Marching On

“At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, 

how much money we have made, 

how many great things we have done.

We will be judged by 

"I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, 

I was naked and you clothed me. 

I was homeless, and you took me in.” 

― Mother Teresa

Our next We CAN meeting will be held Monday, March 4th at Barbara E's home at 10:00 a.m.

We will be making hooded bath towels for children for the Christmas Box House in Provo.

  

If you would like to, you can bring a bath towel with a wash cloth or a hand towel to make one, or  two bath towels and one hand towel will make two hooded towels (as the hand towels are split in half to make the hood for each one).  However, don't feel like you have to bring towels, you are welcome to come and help sew and visit.  

The thinner towels at Wal-Mart work well - they are $2.99 per towel and $2.50 for wash cloths . . .not sure how much the hand towels are . . .

We will have a potluck lunch as well ~ bring a friend and come enjoy a few hours of service.  

Do What You Do Well

"I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working. That being the case, I believe one of the most important priorities is to do whatever we do as well as we can. We should take pride in that." Victor Kiam

 The November We Can meeting was held Tuesday, November 1 at Carolyn's home. Those ladies in attendance were RaeLee, Barbara, Judy, Patti, Vila, Ardis, Ann, Paulette, Phyllis, and Carolyn. 

 We worked on four projects. We filled 10 Christmas stockings that will be sent to soldiers in war zones for Christmas. We completed 100 shape toys (these go in school kits and are mainly being sent to Afghanistan). We also made more than 30 dog chew toys.

These will go in Christmas stockings for dogs and are sold at the gift shop of the Festival of Trees. The fourth project was a tag in the shape of a Christmas ornament. The tags go on the dog socks and say "Merry Christmas from Santa Paws" with a picture of a dog wearing a Santa hat. Ann and Carolyn's cub scouts will finish filling the dog socks with a tennis ball and dog biscuits. We also collected candy for the Children's Justice Center Christmas Hats project.  Besides working on service projects, we enjoyed a nice pot luck lunch.

We will be going up to Salt Lake City to attend the Mother's Without Borders Boutique, Saturday morning, November 5th.
 
Our next meeting will be on Monday, November 28th. We will be going up to the Festival of Trees to set up our Chirstmas tree and take any craft items you have made to the Gift Boutique. Bring a lawn chair, snacks and drinks.    Festival of Trees will run from November 30-December 3 at the South Towne Expo Center in Sandy.  It is open from 10:00 a.m to 10:00 p.m. and tickets can be purchased at the door or through Zions Bank .

Enthusiastic Creativity at Work

Ardis, Kathy, and Carolyn working on crowns

"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk." ~Thomas Edison

 

 On Tuesday, August 2 , nine ladies, met for We CAN at Carolyn's home.  We are continuing to work on ornaments for our Festival of Trees entry.  Today, we cut out cardboard crowns that will be spray painted and glittered, as well as cut and glued paper balls made of scripture paper,  and put together printed paper ornaments.

Tiffany, Paula, Barbara and Phyllis ~ working on paper balls and printed paper ornaments

 Everything is black and white and most of the ornaments will be made from lightweight scripture paper.


Carolyn, Lynn, Ardis and Kathy ~ half the fun is visiting with each other



Carolyn's Patriotic themed table

Phyllis, Lynn, Carolyn, Sandy, Tiffany, Ardis and  Kathy

Phyllis, Lynn, Carolyn, Sandy, Tiffany, Ardis and Paula

Our luncheons are always lots of fun, with great food, lots of laughter and fun conversation.

Our next meeting will be held Tuesday, September 6 at Sandy's home.  We will be working on Missionary Stockings and