More Lemon Cards

Here are a few more from Loonies for Lindor...
Love this technique when you just use a lovely patterned paper and separate it slightly...

Penny Black, your images are even cuter then House Mouse (gasp!)...

Another Penny Black image...

I love these Pure Innocence girls from My Favourite Things. They always seem to have one to fit every theme...

Your Next Stamp provided these cute little 'Tini Sayings... I love the sugar rimmed glitter around the cocktail glass.

We even had lemon diecuts on the lemon soaps. It was a great theme. I really enjoyed working with it.

Loonies for Lindor Fundraiser 2019

What a crazy few weeks it has been getting ready for the Fundraiser on April 6th. I feel like it has consumed my every waking moment, so much to get done. I couldn't have done it without a great support team of friends and family. Many, many hours went into making this a record breaking year with a donation of over $7000 to Autism Dog Services. Here are a few highlights of the day....

This year the theme was lemons

All set up ready to go

Morning snack

All homemade treats...lemon loaf, raisin bran muffins, lemon poppyseed muffins, chocolate chip muffins.

Perfect napkins for the theme

Every participant got a beautiful layout or 2 cards

Beautiful table numbers

An amazing array of raffle prizes, over 107!

$150 Gift basket from Lindt

We have our own hashtag'

Thanking our incredible volunteers and donors!

Layered Lemon was a huge hit!

We were so busy I never got any pictures of the food or the ice cream treats or the $5 grab or other sales or pictures of anybody actually scrapbooking.  It was crazy!

And that's a wrap for another year! Time to recover and get some other stuff accomplished.

Loonies for Lindor Fundraising Crop

Wow, the time is flying by and our major fundraiser for Autism Dog Services on April 6 will be here in no time. I'm happy to report that the Crop is SOLD OUT with 92 participants and a waiting list. It's always a relief when the crop is full and I know how much product to get ready and how many tables to order etc. There is a lot of work that has been taking place behind the scenes so I thought I would share a sneak peak without giving too much away.

Lots of colouring and card prep. The completed card sets and card kits have always been very popular so I try to keep making them until the big day. At the same time, though there are many other details including Donation Requests so we can have the very best raffle table possible. That's what I'm up to later today.

Although I would prefer to stay home and card prep, the other parts of organizing a major event need to be done as well. I should mention this year our mini theme is LEMON, although you've probably already figured that out.

There are so many adorable puppies coming into the program. It's an expensive venture getting these guys ready to go out and work as Service dogs so we hope to raise our highest amount yet at this year's Event.

Loonies for Lindor Cont'd

I have a few more photos to share from the Fundraiser. Thanks, Lori.

Yep, I baked all that bread.

Guess the honeycombs

Me and my girl, Friday/Keri

It was a busy day. I have passed over the much appreciated cheque to Autism Dog Services and I finally have all of the boxes sorted and put away and thank you letters sent. Many businesses helped to make this event a success.

Loonies for Lindor 2017

The Fundraiser was so busy I only remembered to snap a few photos. What a great day raising over $6000 for Autism Dog Services.

We were able to set up the night before which was great. SO many people chipped in as its a really big job.

Everyone got a really nice set of gifts including a loaf of freshly baked bread.
Liz made these super cute table numbers with a jar of honey as the base....

We had amazing raffle tables thanks to all the generous personal and corporate donors...

Here are just a few of the gifts that we had on our tables...

Lindor didn't win the giant sack of Benny Bully's but she was happy that a few Crump's Naturals products made it home.

We are happy to get back to our normal routine. Still unpacking and putting away all the boxes but happy with how the day went and looking forward to handing over a big cheque to a deserving organization.

Crop for MS

Yesterday, I was able to attend a new Crop that I had never been to before in Woodstock. These ladies are called the Merry Striders and are a group of sisters whose mother and Aunt are afflicted with this disease. One of their fundraising efforts is to put on 2 Fundraising crops per year. Their efforts over the last few years from this endeavour plus many more has raised over $200 000 for MS research and assistance. That's pretty impressive.

There were lots of door prizes and a couple fun toonie games. They had this incredible board that was filled with images all made from the Cricut. You could buy a spot for a toonie and the 2 lucky winners got either a Creative Memories gift basket plus $100 gas card or  tickets to Drayton Entertainment (your choice). I really need one of these boards.

I should mention that the theme for this Crop was COWBOY and boy, did they go all out for the decor...
There was a full saloon setup...

And many other touches around the room....

All the hosts were dressed in costume and there was even a little skit complete with "saloon girls".
The meals followed along with the theme also... Wraps, baked beans and cole slaw for lunch and chili, veggie tray, nacho chips etc for dinner...

They even served it in a tin pie plate. Lots of thought went into this event and they did really well, raising over $4000. I had a great day spent with friends and even managed to make a card or two.

Donation to Kismutt Animal Rescue

I was able to make a trip over to Kismutt Rescue, St. Marys to drop off the donations from the Fundraiser as well as a few other items that I had collected. Kim was very appreciative of the donations that came in, especially the bleach and other household items. The kennel is always kept impeccably and it requires much diligence and they go through the supplies very quickly. Especially with Mill dogs who are not house trained and have spent most of their lives in cages.

We had so many items that we needed to use a wagon and make several trips.

Kismutt had just saved a couple of sweet pugs from a life of confinement. After only a couple of days, they were happy to have some cuddles and pets before we had to go on our way.

It is so nice to see first hand, how much appreciated the donations are and that they are being put to good use. Thanks to our amazing Fundraising Crop, we were also able to give a cash donation to this Rescue. Makes all the hard work worth it.

More Sunflower cards

Here are the rest of the cards. Quite a variety. Everyone at the Fundraiser got one card, pre-cut and pre-coloured, all they had to do was assemble.

They look pretty simple until you start prepping 100 of them.