Letter from the Editor-January 5, 2009

Hello V.I.T.s,

Happy New Year to each and everyone of you! We are so excited 2008 is over!!! We have so much planned for you in 2009, we can't wait to share them with you. We just added two new Column Writers---Mariposa, and Aurelie. We look forward to their Columns on Teen Dating and Online Sites.

On a sad note, we would like to invite each and everyone of you to write a note to the Travolta family on their loss of their son, Jett. Please leave them a message on our post, we will be sending your messages to them at the end of the month. We are so very sad and we wish them the best.

We mentioned we have some great things planned for you for 2009, we will list them here and we will elaborate on them in later posts, as they become closer. Here we go...are you ready...drum roll please...launch of iNecklace, launch of iHairClippies, launch of iPopLocket, Golf Tournament for tweens and teens benefiting a charity, First ever Tween/Teen Blogger Conference, Giveaways, The Deko and Posh Recycle Club, Art and Craft Days with childrens hospitals with Deko and Posh, Blogging Carnival, and ...more! We told you, we have a lot planned.

Lastly, we have begun our D.A.P.L (Driven and Passionate Leaders) recognition. We started off highlighting one tween or teen each month who is doing amazing things, but there are so many we will now be highlighting several per month. At the end of the year we will choose one tween and one teen to be the D.A.P.L of the year! We will be posting the recipients at the beginning of each month. Check out this months, they are amazing! We hope they inspire you.

That is all for now, keep in contact with us though email, sign up to receive our e-newsletter, our blog, our website and our Twitter account.

Love Life Dream Big Live Well
dekoposh, Inc. Team

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Arsenal Gives to Teenage Cancer Trust

Arsenal's Charity Work

Charity biography

Arsenal is a well known English football club.

In 1985, Arsenal founded a community scheme, “Arsenal in the Community”, which offers sporting, social inclusion, educational and charitable projects. The club supports a number of charitable causes directly and in 1992 established The Arsenal Charitable trust, which has raised over £2 million for local causes. There is also an ex-professional and celebrity team to raise money for good causes.

Arsenal Football Club dedicated their Premier League match against Liverpool to their charity of the season, the Teenage Cancer Trust, on Sunday, December 21.

The charity received donations – equaling a day’s wages – from Arsenal players and support staff in an effort to help improve the lives of young people with cancer. They are encouraging fans to give what they can through the ‘Be a Gooner, Be a Giver’ Campaign with a goal is to raise $500,00 for the 2008/09 season.

Arsenal has also shot a short promotional film, ‘Do What I Say,’ which stars Arsenal players alongside teenagers with cancer. It was created and shot by the agency Brothers and Sisters and will appear on www.beagoonerbeagiver.org from 15 December until the dedicated match.

Arsenal Captain Cesc Fabregas said: “I visited the Teenage Cancer Trust unit back in August so I know what this means to the charity and the teenagers it helps. I encourage all supporters to follow our lead and give what they can. This advert is a bit of fun for the players and we hope supporters enjoy it, but there is a very real message in it about helping teenagers and we hope to raise lots of money for this worthwhile cause.”

Source: Look to the Stars

Letter from the Editor-December 22, 2008--Happy Holidays

Dear V.I.T.s,

We wish everyone a wonderful Holiday Season. Wherever you are, whatever your beliefs, we hope your season is filled with Joy, Happiness, and Love. Give and Give more this year!

dekoposh, Inc. Kids

Enjoy the Holidays...

Love Life, Dream Big, Live Well
dekoposh, Inc. Team

Paris Hilton Gets Robbed!

Paris Hilton was the victim of a home robbery this morning, and the burglar got away with millions worth of goods!

A a man in a hooded sweatshirt forced entry into her front door and ransacked her bedroom, TMZ reports

Los Angeles police officers got a call at 5 a.m. from a security guard in the Mulholland Estates in the 3300 block of Clarendon Road, LAPD spokeswoman Officer April Harding said.

Luckily Paris wasn't home at the time, but he did reportedly get away with $2 million dollars worth of jewels and other goods. How do you just keep millions worth of jewelry lying around? It's called a safe!

It's not the first time Paris' pad was robbed. Back in August of 2004, the home she shared with sister Nicky got robbed, with designer bags, watches, laptops and $100,000 worth of jewelry stolen.

It's really sad that something like this would happen right before the holidays. Hope those jewels were insured!

Source: Hollyscoop

People Watching Column by Posh-Today is Amelia's Birthday

Today is Amelia's Birthday, Amelia writes our Reading Room Column on Tuesday. Amelia is 14 today. Help us wish Amelia a very Happy Birthday today by leaving her a comment. Amelia if I could bake a cake for you, OMG this is what I would make for you. Sorry, I can't make this so you will have to settle with the picture.

