Sunday 25 November 2012

My Christmas Wish Star To Support Scope”Keep Us Close” Campaign

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I had the following e-mail from Jo Tilley-Riley from Scope asking if I would support and publicise their “Keep Us Close” Campaign
“There are more than half a million families in the UK with a disabled child. For parents it’s a daily challenge to give them the support they need. But the current lack of services near their home makes it much harder than it needs to be. More than six in ten families can’t get the services they need in their local area and are fighting tough long battles to find them elsewhere. The Keep Us Close campaign puts pressure on the Government to require local authorities to provide services closer to home. There is a nice video that explains the campaign here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=INjII66pruA#!
Scope will be setting up a Christmas tree in Parliament that we want to decorate with ‘wish stars’. These can be created electronically, or made the old fashioned way and decorated by hand.
If you’d be interested in supporting the campaign, you might like to make a wish star, blog about it and then send it in the post to Scope for them to hang on their tree.
The link to the Christmas Wish is here: www.scope.org.uk/wish
I don’t have to tell you that this is a cause very close to my heart, my mum is almost 80 and still cares for my very disabled brother at home and she has had to fight tooth and nail for every bit of help that she has ever needed for him, and unfortunately still has to continue to fight for …..
My brother is 50 today …… he doesn’t know it’s his birthday, only that he will have been given a lot of extra kisses and cuddles ….. and extra squidgy cake with squirty cream  ….. so if you want to help others like my mum …. visit the website and send your wish …… just like me!
xx THANK YOU xx 

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Samantha’s Top Tip ……..
Velcro MonthJust thought I’d let you know what I VELCRO® use for, as well as crafting I’m also a professional Face Painter and use VELCRO® to keep my paints still in the A4 document holders I use to store them.  It also stops little fingers from lifting the paints (yep people do pinch paints) as I can hear it crunch when they lift them. I’ve attached a pic so you can see kit set up.

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I’ve had these magnet test tubes for single stem artificial flowers ages, but they had a small magnet attached so I couldn’t put them on my computer as I had hoped as magnets really really bad for computers,
Velcro Stick On National Velcro Month…. but I got to thinking that I could attach them now using the VELCRO® Stick On from my VELCRO® pack of goodies!
National Velcro MonthOnce the flowers are in you shouldn’t be able to see the VELCRO® strips, and perhaps …… with Advent almost upon us I should find some festive foliage to put in them to add a little festive spirit to my desk and office!!!!!!!  Ho, Ho, Ho!




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