Who's Ready for a New Card Drive?

 Hey everybody! It's been awhile since ya'll have heard from me! I've been doing pretty good. Just trying to get back to normal life...or whatever that is! 

Some of you have emailed asking how my health was and Praise the Lord, I'm doing good! I just had another 6 month check-up and everything looks good! I'll have to have 6 month check-ups for the first 5 years and then it will be yearly for probably the rest of my life, but honestly, I'm ok with that! I would rather be watched closely. My hair has grown back to normal and most of the chemo curls are gone now. I've had several surgeries and still have a few more, but I'm doing good. 

I have had a few emails asking about the Card Drive for the kids for Valentine's Day as well and with Covid restrictions still at the hospitals, it's still not going to happen right now. We send cards to some very sick kids, so I understand completely on the strict rules! 

However, I have another project that I have been praying about and talking to someone about. When I had my double mastectomy, I was given a Blessing Box that a dear friend had nominated me for. It is truly a "Blessing Box"! It has a mastectomy pillow and a button up shirt with pockets on the inside to hold drains from surgery, socks, and other thoughtful little gifts to let you know they are thinking about you! The lady who started the organization is named Dawn Compton. She too is a breast cancer survivor and had made herself a mastectomy pillow and shirt and then others started seeing her shirt at the Drs appointments, so she started making them for their patients and she started making pillows for others and now she has a group of men and women who come together and sew (they call it their "sew-ins") and they make them for women and some men. She's already sent several thousand to ladies and some men the last few years. It's a pretty Awesome organization! 

When I received my Blessing Box back in 2019, I messaged Dawn immediately and asked if I could send cards for the boxes when I was recovered and feeling better and she said Absolutely! So, while I was recovering from chemo and surgeries, I was making cards! I wanted to make as many as I could until I knew for sure I was going to be able to tackle another Card Drive. I was able to make 1,000 cards and decided that I did in fact want to try and have another Card Drive since I was doing much better health wise. And I was able to ship those out today.

So, are ya'll ready for another Card Drive? These cards are for women who are going through surgeries, some have been going through chemo and some that could be sick and fighting for their lives, so please be mindful of that and if you are sick, please wait to make the cards and send them when you are well. There really isn't going to be a lot of rules like the Valentine's Day Card Drive has for the kids at the hospital. 

Here are the rules:

*The cards need to be no bigger than 5 1/2 X 4 1/4 ( I have clear envelopes for them).

*Please leave the inside blank. I have preprinted messages for the inside of each of them that I will add to the inside when I receive them.

*You can add your blog address or stamp "Handmade By" and add your name to the back of the card and your state if you would like.

*These cards are for people who will be healing from surgeries, so you can have sentiments like Get Well Soon, Thinking of You, Praying for You, etc. 

*At this time I'm not going to have a deadline on them. I will send them into Dawn when I have collected quite a few. 

*Here is my address for you to send them to.

Cards From the Heart Card Drive

P.O. Box 754

Warren, TX. 77664

Here are a few I made.

I hope you all will join us for an Amazing Ministry that Dawn has started with 

The Blessing Box Project! If you or someone else is having a surgery and needs a mastectomy pillow and drain shirt, you can find Dawn's page on FaceBook at The Blessing Box Project or if you would like to give a monetary donation or a donation from her Amazon wish list for supplies, you can message her on the page. This is a non-profit organization, so all of the proceeds go to the project.

Thank you all for your continued support with the Card Drive for all these years and for checking on me and sending me get well cards when I was sick and most of all for all the prayers, I really appreciate it! 💗

~Winter Sims

Cards From the Heart Card Drive Announcement

Hello everybody and Happy New Year! 
I hope you all had a Merry Christmas!

It is with a heavy heart that I let you all know that I will not be 
collecting cards this year for the Card Drive!

 This was a Very hard decision, that took A LOT of time and prayers. 

As I'm sure many of you remember, we lost our home last year to a fire and we have been picking up the pieces ever since. We have rebuilt almost the exact same house and we are on the last stages of getting it finished. 

We had hoped to be finished a few months ago, but rain delays and worker delays, set us back a little father. We are doing a lot of the work ourselves, so we are working night and day and trying to run an A/C & Heating business 

in Texas at the same time! Not to mention having our daughter in college and our son is in his Senior year of High School. Our daughter just graduated with an Associates Degree in Liberal Arts and she was just accepted into Nursing school

and she will start in January, so we have been getting her place fixed up to move closer to school. 

So you see my struggle with so many responsibilities and adding a VERY time consuming Card Drive to it, will almost be impossible to do! First and foremost, I am a Wife and Mother, so I have to take care of all them and those responsibilities first.

