Leave the campsite better than you found it!
Inexpensive or free ways to give back to the world community:
Just Received the Best Christmas Card Ever:
It's the gift that keeps on giving.
Just received a Christmas card from my sister, Barbara Pierce Ruffner and her husband, Boyd Ruffner, and on the outside of the envelope it ays a gift has been given in your name. The card was from www.worldvisiongifts.org. Four chickens have been given in my name. This made me very happy. I have always wanted to donate to this organization, and never did so I stopped receiving their materials. My daughter raises chickens, and I know she gets enough eggs to sell to local restaurants, and they all love the eggs, and the cooks say they are the best they have ever used, and the patrons love them. There is something just better about free-range chicken eggs. Anyway I hope the family enjoys their new chickens and wish both them and the chickens good health.
Create a bookplate to donate a book in honor of someone to the library:
Other small ways you can make a difference in your own community are donating current hardback fiction books to the library- small towns usually have smaller budgets, and on the occasions that I am not able to find a new hardback at my library or get tuck in an airport without something to read and am forced to pay full price for a book- I read it, and then donate the book to the local library in my mother's name. She loved reading and wanted to be a librarian, and one of her sisters was actually a librarian at The Library of Congress. So to honor my mother- I put a bookplate in a hardback book and write on their donated by Margaret Esther Pierce or Donated in memory of: Margaret Esther Pierce- downloadeable links from http://www.marthastewart.com
You create this one with stamps:
This one just uses an easy download from Martha Stewart and then is printed on your home inkjet and then glued on with acid free glue. For complete instructions see:
This little photo was probably one of the last times I did a giant Christmas tree- now because of my kittehs, and because all my fledglings have left the nest- I just do the large entertainment center mantle, as well as a Norfolk pine.
