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Click here for AHeart4Clowning.com printable Smile Coupons!
As part of our 2012 5-Years of FAB FUN Celebration, we are happy to give our Readers AHeart4Clowning Smile Coupon printable, to add to your FUN and sharing Miles of Smiles!
We hope you love them, and will have FUN sharing!
Download your printable template for Smile Coupons here: AHeart4Clowning Smile Coupon
MORE:
>>>NEWly-published book especially for Hospital Clowns, Caring Clowns, Healthcare Family Entertainers, Applied Humor Therapists and SmileMakers, about entertaining in the healthcare setting (click on this linked text): Injecting Healing Humor in the Healthcare Setting: Entertaining Effectively in the Healthcare Venue
>>>You’re invited to receive our FREE Hospital Clown/Healthcare Family Entertainer/Applied Humor Therapist/SmileMaker e-Newsletter… by signing up to receive FREE Hospital Clown e-Newsletter (click on this link here)
>>>Join the Quest: Share Miles of Smiles!
Click here for MORE: Celebrate 5 Years of Fab FUN!
Who doesn’t like to get gifts?!
Never before in the history of this blog (begun in 2007) have we had the wonderful opp we have today, to so generously gift our AHeart4Clowning Readers!
Here’s how AHeart4Clowning Readers receive $100+ Gift, from our Heart to yours…
This is a great time to buy those books you’ve been wanting to read, get our brand NEW book, buy books for your Healing Humor friends or clowning group — at a sweet discount!
Coupon CODE: BUYMYBOOKS305
This limited-time special promotion ends on December 14, 2011 11:59PM PST
More promotion details, book ordering Tips, and to grab your own special AHeart4Clowning.com Coupon, click this link: http://www.aheart4clowning.com/2011/11/28/discount-coupon-save-25-percent-on-aheart4clowning-books-for-hospital-clowns-and-healthcare-family-entertainers/
Click this link to preview and purchase AHeart4Clowning Books: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/beckycortino
Please Note: This promotion, any and all related terms and conditions are offered by our Publisher, and are not under our control.
$$$>>>The amount you save depends upon your purchase, of course — but at a savings, with 25% discount! Enjoy 
2) Have you read our newest book?
Injecting Healing Humor in the Healthcare Setting: Entertaining Effectively in the Healthcare Venue
This book is especially for Hospital Clowns, Healthcare Family Entertainers, Applied Humor Therapists, and SmileMakers on the topic of entertaining effectively in the healthcare setting. In addition to being a great read providing:
- Pointers and Tips for Entertaining in the Healthcare Setting
- Inspirations and Ideas for Putting Your Best Foot Forward
- Actionable Steps to be an Effective Healthcare Family Entertainer
- Journaling and List-keeping Section
$$$>>>A Special Reader BONUS Gifts ($45 Value) is included! More about this book: http://www.aheart4clowning.com/2011/09/22/new-book-injecting-healing-humor-in-the-healthcare-setting-entertaining-effectively-in-the-healthcare-venue/
Preview and purchase this book here: http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/injecting-healing-humor-in-the-healthcare-setting/17270124
Click here to: Celebrate 5 Years of FAB FUN with Us!
3) Snag your own Comp Ticket to our 5 Years of FAB FUN Celebration in 2012! As a special “Thank you!” to everyone who has ever purchased any AHeart4Clowning book, CD, DVD (audio-or-video), a digital product or online course, we have a Special Online Event planned — details to be announced — be sure to register to receive event details, and your Complimentary Ticket to attend!
Register any purchase you make, to receive a Complimentary Ticket to attend AHeart4Clowning’s 5 Years of FAB FUN Celebration, a special “Thank you” from us to you! After you make your purchase, click this link for event details, and to register:
http://www.aheart4clowning.com/2011/11/07/aheart4clowning-celebrates-5-years-of-fab-fun/
$$$>>>5 Years of FAB FUN Online Event Ticket Valued at: $55.00(Complimentary)
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So, O-K — what’s the deal, how can this be?! Just over one year ago, I released a video explaining about AHeart4Clowning.com, our books and my efforts. In it, I pointed out that this site and AHeart4Clowning.com is not a “typical” ‘business model,’ for an organization to survive and thrive lol That is certainly true, and remains so!