It breaks my heart, to not be able to do everything, but I have to be honest with myself and realize I can't do it all! 

I know many of you will offer to help out and I appreciate that so much, but with the strict rules of the hospitals, I feel like it would still be stressful to try and keep everything organized. 

I received some cards after the deadline of the last Card Drive and I will make some as well, so I will send those cards to at least one hospital for Valentine's Day.

I hope you all understand and will come back next year and join me for the 2020 Card Drive. I want to Thank you all for the continued support through the years and for all the prayers you have said for our family this year, we appreciate them SO much!

I  also hope that ya'll will send a Valentine card to someone in need, or a nursing home, or a local hospital if they will allow you to. I still want the love to spread to those in need. 

I hope you all have an Amazing New Year and God Bless you all!

With Love, 

~Winter Sims

2012 Card Drive Sponsors & Prizes

(5 Free Digi Stamps)

(3 Spools of Divine Twine)

($50.00 Gift Certificate)

(2 Stamps Sets- Winner's Choice)

            (3 Prize Packages of Assorted Stamps Valued at $25.00 Each)

                                                      ($40.00 Store Credit)

                            (A CARDS Magazine Subscription)
                    (A Scrapbook Trends Magazine Subscription)

                              (3 Stamp Sets- Winner's Choice)

                (Because of You- Ippity Stamp Set)- from JenMarie
                                        

($20.00 Gift Certificate)

(Magazines)

(2 Prizes- A Stamp Set- Winners Choices Valued at $15 each.)

(A Stamp Bundle)

(2 Prizes- These 2 Stamp Sets)

(Valentine's Day Twine Pack - $84.00 Retail Value!)

( $25.00 Gift Certificate) 

Sponsors will be added often.

2012 Valentine's Day Card Drive!

Hey everybody! Happy New Year!

Well it's my Blog's 3 year anniversary this month, so you know what that means...a Valentine's Day Card Drive! Woo Hoo! I will be collecting cards for St. Jude's, Vanderbilt, and TX Children's Hospital's again this year and anymore children's hospital's I can find. :)

 

Edited-Another hospital to sponsor!

The last 2 years was a Huge success, so I'm hoping this year will be even better! :)

Here is my first card for the Card Drive.

Here are some of the guidelines from the hospital's and a few of mine. (Please read carefully.)
* Cards need to be a Valentine theme.
* Cards can't have anything about 'Get Well Soon', 'Feel Better', or anything reminding them of being sick. (Only Valentine Cards)
* Please make cards that can be used for any gender or age. (This could be a little tricky, but I think you can handle it!) :)
* No buttons or anything that can be pulled off and become a choking hazard.
* Cards must be able to fit into a 4 1/2 X 5 3/4 envelope (A2 size). (I will provide clear envelopes for each card, so there is no need to send one with your card.)
* You can include a message in the inside, but please remember, nothing reminding them of being sick. (Maybe just a Valentine sentiment.) You can also sign your first name and what state you are from.
*I will be excepting cards for the whole month of January. ( Jan. 1 - Jan. 31, Please don't send any out after that, because I have to send them off so they will get to TN. in time for Valentines Day.) At the end of the month, I will pick random winners for prizes. I will be adding more prizes and sponsors, often. The more cards you send, the more times your name goes into the drawing to win prizes. Let your kids get involved too! :)
* Please send a piece of paper with your name, address, email address, and the amount of cards you sent. (It will help when I have the drawings.) A lot of the prizes will be sent from the sponsor, so I NEED to have your email address for sure!
* Go here for the sponsors and prizes. 
*Please send cards to me at:


Winter Sims
Cards For St. Jude
P.O. Box 754
Warren, TX 77664


* If anyone wants to donate a prize for the drawings, please email me with the details at wintersims1@aol.com .
*You are welcome to use the hospital logo's on your blog to spread the word, just remember to save it to your computer first.

I know it seems like there are A LOT of rules, but they are the hospital's rules and we want to obey them. So I hope you will join us again for another great year and help us put some smiles on those sweet kids faces on Valentines Day! :)

If you have any questions, please just send me and email at:

wintersims1@aol.com

Have a Blessed New Year!,

~Winter

WINNERS!!!!!

Hey everybody! Sorry it is taking me a little longer than I thought to draw the winners! We were suppose to get snow today...but we didn't! We got ice! The school got out early yesterday and and school was cancelled today, so our schedule has been a little crazy! The kids went and spent the night at their Nonnie's house last night. Their cousins also got out early and didn't have school today either, so they are having a slumber party! :)

Since they were gone...I had Chance help me draw the names for the winners.

