OWH Upcoming Holiday Information

I follow the Homefront Blog, and today they posted some information that 1. I needed to remember, so why not put on my blog. 2. Maybe someone would read my blog, and maybe they wanted to play along too, and needed the 4-1-1. 3. Maybe I could make these into challenges for Lena too! :)

On that Note... here is the following PSA for OWH Upcoming Holiday cards:

http://www.owhhomefrontblog.org/2011/01/important-note-about-spring-holidays.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HomefrontBlog+%28Homefront+Blog%29

Important note about spring holidays!


Now that we're past the Valentines - we need to turn our brains toward the next seasons! Two very important reminders:
1.If you're making a lot of cards for any season, remember to get your cards in TWO WEEKS BEFORE these posted deadlines; sending a couple hundred cards right at the deadline really makes it nearly impossible to get your cards mixed in the last couple boxes!

2.Making "general" cards that can also be used for a holiday are the MOST useful to our heroes. We got lots of "love" cards as well as ones that specifically said "Happy Valentines Day" --- that helps a lot when we don't know how many heroes will be sharing a box.....they can use the general love cards, but don't have to write them all out before V-Day. So - "Lucky to have you" and "Some bunny loves you" are great sentiments for spring!
St Patricks - due Feb 10

Though we do send out St Patty's Day cards, we send a lot less than we do for Valentines and Christmas - we've never gotten one request for St Pat's cards, and we've gotten some surprised comments like, "Wow you even send St Pattys cards!" So - the need is NOT as big for these as for other holidays.

You may still make St Patty's cards, but if you would have to go buy new stuff to make them, we'd love to save you the expense and ask for you to focus on our general cards - thinking of you, birthday, missing you, love, thanks, and no-sentiment. We need LOTS of these, and your help in getting those for us would be awesome!

Easter - due March 18

Bunnies and chicks, as well as religious cards are welcome. You can also make "spring" sentiments for those who don't celebrate Easter!

Mother's Day - due March 31

It's not too early to start thinking about Mom and Dad cards! Consider sending in a half dozen of these while sending in your other spring cards, just to get our stash built up for the first Moms Day boxes! Also - if you can separate your cards out so that the ones that say "Happy Mother's Day" are separate from the ones that say "Love you Mom", that helps us be able to get the Mother's Day cards targeted to mail first, and fill in with the general ones!

**** NOTE! If anyone is interested in making cards, or has a few or a bunch of A2 sized cards that they want to give to OWH, I send packages frequently, and if you want, you can mail them or give them to me, and I will include them in my package if it is easier for you that way. Just email me if this is something your interested in, OR you can mail them directly to your favorite OWH Shipper!