The weather was awesome this week-end, so did some work in the yard, and did some remodeling in my shop. I am quickly running out of room out there.
Well, I got myself into it this time. I have signed up for my very first craft event. We have an annual event called The Cherry Blossom Festival here. So I signed up to have a scrapbooking booth. With the help of my friend Kelli we are going to offer pre-made scrapbook pages, kits & handmade cards. I am also working on an album that if I can get it finished in time will also be offered for sale. So we have a total of 19 days to get this all done. So please cross your fingers for us.
Plus I am busy getting activities planned for the National Scrapbook Day celebration for my message board. So I may not be posting to much here. But I will be having fun trying to keep everything straight for all I have to do. lol.
So guess I better get off here & get busy.
So until next time, Take Care of You.
Monday, April 7, 2008
Busy week-end
Thursday, April 3, 2008
This is a VERY important program I support
A while back someone on my message board posted the link to Angels in Waiting. And I contacted them, to start a chapter here in my area.
I also challenged everyone on my message board to get involved with this, and I have recieved some very awesome scrapbook pages.
Well today I recieved this e-mail from them and wanted to share it, and hopfully you too will want to become involved with us.Please go to their website & read about them & the wonderful thing they want to do for these children.
Hi Debi,
I can hardly call you a pest - you've single-handedly created more Pages for Angels than any one else in the country. So thanks a whole lot.We've just had a board meeting about setting up chapters in individual cities since we're all a little green in the process ourselves. We're consulting our attorney about the protocol as per our 501 (c) 3 regulations.In the meantime we're asking for pages to be sent to us here in California so that we can package them in clear protective envelopes with our Angels in Waiting sticky labels and send them back to your city's agencies (either Children's Services directly or a Private Foster Agency willing to be our liaison.)It's important for us to get the sticker with all our contact information to the foster children since we want the foster children to be able to contact us and stay in touch through our web-site and 1-800 number (we're looking at setting up a foster-child forum so they can make and maintain life-long contacts via the web-site with other foster children, Angels in Waiting support staff, scrapbookers who have made pages, siblings, or foster siblings etc.It'll take us a couple weeks to get the protocol outlined for how the chapters are set up - once we do that we'll eliminate the step of having to send the pages to California first and send the labels, etc. to you directly. I can't tell you how touched we all are by your willing participation. One little idea can start a movement and we're beginning to see how big this can be. We're looking to send a whole scrapbook's worth of pages to each child (ie: 20 pages with layouts for birthday, holiday pages (some Christian, some non-Christian), character building (ie: girlie girl, boy pages, etc.)Please be sure to sign the back of the pages you make and include your city. Include any other information you don't mind sharing (ie: email address). This will ensure your pages get back to your local community. We'll be sending mailing cards in the package to the children as well and asking their foster parents to send them to your address (so include a main address that the "Chapter" will have on a continual basis) as a confirmation that a child has received them.I hope that doesn't sound too complicated. Feel free to forward to your anxious friends and helpers.Again, thank you, thank you, thank you. We have wanted to impact as many lives as possible and change the face of foster care in this country - one child at a time - and with your help we're realizing our dream.I'll start doing my research as to which agencies will get on board with you there. Best regards,Ellen FranciscoAngels in WaitingPages for Angels Marketing Director
I also challenged everyone on my message board to get involved with this, and I have recieved some very awesome scrapbook pages.
Well today I recieved this e-mail from them and wanted to share it, and hopfully you too will want to become involved with us.Please go to their website & read about them & the wonderful thing they want to do for these children.
Hi Debi,
I can hardly call you a pest - you've single-handedly created more Pages for Angels than any one else in the country. So thanks a whole lot.We've just had a board meeting about setting up chapters in individual cities since we're all a little green in the process ourselves. We're consulting our attorney about the protocol as per our 501 (c) 3 regulations.In the meantime we're asking for pages to be sent to us here in California so that we can package them in clear protective envelopes with our Angels in Waiting sticky labels and send them back to your city's agencies (either Children's Services directly or a Private Foster Agency willing to be our liaison.)It's important for us to get the sticker with all our contact information to the foster children since we want the foster children to be able to contact us and stay in touch through our web-site and 1-800 number (we're looking at setting up a foster-child forum so they can make and maintain life-long contacts via the web-site with other foster children, Angels in Waiting support staff, scrapbookers who have made pages, siblings, or foster siblings etc.It'll take us a couple weeks to get the protocol outlined for how the chapters are set up - once we do that we'll eliminate the step of having to send the pages to California first and send the labels, etc. to you directly. I can't tell you how touched we all are by your willing participation. One little idea can start a movement and we're beginning to see how big this can be. We're looking to send a whole scrapbook's worth of pages to each child (ie: 20 pages with layouts for birthday, holiday pages (some Christian, some non-Christian), character building (ie: girlie girl, boy pages, etc.)Please be sure to sign the back of the pages you make and include your city. Include any other information you don't mind sharing (ie: email address). This will ensure your pages get back to your local community. We'll be sending mailing cards in the package to the children as well and asking their foster parents to send them to your address (so include a main address that the "Chapter" will have on a continual basis) as a confirmation that a child has received them.I hope that doesn't sound too complicated. Feel free to forward to your anxious friends and helpers.Again, thank you, thank you, thank you. We have wanted to impact as many lives as possible and change the face of foster care in this country - one child at a time - and with your help we're realizing our dream.I'll start doing my research as to which agencies will get on board with you there. Best regards,Ellen FranciscoAngels in WaitingPages for Angels Marketing Director
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