So here they are!

All the Winners will get a Special Issue from Paper Crafts!

Prize #1- BIG prize- Leesa Berry (Please email me. Your email address I have, isn't working.) wintersims1@aol.com Prize #2- Vintage Pearl- $25.00 Gift Certificate- Cara Dey
Prize #3- Tiffany Doodles- 5 Digital stamps- Winners choice- Kristy Smith

Prize #4- Practicing Creativity- Nature's Wonder stamp set- Jess Moyer

Prize #5- Lawn Fawn- $25 Gift Certificate- Karen McAlpine

Prize #6- Wplus9 Design Studio- $25.00 Gift Certificate- Christiana Reuling
Prize #7- Wilson Designs- Ride Away With Me stamp set- Alice Wertz
Prize #8- Fairy Knoll- 10 Digi Stamps- Barbara Konopa
Prize #9- Whiskers Graphics- 3 Spools of Divine Twine- Winners choice of color-

Sandra Sefl

I will be emailing the Winners soon with all the details! :)

I want to Thank all of the Sponsors! It is so Sweet of you to help make this Card Drive possible! And Thank you to all the people who sent cards! This wouldn't have been possible without your help!

God Bless ya'll! :)

Totals!!!

Hey! I wanted to let everyone know the total cards we collected this year.
The total is: 1,343!
Isn't that Amazing?! Thank ya'll SO much!
I had two ladies that didn't get there cards here on time, so the total would have been a little more. But the cards still weren't in today, before I had to mail them. I waited an extra day, but still no cards! :( Sorry ladies! I will keep them for next year!

Here are most of the empty packages!
Here's the cards for St. Jude's being packaged. I separated everyones cards, so everyone donated to all three hospitals! :)
300 cards to St. Jude's!300 cards to Vanderbilt's!743 cards to Texas Children's cards!
And here they are all boxed up!
Three of the boxes are the cards, one of the boxes is the BIG prize package, and the package on top is one of the prize stamp sets! I will be posting the winners soon! :)

Ok, I am headed out the door to go have dinner with friends. I will post the winners soon! :)

Have a Blessed night!

Cards for St. Jude

Hey everybody! Happy New Year!
Since this month is my Blog's 2 year anniversary, I figured I would try and give back again this year. So back by popular demand is...another St. Jude Valentine's Day card drive! Woo Hoo!

Last year's card drive was such a HUGE success, that I really feel like I am suppose to do it again!

Here are some of the guidelines from

St. Jude hospital and a few of mine.

(St. Jude's has added a few new rules, so please read carefully.)

* Cards need to be a Valentine theme.

* Cards can't have anything about 'Get Well Soon', 'Feel Better', or anything reminding them of being sick. (Only Valentine Cards)

* Please make cards that can be used for any gender or age. (This could be a little tricky, but I think you can handle it!) :)

* Cards must be able to fit into a 4 1/2 X 5 3/4 envelope. (I will provide clear envelopes for each card, so there is no need to send one with your card.)

* You can include a message in the inside, but please remember, nothing reminding them of being sick. (Maybe just a Valentine sentiment.) You can also sign your first name but not your last name or where you are from. (St. Jude's rules state that they can't give out the givers info.)

*I will be excepting cards for the whole month of January. ( Jan. 1 - Jan. 31, Please don't send any out after that, because I have to send them off so they will get to TN. in time for Valentines Day. We will not be driving there this year.) At the end of the month, I will pick random winners for prizes. I will be adding more prizes, often. The more cards you send, the more times your name goes into the drawing. Let your kids get involved too! :)

* Please send a piece of paper with your name, address, email address, and the amount of cards you sent. (It will help when I have the drawings.) Alot of the prizes will be sent from the sponsor, so I NEED to have your email address for sure!

*Please send cards to me:

Winter Sims

Cards For St. Jude

P.O. Box 754

Warren, TX 77664

*If you would like to donate to St. Jude's, go here.

* If anyone wants to donate a prize for the drawings, please email me with the details at wintersims1@aol.com.

*You are welcome to use the St. Jude logo on your blog to spread the word, just remember to save it to your computer first.

Go here for all the sponsors and prizes.

I know it seems like there are ALOT of rules, but St. Jude's just wants to keep the kids as healthy and safe as possible and so do I. So I hope you will join us again for another great year and help us put some smiles on those sweet kids faces on Valentines Day! :)

If you have any questions, please just send me and email at:

wintersims1@aol.com

Have a Blessed New Year!