The event will be held Saturday, March 28 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Goldthwaite-Garvey Family Resource Center, 1111 S. Linn St. Participants will be able to bring their supplies and scrapbook to work on all day, enjoying breakfast, lunch and dinner, vendor product specials and door prizes along the way.
Linda Acuff, of Paton, and Kathi Stirling, of Boone, are helping to organize the event, which is a fundraiser for Child Care Junction, 1111 S. Linn St.
"It's the first one. I think the goal for it is to be either annual or semi-annual in the future," Acuff said.
"Being a non-profit, of course, you have to do some sort of a fundraiser. The board was really trying to do a fundraiser that didn't just take people's money, but gave back," Stirling said. "Somebody said that they had heard about this cropping for kids and so we started to talk about it and then I talked to Linda - she is a scrapbooker, or cropper. It's kind of one of those things that it's a wonderful event for people to get together that really love to do it, it's a fundraiser for Child Care Junction."
Acuff said the workshop will provide a place for busy mothers, aunts and grandmothers to work on their scrapbooks.
"It has a lot of value for the fundraising, in that it gives people that come to crop a full day without interruptions from home life and children and their outside lives. There's value in all that time to work on a project, but it's a family heirloom eventually - a photo album of your family. That's a great thing, to be able to come and work for a few hours and be able to accomplish that," Acuff Acuff said the event will also feature vendors showcasing products, and that attendees will be able to set up their own shows if they choose to do so.
"They will also be doing what they call 'make and take home.' Participants that come can actually make things that they will be able to use in their books or take with them and use later. It's a huge value to people that are actually coming and participating," Acuff said. "People that would enjoy this would be people that scrapbook - anybody that loves to tell their story through pictures. There's the whole social aspect of it, too. You're going to be out with your girlfriends and be able to chit-chat and meet new friends."
While a few vendors at the events will have some supplies available for purchase, participants are still encouraged to bring their own supplies, as well as pictures.
"We didn't set up a first-time scrapbooking thing this time, so each participant that is coming will bring their pictures and their supplies. Basically, they're going to come in with their supplies, set to work on their particular project - whether it be a family album, a vacation album - some women do ABC albums for their younger kids," Stirling said.
The event will be held in the Beckwith Family Adult Day Services Center, which is housed along with Child Care Junction, within the Goldwaithe-Garvey Family Resource Center.
"It's another opportunity where Child Care Junction is working in conjunction with the Beckwith Adult Daycare Center. We want people to be aware of the adult daycare facility and to be able to showcase it," Stirling said.
The funds raised at the Crop for Kids Day event will be used in the rooms at Child Care Junction that are dedicated to the two-year-olds.
"I think we need to focus on the two-year-olds classrooms because I have written grants for our preschool classrooms and I wrote for the Boone Endowment for infant toddlers, but we really need to work in our two-year-olds classroom," Leslie Stonehocker, Child Care Junction Director said. "The uninterrupted time is really important and being able to work on things. So much of it involves thinking about what you're trying to write and just allowing that creative thought to keep moving - with moms and grandmas when they're caring for children, the phone's ringing and they're trying to cook supper, somebody wets their pants, it's busy."
Space is limited to 30 attendants. Participants that want to work with a certain group or table are encouraged to reserve spots together. The cost for the event is $30.
"Boone's a small town and it's one of those things that we don't want people to have to go to Des Moines or Ames. We want them to build relationships here in our town," Stirling said.
For more information on Crop for Kids Day, call Sara Behn, Executive Director of the Boone County Hospital Foundation, at 433-8470.
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