“The creative blogging
community is coming together this weekend to help one of our friends, Julie
Ranae. You may know her as the Design
Team Coordinator for many wonderful companies from bakers twine, die cuts, rubber stamps and more. What many
people don’t know about Julie Ranae is that she has had some pretty major
dental surgeries in her lifetime due to medication she had to take as a child. It was in her plans to think about having all
of her teeth replaced at some point in
the next 5 years, a decision that was pretty easy to plan out. But
then it happened…she chipped her front teeth on a weekend a month ago. The
dentist told her there was no way to save them & that it was his
recommendation that she give in and have them all her teeth removed soon,
but for that day, they needed to get her front teeth done so her gums could begin
to heal. He said he would
'work out
payments with her to have ALL this work done...but when she called to
make her appt for the first step of impressions, they told her the amount of
money that was needed and that the
'payments'
applied only to the two teeth that were extracted that day. Her husband
Paul was with her & that too, was his understanding as well. So this is how
she has found herself in this situation…Needing at least $4000 to get started
and another $3000 to finish the process…a total of $7000.
Nicole Rixon, owner of Sweet Stamp
Shop put together this benefit after finding out about this situation and
before Julie Ranae knew it, it took flight!
Because she is an event organizer by
trade, she has taken on the job of organizing all of the blogs in this hop as her
way of ‘working overtime’ for what she needs, the same as if she were able to
work overtime at an outside job to pay for the work to be done.
It is the
goal of all of these generous friends & sponsors to help make this
situation more do-able for our friend so that she can share a brand new smile
with all of us soon.
If there is anything you can do to help with a financial donation, there
is a donation button ready for you to click.
Any amount is appreciated and ALL DONATIONS will be eligible for prizes
from our sponsor pool of over $2500. A complete list of the prizes can be found on the Sweet Stamp Shop Blog. Prizes will be drawn from blog comments left, paypal donations list, and blog hop hosts. With a hop this big the odds are very high that there will be a break somewhere, please refer back to the Sweet Stamp Shop Blog for the master list of participants.
“I am so
glad that you joined us on this amazing blog hop for Operation Julie’s
Smile. If you came here from Tiffany Doodle’s blog, then you are in the right spot. If not, you may want to start from the
beginning at the Sweet Stamp Shop’s blog and take your time. You have ALL WEEKEND to hop with us and win
prizes!”
Today I am sharing with you a card that I made for a girlfriend for her birthday. I thought this would be the perfect card to share today as it has a perfect sentiment, one that matches why we are here today...it's Julie's day! I was lucky enough to have been sent the entire line of Vintage Vogue by Collage Press for Pink Paislee and I just have been dying to dig into it!
“I hope
you enjoyed your stop here on the hop!
The next stop is Lee Murphy’s blog.
Make sure you leave a comment here before you go so that you can have a
chance at the amazing prizes up for grabs and if you can, please make a
donation so we can help bring back a new smile for our friend”.
DONATION BUTTON IS ON THE RIGHT!--------------->
Thank you so much for stopping by and participating in this wonderful blog hop!
Tonya
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