January Meeting

Gals,

We're going to start making Valentines a little early this year. We made 46 last year, but we need a whole lot more than that this year. Please start setting aside anything love based, red or pink. I will be bringing a lot of stuff to our January meeting, but I need more than my stuff in order to fulfill the order of 100+ cards. Dig through your stuff and look for doilies, flat lace, ribbon, heart punches, anything you might put on a Valentine card. You will need a basic craft tool kit for this meeting as well. Bring a tape runner, adhesives, scissors, a paper trimmer, punches, markers, stamps, ink and whatever else it will take to make lovely cards. We will be sharing our resources.

I will be taking the ten best cards and we will vote on the best card for February's meeting. The winner will get an extra nice door prize.

• When: January 11th 7:00PM
• Where: Barnes & Noble, Midland TX
• What: Valentines workshop
• What else: Great door prizes (supplied by Cheryl G this month)
• More info: cerwelt@gmail.com

I also need a gal to bring a 12" x 12" scrapbook to start archiving some of our past meeting photos. Hey we scrapbook, we should have one. We will need different girls to CROP pages and I will be bringing photos with notes for girls willing to do this fun job. No one will get stuck doing it all, but everyone should be willing to submit something whether supplies or work.

I look forward to playing with all of you at this month's meeting.

Cerise Welter
PB & J Paper Crafters
Ambassador

A Few Great Gals

Dearies,

I am planning ahead. Ok so I'm just that way and those of you who know me know I've got lots on my monthly agenda. Last year PB & J made Valentine's cards for a nursing home in Midland, TX. This year I would like to repeat the practice with a slight change. This year I know roughly how many residents they have (around 100). Last year I foolishly assumed that 40+ would be enough. The gals made Valentines and gave them to me. I called a couple days before Valentine's day only to learn they had 106 residents. That meant I had to make a load of Valentines in a very short space of time. I won't make the mistake again.

I'm asking way early so that I can have you gals thinking about making these cards way early and maybe when you can't think of something creative to do when you have the bug, you will work on a few cards. Valentine's is all about love and the folks who live in nursing homes have less than their recommended daily dosage. I'm thinking ahead as well and want to set up a couple workshops to make cards in my CROP house. Please email me or message me at Facebook if you would be willing to either make cards on your own or join us in a workshop of sorts where we can do some assembly line creating. I will provide the resources, but if you have love paper, stickers and embellishments you can bring them as well.

Looking forward to lots of you helping.

Cerise Welter
PB & J Paper Crafters
Ambassador