About Hardin County, KY

Announcing a great Staging opportunity in Elizabethtown:

Stage It For Spring

Feeling the winter blues? Not yet excited about Spring? Does your winter decor have you at Whitt's End?

Don't fret - check out this fabulous FREE event!

Stage It For Spring

March 26, 2009

7pm

Whitt's End: Home and Garden

Cool Springs Plaza on Ring Road

Join me, Sheila O'Mara, of Staged SO Right for an evening of Staging demonstrations on how to inject Spring into your home decor.

Refreshments will be served.

10% discount will be given toward the purchase of any items made that evening.

Make the Winter Blues become Spring AHHs!

Looking forward to seeing you there - call 270-300-6045 with questions or for directions!

I have to give a big shout out to a great connection I have made in my community. I have the privilege of working with an amazing event coordinator that also happens to do a great job decorating cakes. Her name is Rebecca Reszka and her company is Social Solutions.

I usually take two cakes whenever I go to a presentation at a realtor's office. This was a marketing techniques that I learned of at the ASP course I took in July 2007. I tell the realtor that I will bring whatever flavor cake they choose. I take that request and then I call Rebecca and she works her magic.

Rebecca makes me two cakes, one decorated and one not. The one that isn't decorated usually has a bag of icing that is ready to decorate with lying next to the cake. (Everything needed to have chocolate cake without the aesthetic value.)

The decorated cake (symbolic of a house after staging has been completed) usually has gold piping along the sides and bottom and my company's name, Staged SO Right, piped in the middle. Sometimes she adds a few sparkles, but usually there are no graphics. This week however, she surprised me! She took the logo off of my business card and created it in icing on the cake.

I was so thrilled with the way it turned out. The pictures really don't do it justice because I took the photos at an odd angle and I am just not a good photographer. It really did look wonderful and looked just like my business card. I appreciate her attention to detail and she makes it so easy for me to refer her to other people. I have found a great partner here in Elizabethtown and hope you all can find someone just as wonderful to support your businesses.

As a fairly new Team we are always looking for fun ways to interact with our community and recently Hardin County's Repair Affair was brought up at one of our meetings. Repair Affair is our community coming together to make a difference for our low-income elderly and disabled citizens who need help making repairs to their homes. With both skilled and unskilled volunteers, minor repairs and safety issues are mostly addressed.

The event is to be held Saturday June 6th, 2009 and what is needed are the following:

• Teams of skilled and unskilled volunteers from businesses, churches, etc. to come work on the planned day.
• Contributions are needed to purchase materials to make the needed repairs.
• Your friends or neighbors who are in need of some assistance repairing or winterizing their home or help with a safety concern, give them an application.
  

The day of the event, volunteers receive a T-shirt and a lunch is provided by other volunteers. It is a great way to bring our community together and get to know your neighbors and share your knowledge.

Our team at Marsha Booth & Associates of Remax Executive Group, Inc. has issued a challenge to all other Realtors in our area to form their own team for this event. We hope to get all the different real estate companies involved that day to help support our community. So if your team hasn't signed up yet, email Marsha Booth at marshabooth@remax.net or Sandy Wallace at sandy_wallace@earthlink.net and get your team started. We are excited to do our part and would love to work beside any of you!

You can find more information by visiting the website http://www.hcrepairaffair.org/

I found this quote today and thought that it would be good to share.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer." By Albert Camus.

Economic times being the way they are and the uncertainty of survival for many people, we must take heart in believing that we can survive. Not only can we survive, but we can muster all of the strength we have acquired and shine like the sun. Perservering through the darkness of the desolate and desperate times, we will be an example to those who may be faltering.

I see many people who have an "invincible summer" within them. Find them and learn from them. If you are one of them already - thank you for your inspiration and please continue to set an example.

We are excited about the upcoming Seminar Living Beyond the Golden Years where several topics will be discussed such as:

Non-Medical Home Care
Home Health
Staging for Seniors
Allegro-Assisted Living Choices
Nursing Home Resources
Preferred Memorials
How to Out Live Your Money

Are you and your loved ones prepared for life beyond the Golden Years? You may not know it but there are local agencies and service that are dedicated to the welfare of the Season Citizens of our community, so this Free Seminar is available to share information and resources to assist you in preparing for the inevitable. Everyone ages, why not do it securely?

Join us Wednesday March 11, 2009 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM at The Allegro, located at 108 Diecks Drive, Elizabethtown. Seating is limited so please call to register 270-765-4414 As soon as possible.