Happy Birthday Amelia!!!!!!

G2G...Posh

Hayden Panettiere shops with children at Children's Hospital Los Angeles for Christmas

Heroes star and Eco-warrior princess Hayden Panettiere was up early in Saturday morning to go Christmas shopping with a group of children from the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

The 20-year-old star accompanied five girls on a shopping spree at Candie’s in San Gabriel. She gave the girls fashion tips – “Not many of them listened to me!” – and helped them choose clothes and accessories using gifts of $500.

The girls that were chosen to accompany Panettiere suffer from a range of health problems, including aneurisms, strokes, paralysis of the nerves and spine and sickle cell anemia.

The young actress is well known for her charity and environmental work. In October, 2007, Panettiere joined Australian actress Isabel Lucas and other activists in a peaceful protest in Japan, to raise awareness of the 25,000 dolphins slaughtered by the nation every year. The group narrowly avoided arrest over the incident, but succeeded in diverting international media to the abhorrent and barbaric practices used to butcher the animals. She sells her old clothes at www.panettierecloset.com to benefit Save The Whales Again, and recently launched an online petition to help save the whales. She was also heavily involved in voter education during the recent US election.

Source: Look to the Stars

SAG Awards

The awards air Jan. 25 on TNT and TBS. Here's the complete list of nominations:

FILM

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

• Richard Jenkins, The Visitor
• Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
• Sean Penn, Milk
• Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

• Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
• Angelina Jolie, Changeling
• Melissa Leo, Frozen River
• Meryl Streep, Doubt
• Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

• Josh Brolin, Milk
• Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder
• Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt
• Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
• Dev Patel, Slumdog Millionaire

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

• Amy Adams, Doubt
• Penélope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
• Viola Davis, Doubt
• Taraji P. Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Kate Winslet, The Reader

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

• Doubt
• Frost/Nixon
• Milk
• Slumdog Millionaire
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

TV

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries

• Ralph Fiennes, Bernard and Doris
• Paul Giamatti, John Adams
• Kevin Spacey, Recount
• Kiefer Sutherland, 24: Redemption
• Tom Wilkinson, John Adams

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries

• Laura Dern, Recount
• Laura Linney, John Adams
• Shirley MacLaine, Coco Chanel
• Phylicia Rashad, A Raisin in the Sun
• Susan Sarandon, Bernard and Doris

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

• Michael C. Hall, Dexter
• Jon Hamm, Mad Men
• Hugh Laurie, House
• William Shatner, Boston Legal
• James Spader, Boston Legal

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

• Sally Field, Brothers & Sisters
• Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
• Holly Hunter, Saving Grace
• Elisabeth Moss, Mad Men
• Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series

• Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
• Steve Carell, The Office
• David Duchovny, Californication
• Jeremy Piven, Entourage
• Tony Shalhoub, Monk

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series

• Christina Applegate, Samantha Who?
• America Ferrera, Ugly Betty
• Tina Fey, 30 Rock
• Mary-Louise Parker, Weeds
• Tracey Ullman, Tracey Ullman's State of the Union

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

• Boston Legal
• Dexter
• House
• Mad Men
• The Closer

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

• 30 Rock
• Desperate Housewives
• Entourage
• The Office
• Weeds

SAG HONORS FOR STUNT ENSEMBLES

Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture

• The Dark Knight
• Hellboy II: The Golden Army
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
• Iron Man
• Wanted

Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series

• Friday Night Lights
• Heroes
• Prison Break
• The Unit
• The Closer

SCREEN ACTORS GUILD'S 45th LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

James Earl Jones

Source: E

Letter from the Editor-December 15, 2008---Wrapping Gifts for Children in Homeless Shelters

Hello V.I.T.s,

Well the Holiday Season has been very exciting here at dekoposh, Inc. We have been very busy sending out Christmas Gifts, baking, making crafts, and visiting with shelters for children. On Friday last week we had the opportunity to wrap presents for 127 children of homeless shelters. We can't express to you how exciting this was to be a part of this. We didn't wrap all 127 gifts but we wrapped several of them and now we are baking for them for their holiday parties. The children range in ages of 0-18. It is very sad to think that these children don't have parents to take care of them but at the same time they are being taken care of by some very special people. Our advice to you is give back this year...donate a toy, wrap presents, feed homeless people, donate money to your favorite children's cause, give, give, and give more. Times are ruff and we all need to do our part to stick together and help each other. YES WE CAN!

Happy Holidays to all,
dekoposh, Inc. Team

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