Hey there Sticker fans I have tremendous news!! If you don't follow the blog on Facebook you may not have heard yet but I have managed to make it onto the City Paper's list of nominations for the best local blogger here in Pittsburgh! Each year the Pittsburgh City Paper does a reader poll to pick the best things from a variety of areas here in the city. From the more typical questions like what's the best bar or place to see a movie to the best place to hide in a zombie apocalypse and which Pittsburgher should replace Donald Trump, this poll has got all of it's bases covered. They had a couple of weeks where you could nominate places and people for the various categories and I managed to get a couple of people to put me up for "Best Blogger" against 10 other local blogs. I am still terribly excited by the fact that I managed to get on the list. Now it's time to vote for your favorites. The poll is going to be open until August 18th and the results will be announced in October. So if you want to give me a little support you can vote for me at https://www.pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/Best-Of-Pittsburgh-2017-Voting/Page by going to the People/Places category and voting under the "Best Local Blogger." Otherwise I highly recommend heading to the site and voting for your favorites in the other categories. I know a couple of places I've featured on here have made it to the various lists, as well as a few groups I really respect, so I will definitely be casting my vote for a couple of them.
When I was deciding what I was going to post tonight, I knew I didn't really want to put a sticker up that I would end up detracting much needed attention from. My excitement over the nomination and a call to get people to vote in the poll was far too much to really give a sticker justice. So scrolling through my current collection I found this wonderful splattered gem, something very reminiscent of a Jackson Pollock painting or maybe just the remnants of graffiti on a wall. Although these kind things also kind of remind me of pointillism, even though an image isn't actually made by the splots. It wasn't until I was doing a bit of research to see if by some off chance I could come up with an artist behind it, that I realized in many ways this was the perfect sticker for the night. Obviously I've always seen the "help" on the sticker, it's not like something that disappears easily into the background, but for some reason it didn't really click while I was choosing it. Some days it just takes the hamster a little longer to get those wheels turning up there. What I really like about the help on the sticker is that you really can't tell if it's always been a part of it or if someone came by one day and added it. Either way it's a call for help that certainly gets noticed.
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Maggie Ondrey
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