SNAP'S DOING IT AGAIN! ANOTHER BOOK DRIVE!!!

Please vote for WookieBooks!!!

Hello Friends and Family!

Last year I started a company by the name of WookieBooks to help raise
money for animal rescue groups and other non-profit groups in the Houston
area.

Thanks to a program sponsored by Chase and LivingSocial your
support could translate into a $250,000 grant for WookieBooks.

We need at least 250 votes by June 30 to proceed to the next phase of the
grant process.  Wookie and I would be very grateful if you cast a vote for
us!!!

To vote:
1.  Go to http://www.missionsmallbusiness.com/
2.  Click "Log In & Support" icon
3.  Search for WookieBooks (all one word) in Houston, Texas
4.  Vote

Please forward to anyone you think would support our cause.  Thanks!!!!

Very, very ingenious!!! Must watch!

As a fellow book lover, I love, love, love this video. They deserve a high four (my paw only has 4 toes) for this clever stop motion animation!

Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKVcQnyEIT8&hd=1

5 more days until . . . . Scout's Honor Rescue's Book Drive!

Be sure to clean out the closets, garage, attic, media closet and bookshelves because Scout's Honor Rescue's 2nd annual book drive is in 5 days!!

2nd Annual Book Drive for Scout's Honor Rescue!

Ready for the Grammys . . .

What are these girls thinking??? There are some crazy dresses!

BUT not everyone is blessed with a beautiful black, curly, fluffy coat like myself.

As I watch the show from my Green Throne (also know as the chair I'm not allowed to sit on), I can't wait to see the performances.

Like last year, some will be great, others will be head scratchers and the rest . . . bad.

Hopefully, no egg performances or meat dresses because those make me very hungry and my mommy doesn't allow food after 7pm.

Hurry! We are in the final days of the Hutsell Book Drive!!!

Are you ready for some FOOTBALL?!?!

I'm ready for the food my mommy will make!

The food I will try to steal from her when she's watching those sappy Budweiser commercials!

And the food she might give me if I act innocent and give her my pretty girl look!

Oh yeah and something about a Supper Bowl? Specifically, my supper bowl. Why is it empty??

Anyways, happy Supper Bowl!

Frisky Paws Rescue Still Needs Your Books!!!

My good friends at Frisky Paws Rescue have been collecting boxes and boxes of books BUT they aren't done yet!

So please clean closets, bookcases, garages, attics and storage units to donate your Books, CDs, DVDs and VHS to Sonora and her team of volunteers so they can save more furry lives!!!!

Call Sonora at 713-928-2751 or email her at sonorahud@earthlink.net to coordinate the drop off.

THANKS a Woof to those that have already donated!!!!

TGIF!

I am sooooo glad it's FRIDAY!!

The joint Pet Paradise and SNAP Book Drive brought in more books than ever!!!

Congratulations y'all! Your donations overflowed our 2 box trucks!!!

Thank you also for the volunteers at all 5 locations! You're efforts are saving more of my furry friends everyday!

Watching my mommy load and unload all the boxes made me tired!

Woof! That's my official shout out to all my human friends at SNAP and Pet Paradise!

Don't Forget to Bring your Books, CDs, DVDs and VHS!

to Pet Paradise and SNAP's Book Drives! Tomorrow is the last day so make it count!!!!

Donations Locations:

Pet Paradise, 7511 Monroe Rd, Hou, TX 77061
Pet Paradise, 14500 JFK Blvd, Hou, TX 77032
Pet Paradise, 7117 Will Clayton Pkwy, Hou, TX 77338
SNAP Houston, 1801 Durham, Hou, TX 77007
SNAP San Antonio, 6758 Ingram Rd, SA, TX 78238

SNAP and Pet Paradise Book Drives Start Today!!!

WookieBooks Book Drive Goes into Overdrive Second Book Drive Scheduled for January in Houston and San Antonio

SNAP and Wookiebooks are once again working together, this time with the great folks at Pet Paradise, to raise funds for spay-neuter. A second book drive has been scheduled for the last week in January. (Various Pet Paradise and SNAP clinic locations in San Antonio and Houston will participate. See the January 2012 issue of SNAPtales for exact dates and locations at www.snapus.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=7595#FS-8) The October event was a huge success. Thousands of books were collected at the SNAP clinics in Houston and San Antonio, and WookieBooks was on hand to haul them off to their processing center. There the company sorts the books for distribution. Some of the books are sold online (with SNAP receiving 30 percent) while others go to literacy programs, homeless shelters, and community centers. If you’re more in the mood to buy books than to get rid of them, you can shop the WookieBooks online selection at its Amazon store, its Alibris store, or its eBay shop. WookieBooks is a for-profit social enterprise that harnesses the power of e-commerce by collecting and selling used books and media items online to support literacy and animal rescue initiatives, all the while saving hundreds of thousands of these items from the landfill. According to its website, the people at WookieBooks "strongly feel that books and media items possess knowledge that should live on, long after they have lived with you." WookieBooks accepts hardbacks and paperbacks of all genres. They also accept textbooks (preferably no more than five years old and with ISBN numbers); certification study guides; technical, medical, and law texts; pre-recorded VHS tapes (preferably in new condition); and DVDs and CDs (in original cases with all artwork--no burned copies). When it comes to fiction, DVDs, and CDs, they especially like obscure titles! WookieBooks asks that you do not donate damaged (warped or moldy) books, academic journals, literary criticism, encyclopedias, magazines, periodicals, condensed books, activity books, or Harlequin romances.!

