Have a Safe and Happy Holiday!

June Mailing

It’s July 1st and I’m just getting around to the June mailing update. It’s been a busy month! We had 1713 cards and one of the biggest postage donation months in some time! June is usually one of the smaller mailings so I really appreciate everyone hanging in there with me as I know it’s hard as the summer months come.

The next mailing is for Patriots Day and Grandparents Day cards and is due on July 30th.  I hope everyone has a safe and Happy 4th of July!

Thank you all for your continued support!

Pam

A New Button on the Blog!

If you look over to your right -------> there is now a “Donate” button right here on the blog! For those of you with a paypal account you can donate directly through that button. As you may or may not know Cards for Soldiers is run totally out of my pocket except for the donations I receive. I am not funded by anyone. I don’t have endless amounts of money, I am a regular person. These donations are a huge help to me and will go towards postage and purchases of envelopes when the supply I have runs out or donations of envelopes stop coming in.  If you don’t have a Palpal account let me assure you it’s very safe, I’ve had one for years, I use my personal account to shop online all the time which is why I’ve decided to set up a CFS account as well.  So please pass the word along, even to those that don’t make cards, ask them if they are willing to donate, look how easy it is, just the click of a button!

Thank you!
Pam

A Nice Surprise

I got an email from a new supporter who told me about an article she read in this month’s Creating Keepsake Magazine. Well I hadn’t read my subscription yet as I hadn’t had time so I was wondering if maybe she confused CFS with another organization or something and ran down to my scraproom to get my issue. Much to my surprise right there on page 44 was a nice paragraph regarding CFS!  For those of you that don’t get the magazine I’ve scanned it for you to see. (you can click on it to make it larger)

Thanks for the plug Creating Keepsakes! You made my day!

Remember Our Heroes

On this Holiday weekend please take a moment out of your festivities to remember our Heroes. Happy Memorial Day!

May Mailing Update

Happy Spring everyone! I guess you could call it Spring here in New Hampshire, it was crazy warm with a bunch of 80 degree days in March, then on April Fool’s Day we got a snow storm and it was cold for most of the month. Now in the beginning of May it rained for a week straight! I for one am ready for warmth!

We had another great Round this time with 2419 cards that came in! As well as some wonderful postage donations! I have to say thank you so much to all of you for all the support again!

Round 6 is Due June 15th and is for General/All Occasion cards. These are for your normal Birthday, Thinking of You, Miss You, Thank You, Anniversary, Wedding, New Baby, New Home, Sympathy, and any other types of cards you can think of that don’t fit into the specific holiday categories. Birthday and Thank You are the ones we do not get a lot of but are needed. Think of how many birthday’s the soldiers miss and also how many care packages they get where they could use a beautiful handmade card to send!

I also wanted to share a note one of our dedicated card makers received from a Colonel in Afghanistan just recently…

Hope you enjoyed that as much as I did!

Until next time, sending you my kindest regards and thanks for everything you all do!

Pam

Oops! A Little Late!

Wow, I can’t believe I missed the March update! I apologize! I didn’t even realize it until someone sent an email and told me they hadn’t seen an update since February! I guess when you don’t get Google Reader updates on your own website that can happen!

Life got in the way for me, March was a hectic month, I took a little birthday trip out to San Diego to spend some time with one of my best girlfriends for 6 days, had a blast and I guess I have been playing catch up since! I left on March 1st and actually left my 16 year old son in charge of putting the boxes out to be picked up by the mail man. He has been helping me with the cards as his community service project for school so I figured that could be part of his duty. I made it very easy for him and 1861 cards were mailed for the March mailing!

I owe a bunch of you notes that put a note in  your box, I apologize, the deadline was right at the same time as my trip so I put them off until I got back and then the notes got put under a pile on my table and forgotten about. I am going to get to them this week!

As for the April mailing which consisted mostly of Armed Forces Day and Mother’s Day cards we sent 2002 cards! I have to say there were over 300 Armed Forces Day cards, which was pretty great! Still not enough to give one to each soldier that uses our cards but baby steps right?

Thank you to everyone who sent postage donations!

Our next mailing deadline is May 4th and is for Father’s Day and 4th of July cards.

Oh and thank you for the increase in the number of birthday cards, there were so many more this time around!

Until next time!
Pam