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MOM & ME - Teacher appreciation album in a tin!

This is an adorable way to say thank you to your teacher and a perfect Mom and child (or Grandma, Aunt, Uncle....) to do together. The mini accordian album fits perfectly into the decorated tin. Everything you need to create this unique one of a kind project is included in the kit (except adhesive). Cost $18.00

Saturday June 23

1:00 - 3:00

Teacher: Pam

CARDS! CARDS! CARDS!

This class is the best value on the market! All supplies (except adhesive) are supplied to create these lovely "Thinking of You" themed cards. You will stamp, tear paper, punch, ink, colour, use

brads and layer paper as you make these 4 Cards! All for $10.00.

Sunday June 24th

1:30 - 3:30

Teacher: Rae

SUMMER LAYOUT - Splash -

Create this lovely 2 page spread suitable for any theme - sample shows lake fun photos - use 6 full size 4 x 6 photos on this page layout that has been scraplifted from the current issue of Canadian Scrapbooker - learn how easy it is to use magazines as inspiration. Ribbon, uttee, chipboard, ink, paint, flowers, pattern paper & cardstock will all be used! Please bring 6 4 x 6 photos of like summer theme with you to class.

June 27th

6:30 - 8:30

$18.00

Teacher: Pam

OH CANADA
Let your Canadian pride show!

Create this great 2 page layout with a bit of a twist - not traditional colours for this patriotic page adds to it's charm! Play with Chipboard, incorporate stickers and pattern paper to create this amazing project!
July 5th, 2007

6:30 -8:30

Teacher: Pam

Gratitude - an overwhelming sense!

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

The response to our call for postage paid cards is so huge - I have gotten 3 large packages in the mail this week from BC & Beyond! Customers are binding together with workmates and collecting - in a few short days Chris M and friends, Sylvia, May, Jennifer & Kyndra from BC Transmission Corp brought in a pile. Kensington school in Burnaby worked together and dropped off almost 1300! A friend in Oklahoma (Hi Teri!) told me she is sending a huge box our way!

Tonight Karen C told me how her and her daughter were sitting in a garage waiting for new tires to be put on their van, while waiting they went through every magazine in the joint! Every day we receive new cards, one or 2 at a time, or 100's it does not matter because every SINGLE card brought in brings us closer to a cure! Every card marks a step in the right direction!

It is amazing to me to see how a community - our community of scrapbooking - can work together and do such an amazing job! Give yourself a pat on the back, you deserve it!

Keep them coming! We are now well over 6000! Pretty cool for just a few months of collecting!

Tears of gratitude and blessing....

When you wake up in the morning do you ever ask yourself

"Self what is today going to be like?" Or "Self what are we going to do today?"

Some mornings as I am just waking up, listening to the rain (come on I live in Vancouver - it happens allot) or feeling the sun shine through the crack in the curtains (Yes that happens sometimes too!) I think, O.K. God what is going to happen today?

Some days are simply routine, get up, get ready for work, make sure the girls are up and doing what they need to be doing, take Ashlynn to school, off to work... then at 2:30 begin the whole list in reverse, making sure the girls are doing their homework, get dinner ready. . . The same regular thing. Then there are moments in the middle of the day - when you get your socks blessed off and you literally stand there wondering if it truly happened. I had one such moment today - I am still in awe and feeling warmed to the center of my soul.

Today looked as if it would be a fairly regular day for the most part. I knew there was a "challenge" to deal with when I arrived at the store involving a Visa machine that was down for several hours the previous day. A challenge here and there at the store is nothing out of the ordinary routine that is for sure...

Then it happened, one of those moments . . . you know the ones you have to pinch yourself to make sure you are not dreaming... a little something that literally made me cry tears of gratitude and blessing.... right in the middle of the store! This literally made my day! And continues to warm my soul - way down deep on so many levels.

A number of INKLINGS ago I wrote about my first camera, a brownie Hawkeye, it was a gift from my Grandma, and how much I wish I still had that camera. I have many good memories of adventures with Grandma and the camera. Sweet Sweet childhood memories. Today as I was working in the store a sweet customer ( I am feeling totally awful I am drawing a total blank on her name, Oh it makes me so very mad at myself when I do this!) came in carrying a blue bag and came directly to the counter, I thought cool, more postage paid cards to add to our stash...

No way, this is way cooler... she looks at me, hands me the bag and says I have a little gift for you.... I'm thinking oh that is so nice, she made my day before I even opened the bag. OH MY - I actually squealed and tears of blessing and gratitude sprang to my eyes when I put my hand in the bag and pulled out MY CAMERA! (Tears are springing again!) It could have been my original Hawkeye - the exact model - it felt the same, looked the same and everything.... How cool is that?

It still makes me smile and warms me to the deep recesses of my soul. First that she would think of me, second that she would remember reading my little story, third that she would ask her husband to pass along the 'extra' Hawkeye that they had gotten at an auction.... What a day! One truly blessed day!

My soul is blessed down right to the core!

THANK YOU! from the bottom of my heart for thinking of me. For making the time to bring it in, for being a blessing. It truly is in the little moments of life like this that make life so full!

WOW!