I've taken a bit of a long break from scrapbooking. There are a number of reasons I guess - paramount being that I wanted time to do other things and it feels like my days are so short lately. I took the remainder of the summer off to try to get in shape - swimming, working out, eating more healthy. That pretty much lasted until bikini season was over. Then I got back into my video games and that pretty much took over all my free time for a while. I've been enjoying more time just hanging out with my husband, and reading books again. Plus, I bought a new computer with Windows Vista and all the programs I used to use for scrapbooking didn't work and I was too lazy to find a solution.
So it was beginning to look like my scrapbooking supplies were going to start accumulating dust permanently. Then a week ago, I was inspired - by someone completely unexpected - my neice.
My neice is nine years old, and while she's always been a go-getter, my interaction with her has mostly been her asking for things from me. Lately though, she's become very giving - with her friends and those less fortunate. She recently heard about St. Jude's Hospital for Children and wanted to do her part to help those children with "chancer". So she gathered up her group of friends and they've been making jewelry and other items to sell to other children at school to raise funds. She even went right up to her principal to ask permission to set up a table at lunchtime with signs.
When she told me about this, I thought it would be a great idea to make some christmas cards with her that she could sell at school as well. And so - last weekend, I brought all my supplies out and we spent a good two days chugging them out. And they were a hit! All 30 cards sold out in just 2 days and she managed to raise $80 altogether. I'm so proud of her.
Anyway - here are some pics of a few of the cards we made:
So it was beginning to look like my scrapbooking supplies were going to start accumulating dust permanently. Then a week ago, I was inspired - by someone completely unexpected - my neice.
My neice is nine years old, and while she's always been a go-getter, my interaction with her has mostly been her asking for things from me. Lately though, she's become very giving - with her friends and those less fortunate. She recently heard about St. Jude's Hospital for Children and wanted to do her part to help those children with "chancer". So she gathered up her group of friends and they've been making jewelry and other items to sell to other children at school to raise funds. She even went right up to her principal to ask permission to set up a table at lunchtime with signs.
When she told me about this, I thought it would be a great idea to make some christmas cards with her that she could sell at school as well. And so - last weekend, I brought all my supplies out and we spent a good two days chugging them out. And they were a hit! All 30 cards sold out in just 2 days and she managed to raise $80 altogether. I'm so proud of her.
Anyway - here are some pics of a few of the cards we made:
