I was in Phoenix over the weekend teaching at Creating Keepsakes so wasn't able to check my emails until late Saturday evening. Imagine my surprise when I got on at 1:00am our time and over 1/2 of the crop seats had already sold and many of the classes were selling quickly as well. (I told you that the classes were awesome!!!) I can't wait till this years event, it's going to be so much fun!!
To answer a few questions I've gotten about registration:
1. Registration will remain open until October 15th, 2007 or until all tickets are sold.
2. Remaining class tickets will be sold at the door unless the teacher request they not be.
3. Remaining crop tickets will be sold at the door however no welcome gift will be given at that time.
Reminder:
1. When registering please only hit the submit button once. You will receive an email confirmation. If you receive two, please let me know.
2. Please list the names of the people you are registering if you are purchasing multiple tickets.
3. Be sure to list names of people you would like to sit with as well.
4. Don't forget about the community service project! You will not only make a family very happy but you will also get a sense of satisfaction as well from helping and a chance to win some awesome prizes!!!
Have a great day!!
Showing posts with label Alexandria's House. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alexandria's House. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
There has been a little challenge issued...
If you are working on pages for the Alexandra's House you may want to check out the thread on the message boards, at http://www.kisscropnshop.com. Nancy has issued an awesome challenge, go check it out!!
Monday, September 10, 2007
A word from Alexandra's House
Just wanted to share some words by Kathy of Alexandra's House. (Tissue alert, if this doesn't tug at your heart strings you need to have your hearts checked, LOL!)
In response to why our scrapbook pages and albums are needed:
"Our families have chosen to honor their babies by giving them birth and in most cases, death. Most importantly, they see them as life...a life created by God and one that existed. Photographs are so important and journals to validate the existence of this baby as their child, grandchild, brother, sister, nephew, niece. A picture, a lock of hair, a special momento to cherish as a rememberance of this special blessing in their lives. Your scrapbooking pages will hold these memories. These are the books that one sits down to treasure the moments and memories in the quiet. It is a gift of the present, past, and yes,future. "
Kathy also shared this information from http://www.aaplog.org/perinatalhospice.htm This will help explain what Alexandra's House does for the families.
"Perinatal hospice extends the concept of hospice to include comprehensive support from the time of diagnosis through the birth and death of the infant, and into the postpartum period. The availability of perinatal hospice provides a viable management alternative to those families for whom elective pregnancy termination is not a desirable option.
Method of delivery is based on obstetrical indications with the exception that a cesarean delivery is generally not done for a fetal status that is not fully reassuring, since intervention for this finding will not change the outcome for the baby and places the mother at increased risk for a complication. At birth, the attending neonatologist evaluates the infant, confirms the diagnosis, and places the infant with the parents so they can share in their baby’s life and death.
Parents are allowed to stay with the child as long as they wish. They are encouraged to dress the baby, take photographs of the baby and hold the baby. All family members are encouraged to participate, including children when appropriate. All involvement is by parental choice, and they are only involved to their level of comfort. Each family receives a special remembrance decorative gift box as a keepsake and repository for birth items.
Comfort measures are emphasized to the family, with staff assisting in this care as needed. The infants are kept warm and cuddled and some even fed. Infants surviving for longer periods are occasionally cared for in the nursery during the postpartum period, if the parents desire. Chaplain and social services provided spiritual and emotional support during this time as needed. Care is continued into the post-partum period by those providing grief support and contact from various members of the hospice team, with the level and timing of involvement dictated by the desires of the parents.
The care of these patients has been accomplished without any notable maternal complications, and the response of parents to this philosophy of care has been overwhelmingly positive. When parents are given loving support, freedom from the fear of abandonment and careful counsel regarding clinical expectations in the setting of a lethal fetal condition, they frequently choose the option of perinatal hospice care for the management of their pregnancy. This can be safely accomplished with current methods of obstetrical care. These parents are thus allowed to fully experience the birth of their child and the bonding that occurs during the antepartum and immediate postpartum period. This bonding helps provide a firm foundation for obtaining closure with the death of their child. They may rest secure in the knowledge that they shared in their baby’s life, however brief, and treated their child with the same dignity afforded other terminally ill individuals under the best of circumstances.
You may read further at the website listed above. Now, let's help these families and get those pages made!!!
In response to why our scrapbook pages and albums are needed:
"Our families have chosen to honor their babies by giving them birth and in most cases, death. Most importantly, they see them as life...a life created by God and one that existed. Photographs are so important and journals to validate the existence of this baby as their child, grandchild, brother, sister, nephew, niece. A picture, a lock of hair, a special momento to cherish as a rememberance of this special blessing in their lives. Your scrapbooking pages will hold these memories. These are the books that one sits down to treasure the moments and memories in the quiet. It is a gift of the present, past, and yes,future. "
Kathy also shared this information from http://www.aaplog.org/perinatalhospice.htm This will help explain what Alexandra's House does for the families.
"Perinatal hospice extends the concept of hospice to include comprehensive support from the time of diagnosis through the birth and death of the infant, and into the postpartum period. The availability of perinatal hospice provides a viable management alternative to those families for whom elective pregnancy termination is not a desirable option.
Method of delivery is based on obstetrical indications with the exception that a cesarean delivery is generally not done for a fetal status that is not fully reassuring, since intervention for this finding will not change the outcome for the baby and places the mother at increased risk for a complication. At birth, the attending neonatologist evaluates the infant, confirms the diagnosis, and places the infant with the parents so they can share in their baby’s life and death.
Parents are allowed to stay with the child as long as they wish. They are encouraged to dress the baby, take photographs of the baby and hold the baby. All family members are encouraged to participate, including children when appropriate. All involvement is by parental choice, and they are only involved to their level of comfort. Each family receives a special remembrance decorative gift box as a keepsake and repository for birth items.
Comfort measures are emphasized to the family, with staff assisting in this care as needed. The infants are kept warm and cuddled and some even fed. Infants surviving for longer periods are occasionally cared for in the nursery during the postpartum period, if the parents desire. Chaplain and social services provided spiritual and emotional support during this time as needed. Care is continued into the post-partum period by those providing grief support and contact from various members of the hospice team, with the level and timing of involvement dictated by the desires of the parents.
The care of these patients has been accomplished without any notable maternal complications, and the response of parents to this philosophy of care has been overwhelmingly positive. When parents are given loving support, freedom from the fear of abandonment and careful counsel regarding clinical expectations in the setting of a lethal fetal condition, they frequently choose the option of perinatal hospice care for the management of their pregnancy. This can be safely accomplished with current methods of obstetrical care. These parents are thus allowed to fully experience the birth of their child and the bonding that occurs during the antepartum and immediate postpartum period. This bonding helps provide a firm foundation for obtaining closure with the death of their child. They may rest secure in the knowledge that they shared in their baby’s life, however brief, and treated their child with the same dignity afforded other terminally ill individuals under the best of circumstances.
You may read further at the website listed above. Now, let's help these families and get those pages made!!!
Monday, August 6, 2007
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!!
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!!
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