Bring some items from newest list of items that we are taking (please donate all other items to your local charities):

- NEW Mens and Women’s Toiletries (toothpaste, toothbrushes, combs, brushes, shampoo, soap (no bar soap) and hair elastics, clips)

- NEW Men’s socks and underwear

- NEW Women’s socks, underwear and bras

- NEW Kids socks and underwear

- Food

- Makeup

- Suitcases, tote bags etc.

- Hangers

- Baby bum cream, diapers, baby wipes

- Paper towel

- Toilet paper

chapstick

Bug Spray

Flashlights

Tweezers

Batteries

Lotion

Shaving Cream

Sun Screen

Powdered Baby Formula

Soy Baby Formula

Mosquito Nets for playpens and strollers

Underwear & bras

Bottled Water

Reusable bags

I would really like to thank Arcan Resources for the unbelievable donation to cover our expenses!! This has made it possible to be the hub for Calgary!

All of our donation drive items are ending up at 1 place! If you are hoping to drop off and are in the area, please drop off directly to them, if you are passing one of the drop off locations below you are still able to drop off there. Thank you so much!!

Sentinel Self Storage located at:
2 Bowridge Drive NW
Calgary Alberta T3B 2T9

Drop off in Residential area on the front door step:
3048-28 St sw
403-701-8912

Thanks Bug & Blossom
1632 14th Ave. N.W., Calgary
North Hill Centre (right beside the Fanattic (flames) store)

Tuscany mama is accepting donations today:
128 Tuscany Valley Rise

Donation Drop off at Riva’s Eco Store
1237 9th Ave SE Calgary AB
403-452-1001

Star Bright For Kids
309-500 Country Hills Boulevard NE
Calgary, AB T3K 5H2

Vancouver Drop Offs!!
Raspberry Kids
#504-1540 west 2nd avenue, Vancouver, bc v6j 1h2
We are located in the Arthur Erickson waterfall building and the closest cross street is Fir. Please go to the intercom, use the # key to scroll until you get to #504 and then buzz up. Use the elevator located next to the intercom and our suite is located on L5. If you are having troubles with your drop off please feel free to call the warehouse number 604-568-5674.

Byfield Insurance can take donations, I have some storage. 1915 34 Ave SW. (403) 685 4455. Our hearts and thoughts are with our fellow Albertans.

A donation drive in Calgary this Friday:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=227134550635720

Another residential drop off!
270 evanscreek court NW!

Residential  #1, 304 Ross Ave,  Cochrane, AB

The town hall on the main street of Slave Lake ablaze. (Screengrab from CTV Twitter stream - CTV broadcasting)

A small Northern Alberta town, Slave Lake, has ended the weekend in a state of despair. People watched the news footage as nearly 30% of their towns structures have burnt to the ground, including hundreds of homes, churches and businesses. For more information on the fires please read The Globe & Mail’s article.

I can’t believe the amount of love and support pouring in for the town! Read my sister’s beautiful post on Gratitude and Grace. If you are like me it is so difficult to sit back and feel helpless SOOO lets help!!

Monetary Donations- www.redcross.ca The Red Cross is the best place to donate money! The Red Cross is already in action and they  need our support.

Goods-We are currently working on getting our retailers to accept donations for Slave Lake residents who have run for shelter in the surrounding churches, community centers and loving homes! Please watch below for updated drop off locations. Our retailers will generously post their locations below. If there is no drop off location near you please email the team at info@weangreen.com to arrange alternative arrangements.

What is needed? Everything from shampoo to blankets and clothes. Diapers and baby food as well as non-perishable food.

As some of you may noticed I have been auditioning for a spot on the Babybot team for over a year. Not only do I love this store to pieces the owners are amazing friends of mine so I thought maybe I could bring them down to LA with me. As you can imagine it wasn’t very hard to convince them to join me! Babybot’s owners are also designers so I thought I would take advantage of that and let them have full control over our shared booth design and take all the credit for it later.  I am still blown away by our booth! It was incredible and they only bossed me around until 2 in the morning the day I got to LA to set up;) At least I was good for something! After building walls and setting up displays and placing products our booth looked amazing!

The event began on Friday morning and one of the first celebs to walk through the door was Martyn LeNoble, Christina Applegate’s fiancée and new baby daddy! It was great chatting with him and hearing about their new baby girl! With a great start to the event I was equally as pleased with every celeberty I had the opportunity of giving Wean Cubes to.

Not only is Kelly Rutherford my favorite tv mama she is also now one of my favorite real life mamas! She had her absolutely adorable daughter, Helena in tow!

Yes, that is the absolutely beautiful Antonio Sabato Jr. and his equally beautiful baby mama, Cheryl. Can’t wait to see this baby;)

I knew Autumn Reeser from Entourage and her recent successful show, No Ordinary Family. Her and her husband Jesse are expecting their first baby and her glow was contagious!

Sandwiched in between two absolutely beautiful women! Minnie Driver & Kathleen Robertson are both mamas to toddlers too!

Karl Yune, from Memoirs of a Geisha joined the gifting suite with his extremely radiant wife. I can’t wait for his new movie, Real Steel to hit the big screen, it sounds awesome!!

Stay tuned for more from the gifting suite….

