don't know what happened, but somehow he fell off the trail," Cannon said. "There were other people around, but no one was with him. Other employees heard the fall, but we're still investigating to get an idea of what he was doing when he fell."

Staff members at the park tried to rappel down the steep slope to reach the 58-year-old man, who had fallen down a narrow rock-slide chute an additional 300 feet or more. Park superintendant Denis Davis rapelled to where the motorbike had landed but couldn't reach or even see where Walker was. Two National Park Service rangers, including Timpanogos Cave Chief Ranger Michael Gosse, hiked up from below to where the worker had fallen and found him dead.

One Heart Bulgaria

2009-07-28T21:25:00.000-07:00

Every Purchase Makes A Difference

We donate 3% of profit to One Heart Bulgaria. You can visit them at www.oneheart-bg.org
Is a non-profit humanitarian organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for Bulgarian orphans. We do this by providing supplemental food, hygiene items, and access to medicines and medical care. In addition, and most importantly, our programs are designed to provide the emotional support, guidance, and love that the Bulgarian orphans so desperately need in order to truly thrive.

Peace Of Mind Giveaway

2009-06-22T18:34:00.000-07:00

Peace of Mind Giveaway
GO TO THEIR BLOG PEACEOFMINDGIVEAWAY.BLOGSPOT.COM
She goes into detail of how it works, here is an excerp.

This is how it works...
Every item has a donation value. To be entered into a particular item's giveaway you must first donate that value to the Peace of Mind Fund by clicking on the donate button below. Then enter a comment for that particular item with the first name and email that was used when you donated through paypal. If you want to be entered into multiple giveaways you DO NOT need to make multiple donations. Just donate the sum of all the items. BUT you must put a comment for each of the items so that I can keep track.

I donated 1 large Star $20 value and 1 small star $7

Giving Back--Down Syndrome Foundation

2008-12-06T07:01:00.000-08:00

“When I See a Star, I Dream”
Glitzy Glass, decorated and donated for the Down Syndrome Organization, Annual Festival Tree of Lights . .
A night of Glitz and Glamour, we had waited for since July, and it was everything we hoped for. The overwhelming feeling I had was of gratitude for the generosity people have. People donated so much money to benefit the Down Syndrome Foundation. The money is used for therapy of all kinds to help the children develop skills. There were so many people who put so many hours into the prep work. We put in several hours for the tree, but our work was fun. When the Benefit began we were all able to view the 30 some trees. The trees were beautiful! Some of the themes of the other trees were;
“Diva” which included paraphernalia of Marylyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Madonna . .
“Games” included lots of family games, even a ping pong table
“Pink Tree” this tree had purses as ornaments, and ____
“Pampered Chef Tree” of course everything you could think of cooking wise
“Wine Tree” lots of wine stuff
“Cooking Tree” Pots pans and trinkets
“Spa Tree” tons of gift certificates for spa services (ooohh uhhh)
The guy who was auctioning had helped do many fundraisers, even for Bill Clinton . . . Very funny. They warned us as the time got closer to the end, 15 minutes, 10, 5 and no more bidding.
The couples bidding on our tree were so so excited that they were able to get it. They told us more than 5 times how happy they were! There was a couple who arrived late and was so upset that they didn’t get our tree. It was fun to hear them talk about that (I relished). I was also able to donate a gift basket with five pendants, and a few chains, snowflake, star, it was fun.
FOOD TIME! We all went into the next room with the beautiful Chandeliers, tables all set beautifully and the food was AMAZING. They had a chicken and beef all dolled up, and potatoes that were amazing. The potatoes were sliced really think, compacted and cut into a triangle, then broiled. I want to make them for Thanksgiving!
For my favorite part of the meal the servers all lined up and brought out our desert. SO good!
After dinner the live auction started. There were three trees being auctioned, and boy was it for the elite. One of those trees had several paintings, a hand-carved rocking horse, hand-carved chair, air flight tickets to anywhere, really cool tree! The auctioneer even let 2 of the boys who had Down Syndrome auction off a book for a few hundred dollars each.
My sister Julia, her husband, and her little girl Brooklyn spoke before desert. She was emotional, it was great! My mom and sister can’t speak without crying. I on the other-hand don’t cry!
To sum it up—it was so wonderful. We enjoyed everything, every moment. And, Julia (so nice) let me take home the ribbon—so kind!
Under our tree (came with the tree as they bid)
For The Festival Tree Of Lights
Under our tree (came with the tree as they bid) For The Festival Tree Of Lights $200 Top of the World Restaurant at the Stratosphere Night at the 5 Star Wynn Las Vegas hotel Telescope Treadmill "track Star" donated by Icon Health and Fitness Van Gough's Starry Night painting very large! Donated by Prince Galleries Purse donated by JustBe online, Suzie Bates Star, Diamond pendant donated by S.E. Needham Jewelers Books about stargazing and being a star Starburst.

You Can Purchase this heart to help an Orphan!

2008-10-29T11:54:00.000-07:00

$32 for Heart Full Of Love
"Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Do You Know How Loved You Are?"

Part of Being Your Own Star is opening your heart. We can't share love we don't have. May we find inspiration in our own way (for me it is God) and contemplate on how to have more love.

One Heart Bulgaria

2008-09-30T13:48:00.000-07:00

I am going to team up with "One Heart Bulgaria" to help orphans. Glitzy Glass is committed to donating 3% profit to helping this organization. So, every purchase you make will contribute to helping Orphans in a real way. Every person has something to offer, not an average something, but something wonderful inside of them. Truthfully we need to be mentally healthy to be able to connect, then, influence the lives of others. Getting rid of all the stigmas that society has put on us can help us break free. I will go to Bulgaria (somehow) and help these children.
Working with the Festival Tree of Lights in Las Vegas for the Down Syndrome has shown me the generosity of others who want to make a difference too. I never cry and for some reason I do when I talk about "One Heart Bulgaria". I feel compelled to find a way to help out, teach my children about what matters and to be continuously closer to God. I have always been involved in giving service. When I was in High School I received the Prudential Spirit of Community Award, yet I have not felt like I have taken the chance to give- to the next level. Wow, you will be hearing more soon!