Personally, I don’t “make a living” from this site or my efforts here, but I am pleased for the opportunity to share my knowledge and experience to benefit you. In turn, it has been a delight to meet so many like-minded folks! I wholeheartedly do believe that we make this world a better place by sharing our gifts and talents. I’ve been duly complimented by being accused of openly ‘walking my talk,’ and hopefully you can see this is evidenced as true, by all I put into this site and all AHeart4Clowning.com efforts for you…
So how can we “gift” $100 to savvy AHeart4Clowning Readers? Good question! For one thing, as they say — “timing is everything,” for us and for our Readers! All this happens to happily coincide with our upcoming 5 Years of FAB FUN Celebration, so that’s added coolness! It’s the ‘cherry on top‘!
But, this is all made possible through the excellent partnerships and long-standing working relationships we have. We are thrilled our Publisher is offering special promotions, because it means more folks are reading our books, more lights are shining in dark places crying out for it, creating miles and Miles of Smiles! YaY
Why am I offering BONUSES and a special Online Celebration? As a thank you to YOU, for your support of this cause, to bless you back. It is through your purchases of AHeart4Clowning books, our online courses and products, that this site remains here, constantly updated with fresh, new material ongoing, featuring important news that affects our ‘work,’ and spotlighting inspiring folks!
Through your comments, ideas and stories shared, ‘thumbs ups’ and sharing AHeart4Clowning.com, you have helped to make this site better. So, a heartfelt “thank you” for all of that. Thank you for all you do in your work, and also furthering this important idea of Applied Humor Therapy in the healthcare setting.
ADDED BONUSES: A series of FREE special events, features and FUN are planned for all of our AHeart4Clowning Readers throughout 2012 — stay tuned!
Click here to Stay Tuned: Lots Planned! Celebrate 5 Years of AHeart4Clowning FAB FUN in '12!
These events and FUN things will be ongoing throughout 2012, and NO registration is required — they’re for EveryBuddy!Watch this site and blog for details as they roll out 
So my hope for you, is not only increasing Joy in this work that only looks like play, but in some way I can, do and will continue to serve your needs through AHeart4Clowning.com
I sincerely hope if you buy a book, enroll in an online AHeart4Clowning course, or purchase a product from us, you will benefit greatly from it, as will all those you come into contact with, during your meandering journey.
If you never purchase anything from AHeart4Clowning.com, thank you for all you do and give, serving so actively in the Trenches! I hope you are blessed by all you find here, and what I offer helps you in your work.
Thank you one and all, for sharing Miles of Smiles!
My Heart to Yours,
Becky
Happy ThanksLiving!
At this time of the year, grateful hearts often turn inward to reflect on the days and years past, with thankfulness for many things that have transpired in the journey that got them to the arrival point called today...
I too, am thankful for so many wonderful things, but also thankful for things that while not as I would have liked — positively paved the way, shaped, and affirmed the direction and perspective of my work. These influences trained me up in the way not to go — most likely, in the opposite direction (as inferred) — but in the right direction, for me.
Daily, I am thankful for those who provided excellent and inspiring training. For those who allowed me to do the work that I knew I was destined to do — and did — and still do. Granted there aren’t a lot of folks who fall into this category, but thankfully there are fewer who were actually not supportive.
But I am sincerely thankful for those who were persistently not supportive of this work, of my unwavering Grassroots Perspective, and heartfelt desire to freely encourage and inspire as many folks as possible to engage in this wonderful work that only looks like play, from Day One. Were it not for you, perhaps I might have otherwise stopped my quest to learn and be so much more than I was (I never stopped trying), and to share my experiences with others, to help them.
Had you not so influenced me early-on, I might not have otherwise made such a big deal about spreading the Truth that all of this is really NOT “Rocket Science.” I might not have actually gone to such great lengths, and spent tireless hours to show those who were hungry to know more.
