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Vegemitevix has a Mona Lisa Smile

by Vicki Jeffels on August 2, 2010

What was she smiling about?

No one will ever know. The theories suggest everything from a grimace to a saucy little come on smile.

Three  things have really made me smile over the past couple of days.

First up was a beautiful bunch of roses my Englishman bought me on Saturday morning. I love flowers. Thanks hun. Second was the lovely comments on my post yesterday. Thanks everyone. I wasn’t trying to be completely self-indulgent and wallow in self-pity, I was just feeling a bit overwhelmed. School holidays and working hard on about five dispirate projects simulataneously and then trying to push through and get my business established. I just felt I was running on empty, and needed a break. All of a sudden it’s half way through the year and I’m not at the point where I can really hand on heart say I am definately coming Down Under at Xmas.

I spent all afternoon asleep. I guess I needed it.

Thanks so much for your comments, I guess we all feel tired and overwhelmed from time to time. If fronting up to my feelings helps encourage newer bloggers then I’m glad I fronted up to my feelings.

But the third wonderful thing that made me smile, not like Mona Lisa, but a real grin was ….

Da da da dum….!

There’s this brilliant guy called Dave (Aren’t all men in the UK called Dave?) and he’s put together the Mona Lisa Million project where he’s asking websites to sponsor a pixel of his Mona Lisa picture and the resultant million dollars will be directed to charitable projects. It’s pretty cool! Did you know that there’s over 500,000 Google searches for the Mona Lisa each month?

Imagine if some of that publicity was directed to your site….!If you run a website or blog you have to get involved!

Well some of it is going to be directed here, because he’s included Vegemitevix in the Mona Lisa project. I’m so excited about it all because I really believe in the project and the way he’s publicising it, using social media tools like Twitter! Vegemitevix in the Mona Lisa project

He’s even written a bit of a blog post about Vegemitevix and popped it on his daily blog! WOW!!

Go and have a look at it, it’s a brilliant charitable project. Way to go Dave! You really are a Mister Good Guy!

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  • http://mistergoodguy.com Davefowler

    Vicki… wow!! What a lovely write up of my little project. I’m thrilled to see it written about in this way. Although, I should make it clear only 50% of the after tax profits will be donated to charity. Sadly the tax man will want 50% (boo) but If the project works out and a million is raised, it could mean that 250,000 dollars (or more) is donated to the good causes. That’s still a lot of money. The great thing for me is that the readers will be able to nominate the good causes we support as a group.

    Seriously, this is brilliant, I love it!!

    I know what you mean about the dispirate projects. I feel that way sometimes and it can lead to overwhelm. Just as you did, I find the answer is to get away from it for a while (sleeping is good!!). Today I got away from it by building a raised vegetable patch for my eldest son. Lots of project work to catch up on now though!!

    Thanks again Vicki :-)
    Dave

    PS I think everyone should be called Dave

  • Greatfun4kids

    Cool idea! Glad you sound a little happier :)
    xx

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  • http://bloggertropolis.blogspot.com/ Steve

    Everybody should know a Dave. I know at least 2. 3 if you include the Cable channel.

  • vegemitevix

    I'm sure the whole country is full of them! Is Steve your real name? Or a handle? LOL

  • vegemitevix

    Thank you!!!! And thanks for taking the time to comment. I've added you to the super secret whitelist now so your comments will immediately appear and not have to be approved! LOL! XX

  • vegemitevix

    Can't believe the taxman wants 50% that's incredible. I will try and publicise it as much as I can Dave as I think it's an excellent cause. x

  • http://mistergoodguy.com Dave

    Unfortunately the tax man wants 50% of anything over 150,000 GBP, so I'm trying to keep it simple by assuming the project will bring in more than that. Setting aside 50% at the start is a safeguard. If the project doesn't meet its potential whatever is left from the tax pot, could be used for good causes.

    Thanks for wanting to shout about the project, that will be so helpful :-) x

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