Easter -- Tori

Well this was a strange and somewhat strained Easter weekend.
On the one hand I have three lovely grandchildren who all came with their parents, as well as my youngest and her beau to our house on Sunday for festivities. We ate until we felt we would burst, we hunted eggs, we played a rousing 2 hour game of giant snakes and ladders on the living room floor, we watched Jesus Christ Superstar (family tradition). The kids got along, even my girls all got along. It was all in all a nice day.

Sadly the undertone of it all was rather subdued. We all did our best to keep the spirit up for the sake of our youngsters, though.

We live about twenty minutes from Woodstock, Ontario. Tragedy struck there last Wednesday afternoon. A beautiful little eight-year-old girl named Victoria (Tori) Safford went missing after leaving school. The same school my daughter attended when we lived in Woodstock. Surveillance video from the neighbouring high school shows her walking with a woman, just after school let out. No one has seen her or heard from her since. The story is being carried in every paper, on all the news, even Canada AM is carrying it. Last night more than a thousand people joined together in a candle light vigil for her. Every is wearing purple ribbons or purple shirts (Tori’s favourite colour) Her family has posted a reward for her return. Follow this link to the facebook page about it; look at the pictures… who knows where she is by now maybe you have seen her! http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=67560362225&ref=nf

AS far as I know there still has not been an Amber Alert put out for this sweet little girl. The reason being given is that the police don’t have enough evidence of an abduction (ie/ no vehicle) DAMMIT shouldn’t an Amber Alert be put out for ANY missing child? This is an eight-year-old. Its not like she’s a teenager who didn’t feel like going home!

Bookplates

Well I finally figured out how to make my own bookplates. at first I will be honest, I wasn't sure precisely what they were, so (of course) I googled. Turns out I had been seeing them my whole life and just didn't have the correct name to attach to them. They're those nifty labels you see on the inside cover of a book where it says who the book belongs to or who donated the book or whatever.

Well, once I had this newfound knowledge I just had to put it to work. I am now pleased to say that I am heading out to buy sticker sheets for my printer and will soon have bookplates with my covers on them. Then I will sign them and be able to give them to any interested reader out there.

What a neat idea! Thanks go out to one of my readers for her request that started this all!

Have a steamy day everyone!
Jojo xoxo