Sending an elephant to Poland for my 500th post!

Yes, you read that right, this is my 500th post and to celebrate this milestone (representing 3 1/2 years of blogging!) I am participating in a charity event which is attempting to gather hundreds of homemade elephants for children in hospital in Poland. I first heard about it on the scrapbooking blog of the talented Magda M and found all the details on the art-iaskownica's challenge blog.

I had everything I needed to create my pachyderm in my stash and used this free pattern from Bustle & Sew to help me make him.
You can also participate but the deadline to send in elephants to the Foundation in Gdansk (which in English is called the Elephants on the Balcony Foundation:) is September 21st.
And as a thank you, if you decide to play along after reading this and link me to your elephant (by the deadline date), I will send you a set of my homemade embroidered tags as seen below and a few other things that might fit in an envelope ;) Just leave me your link under this post.

Paying it forward is the best form of celebration! Here's to many more posts and many more elephants!