Operation Julie's Smile!

Hello All!

Happy Weekend! 

If you're here for the hop (and to enter for the prizes!) 

scroll down to the next post!

I'm here with some bitter sweet news... our sweet friend and amazing

coordinator extraordinaire, Julie Ranae, has been under the weather of sorts. 

Poor Julie has been having horrible teeth issues... here is a little bit about

what's been happening... 

Many may know that a few weeks ago, Julie Ranae had to have emergency oral surgery resulting in the removal of her two front teeth. The dentist at that time believed the best course of action would be to remove the rest of her teeth and replace them with permanents. (as to avoid *years* of dental work) Relieved at finding a solution to this major dental problem .. she visited the office for dental surgery the week. Unfortunately, it wasn't the visit she was expecting. After the consultation and scheduling the surgery, the surgeon's office informed her that she would need to bring $4000 back to the appointment with her and they would proceed. This amount would not include the 'dentures' to follow.


Here Julie is today, sitting without front teeth that were pulled with the belief that they would be replaced immediately.
It is an overwhelming experience for our dear friend and one that I hope our creative community can help with.




Here at sweet stamp shop we couldn't image one of our own 
dealing with such a great burden alone... we *knew* we had to help!


So, along with LOTS of other companies we're putting together 
a good ol fashioned donation hop! 


Let's help Julie get her smile back!!

There will be a benefit blog hop called

 'Operation Julie's Smile' that will take place Oct 7-9. 

 There are a variety of

companies and design teams 

who will be participating in this hop

 to help raise funds for this benefit.

So far, nearly $2,100.00 in prizes have been made 

available and will be awarded for both 

participants and those who donate.

Operation Julie's Smile is now accepting 

designers/teams who would like to be a part of the benefit hop. 

 If you are interested

in getting involved in this creative fundraising event, 

please contact Nicole Rixon (*me) at nicolehrixon@gmail.com 

 The deadline to be a part of the hop is Wednesday, Sept 28th. 

 Participants will be notified of the blog hop order between Oct 3rd-5th.

This blog hop is an opportunity to have fun, feature your design work and raise money for a friend in need. A donation button

will be made available to all who participate.

We already have the donation button in the top right corner of our 

blog for easy donation access... AND it doesn't matter if you donate today... tomorrow... or durning the hop... *everyone* who donates will be entered to win one of *several* BIG goodie bags (or boxes :) 

While I would *love* to swoop in and write Julie a HUGE check... it's just not possible ... BUT, *together* we CAN! 

Big Hugs to all!!

I look forward to hearing from you all! 

Nicole