Christmas Ornaments for our Soldiers

[Tinker]

Hi fellow Scrollers,
I am looking for some help. Our family has a charity called "Project Rudolph" which began 2 years ago as my son's Eagle Scout project. Various grade school children decorated brown paper lunch bags and wrote letters to "Dear servicemember". In each bag was placed two children's letters, a letter from an adult as well as a candy cane some American and German candies and an 0rnament. These bags were then sent to our daughter who lives just outside Ramstein AFB, and Landstuhle Regional Medical Center in Germany. There, they were handed out to service members going through Ramstien during the Christmas holidays. Our son flew over to help assemble and hand out the bags. About 1500 bags were handed out at the AirForce base as well as to the Hospital at Landstuhle, to the Fisher house, and the Keebler Recovery Barracks. They also sent about 250 bags to Iraq and Kuwait. This continued the 2nd year and we were able to deliver about 4500 bags to Germany, Iraq, and Kuwait. My daughter has upped the anty to 7000 bags this year!

We found that the most popular of the ornaments were the ones I cut out of 1/4" plywood and then painted and decorated.They fit easily into their ACU pockets and were quite durable. This is where I need your help. We are hoping to have all "Hand Made" ornaments this year, which means we need volunteers to help cut them out so they can be sent to Germany and added to the decorated bags. We also need all the letters we can get !! 22,000 of them!!!!

If you can help us , please let us know. "Project Rudolph" is part of "Project TLC " and is a non-pfrofit 501 (c) (3) charity which is sanctioned by "America Supports You". You can read more about Project Rudolph at Home. When there, take a minute and read the responses in the "Guest Book" from the people who either helped with the project, or were recipients of the Gift bags.

This is a great project for crafters of all kinds to be involved in, as well as church groups, scout groups, schools,and such. Please help spread some Christmas cheer to our service men and women this Christmas!!

Attatched, are some pics of some of the ornaments we cut out last year. They are very basic, making them both fast and easy to stack cut, and also less likely to break. All of them except the praying hands and cross were painted with a flat white then decorated on top of that. The Flying Angel with trumpet was painted gold over the white, the Cross and Hands were left the natural wood color with a clear finish. Thought you might like to see what kinds of ornaments we are looking for.

We look forward to hearing from you.
Ray & Cheri Archibald

[f250]

You can count me in on some cutting!

Tom

[Barefoot1]

I'm in, send me details via email as well as your time line. I am going to be out of the loop for about 3 weeks here starting next week as I take on our kitchen remodel and will be building kitchen cabinets for the first time. . . .

[Tinker]

Thanks you guys this is really awesome, that you are so willing to help us help make our servicemembers Christmas' away from home a little brighter.

Ray

[Rolf]

I am in, we did somthing similar for the breast cancer charity.
I think if everyone on this forum did a few we should come up with a decent number.

[DukeNukem]

I have a few left over from last year,I'm in just send me an address where to send them and they'll be on ther way send the address to jtscreativewoodart@yahoo.com

[Tinker]

The ornaments can be sent to:
Project Rudolph
c/o Ray & Cheri Archibald
600 S. Wilson
Oakley, Idaho
83346

If you would like more info on Project Rudolph you can go to Home
this is a web site that was set up 2 years ago for Project Rudolph where peopls can make contributions, get information, and leave feedback in the guestbook. Please feel free to look thru the web site.
Thanks again for your willingness to help us help others

[DBourdon]

Ray,

You can count me in too.

Glad to help out.

Don

[Max]

Count me in, too.

[Steviegwood]

I have several of that style left over from last year. You can count me in on sending some.Steve