A Very Busy Weekend

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Other than sleeping which at the moment seems to be my favourite pastime, i have been very busy this weekend, 
New dies arrived Pictures above, photos of the lovely boxes will be coming soon, but my busy part has been the delivery of about 50 boxes and over 100 cards to our local Age Concern shop, 36 were like the little brown boxes but white all ready for their glitz and glamour evening event in 2 weeks time, and yes i do mean more photos of boxes are to come, its not just these little brown ones, although they look plain here they can be so different with the additional bits and decorative pieces that are available to add to them but we also have what are lovingly called spikes by the boys (unicorn horns for the girls) which will be awesome for christmas, planning to make loads of these for the christmas period, which brings me to my next part, have changed the name of my facebook page to Cards for Community, not much of a change i know, but enough to make it show why it actually exists, most of what i make gets donated to charity, from the Age concern shop, their dementia group which also got a delivery of cards over the weekend the local womens center, a very worth cause and the christmas charity for the year, which is the food bank, this year will be goodies for little ones, as i am planning Unicorn horns/spikes for the children filled with sweeties, even if parents dont have much children should have candy at christmas, even if they dont have it all year round, christmas is for treating them and showing them just how much you care, its not about money and how big you can make a gift for one, it is about showing those you love that you thought about them, and you think about them much more when you make a hand made gift, the love and thought going into each gift is amazing, because you tailor it more to each person, thinking what would they like, what are they interested in, do they have a colour scheme, and all questions like this, the down side to wanting to make so many goodies for the children is funding. Im disabled, i dont have the ability to work overtime and earn extra money to pay for it all, i live on what i can get as cheaply as possible, and if i sell the odd card it goes into paying for more craft supplies to donate to charity, so im looking for donations, i will be adding an amazon wish list to my blog later, for people to be able to search and donate cardstock and possibly some bling embelishments, all donations welcome, 

 am back off to sleep now as i only got to sleep at 6am and was sadly up at 7:30 to help deal with my youngest son who was not in the best of moods, and despite his brothers trying to get him to settle down and go off to school happily he decided to be moody and stroppy, all this and he isnt even 13 til next year lol


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