Stampin' Sweet

This past weekend me and My Man volunteered for the Xcel Energy Day of Service. What is this you may ask? It is a day that Xcel Energy Employees, their families, and customers give back to the community. I became aware of this from an email I received from Xcel Energy. I was interested, so I looked through all the volunteer opportunities they had available and signed us up. I chose to volunteer for El Sistema where we would be making cardboard violins. I really had no idea what to expect. As you can see from the photos above, our group made cardboard violins for young students at some local schools here in Denver. There were about 25 volunteers at our location. Some people traced the shapes, some people cut the shapes and others used masking tape to assemble the violins. Once they were taped together in the violin shape, we wrote messages on them for the students. As part of the program the students attend, they along with their parents, will paper mache the violins, then they wi...