Support Local Businesses

Reminder: Support local businesses and small business chains. 

Farmer Boys in San Jacinto are generous with their fundraising donations. They are donating just shy of $100 to my after school program with LINC Housing/Cares. These funds will be used to supplement a field trip in the near future. They are also doing ongoing fundraisers for my after school program.

I am grateful to LilPixieBOWtique for their very generous donation valued at $2755 to the LINC Cares after school program. The owner donated personalized and handmade bottlecaps and dog tags with accessories to our End of Year Resident Appreciation Event. We had a jewelry making table open to all attending residents free of charge.

I am also thankful to Cooking and Kids for their generous offer of 10 dozen shortbread style “sugar” cookies for our event mentioned above. She donated a healthy spin to the typical holiday sugar cookies. They were made with flax seeds (I think this is her personal signature!) and the extra  bonus was that they were cut out into cute shapes – stars, flowers, circles, and gingerbread men for decorating. 

Last but not least, I am thankful to K. Ville Designs for donating a diaper cake. This was one of several raffles given to the residents who remained at the event for its duration.  Thank you Karla for making this item extra special! (Diaper cake pictured on the table.) Karla doesn't have a website so if you're interested in learning more you may contact her at Sensory Time Center in Murrieta. (The gal smiling is the property manager for the 55-unit (200 resident) community.) 

In the past six months, I have received donations from Walmart, Stater Bros, Vons, Sprouts, Hemet PAL (Police Activities League), a local home schooling mother, and cupcakes from So Good Gluten Free Foods. 

Thank you to everyone above who has participated in giving back to a local community who is grateful for your generosity.


Signed, 
Jessica wearing 1 of many hats - Resident & Youth Services Coordinator/After School Program Coordinator

Favorite Health Tips for 2011

For dry, chapped lips – Put a little coconut oil in your navel and follow it with some on your lips. Do this 2-3x a day for a few days and watch the improvement unfold! No more chapped lips! Bottom line: Coconut oil is not only good for consuming but excellent for improving your skin’s suppleness!

My favorite natural product for 2011 – by far is Silver Shield with Aqua SolTechnology. We picked up the cosmetic gel from a local herb cottage when we were looking for a safe, natural antibiotic. We removed the neosporins and alike from our medicine cabinet and needed a suitable replacement. This is it!! Perhaps costly as compared to the alternatives but wins in the faster healing process, it is safe – no harmful ingredients and backed by research (no bad reports)...just to name a few of the benefits. After talking to a friend about this product, she told me that her family consumes the silver shield liquid version in their water and that she gives her 2 year old the product by a medicine dropper daily. The next time I went to the cottage I purchased the liquid and started adding a capful to .75l of water daily.

The second runner up (a very close first) - Arnica Gel. We use this for bumps and bruises and it also helps with muscle soreness. It comes in a tube that costs about $8. It seems to last awhile! A little goes a long way. 

My favorite new membership for 2011 – Nature’s Sunshine membership is free with your first $40 purchase and thereafter you receive 20% off for every purchase that is at least $40. Purchasing the two silver shield products qualifies you for the discount each and every time. They have many other great products. (I am not affiliated with them.) Besides I don't know what happens after the first year. I haven't gotten that far yet. But, for right now - I'm happily taking the discounts for two products that have helped my family heal faster.