Good Morning Beautiful

December 21, 2019Leave a comment

As I write this post, Jim Brickman is playing his piano song “Good Morning Beautiful.” It’s a catchy tune that brings in a new day and amplifies the shining sun. I have lots on my schedule for today so need the extra peppy sun to help me through my day.

First up today is writing this post and officially declaring Christmas Holiday 2019 paper crafting done! All senior sessions have been held, neighbor cards have been delivered and greeting cards being sent near and far are on the postal trucks.

The volume of supplies I use around this time of year are fun numbers for me. This is just my best guess for the supplies used for the senior sessions as I tried to keep count while preparing supplies continually during the season.

I could probably make a 12 days of Christmas song out of it, maybe next year!

1000 red rhinestones

600 tied bows

420 holiday rhinestones

200 punched bows

46 rubber bands

36 sheets of designer series paper

28 packages of envelopes

24 packages of colored cardstock

6 packages of whisper white

5 packages Night Before Christmas paper

3 packages of glue dots

and lots of glue sticks!

I prepared 1114 kits for the seniors to assemble with all these supplies. That’s a lot of seniors I visited during the holiday season! Here is a sampling of the designs shared at the sessions.

Wishing you a fun holiday week. Let the Scrabble games begin!

Super Awesome Stamper Shirley

ISO Senior Living Sponsors

March 10, 2019March 10, 2019Leave a comment

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Hello Super Awesome Stampers!

I visit senior living communities during the first and second weeks of the month. Residents gather in the activity room. I distribute greeting card making kits along with punched shapes and bows already attached to glue dots. We chat while assembling the cards. Sometimes we use the glitter glimmer sheets which is always a hit!

Sessions are more like art therapy. I talk about the fun color names and punches used. The gorgeous ribbons provide visual and touch sensory experiences. I travel with assorted greetings and an ink pad so we can customize all occasion cards to the sentiment the resident wishes. The butterflies shown in the photo above will be featured in the May sessions. Bunnies are on the April designs.

I visit all care levels: independent, assisted and memory care communities. If I am able to speak to an activity director on the phone and secure a session commitment, I am usually booked for return sessions. Not everyone that is interested in a session is able to book one due to limited budget. Would you like to sponsor a session at a community in your area or where a family member or friend lives? Just let me know where you would like me to visit. I’ll call the activity director to offer a sponsored session. Sponsorship is easy with one simple cash or check donation from you.

I visit communities in the Durand, Eau Claire and Menomonie areas during the first week of the month. I’ll be criss crossing the Madison area and surrounding burbs during the second week of the month. I travel within an hour’s time from these areas and also visit communities along the interstate heading north of Madison on my trip up to Durand.

The residents really appreciate me visiting and I enjoy visiting the residents. The senior living sessions have been a part of my business for over 5 years. So I am experienced with leading the sessions and working with resident abilities or limitations.

Thank you for considering to sponsor a session. Please contact me if you or your company would like to sponsor a session. Have a super awesome day!

Super Awesome Stamper Shirley

Stack o’ Christmas Cheer

November 29, 2017November 29, 20173 Comments

That’s me and my Stack o’ Christmas Cheer! I thought it would be fun to show the kits I have prepared to share at senior living communities in December. 747 is the count! I have a spreadsheet to help me keep track so that is how I know the number.

What you don’t see is that I propped my gingerbread decorated window on the other side to keep the stack from toppling.The cards I snail mail are excluded from the stack. I have yet to start them.

I certainly help to keep the US Postal Service in business!

Super Awesome kit maker Shirley

The Return of the Youtube Videos

June 1, 2017June 1, 2017Leave a comment

Good Morning!

I have been absent from sharing Youtube videos every since my phone stopped talking to my computer. Seems as though I needed to update my computer software which did not sound like fun. I also needed a faster internet connection than what we have at the house to do the update. So I was off to do the update at M and D’s house!

Before hitting the update button, I first needed to make sure all the slides that my Dad and I scanned a few summer’s ago were backed up somewhere else. It was a lot of slides, in the thousands so I did not want to do that job again! I digitally scrapbooked all except for Dad’s navy photos which are still on the to do list. I’ll start sharing those layouts at some point. Remind me to do that!

Anywho, back to my Youtube video triumphant return! Actually, the first video I filmed is too long to upload from my house. Seriously, we have that slow of a connection! But this video uploaded in under an hour! So I’ll share this one with you. It ties into my post from last week here about sharing at senior living communities.

Hope you enjoy watching and look forward to new videos on my channel. I have over 200 videos now so take a look around while you are there!