Future Dates for Memory Makers Meetings

Thanks to everyone who came in January to help make photo albums and beaded bracelets. We're going to keep working on the photo albums since those take the most time of anything we put in the memory boxes.

We now have dates through the rest of 2007 for our meetings. We'll continue to meet at the Community Center for now, but I will also keep working on interesting some of the scrapbooking stores in supporting the project. Meanwhile, the upcoming dates are:

March 21
April 25
June 20
July 25
August 15
September 27
October 24

Time: 6:00 - 9:00 pm
Place: John W. Hensel Community Center
10701 N. College Avenue
Indianapolis, IN 46280

At the March meeting, we will complete some of the boxes and get them ready to be taken to the hospital. We will continue to work on the photo albums and some of the individual pieces that go into the boxes.

Please invite a friend and come join us. If you have an idea for something that might be included in the boxes, please pass your idea along.

Blessings,
Mary

January 26, 2007 Making Memories Meeting

Date: Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Time: 6:00 - 9:00 pm
Place: John Hensel Civic Center
Community Room
10701 N. College Avenue
Indianapolis, IN

At the January meeting, we will be making photo albums and beaded bracelets to go in the Memory Boxes.

If you have basic scrapbooking supplies and you want to bring them with you, please feel free to do so (cutters, adhesives, etc.) Also, any baby boy or baby girl embellishments or scrapbook paper or pink or blue scrapbooking cardboard are also welcome.

If you have questions, please feel free to contact Mary Adams at madams@ccccarmel.org through January 15th or marykadams50@msn.com after January 15th or call her at 317.846.1230.

Thanks for a Great First Night & Let's Do It Again!

Greetings,
Thanks to the eleven people who came to the Community Room of the John Hensel Civic Center last night to make Memory Boxes to be given by the staff of Clarian Hospital to parents who have experienced the death of a child. We completed 10 boxes, 5 flannel blankets, 8 fleece blankets and 3 beaded bracelets in a little under two hours! For a first time effort, that's pretty amazing.

We have our next get-together scheduled for Wednesday, January 24, 2007 from 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm. We'll be at the Civic Center again, which is located at 10701 N. College Avenue in Indianapolis. I did try to schedule the work room at Hobby Lobby, but they were very un-user-friendly (would only let us come on a Friday night, we had to give them dates for a year in advance, we had to buy everything we used from them, and we had to be cleaned up and out of the room by 8 pm). Debbie at the Civic Center, on the other hand, was extremely helpful and thought what we are doing was a wonderful thing.

Please feel free to spread the word about this project to your friends, co-workers, neighbors - anyone who might be interested. If we inundate Clarian with boxes, other hospitals also give out Memory Boxes to bereaved parents.

Blessings,
Mary