Wondering why I haven’t returned any calls or emails for the past 4 days? I had to practice my SnowRumble: Babybot vs. Monster skills so I could put out a little challenge to all of you lovelies! Although my competetive nature said “BOOYAHHH” to everyone who missed their chance at the 5% promo code for successfully whooping the first level of SnowRumble I was feeling a bit sad for those who wanted to purchase Wean Cubes for 5% off:(

This is my cheap attempt at an apology:)

I contacted Babybot and told them that I would give any player who beat me at the game 5% off Wean Cubes from their store. They have stepped up to the challenge and matched my discount. Yes that’s right folks, beat me at SnowRumble and you will be rewarded 10% off Wean Cubes until December 17th. Even better? For everyone who plays on Team Wean Green, you will be entered to win a Babybot/Wean Green gift set just in time for Christmas! I have also put out this challenge to some other lovely manufacturers that Babybot sells for! The larger team Wean Green is the bigger the chance that a Wean Green reader will win the gift set!! Read below for all the boring but extremely important info!

How to play:

1. Download the game FOR FREE!! http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/snowrumble-babybot-vs-monster/id403376143?mt=8

2. Once you create your Posse, name it ‘Wean Green’ and then Your name- Mine is ‘Wean Green Mama’.

**CHECKOUT BABYBOT’S INFO PAGE TO FIND OUT HOW TO PLAY!!

3. Remember to submit your high scores after you play! Go to the high scores area and submit your scores.

4. After you have submitted your high scores you can see where you stand on the online high scores!! If you figured out how to cheat and managed to hack your way into a higher score than mine, send me an email to info@weangreen.com and let me know your Posse Name. If I see that you indeed beat me I will email you back with your promo code.  If I discovered you were fibbing, watch for the giant snowball on your front window:)

5. Get your friends involved! Make sure everyone puts ‘Wean Green’ at the start of their posse name and together Team Wean Green will rock the world of manufacturers! If team Wean Green beats out all the other Babybot teams, all of our team members (regardless of their abilities or lack of) will be entered to win a Babybot gift set just in time for Christmas!!

6. Rate the game!!! You can rate the game on iTunes! Every person that rates this game 5 stars with a comment will be entered to win a limited edition Colin doll from Babybot & Monster Factory! Woot Woot.

6. Break a finger…ummm, I mean leg!

We ran in memory of those we have lost and miss dearly as well as in honor of those who are continually fighting this awful disease.

Our super amazing team raised over $2000! Next year our goal is to double it!!

I will post the registration info as soon as it hits the CIBC Run for the Cure website! Next Years run is on October 2nd and the team party will be on September 30th. Can’t wait to see more of you out next year. Thanks for the donations everyone!!

Invitations:

Once again I used the powerful force of www.evite.com! And once again I used a Tiny Tillia template, I absolutely LOVE those designs!! Check out the one I used (remember it was supposed to be an OUTDOOR party:) http://www.evite.com/app/invitations/create/event.do?template=dstillia_outdoorparty

Don’t like evites? Try using plantable paper (like our inserts in a pack of Wean Cubes). I get the paper from a Canadian company, http://www.botanicalpaperworks.com/. They have AMAZING service and grow some awesome flowers.

Activitues:

I had planned on teaching the weaner’s how to play a couple different games but they did not need my help at all!! There was plenty to do and they had a blast chasing the cat, dancing around, singing, screaming, and did I mention screaming?

Food & Decorations:

The menu was rather abundant this year!!  We had everything from cheese and crackers to beef on a bun.  With all the food I was a bit concerned that the little weaners wouldn’t eat their veggies so I decided it would be best to make a little village of vegetable people. The vegetable people were great! I even shared a couple with the kids. Check out the tablecloth under the food, I had made sewn that for last year’s party and this was its 3rd appearance! It is such a great room decoration, there is really no need for anything else when you have a really bright crazy tablecloth!

The cake is really my favorite part of any party.  This year the choice seemed so obvious as to what I was going to make.  Monkey for the monkey. She’s 2, need I say more?

Loot Bag:

Wean Cubes filled with the home made modelling dough (and one Wean Cube of Smarties, sorry mamas!) Check out the recipe for the modeling dough http://blog.weangreen.com/recipe-of-the-week-modelling-dough/

Presents:

Same as last year. What?! You didn’t read that one:) I asked that everyone bring a donation to the CIBC Run for the Cure that Team Wean Green participates in. The girls each raise their own money and then participate in the run with us.  The smallest weaner has it a bit easy as she is comfortably seated atop three large wheels, next year we will let her run it! She did great and raised over $100 at her birthday party!! Huge thanks for the donations everyone!

Did Mommy Cry:

Although I had a blast, this picture sums up my day, ONE BIG BLUR:)

Huge Happy Birthday Baby!!

Love Mama Wean Green

xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxxoxoxoxox

I love live music!! Especially when it raises awareness for environmental non-profit organizations.  Join me Saturday April 11th at MEC store from 12-2 OR at Marquee Room at 8:00.

“This April, Canadian singer-songwriter and 1% for the Planet member Chris Velan will be touring the country to spread the word about 1% for the Planet, and environmental non-profits like the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society and The Big Wild. Sponsored by Mountain Equipment Co-op, the tour will make stops Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Toronto, and Montreal. Each of the dates includes an MEC in-store performance at noon and an evening venue concert.”

Not going to be in Calgary? That’s okay check out 1%’s blog and find your Canadian city tour date:

1% and live music across Canada this month | One Percent Blog.