Had you not made it all seem like it was such a big, exclusive Secret that only the real Insiders could know and do, and if I — and all the others — were lucky enough, maybe we too could share the inner sanctum with you. Maybe I could have become mesmerized with the possibility. Perhaps I then would have just waited for that day ever to come. “Waiting” would have kept me too busy, preoccupied for anything else.
Then, I probably never would have written my first book, or my second book, or my third book, or my 4 online training programs, or established Humor-Bit TV or AHeart4Clowning TalkRadio, along with maintaining a half-dozen websites about Healing Humor, reaching so many, with encouraging messages and inspiring information they need to hear and want to know. 245 hospital clowns would not have received L-I-V-E training from a caring heart. The world would be a bleaker place, without the Miles of Funny Smiles now encircling it. If I believed at all in luck, and was anxious to be inducted into your inner sanctum, probably I would be waiting, still…
Had you not stressed your rigid requirement that all things fit neatly into a One-Size-Fits-All Approach, and I totally accepted that myth as fact, I might have never have realized the truth that One Size never fits all actually needed to be amplified far and wide — and so I did just that. “One Size” never works, especially in relationships, or in effectively injecting Healing Humor in healthcare. Afterall, that’s what we exist to do…
Your teaching helped me to understand the Truths that needed to be presented, so more hearts could be touched by compassionate others; more healthcare Humor Programs could be established, and improved. That’s what it’s all about, for me. I knew it was the Right Thing to do.
So thank you, my Naysayers of Days Gone By. I appreciate the fact that you challenged me! I whole-heartedly accepted that challenge. Had you not influenced me in the ways you did, and I did not feel compelled to run with this, we would not be having this conversation today.
Because of your influence, armed with unfaltering dedication, and a very clear understanding of my purpose, we made a positive impact in this world during the last 8 years!
But wait! There’s more…
Click here for Miles of Smiles: Funny Smile Makerz Kit + MORE
Funny Smile Makerz have been popular for years with a lot of folks all over the place wanting to share smiles!
Funny Smile Makerz Kit + MORE is now available on our established Podclass platform. Podclass is the awesome place on the web where we’ve offered our AHeart4Clowning and Healing Humor webinars and audio programs since 2008. It’s a very user-friendly platform you can visit as often as you like, and enjoy our classes, webinars and products ongoing, indefinitely!
Over the years we have offered the Funny Smile Makerz Kit, it has grown, but so has the need! With this in mind, we expanded the Funny Smile Makerz to much more than just an art file to print out…
Funny Smile Makerz have always been able to:
- Easily share Smiles everywhere
- Print as many Smiles as desired, often as needed
- Produce quantities of Smiles in batches
We’ve repackaged and renamed it: Funny Smile Makerz Kit + MORE — and also included:
- 37 Totally FUN “Bright Ideas” eBook, filled with experienced presentation and production pointers to create more FUN and Smiles
- FUN Printable Label Templates, to share smiles more creatively
- Video Tips
- Easy Printing Tips eBooklet
The Tips and Performance Pointers are designed to help you create a presentation or performance segment built around and using Funny Smiles for all types of audiences and venues. These ideas are based on my tried-and-true experience as a Family Entertainer since 1997. We believe this repackaging offers much more value, service and product, presented in an all-in-one user-friendly environment, organized and easy for you to find, use and enjoy!
- Click here for Miles of Smiles: Check out Funny Smile Makerz Kit + MORE
This all-NEW very cool version of Funny Smile Makerz Kit is better than ever, with added features, NO waiting, NO email hassles.
Easy! Download and use right now, and when you need them!
- Fast! Or fast as your internet connection (can’t help you there lol)…
- No placing orders for ‘another kit’ or ‘supply,’ hoping to get them in in time!
- No more hoping the order arrives as your ordered, risking disappointment!
- NO shipping charges! NO sales tax!!
- THE most inexpensive way to create Miles of Smiles!
- Can’t find your Funny Smile file downloaded on your computer? It happens, doesn’t it?! No more searching your computer for the art or label templates — easily found and always available in your Funny Smile Makerz Kit + MORE — just a click away!
