Creating keeps my mind off of...

my shoulder pain. I went to the doctor on Thursday for it and turns out I have a bone spur and the machine at the YMCA triggered a swelling in that area. So, doc hooks me up with a steriod shot which I had before when I hurt my other shoulder from our indoor sky diving adventure a couple of years ago. All seemed pretty good until I woke up Saturday morning with more pain in my arm and all over that area. It was a different kind of pain, a burning pain which was a big indication to me that I was having an allergic reaction. It could only be from the shot. So, my creating on Saturday was only a blessing in that it kept me focused not on the pain I was feeling but my oh my I was hurting bad. Thankfully, I got a good nights sleep and it seemed a bit better in the morning and with IB profin it has been much more tolerable today so I managed to get more accomplished today but I am not quite finished with todays project so I won't be posting it just yet but I wanted to share with you the scrapbook layout I made with the Typeset Paper Pack of my two kids school portraits from last year. I thought I better get them done now before we get to far along into this school year and the memories of last year start fading away. I love to outcome.  I always tell people if you aren't into scrapbooking at the very least make one page a year with your kids school portraits.  I will be putting all of theirs in a book all it's own so we can see how they have grown and changed from year to year. So another weekend bites the dust and off to my work week I go...

One Stop Shop

Many business women in Colorado Springs are joining together to raise money and donated items for the ONE STOP SHOP Back to School Fundraiser! This will be held on Saturday, August 15th from 9am-3pm at The Multi-Purpose Bldg. 1025 Ford Street COS 80915(East of Powers, Corner of Galley & Ford Street). There will be all kinds of advertisement, T.V. and a radio station will be present to help us raise money and get school items donated for all the needy families in our community. School supplies add up and some families have 3-5 children or more. It's just too heavy a burden. I hope you will come out and help these families and have some fun shopping with the 28 business women who are putting this on. Your putting money right back into your community when you shop local! And I am not talking Wal-mart! I will have lots of fun items to help preserve your child/children's school memories, some great items to get your teachers and some other fun stuff you just gotta have. I hope you will support this cause. Any of my customers, friends and family who attend and order from me at the One Stop Shop will receive 10% off their order! I don't know about you but I can't wait for school to start!
This event is sponsored by Step up to Success and the Giving Circle, a new organization that helps our local community. There will be a chance to win over $500 in gift certificates! Admission is Free but we are requesting that you bring a school supply or $$ donation to help this cause and double your chance of winning!

Simplifying Things

I am re-thinking my plan for classes and events to offer. I put so much time into most of these and am not getting much out of it. I will be giving up the From Card to Crop monthly class as the attendance has dropped off the face of the earth. I love learning new techniques and want to share them but will now be offering this through my angel club. The angel club meets once a month on the 4th Tuesday evening of the month. I am now going to open it to anyone as a one time option. So, if you want to come learn some new techniques, sample some products you may have never tried and create some fun cards and other projects you can now come for the meeting. The cost will either be $15 in sales from The Angel Company or $5.00. Anyone is welcome to committ to it monthly and spend your $15 from TAC and you will be on the list to receive the benefits of hosting a funshop with free stamps sets and 1/2 priced items. I will be having open crop eveings that will vary from month to month as it will depend on my schedule and my family's schedule. These open crops will be available to anyone and everyone. I really just like to have the company when I am working on my things so... the monthly PMS crops will be eliminated.
In terms of classes, I will only be offering up classes that fit in with what I am doing for my projects like the Father's Day Scrap Flip Card class coming up and the School Portrait Page Funshop. I will be offering the kits as well for anyone that can't make the actual class but would really like to do the project.
The Card Buffets are the most attended events so I may add another Card Buffet in the evening for those that can't do weekend/day events. It will have to be a mini version as I can't have people staying too late so it will try doing 6 cards for $10. You will still have the option of choosing 2 designs but make 3 cards of each instead of 5. We'll give it a try and see how it works out. Of course, once I go to seminar later this month, I will probably being bursting with new ideas and stuff. Anyways, that is the current plan. I would love to hear from you on ideas or classes you would like to see!