Christmas Card Connections Update as of 12/17/2020
If you still want to make cards or if you have made cards and I have not made a connection for you yet, please see the information below....
I apologize but because of very serious complications of Covid with a family member, I am unable to continue making Holiday Project Christmas card connections.
I am now partnering with Edward Craft and he has agreed to receive and deliver our Holiday Project Christmas cards!
Donna Martin
Check out his Facebook Page
Edward Craft #HolidayCards4Seniors
You can mail your cards to arrive to him by December 23rd or meet up with him to give him your cards. He is personally delivering the cards to senior living communities.
Contact Edward by cell phone,
832-341-2882 or mail cards to him at:
Edward Craft
The Village at Sugar Land
Edward is very willing to meet up with you to receive your cards.
Edward Craft 832-341-2882.
Thanks and have a VERY Merry Christmas!
Please text, call or email me if you have any questions.
I will still be able to approve volunteer hours for volunteers that need volunteer service hours for their card making. I can approve the hours through your request on your Volunteer Houston sign up or your individual form. Just email me pictures of your cards once they are completed and delivered.
Donna Martin
The Holiday Project
Give JOY ~ Get JOY
theholidayprojecthouston@yahoo.com
832-515-3862 cell
Card Guidelines:
In order to encourage creativity, very few guidelines are imposed on the making of Holiday Project handmade greeting cards. The cards may be almost any size, and the media used can be as simple as colored markers available at almost any grocery or drug store. Some people use combinations of media such as markers, rubber stamps, images cut from used or surplus store-bought greeting cards, cut-out computer-generated images, pasted bits of ribbon or felt, etc.
Here are a few general suggestions on other matters:
•Ideally the cards should be able to stand up if placed on a table, nightstand, etc.
•Please don't use glitter-on-glue. The glitter tends to get all over everything. However, pre-mixed "Glitter Glue" (such as is made by Crayola) is fine.
•Sentiments that imply that the recipients' circumstances are less than ideal (e.g., "Cheer Up!", "You are not forgotten", etc.) should be avoided.
•Greetings should be generic so that they can be appropriate to almost anyone. (For example, a Christmas card that says "Merry Christmas" on the front and "Wishing you all the joy of the season" or other similar sayings that are creative and/or festive inside would be fine.
•Please don't enclose or attach candy to the cards. (If you want to send candy or holiday treats to the residents they must be in sealed store packaging. The Activity Director can give treats to the residents).
•It's preferable that the cards not be in envelopes. (Some of the recipients suffer from advanced arthritis or other conditions that make the simple act of removing a card from an envelope quite difficult.)
•Cards should be signed by the persons making them.Any signature should probably include just the signer's first name or first names of group...
Please Please Please do not put anything about the state of a residents health ...such as I hope you get well soon or hope your health improves...the residents aren’t all sick that live in long term care and for the short term rehab patients in skilled nursing facilities.
Questions - email Donna Martin at: theholidayprojecthouston@yahoo.com
Thank you very much for caring and spreading JOY!!
“To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world” ...Dr Seuss
