You are Beautiful!

Well it's past midnight and here I am yet again... at the computer in the Barn. While the rest of the family is snoring I am still here totally addicted to this laser cut creation thing... I was tossing and turning last night trying to get to sleep and I thought of this new item, would you believe at 3am!!!! and it wasn't until late tonight I actually got a chance to create it - and I love it ! It will be available for purchase tomorrow - or should I say later today - probably around lunctime.

It reminds me of a song by Christine Aguilera that I just love listening to and moreso watching the video clip to. It is simply called "Beautiful" - the lyric goes - "You are beautiful no matter what they say!" The song and video brings me to tears so often when I hear it... it's a very powerful statement she delivers through her lyrics and video and one that young people, and older people for that matter need to listen to a little more often I feel.

Anyway, off my soapbox. I've been reading all the feedback we've got through our survey so far and yes I did muck up a couple of the questions when relating back to earlier questions (that's what I get for "fiddling" with it before I sent it thinking I was just tweaking it a bit - but lucky you are all smart enough to figure out my blunders!! :)
I have loved reading your feedback and we'll be collating it all in about a weeks time and really seeing the important messages we want to hear from you. We'll share some of the relevant statistics with you too! It really is important to us to know what you think. My daughter Jane (who is now 19 and on holidays from Uni) has been packing some orders this week and she also collects the mail for me most days and I always find that the feedback forms you guys send back are always opened by her before I get to them. She said to me today that she loves packing the orders "really well" because she loves to read the positive messages of appreciation from you when her name is on the form!!

Some exciting news for us is that we've had word today that a project we were planning on producing in Kit Form for you all very soon was so highly thought of by Bazzill themselves that they hope to recreate it and use it in their display at CHA (One of 3 Trade Show releases in the USA where the new products are unveiled) in Anaheim later this month! How cool is that??? Can't wait to share it with you all. It will be perfect for a Mother's Day project too!

GETAWAY NEWS
As alot of you know we have been holding 3 fundraising weekends a year here in Victoria where we dedicate ourselves to raising money to Very Special Kids (www.vsk.org.au), an amazing charity that supports the families with children who have life threatening conditions. In 2006 we managed to help raise nearly $14,000.00. Well I've been receiving emails from people asking when the 2007 dates will be released. I apologise for the delay in doing this. Life here has just been overwhelming and there have been a few changes with the pricing from the Retreat we use to to get my head around. The end result is that we have booked the long weekends in March, June (both 3 nights) and the 4 night weekend over the Melbourne Cup Day weekend - finishing on the Tuesday. Well I feel we will struggle to make our minimum booking requirement of 30 people for March at such late notice, so unless we can do this with firm bookings fairly soon we might cancel the March one and opt to have just June and November. If you would like to book please email us at getaway@rememberwhen.com.au and let us know and as soon as we know if it's going ahead we'll let you know. Once deposits have been made there will be a cancellation fee now applicable to withdrawals. We apologise for this but due to so many of late, it ends up causing a situation for our booking with the retreat.