Teach me to Sing!

“Pan, who and what art thou?" he cried huskily.

"I'm youth, I'm joy," Peter answered at a venture, "I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.” 

― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

Our October, 2015 We Can meeting  was held at Carol's home.  We collected items to fill Christmas socks for soldiers.  We all thought that this year's socks (which are sewed at the American Fork Humanitarian Center) were the cutest ever.

    We tried a new system for filling the socks, which seemed to work much better than our past system.   The socks were jammed full of things such as playing cards, paperback book, hand warmers, pens, candy, gum, mints, chapstick, hand sanitizer, tissues, etc.  Each lady had previously signed up to bring something to help fill the socks.  We wrapped some of the items to help make opening the sock a more festive experience.  We will be donating 12 Christmas stockings.

Filling the socks didn't take very long, so we also worked on making our garland for the Festival of Trees tree a little bit longer.  Carol is 5 feet tall, so we stretched the garland out on the floor and used Carol as a "yard stick" to estimate how long the garland is.  Carol actually laid on the floor so we could measure!  What a good sport she is!   We also were busy making shape toys for the A.F. Humanitarian Center.  It was a busy and productive morning.

We enjoyed a yummy potluck lunch.  Those in attendance were Paulette, Paula, Vila, Carol, Janine, Barbara, Lynn, and Carolyn.

“If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.” 

― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“To live will be an awfully big adventure.” ― J.M. Barrie

“You know that place between

sleep and awake,

the place when you can still

remember dreaming?

That’s where I’ll always love you

That’s where I’ll be waiting.”

~ J. M Barrie,  Peter Pan

 Our September meeting was held on Monday, the 14th at Carol's home.  We collected things for the Days for Girls organization.  Our stake will be doing a large service project with Days for Girls in November.  

Paula ~ the beginnings of the garland.

 Our project was working on the garland for our Festival tree. 

Barbara, Paula, Carolyn, Paulette, Janine and Vila working and chatting

We folded lots and lots and lots of fans,  

Carol ~ the paint fumes were getting to her!

 Carol painted lots of little wooden spools, then we glued colorful paper around them.

Janine and Vila folding and gluing hundreds of fans!

Carol and Barbara putting the garland together

 It was delightful to see the combinations come together to make these beautiful garlands for the tree.

Carol- measuring up!

 This was easier than getting out a measuring tape - a little over five feet!  (And only twenty more to go!

 A few of the colorful paper fans that become pinwheels as we glued them together in preparation to go on the garland.

Barbara, Carolyn and Janine

Carolyn, Carol, Paulette, Patti, Janine, Sandy, Vila and Barbara

We had a lovely potluck lunch mixed with lots of laughter.

  These ladies are the best!

Patti, Paula, Carol, Paulette, Barbara, Janine, Vila, Carolyn and Sandy attended. 

Carol, Carolyn, Patti, Paulette, Paula, Janine, Vila, Barbara

 Our October meeting will be held Monday October 5th. 

. "So come with me,

Where dreams are born

and time is never planned.

Just think of happy things 

and your

HEART

will fly on wings

forever in

Never, Never

Land"

J. M Barrie ~ Peter Pan

Second Star to the Right

“Build a house?" exclaimed John.

"For the Wendy," said Curly.

"For Wendy?" John said, aghast. "Why, she is only a girl!"

"That," explained Curly, "is why we are her servants.” 

― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

July's We Can was held at Carolyn's home.  We began working on ornaments for our Festival of Trees tree.  Our tree is a Peter Pan themed tree. 

 The name of the tree is "The Darling's Christmas."  The setting is the Darling nursery in London.  Paula brought 3 adorable ornament ideas for us to work on:  large pinwheels, paper lanterns with Tinkerbell inside; clock faces with Tinkerbell on the front. 

 “When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.” 

― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

 A busy group of women were able to finish all three sets of ornaments. Barbara, Paula, Paulette, RaeLee, Vila, Kasey (Vila's grand daughter), and Carolyn were in attendance. 

In addition to working on tree ornaments, we also collected temple clothing for the Saints in Tijuana, Mexico.  It will be delivered to Tijuana when the Spark of Hope Foundation goes down the first part of August.  And we collected lots of clothing that will go to Ukraine. Lynn knows someone who will ship the clothing there where it is desperately needed.

We had a yummy potluck luncheon.  Vila had brought a lovely bouquet of flowers from her garden for the centerpiece.   

Kasey working on some pcitures

The Festival of Trees set-up day is Monday, November 30, 2015 (the Monday after Thanksgiving).  The Festival will run December 2 - 5.  We're looking forward to making other ornaments at our August We Can at Paula's home

Rae Lee, Vila and her grand-daughter, Kasey

Paula and Paulette 

Our next We CAN meeting will be held August 3rd at Paula's home.