Hutsell Book Drive Has Begun!!!

Book Drives Save Lives, So SNAP's Having Another One!

It's Another WookieBooks Book Drive!

[WookieBooks, Pet Paradise, and SNAP team up for a book drive]

WookieBooks, Pet Paradise, and SNAP are teaming up for a second book drive to save animals' lives!

Just drop off your used books in good condition between Monday, Jan. 23rd, and Saturday, Jan. 28th, at any of the following Pet Paradise or SNAP locations:

Pet Paradise, 7511 Monroe Rd, Houston, TX 77061 Pet Paradise, 14500 JFK Blvd, Houston, TX 77032 Pet Paradise 7117 Will Clayton Parkway, Houston, TX 77338 SNAP Houston, 1801 Durham, Houston, TX 77007 SNAP San Antonio, 6758 Ingram Rd., San Antonio, TX 78238

(Exact dates and hours vary by location. Please contact stores for schedules.)

Sales of books donated benefit SNAP spay-neuter programs! ENTER THE BOOK DRIVE PRIZE DRAWING! Win a $50 Amazon Gift Card from WookieBooks! Sign up when you drop off your books! No donation or purchase necessary to enter.

PLEASE DONATE TEXTBOOKS (THESE BOOKS SELL ESPECIALLY WELL SO DONATE ‘EM IF YOU GOT ‘EM!!), HARDCOVERS, PAPERBACKS, DVDs, CDs, AUDIO BOOKS, AND NEW VHS TAPES.

PLEASE DO NOT DONATE MAGAZINES, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, ENCYLOPEDIAS,READER'S DIGEST BOOKS, ROMANCE NOVELS AND DAMAGED/SOILED BOOKS.

To learn more about Pet Paradise and their AWESOME services, visit them at www.petparadiseresort.com. To learn more about the WONDERFUL things that SNAP does for animals, visit them at www.snapus.org.

Be sure to "Like" them on Facebook and Twitter at www.Facebook.com/snapus or www.Facebook.com/petparadise!

Welcome Hutsell Elementary School PTA!

WookieBooks is proud to announce Hutsell Elementary School PTA as our new fundraising partner!!!

This partnership will help raise funds for the PTA to continue supporting classroom initiatives such as literacy programs, new technologies and super fun events like the school carnival!

Hutsell Elementary School PTA will be sponsoring a month long book drive starting on January 18th through February 10th. Donations can be dropped off in the collection boxes located in the School foyer during school hours.

Hutsell Elementary School is located at:

5360 Franz Road

Katy, Texas 77493

281-237-6500

To learn more about Hutsell Elementary School, visit: http://kisdwebs.katyisd.org/campuses/he/Pages/Default.aspx

And "Like" them on Facebook at:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hutsell-Elementary/132145046829962

It's Here!!!!!!!!!!!

GOT ALL YOUR OLD BOOKS, CDs, DVDs and VHS PULLED OUT AND READY TO DONATE?!

Today is the first day of the Frisky Paws Rescue's Month Long Book Drive! So please call Sonora at 713-928-2751 or email her at sonorahud@earthlink.net to coordinate the drop off!

Remember, the more you're able to donate, the more furry friends are saved by Frisky Paws Rescue!

Whoof!

Month Long Book Drive for Frisky Paws Rescue Starting January 7!

Perfect timing!!! Frisky Paws Rescue will be hosting a month long Book Drive. Doesn't get any better than that!

This gives you plenty of time to make good on your New Years Resolution to clean out your closets and de-clutter!

We all know cleaning closets, garages, bookcases and attics are overwhelming, not fun and usually not high on the "honey-do" list. So, just target one area in your home, clean it out and donate your new and used Books, CDs, DVDs and VHS tapes to Frisky Paws Rescue. Then tackle the next area, donate and so forth until your entire house/apt is done.

Those good folks at Frisky Paws will be accepting donations from January 7th - February 7th, so come as many times as you want and donate as much as you can.

If your donations are too large or maybe you are clearing out an estate, WookieBooks can pick-up! Just let us know how many boxes and we'll send the right size truck over.

Together, let's have a great book drive so we can raise a bunch of money for Frisky Paws to save more lives!

To donate books, CDs, DVDs and VHS, please contact Sonora at 713-928-2751 sonorahud@earthlink.net.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Wishing you a Happy and Prosperous 2012!

I welcomed in the New Year safe and sound in my house! See my lovely party tutu! A girl can never have too many tutus!

I know folks like to celebrate with fireworks but they make me so nervous that I pace inside my house! My mommy (who loves me very much) knows I am a nervous nelly around loud noises, so she kept coming to get me to go back to bed.

That was awfully nice because she was super sick and I kept pacing until the wee hours of the morning. Now we are both very sleepy!

All that pacing did help me think of my #1 New Years Resolution. It's not a traditional resolution in which you give up a certain behavior for a time or stop it all together, (although my mommy would say I could give up pacing in the middle of the night), but my resolution is MORE!

Rescue MORE animals! Save MORE books from landfills! Make MORE $ for my charity partners! Host MORE book drives! Meet MORE organizations that need my help! Make MORE friends that bring me treats at Christmas!

Wait, disregard that last one, that was completely selfish. Well, if you happened to have the treats already bought, then it is OK, but don't make a special trip to the store, wrap them in Christmas paper and put them in my mailbox. I mean that's asking WAY TO MUCH and totally selfish!

I digress. Resolutions. Whether you make them or not, shoot for MORE!