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

June 2022 Charity Day

Welcome to my blog!

On Saturday we held one of our fun and fabulous charity days!  These days are both fundraising and FUNraising - lots of fun and a chance to raise money for a good cause, thanks to our raffle with prizes generously donated by Stampin' Up! ®

42 ladies attended for a fun day of crafting and to raise money for the Gold Coast University Hospital Footprint cards, Robina Hospitals Craft Kits and Meals on Wheels!

Other than the fun projects (which I will show you in another post), there's always fun surprises like Golden Tickets, hidden in people's kits.

And Lucky Door Prizes

I love running these days with my team - we always have lots of laughs together.

All up we raised $720 for charity!  The prizes for our raffle were generously donated by Stampin' Up!®

Thanks to everyone who came, helped prepare the kits and displays and helped run the day.  A HUGE thanks to Maree who always organises our food behind the scenes.

Day of Service for Meals On Wheels and Robina Hospital

 We had a fabulous and fun working bee on Wednesday! 10 ladies came along to help create Easter bundles using Stampin' Up!s® amazing stamps and packaging goodies.

Outside was torrential rain which even caused my sign to 'bleed' but we were undeterred.

Our goal was to create 200 treats for Meals on Wheels to hand out on their meal deliveries run in the lead up to Easter, AND bundle up treats for the health care workers at Robina Hospital.

I love the opportunities that Stampin' Up! gives me as a demonstrator to help the community - and my customers and team love being involved.  Together we can work together to contribute whilst also having a fun time!

I told the ladies they could leave if they needed to but they all stayed on for the whole morning till we were finished.

All up we packaged 198 of the Simply Classic Treat Boxes (and I have since found the missing two which I had made up as samples!) and 167 Printed Gusseted Cello Bags.  I managed to use up a whole lot of my retired ribbons AND the local kindy will get heaps of cardboard ribbon spools to use for craft projects (win, win!)   There was stamping, ribbon cutting, box assembling, bag stuffing and lots of laughs.

All the ladies had a great time and we are looking forward to our next service project.

Thanks to all who came along!  It was a fantastic effort!

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Working Bee

 One of the things I like most about Stampin' Up! is that it is a vehicle to help others.

Last week we had a working bee to restock footprint cards for the Gold Coast Hospital.  These cards are used to record the footprints and premmie babies as a keep sake for parents and grandparents.

I am grateful to my customers and team who cut, die cut, glued and sewed these cards.

We also took the opportunity to make some Father's Day treat boxes and cards which will be delivered to Meals On Wheels to hand out.

I love that the cards say "Happy Father's Day Handsome"!

Here are the pillow boxes, now 'stuffed' with choccies!

If you live on the Gold Coast and would like to be part of my classes or service projects, you are welcome to come along!

Don't forget that it's Sale-a-Bration time!

This means that you can get FREE stuff for every $90 you spend and there are also some higher value items that you can claim with a $180 spend!  Yippee.

You can view the SAB catalogue HERE.

I am happy to help you with any orders you would like to place.  You can email me at wheatonanna@hotmail.com or phone me on 041 6022766.