Aloha! and details of Crop & Cruise!

i wish. no such luck for me - i'm not going on the Canadian Scrapbooking Crop and Cruise. BUT i was priviledged to attend Leica Forrest' s crop n cruise yesterday at Mother Teresa School. WOW!


that was a total blast!


Jayme from Scrapbooking Fanatics brought her store. I thought she was kidding when she said she was bringing her store. but after lugging the boxes and bins into the school. i believe her. I was also priviledged to host her - what a nice lady!


so the day was great - great people, great food, great time making things. Leica and her gang do the awesomest crops. the behind the scenes stuff was eye opening for me! and the goodies bags were totally awesome - thanks to the suppliers for those products! glimmer mist and cardstock? how awesome is that?


i got 45 cards made (simple ones and card kits!)


and there was a layout contest - congrats to that winner! She totally rocks the layouts, that chickie!


there was a card contest and the cards were donated to the troops.... i have a box here!


and DawnDawn - how awesome was that???? she won the raffle - 'bout time!





here's a photo of SOME of the cards i received yesterday.

plus there was box of 261 from the Old Tyme Baptist Church in Calgary. for a grand total of.... are you ready for this????




535 Cards yesterday!!!!

that means in total there's been over 1100 cards that are going to the troops this year!!! i've sent 2 boxes of over 3oo each already. and this box will be going out the door shortly.

i never dreamed that so many would respond in such a positive way.
Thank you all very much.
you may never get a response from the deployed personnel overseas, but i want to thank you all.

Leica made some sort of speech about this last night and my part in it. i really couldn't hear it all, because i was standing behind her and couldn't hear the speaker system very well, but i think i should have hid. i'm just doing my little part - and you all are contributing to it!

THANK YOU!

Some are still wanting to contribue - and please feel like you can. I'll still be collecting cards.

They can be cards addressed to the soldier or they can be cards that the soldier can send home to their loved ones. after all there probably isn't a card store real close by overseas! The supply depot has asked i could supply all occasion cards too, so this is my next project. i'm a mite over whelmed with Christmas right now (wonder why that is ;) )