Scissors, NASCAR and Sewing-How Do They Go Together?
- posted by: Rebecca
- posted in: Uncategorized
- on: May 19, 2009
As you may know, part of our trip last week involved a visit to Levine Children’s Hospital to sew pillowcases (see Angela’s post here). What you may not know is that our visit to the hospital all started with a pair of scissors and a NASCAR race. My husband, who happens to be a Jeff Gordon fan, was watching a NASCAR race a while back. I happened to remark that the paint job on Jeff’s car looked like our beloved Up In Flames scissors, so I decided it would be a hoot if the folks in the Hendrick Motorsports offices had some scissors to match their car. For those of you not familiar with NASCAR, Hendrick fields the Jeff Gordon, Jimmy Johnson, Dale Earnhardt Jr., and Mark Martin race teams. I poked around on the Hendrick website, ended up chatting with the lovely Di, and off went some flame scissors. While I was looking around on the Hendrick website, I noticed that Hendrick supported the Levine Children’s Hospital in Charlotte. That’s when I thought it would be cool if we could stop in there and sew some pillowcases with some of the kids. I spoke with Di, told her my idea, and she put me in touch with the wonderful Pam H., who works with the Hendrick Marrow Foundation. I explained the pillowcases and ConKerr Cancer to her, she put me in touch with the hospital, and Voila!, our visit was set.
We decided to thank Pam and Di in person, so on Wednesday morning we piled in the van and headed up to Charlotte. Di was great, and we gave her some Fiskars goodies to share with some of the gals from the office.
We headed over to the one of the shop buildings, where we got to meet Shirley-what a sweetheart! Shirley and her husband toured all over with one of the show cars for 11 years!
Then we met up with Pam and Courtney from the Hendrick Marrow Foundation. They were gracious enough to give us a behind the scenes tour of both shops, and we passed out some heavy duty Fiskars scissors, more flame scissors and the skull scissors to the crews for the teams.
It was amazing how clean and meticulous the shops were! We even got to go on Jeff Gordon’s transporter.
I’m afraid, however, we did a bad, bad thing while we were there-we introduced Pam and Courtney to the joy of Candy Cane Roca, hee hee! Don’t worry, we left them with a bag, and hopefully it will hold them over for a few days. Thanks so much Pam and Courtney, we really enjoyed ourselves!
It was a fantastic visit, all of the folks from Hendrick were so welcoming and friendly! I think they’ve turned Angela, Cheryl, and Kelly Jo into NASCAR fans. Ladies, start your engines!
Pinky #3405 says:
May 19th, 2009 at 9:19 amWell, how cool is that??!! Love it all! TFS!
Maxine Hodges says:
May 19th, 2009 at 9:33 amYou lucky, lucky ladies. I would have stowed away in that van if I had know you were heading for Hendricks. Wow, sounds like like a fantastic time. A picture with Jr’s car-how awesome! This is so cool!
Patty 2832 says:
May 19th, 2009 at 9:45 amI saw the pic on Cheryl’s post with someone from Gordon’s camp. We LOVE NASCAR around here! Have been loving the Saturday night races these last few weeks!
Even my 2 kids love RACIN’ BABY ! We have a banner and flag we put out and even a store type cooler we use for parties and such.
A couple of years ago, we visited the track in Charlotte and took a ride around the track! Too cool!
How great that you were able to coordinate between NASCAR and the Childrens Hospital!…and help the kids! I love that!
GREAT photo’s Rebecca, I’m going to make sure the kids read this and see all the pics! Though, they’ll probably bug me for some scissors!
Thanks for sharing part of your trip, hope you are rested!
Michelle 3624 says:
May 19th, 2009 at 10:15 amWow you guys really did have some very cool moments on that adventure.
Susan #2072 says:
May 19th, 2009 at 11:04 amI’m sooooo jealous! Dale Jr. is the man! Very cool what you did on the trip.
Tifany #5942 says:
May 19th, 2009 at 11:11 amSounds like fun! Thanks for sharing!
Laura Casey says:
May 19th, 2009 at 11:23 amOMGOODNESS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Meghan E says:
May 19th, 2009 at 11:27 amWhat a fun time
Jeannie #5377 says:
May 19th, 2009 at 12:03 pmVroom Vroom! Love my man Gordon! Glad ya guys did such an AWESOME job! Hope they enjoyed the fiskars goodies!
maryannehoekman5271 says:
May 19th, 2009 at 12:15 pmwow!!! what an adventure! My sister and her hubby would be so jealous!! they are huge nascar fans! Being from WI I will confess to loving Nascar and also matt kenseth! What a great story! Way to keep an eye out for a fiskars sighting of sorts!!! now to find where i can get a pair of those scissors and send em to my sister!
Debby 2852 says:
May 19th, 2009 at 1:04 pmWhat fun and a wonderful idea spurred on by a pair of Fiskars scissors.
Patty 2262 says:
May 19th, 2009 at 1:54 pmLove Nascar and what a chance to get a behind the scenes tour. Love it!
Stephanie #3584 says:
May 19th, 2009 at 2:36 pmI am not a NASCAR fan, but I am so glad y’all had a good time and that they were so accepting to you.
Now, where’s my Candy Cane Roca? Granted, I’m still savoring the Almond Roca sent to me back in February, but yeah, I need some Candy Cane Roca also.
Connie #627 says:
May 19th, 2009 at 5:17 pmThat is awesome!!! We donate to St. Judes such a great organization!.
Betsy #2572 says:
May 19th, 2009 at 5:23 pmHow so very very cool! I have some HUGE NASCAR fans around here…I’ll have to show them that Fiskars is a love language all of it own!!
Tona #4437 says:
May 19th, 2009 at 6:59 pmHow great! You guys just have too much fun!!!
Amanda #1485 says:
May 19th, 2009 at 7:01 pmThat sounds like such a fun thing to do! and it looks like you all had a grand time.
Kelly Jo says:
May 19th, 2009 at 7:08 pmThis was such an amazing part of the trip. Thanks, Rebecca, for setting it up!
Merlene #1166 says:
May 19th, 2009 at 7:36 pmWhat a wonderful adventure you girls had. Way to spread the Fisk-A-Love.
Michele #5828 says:
May 19th, 2009 at 8:21 pmI wish that I could have stowed away in Kelly Jo’s suitcase and joined you girls in the fun! We are major NASCAR fans here too!
Tina S. 3612 says:
May 19th, 2009 at 11:07 pmWhat an awesome time! Thanks for sharing.
RobinV #4844 says:
May 19th, 2009 at 11:19 pmThat is so cool. What a great expierence.
Laura Casey says:
May 20th, 2009 at 10:46 am#88 car to boot !! My son is GREEN !!! My hubby is a #24 fan ! Hendrick fans all over the place!
Kathleen says:
May 20th, 2009 at 8:14 pmWhat a great time!!! TFS. My husband works for Lowe’s so we are BIG Jimmy Johnson Fans!! Go Jimmy!!
Patti Smith says:
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:01 amGirl you know how racing is in the SOUTH….I would so loved to have been in that group with you…I have been a race fan all my life…Wow how super cool and hendrick motorsports WOWOWOWOWOWOW
RitaS says:
May 27th, 2009 at 10:10 pmThis is such a cool post about how so many things came together!! Way to make it happen Rebecca!!