V-Day

Valentine's Day is sneaking up on us, and that means: cute toys and crafts for shoeboxes!! The Dollar Tree and Target Dollar Spot have excellent toys and stuffed animals and crafts (as well as pretty cool Mardi Gras masks and eye glasses!)

Paper Dolls!

Something fun to send in the shoeboxes would be paper dolls. You can Google 'paper doll' and find tons of different dolls to print (some that can be colored by you or the shoebox recipiant) or buy books :) Either way, paper dolls are fun!

Pencil Sale

While looking for decent pencil images for a slide show, I found this sale (ends 1/16/11). If 67 packages of this were ordered, it would cost about $57.00, delivery would be free, and we'd have all 1000 pencils for our 200 boxes! (200 pencils have already been purchased.)

Office Depot Pencil Sale

OOOOh, La La!!

Just received an email from Samaritan's Purse...some of our boxes went to India and some went to Haiti!!! The ones for Haiti were just delivered.

UNO!

I heard thru the OCC Grapevine that Target has UNO cards for $1 this week. Anyone care to check it out and stock up? Let me know!

January Buys

January is upon us and it is time to buy those wonderfully cute stocking stuffers in the clearance section of your favorite store, rubber bands and quart ziplock bags!

Do not feel like you must only buy in these categories - if you find something you'd like to put in a box, get it!!

Please bring anything you buy for the OCC shoe boxes to me at church.

Thank you!

A New Year, A New Goal!

If you missed it, last year when people got together at Russie's to assemble OCC boxes, we started making plans for OCC 2011! We made 3 lists to help us get organized and have a smashing time!

We decided to fill 200 boxes this year. It seems like a good number. The shopping list seems quite daunting when it was broken down with what we put in each box. But, with everyone helping and buying everything all year long, it can be done!

Instead of a couple people buying things through the year, we wanted to create a place where everyone can go to see goals, what we need and what we have. This is the place! I will be updating it monthly with different things to buy that month. As I receive what you are buying, I will update the list of what we have so everyone can see our progress.