Alexandria's House

Those that attended our crop last year know that we chose Alexandra's House as our charity project for this year. For our newbies, let me explain what we do.

Each year we choose a group that may be in need of our scrapbook talents. Last year we sent over 1600 completed pages, over 60 albums, numerous papers, glues and page protectors to families that had lost their photos and albums in the Hurrican Katrina disaster. It felt so great to get those folks back on track to keeping and making new memories!! We also gave away a Pazzles Mini Cutter to the person that created the most pages. Miranda Douglas won but was being chased by many others for the prize!! A HUGE thank you to Pazzles for the donation, we are looking forward to working with them again this year...oops did I just spill the beans? LOL!!

This year, as I mentioned we chose Alexandra's house. You can read all about them here, http://www.alexandrashouse.com. Please take a few moments to read through all the information on the site. I will tell you, kleenex should be close as many families have shared stories from the heart and they will tug at your hearts!!

We will be working with Alexandra's house to collect completed 6 x 6 or 8 x 8 pages that will be given to families assisted by Alexandra's house. After talking with staff of Alexandra's house it is clear this is a true healing process for these parents, to be able to capture memories such as ultrasounds, growing tummies, siblings, birth certificates and sadly in many cases death certificates and photos of baby at delivery. Journaling areas and even hidden journaling areas, such as tags behind photo mats, fold out mats, etc. will allow the parents to tell their stories without all thoughts being viewed by all.

We will collect pages during the K.I.S.S. Crop-n-Shop Scrapbook event on November 9th and 10th. If you are unable to attend but would like to donate you may mail pages to KISS Scrapbooks, email me for the address at info@kisscropnshop.com. Among pages we will also be collecting adhesives, 6 x 6 or 8 x 8 albums, page protectors, papers and embellishments. Many of the moms meet at Alexandra's house to scrapbook monthly and supplies are welcomed.

We will be having a contest again this year, not that you need incentive other than helping this awesome organization BUT we love to give out prizes!!! The person that turns in the most completed pages will win a super, awesome, fantastic prize and there's more!! We are going to have a 2nd and 3rd place this year!! To qualify as a completed page we simply ask that you create a page that you would want to use in your books, it must have at least one photo mat, some embellishment and/or spot for journaling. Please remember our goal is to provide these families with a lasting memory book. Donations of items other than completed pages will not count towards totals for prizes however your name will be entered into our door prize bucket for additional prizes.

Let's get busy ladies, I would love to see us donate 2000 pages to Alexandra's house! I know you can do it!!