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I'm completely new to this, I'll admit!
For the last month or so I've had my friend on MSN chatting
"so what yer doing?"
"Writing to David Tennant."
"No really, what are you doing?"
"David Tennant! Writing him a letter for an autograph!"

Few days later...

"Woohoo, autograph back from blah blah."
"Who? Whatty?"
"The blonde chick from Doctor Who to you'"
"Awesome! Your obsessed."
"I know."
"... Would Red Dwarf cast sign stuff for me? >.>"
"Probably! Lookit here! *insert this forum address*"

And here I am Anyhoo, that someone became my introduction, sorry about that. Back on topic, while my friend writes to them while chatting about all sorts of twoddle to me at her computer, I as a newbie have just spent 2 hours in the bath with lots of smelly stuff and music on hand writing my letters in handmade charity cards, and planning what little magazine photo snippets of them to include, and wondering if a keychain from the charity I work for might be nifty, while my cat sits on the toilet seat telling me to write to Liam Neeson re Aslan. Might take her up on that.

How do you do it? Any rituals? As i expect the bath is soon going to become my work place

Hi pied piper, welcome to fanmail.biz, its a great website!!!

I think that a key chain is a great idea, good luck for your charity!! Its good to take to to spruce up you letter, the clebes will probably appreciate that!!

Des

I work for Hospiscare, its a series of branches in the South West of England [mostly Devon] that cares for people who are facing the last days of their lives. It isn't about 'getting better' anymore if you get my drift. Its all about pain control, allowing family to be with them every minute of every day left if they want it, and keeping spirits high and enjoying the time left. We run a centre for therapies, arts and crafts, aromatherapy, pet therapy, massage, hair care, manicures, etc, and also have a garden for them to spend time in and look after, with music, tv, dvd collection [which is my project currently] and similar. We also collect people who are being cared for at home to spend the day with us having fun.

Its a pretty great place and the atmosphere is beautiful, not daunting like you'd expect it to be. Problem is, only a third of our funding is from the government, the rest is allll donations and fund raising. I'm thinking after a while of doing this myself and seeing how dedicated i can be with it, i might set up a charity project for it, maybe for later in the year or next year so i have a good amount to auction locally.

PiedPiper wrote:I work for Hospiscare, its a series of branches in the South West of England [mostly Devon] that cares for people who are facing the last days of their lives. It isn't about 'getting better' anymore if you get my drift. Its all about pain control, allowing family to be with them every minute of every day left if they want it, and keeping spirits high and enjoying the time left. We run a centre for therapies, arts and crafts, aromatherapy, pet therapy, massage, hair care, manicures, etc, and also have a garden for them to spend time in and look after, with music, tv, dvd collection [which is my project currently] and similar. We also collect people who are being cared for at home to spend the day with us having fun.

Its a pretty great place and the atmosphere is beautiful, not daunting like you'd expect it to be. Problem is, only a third of our funding is from the government, the rest is allll donations and fund raising. I'm thinking after a while of doing this myself and seeing how dedicated i can be with it, i might set up a charity project for it, maybe for later in the year or next year so i have a good amount to auction locally.

Sounds like a GREAT idea!! I'm sure they will more than appreciate it {thumb2}

Well my my, look who it is Now I have to take the credit for intoducing my dearest friend to the forum. I have to complain a little though, since it appears she never actually listens to me properly haha. It was the dark haired girl from Doctor Who But I'll let you off seeing as you're not a fan and cheerfully sit there listening to me prattle on.

It never occurred to me, but there are lots of people on here who actually collect for charities, to do auctions. Maybe have a word with your branch, or even head office and see if they think they could arrange something? I'd love to collect autographs for auction for the hospice my uncle was cared for in (my cousin makes handmade cards and sells them for it) but its the actual auctioning bit that stumps me. Know idea how I'd go about that. But anyway, I'm sure there'd be plenty of people who'd help you out, if you were interested in doing it Then you could send off requests for charity autos (signed without dedications) and maybe the charity will help pay for stamps etc. You could always slip in a request for a signature for yourself, for the actors you're a fan of haha.

Re: cat and Aslan. There's a member here who sends autographs from their dog to celebs. Weasel McPuppy. When I first saw a post of theirs I thought their name was Weasel. Took me ages to realise haha.

PiedPiper wrote:I work for Hospiscare, its a series of branches in the South West of England [mostly Devon] that cares for people who are facing the last days of their lives. It isn't about 'getting better' anymore if you get my drift. Its all about pain control, allowing family to be with them every minute of every day left if they want it, and keeping spirits high and enjoying the time left. We run a centre for therapies, arts and crafts, aromatherapy, pet therapy, massage, hair care, manicures, etc, and also have a garden for them to spend time in and look after, with music, tv, dvd collection [which is my project currently] and similar. We also collect people who are being cared for at home to spend the day with us having fun.

Its a pretty great place and the atmosphere is beautiful, not daunting like you'd expect it to be. Problem is, only a third of our funding is from the government, the rest is allll donations and fund raising. I'm thinking after a while of doing this myself and seeing how dedicated i can be with it, i might set up a charity project for it, maybe for later in the year or next year so i have a good amount to auction locally.

Welcome to Fanmail.biz and I wish you the best of luck with your project. I am involved with the Dale (descisions at life's end) project which is similar to what you do, but providing paliative care just for the over 60s. I really wish you luck with your fundraising. It sounds like a great place to work {thumb2}

osiris wrote:
Re: cat and Aslan. There's a member here who sends autographs from their dog to celebs. Weasel McPuppy. When I first saw a post of theirs I thought their name was Weasel. Took me ages to realise haha.

Oh god i feel like a prat cus i thought it was a real name!!

Haha thats brilliant.

I don't know if i can get away with doing signed photos of the rats. o.O

Realised I never actually answered the question! I don't have a little ritual but I do tend to write them while sat crosslegged on my bed watching DVDs or listening to music, either that or sneakily writing them while at work (shuuuushhh don't tell). I also tend to rewrite them over and over, crossing out bits where I sound like a prat, rewording things and adding bits in I'd forgotten. I also completely rewrite them if I make a spelling mistake. I can't adbide crossed out words, it makes them look so untidy. I have to write on A4 lined paper, or my writing just goes off totally in the wrong direction and I look like I was dizzy while writing it haha.

By the way, anyone else getting a Cadbury's Creme Egg vibe from this thread? How do you eat yours?!

osiris wrote:By the way, anyone else getting a Cadbury's Creme Egg vibe from this thread? How do you eat yours?!

LMAO I thought that too {thumb2}