What a Day yesterday …  We all had such a fabulous time at the shelter yesterday  I just can not stop talking about it ..  So instead of me talking about it right now,  I have uploaded all the photos of yesterdays event HERE on my web shots gallery  under  Hope center  November 24, 2006 .. Also for your viewing pleasure I have upload  our Thanksgiving day  with my Family also  on my web shots HERE please  when browzing the galleries  please read the captions under each photo  this may help explain  the photo in a little detail .. I cant wait to go help again at the Hope center .What a Blessing .. Today is another busy day I must finish  up my santa wrappers today  Once I do that I will start on making all my  packs of Christmas cards and hubby  packs .. Which by the way what do you think of this  little title for those  cards for hubbys " 6 PACK FOR HUBBY "  get it 6 pack of cards Hee! Hee!  pretty funny huh? Well I have the title, Now I need to get  to making them ..

Yesterday I did  get a chance to sit down for awhile and whip these little  Cho. Nugget  holders  I made 53 of them  so far .. I used the tag punch, and I used Bravo burgandy for  caramel nugget  and always artichoke for Peanut butter nugget  I will  add this info to the place card with the price  so  everyone will now what  type of  cho. is inside the holder..

I was able to finish up my" From Santa" packs also  yesterday I got 10 made and thats it .. Man there is alot of  work in them .. not really hard Just alot of  steps , and  alot of cutting .. so  thats it for these babies  I will be selling these for 6.00 each

I am going to be doing alot of stamping today making cards  hopefully for the most part ..

I will be  running to get photos developed for  Bro Bishop at the hope center and for Shawnee .. Since I was the " Offical photographer of yesterdays  events Hee! Hee!  So many people were coming up to me and asking me to take their photo .. How great is that !  I also met a man named Walter  which didnt want his photo taken BUT he drew me a picture of Jesus  You have got to see this( its on my webshots  link above ) . Walter drew it in maybe 2 mins flat WOW it is fabulous!! He told me he used to work for the Big 3 ( GM, Ford, Crysler) here in Michigan as their sketch artist .. Have you ever  really thought about the homeless ?   No different than us .. so many times I have heard  that  why dont  they JUST get a job .. many of the homeless I met yesterday  have many other problems  then just getting a job  for most its mental illness .. We never now  until we  have walked in their shoes .. I visted with a young woman and her daughter at the shelter yesterday .. At the Shelter  we also got to hand out the socks we  collected at our church  how exciting  this was ..  you would have thought we were  giving them  1,000 dollars..  we also got to  see the clothes  closet open up  each person could  take up to 2 items from the closet and this Closet was HUGE  the whole basement  was used for this purpose.. Bro Bishop runs a tight  ship at the Hope center ..  which I am sure he has been down the road with  people taking advantage  of them.  1st thing when we arrived  we were told NOT to give  money  to anyone and  do NOT give out seconds  of the food.. sure enough  a couple asked me  for more cookies   thank goodness  Bro Bishop was standing near bye  cause he came over and put his hand on  this mans shoulder  and said Now how  long you been coming here  Robert? he just laughed and then Bro Bishop said you know we dont give out seconds… I guess I am alittle Native  But all I wanted to do is give them more  especially if they were asking ya know ? (But I followed the rules ) and  I guess they play on that when guest come to help out .. I  would have to grow some  pretty tough skin If I were to work there all the time …  This hope center is  ran by Bro Bishop , Bro D, and 2 Fabulous ladies  in the kitchen Gail and  Shawnee OH my  talk about cookin LOTS of food  there were  probably  close to 80  people( not including our group that went and we all got to eat also.. can you imagine cooking for 100 or so people  YIKES!! )   there  ready to eat  a hot dinner   which was Spaghetti ( with Hambuger & pepperoni yummy  .. you gotta try it )  Salad,  roll, corn ,  turkey  and we brought desserts   and also  lemonade My hats off to Gail and Shawnee these 2 women  are awesome ..  We were told exactly how much to give out,  such as this spoon full  level in size and No more .. What a blessing .. Oh an the trip down to the Hope center in Downtown Detroit we got  all mixed up Thank goodness Andrew was driving with us crazy backseat drivers he was probably never so glad to get to the Hope center and let us OUT of his truck ..  I swear you put us 4 women  together we  can have a blast no matter what it is.. Even  going down a one way street  when there was   a heavy fog talk about funny and scray at the same time ..  and get this Andrew  flipped his very 1st U turn in the middle of the street.. we all laughed so hard I almost pee’d my pants while holding on for dear life .. Then we lost the church van with all the kids ..  we took the right  and Steve merged on to the left exit   we sat there waving our arms and yelling dont go that exit ( Yea like they could hear us  across I- 75 )  then some how we were  sitting in the packing lot  down the street from the hope center ( But we didnt  now  cause we were still looking for the Hope center at this time )  and out of the blue  there goes the church van driving right past us .. Again with flying arms yelling out  WERE OVER HERE!! still no avail  so bad we all didnt have the windows rolled down .. anyway  they take me up to the baptist center to see if that was the  AKA: Hope Center  as I am walking up to the door Low and behold  the  nose of the van peeks around the back parking lot ..I started  waving my arms then and  they saw me  then Praise God .. and It turned out  it was the Hope center.. WHEW!!

What an awesome day !! I cant wait to go back ..

Sorry so long  everyone I told  you I cant stop talking about it  .. It was truly a Blessing

Until later… Happy Stamping  and count your blessing today !!