Christmas Charity Workshop! Fundraising and FUNraising

 On Saturday we held our Annual Christmas Charity Day!  Our wonderful team The Lorikeet Stampers banded together to prepare and run this amazing event!  One of the things I love about Stampin' Up! ® is that it provides me with a platform to hold such events, gather people together and give to worthy causes.

Thanks to everyone involved - many hours go into cutting and packing the kits, team members prepare samples for display, they advertise to their customers, everyone helps set up, biscuits are baked, snacks are packaged, raffle prizes are gathered and wrapped.  On the day, team members participate or run tables, help set up and pack away. The help is so generous!

We had 10 tables altogether (I missed getting a shot of one of the tables!) and the ladies were guided through their projects by our team of demonstrators.

To inspire our customers we had some beautiful displays..

And we had a magnificent raffle which raised over $1010.

The money will be used to continue to provide our footprint cards and kits to Gold Coast University Hospital, our cards and invitations deliveries to Meals on Wheels and our cards and products for Hope In a Suitcase.  

I was delighted to receive a beautiful bunch of flowers and gorgeous card at the close of the day.

Thank you to all who came along and took part in such a fun day.  As always the day is the culmination of many contributions and I am so grateful for all involved.

If you would like to be involved in these days in the future and you don't yet receive my emails, contact me on wheatonanna@hotmail.com

Our Charity Day!!

 Oh my goodness!  It's been a month since I have blogged.

Lots to tell you.  On Sunday we ran our annual Christmas Card Workshop!  Fellow demonstrator Bec Ross and I designed the projects and the event is held in a number of locations from the Gold Coast to Pine Rivers.  This event was on the Gold Coast at the Lonestar Tavern, Mermaid Waters.

It's always a fun day - I call it a 'fun'raiser and a fundraiser.

Here are all the ladies who came!

We had some fantastic displays!!  Thanks to everyone who contributed and to those who did a fantastic job of setting them up!  There's a lot of inspiration there!!

Our raffle is a huge hit every year.  Stampin' Up! donates a HUGE box of retired goodies that we raffle off.  What would you choose??

As usual there are CUTE lucky door prizes.

And Kylie won the Golden Ticket Prize!  It was randomly hidden in a project kit.  She didn't discover her ticket till near the end of the day and people were asking if they might have missed it.  I think it was probably big enough, don't you?

It was a very fun day only made possible by my team The Lorikeet Stampers.  They helped prep kits, make samples, set up, organise food, run tables, sell raffle tickets, help one another, organise food, clean up, carry things etc etc.  They are a wonderful bunch!!

If you have read this far you need to know how much we raised..

$1024!!

This will go towards the footprint cards and craft resources that we provide to the hospitals. 

Thanks everyone who came along and supported us.

Pictures of the projects coming in the next blog post.  (I won't take a month!)

If you are interested in attending these events or my classes in the future, contact me and I will add you to my list.  Email me at wheatonanna@hotmail.com or phone me on 041 6022 766.

Thanks for stopping by.