AuntieReCreates: Operation Julie's Smile Blog Hop

Operation Julie's Smile Blog Hop

I'm so glad you have joined us for this amazing blog hop for Operation Julie's Smile. If you came here from Jenny Suchin'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 the entire weekend to hop with us and win some pretty amazing prizes!

When Nicole from The Twinery contact our design design team about the opportunity to participate in this amazing hop for our coordinator, Julie Ranae, I jumped on it! I am so thrilled that I get to be a part and help in some way. If you haven't heard Julie's story and what this hop is all about, here's a little bit so you know why you're here today

“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.”

So you can see why I felt it was so important to get involved. I have worked with Julie for the past few months and am so happy that I have been able to get to know her. She is an amazing person and loves the scrapbooking community.

This is the biggest blog hop that I've ever experienced with over 120 blogs participating. You can tell Julie is loved! Just realize with a hop this big, there is bound to be some breaks in the flow. That's ok, if you ever get lost along the way, you can always go back to Sweet Stamp Shop's blog for the complete list of blogs participating.

There are over $2500 in prizes that have been donated by the very generous companies. A complete list of sponsors is available at the Sweet Stamp Shop's blog.

Prizes will be drawn from the following:

1. From blog comments left

2. From PayPal donations list

3. For Blog Hop hosts

If you would like to donate to Julie's Smile fund, it would certainly be appreciated. No amount is too small and every bit helps!The link is at the top in my sidebar on the right hand side.

So, before you leave on this hop, I wanted to share a recent layout that I completed using my favorite, The Twinery Baker's twine!