Mother's Day Card Fundraiser

This is just a little update to last week's posting showing you a couple more card choices (at the very end of this posting). Hopefully, if you haven't placed your order yet, you'll do so really soon.  While the response has been good, there are still a lot of TWC volunteers who haven't yet chosen cards.  You've still got time, but choices are becoming more limited.  I've added a couple more photos of Karen's...the fabulous picture of the barn with the wild poppies and Queen Anne's Lace in the foreground.  Also, the great close-up of the Wooly Blue Curls.  I love both of these shots.

I'll get down to the Post Office shortly with our tax returns but thinking of getting them stamped with today's date reminded Karen and me that it's been quite some time since I last posted and there has been plenty going on. Many apologies for the lack of bloggy postings.  


Mother's Day is fast approaching.  As you all know, this is our most important fundraising event of the year and it is key to us being able to successfully create a home for so many needy families.  If you have not yet placed your order, please do so by April 30th so we can get these cards sent out in a timely manner.  Thanks to Catherine Grasso for hosting the meeting where a good group gathered to assemble cards and ready them for sale.  Thanks for your early orders to:  Catherine Grasso, Deborah Kashinsky, Patty Colvig, Isabel Freeman, Geraldine Flaxman, Teresa Rosati-Royer and Becca Barkin.  What a great start to our fundraiser.  Thanks also to April Hinkle for creating an 'Event' on Facebook encouraging friends to purchase a card.  What a great idea and if you haven't 'friended' April yet, it's a good idea!  And don't forget, cards can be purchased in memory of your Mom or a favorite aunt or friend.  We're happy to give you a beautiful card without the vellum insert if you just want these cards for other occasional giving.

We have great informational sheets in case you need anything to share with your friends who may want to purchase cards.  We can also make this available on line so let Karen or me know if you want us to forward you anything or if you'd like some hard copies to give to friends.  Remember, you can pick the cards up from us anytime (email or call us: kfswood@gmail.com, #1929 and linilsley@gmail.com #3850) and mail and personalize them yourselves or, if you'd like for us to send them, we will need the information below.  

• Your name and how you would like the card to be signed (i.e., With love, In friendship, etc)
• The Name and Address of each recipient we should send the card to, including how you would like the person addressed within the card (Dear Mom, In Loving Memory of [you can send the In Memory cards to family members]
• A check for $25 for each card made payable to 'Community Partners fbo Topanga Women's Circle' and mailed to:  Topanga Women's Circle, 2670 Topanga Skyline Drive, Topanga, CA  90290.  You can place your orders with Karen or me and mail the check.
• You can also order a card from us, giving us all the pertinent info listed above and make your payment by credit card to Community Partners on our website (http://topangawomenscircle.org).  Let us know if you pay online for bookkeeping purposes. 

Here are some of your card choices.  We have many, many exquisite wildflower pictures which I don't have on my system but please specify if you would like a card with flowers.  Otherwise, here are some choices for you.

 

The vellum insert to these cards really finishes them off very nicely and the message inside is pretty special, too:  It reads as follows:  

 

A donation has been made in your honor to

(our logo goes here)

TWC is a group of volunteer women working on behalf of mothers and their children as they move out of homelessness and into transitional housing.  With loving compassion, TWC graces their new homes with the necessities to begin afresh.  Providing new and like-new items, an environment of comfort, warmth, and dignity welcomes these families as they finally have a place to call home.

http://topangawomenscircle.org/

(the above is written on the top half of the vellum and then the message below is where you would normally see a message in a greeting card)

 

On this day in particular, we pay homage to the

Mothers of the World

Happy Mother’s Day

I honor you with love,

                                                   And your signature goes in this space