To Bee or Not To Bee - Blog Hop

Hello Friends,

I am so proud to be part of this blog hop - to bee or not to bee. Yes! our purpose is to spread awareness about bees and their role in apicultural products. Also to support initiation of the Slovenian Beekeepers’ Association that the May 20^th is declared World Bee Day by the United Nations (UN).

Bees are some of the hardest working creatures on the planet, and because of their laborious work ethic, we owe many thanks to this amazing yet often under appreciated insect.

Our lives – and the world as a whole – would be a much different place if bees didn’t exist. To illustrate this fact, consider these numbers: bees are responsible for pollinating about one-sixth of the flowering plant species worldwide and approximately 400 different agricultural types of plant.
It is sad that their colonies are declining. We really have to be aware how and why this is happening.

HERE is an interesting video I came across from TED talk.

Few things we can do to help bees' sustainability 
 * Plant flowering plants if you can.
 * Avoid the use of pesticides.
 * Whenever possible, choose native plants.  Native plants will attract more native pollinators.

So as our today's theme is bee, I made this card 

The world is full of wanna-bees. What if we just  bee ourselves? Don't you think life would be much easier and more beautiful that way? The other message I was trying to give through this card is how our ever expanding cityscape is engulfing the natural habitats of bees. I hope I manged to do so.

Now, coming to the hop. There are 14 prices to win from our fabulous sponsors below

Crafty Sentiment Designs, 3 Digital Images of winner’s choice

Create a Smile, 25€ Gift Certificate to the Store

Gerda Steiner Designs, $15 Gift Certificate to the Store
Happy Little Stampers, $20 Gift Certificate to the Store
Jane’s Doodles, 3 Stamp Sets (in stock) of winner’s choice
Kitty Bee Designs, 1 Digital Image of winner’s choice
Lawn Fawn, $25 Gift Certificate to the Store
Little Miss Muffet Stamps, $10 Gift Certificate to the Store
Paper Smooches, ’Bee Mine’ Stamp SetSasayaki Glitter, 1 Digital Image of winner’s choice
STAMPlorations, $20 Gift Certificate to the Store
Sue Hastead of Tanglemouse Cards, 6 x 6 paper pad
Uniko, Clear Stamp Set (in stock) of winner’s choice
Milka is also giving away a prize: Jane’s Doodles ‘Daisies’ stamp set. 

Aren't you excited already? 

For your chance to win, 

all you have to do is hop along blogs of the participating designers 

and leave comment on each blog hop stop.

You can enter the giveaway until Saturday, May 27^th (12 AM, CEST +2 UTC).

Milka will announce winners on her blog on Wednesday, May 31^st. 

Winners have to confirm prizes in a week.

 Unconfirmed prizes will be redrawn. 

You must be here from Birka's Blog and your next hop stop is Kaja. 

In case, any link is broken or you are lost....here is the hop order.

• Milka Gubo 
• Zrinka Berić
• Birka Reinitz
• Neha Bhatt (me)
• Kaja Vezenšek
• Tina Pavlović
• Sue Hastead
• Beverly Brown
• Amy Tsuruta
• Kathy Curry
• Samantha Mann
• Sonja Kerkhoffs

So keep hopping and BEE happy!

Thank you so much for being here. Have a great day!