Good morning.

Happy Monday, Ali. Hope those numbers keep climbing! I'd love to see you stay at number one!

holy cow your 6 degrees badge got to first place! that is so very awesome! It's very cool to see the numbers keep on climbing!

glad to hear how you are doing, great that you had such an awesome weekend. It has truely been an experience watching your badge go up up up! Congrats to you all! have a great week! God bless.

Been watching the top ten on 6 degrees website - keep going!

amazing.
that badge is sort of a mini-interactive
scrapbook page .... reaching out, telling a
story, getting a response from others.
what a wonderful adventure.

I would love to hear more about the projects you're involved with at ARTistry! Sounds really fun and creative!

it's so awesome to watch the badge numbers rise. i couldn't believe it when i looked at it last night. it's so great!

i have been watching the numbers all weekend too and think it is so awesome what everyone is doing. it is super cool.

Our whole family has been giving each other daily updates on your badge. We are spreading the word like crazy. Every time I take a peek at the badge, it makes me want to cry! You are amazing!

So glad to see your post this morning. Can just imagine how exciting it was for you this weekend to watch the badge top 1000 plus. This is all so cool.

Very cool about how your badge on Autism Speaks. Yet another reason why you are so amazing!

I am so excited that your badge has gotten so much attention! I continue to spread the word and watch daily!
Larry King the other night was all about autism. Bill Cosby, Toni Braxton and others were on, as well as the founder of Autism Speaks. It was a good show to increase awareness!

Hi Ali -
The numbers are unbelievable - had to check this AM from work. Coincidentally (?), I have daily quotes coming in on email and this is the one for today...
“The moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way."
– William Murray, mountaineer

Ali - THANKS for the great classes in Vancouver this weekend. Great to meet you. Great to spend time with your creative brain. I forgot to give you the money for the badge!! I'm going to wire it to Laura this morning and get some donations up there. You are truly an inspiration. Thanks.

Great Ali! I'm so glad the badge is on the Autism Speaks site. Perfect! It is so amazing that in our place/time we can reach across this wire/wireless and really make an impact sharing ideas, values and actions with people we never even knew. A few (10+) years ago I made a statement about the underutilization of the internet. That is no longer true, as evidenced by this situation. Congratulations to you and all the families who will be doing a little dance of excitment in a few more days! Molly

I am so excited for how well your badge is doing! I know I have seen it mentioned in many scrap chat rooms: from Big Picture Scrapbooking's Heidi Swapp class to Personalscrapper.com... everyone is helping you to be #1 and I think IT ROCKS! The scrap community is so giving and I am so proud to be a member of it. Keep up the GREAT work.

ARTistry sounds like a blast. I would love to experience a creative atmosphere like that. One day!

Just had a thought for a project for you :)With all the airports you go through making a mini album of them.
Great job on the badge!!!

thank you for the great class.
saw a piece on cnn last night (larry king) about autism awareness with bill cosby. awareness is certainly rising. you go girl.
xog

Congrats Ali! You're amazing! How cool that you're mentioned on their site. Way to go!

I am in the middle of watching the new Beeswax DVD from Claudine and I love it! I wanted to go right out and get a little crock pot and PLAY! I love how easy it is to take off the papers with just a little heat... and the melting of the crayons! So excited you are in that creative environment and hanging out with Donna and Claudine. I sooo wish I could attend this as I love mixed media combined with scrapbooking. I haven't done as much of it as I'd like because I'm still enamored (read:obsessed) with digital scrapbooking but I'm attending Art & Soul at the beginning of May... and I have a feeling that with all the paint, glass, solder, fabric, and photos flying around I will be inspired to create all sorts of new ArT!
Love that the numbers are climbing on the sidebar badge too! Way to go!!!

Hello, I am a perfect stranger, but a person with a disability. I use a ventilator 224/7 du to polio from the vaccine when I was 7 mths old in 1959.
That is not why I am here, but I am here to tell you that I have created a video on the bands website Five For Fighting. They created a website for fans to upload videos about what kind of world do you want.
One of the charities, which I chose was Autism speaks. If you watch my video all the way through to the end. Money goes to the above charity.
The video is about my life of 13 years on a ventilator and my surroundings, and that I love life.
Here is the link..I hope it gets money for Autism Speaks.
Thanks
http://www.whatkindofworlddoyouwant.com/videos/view/id/200943

how cool is it that you get to attend such fun & different classes!
It would spark my creativity, I just know it!

Hi Ali,
I "stalk" your site frequently - and have been so thrilled to see the fundraising skyrocket for "Autism Speaks". In that vein, I thought there might be some information that you could use from this website: http://www.thoughtfulhouse.org/index.html
It's a center in Austin, TX that is doing a lot of research on a lot of different fronts. Hope it helps!

ARTistry looks like it was so cool. You guys must have had so much fun together. And I don't think you're the only one checking the 6 degrees badge obsessively. I'm sure several people are enjoying watching it climb.