Well lookie look, it's a mini-book!  Oh dear, that IS corny, isn't it?!

I have created a mini-book as a record of a scrapbooking fundraiser that I was involved in a couple of years ago.  With a little help from 80 other like-minded scrappy ladies, we raised just over $2,500.00 for the New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation.  So now I have a little reminder for myself of how it all played out, on the day.

Why the NZBCF?  My Great Grandmother, Jessie Kearns. She died of breast cancer at a young age.   Not to mention that a scary number of women in New Zealand in each year are affected by breast cancer.  One in nine of us in our lifetime.  I could go on....

Back to the scrapping... I hid some journalling behind a photo of my great grandparents, and used several small photos to complete my album.  This is the only photo in the whole wide world of me QUILTING.  Yep, I have only done it once, but I would like to have another go some day.

We had a giant spread of morning tea - sandwiches, sweets, cakes and cupcakes, yum yum yum!  The quilt I made was assembled from donated fabrics, in all different shades of pink.  I had a lot of help from Linda at the Timaru Sewing Centre, which was invaluable given my (lack of) previous sewing experience.  It was the most popular of all the raffles by far, eventually going to a local woman who had been undergoing breast cancer treatment.  Perfect.

During the event, I ran random pop-quizzes and face-the-music quizzes, to give out spot prizes.  Jacob was only 8 at the time, and he was my prize runner on the day, as well as my scrappers-rubbish-bin-emptier and raffle-ticket-seller at times too.  He did an ace job.

And that about sums it up - a successful day once again.  Thanks for taking the time to share my memories with me today. Make sure you pop into the shop and grab yourself some of these lovely papers and embellishments to play with, before they're all snapped up!