Our Promise: If the Funny Smile Makerz Kit + MORE fee increases — you will pay no additional charges.
When new materials are added to this program, you will receive the value at NO additional charge!
Check out our NEW Funny Smile Makerz Kit + MORE (click this link)
NEW Funny Smile Makerz Kit + MORE for MORE Smiles!
Recently, I shared with you that due to a change in services provided, our publisher informed some of our products will no longer be available for purchase after July 18th.
In addition to our audio and video products, our Funny Smile Makerz Kit is no longer available for download from our publisher site. Earlier this summer, we relocated the Kit there for ease of purchase and delivery, from the previously-established email delivery system.
Keeping in mind the purpose of this very popular kit, and the kind of work you do, we reviewed possible ways to continue to make the Funny Smile Makerz Kit available. Over these years, it has grown!
We’ve also heard your feedback, thoughts and ideas. You’ve told us how much you’ve enjoyed using the Funny Smile Makerz Kit, and we know the folks who get the Smiles get so much more from the experience.
Based on all this, we determined a redesign was in order, and the best way to offer the Funny Smile Makerz Kit + MORE was on our established Podclass platform. Podclass is the awesome place on the web where we’ve offered our AHeart4Clowning and Healing Humor webinars and audio programs since 2008. It’s a very user-friendly platform you can visit as often as you like, and enjoy our classes, webinars and products ongoing, indefinitely!
Over the years we have offered the Funny Smile Makerz Kit, it has grown, but so has the need! Keeping all of this in mind, we have expanded this product to much more than just an art file for you to print out…
Funny Smile Makerz have always been able to:
Easily share Smiles everywhere
Print as many Smiles as desired, often as needed
Produce quantities of Smiles in batches
We’ve repackaged and renamed it: Funny Smile Makerz Kit + MORE — and also included:
- 37 Totally FUN “Bright Ideas” eBook, filled with experienced presentation and production pointers to create more FUN and Smiles
- FUN Printable Label Templates, to share smiles more creatively
- Video Tips
- Easy Printing Tips eBooklet
The Tips and Performance Pointers are designed to help your create a presentation or performance segment built around and using Funny Smiles for all types of audiences and venues. These ideas are based on my tried-and-true experience as a Family Entertainer since 1997. We believe this repackaging offers much more value, service and product, presented in an all-in-one user-friendly environment, organized and easy for you to find, use and enjoy!
NEW Funny Smile Makerz Kit + MORE
This all-NEW version of Funny Smile Makerz Kit is better than ever, with added features, NO waiting, NO email hassles.
Easy! Download and use right now, and when you need them!
Fast! Or fast as your internet connection (can’t help you there lol)…
No placing orders for ‘another kit’ or ‘supply,’ hoping to get them in in time!
No more hoping the order arrives as your ordered, risking disappointment!
NO shipping charges! NO sales tax!!
THE most inexpensive way to create Miles of Smiles!
Our Promise: If the Funny Smile Makerz Kit + MORE fee increases — you will pay no additional charges. When new materials are added to this program, you will receive the value at NO additional charge!
Check out our NEW Funny Smile Makerz Kit + MORE (click this link)
What is a hospital clown? A caring clown?
Let me count the ways…
A hospital clown, caring clown or healthcare family entertainer is like a Valentine…
Representing Compassion… Caring… Love.
Never foisted upon anyone…
Rather, offered open-handedly — their gift of Joy and Wonder.
Transcends barriers: hearing, sight, speaks all languages — to the heart.
Presented by a Heart Strong and True; nobly intent to deliver Happiness…
Recipient considers; if chosen, embraces the moment whole-heartedly.
The Gift is offered in a way as if to say, “I could, if you want, entertain you…
…let’s whisk you away for just a moment, from this place.
For a time, forget the pain you’re feeling, sadness, loneliness, suffering.
Replace it with Joy, Laughter, Humor – Love. Hold it in your heart. Remember. Always and Forever.
It’s a Gift freely given. No strings attached. It’s just for you, I offer this…”
Love, pure Love.
’tis always the season for Hospital and Caring Clowns to share their hearts and to give lots of smiles! One of the fun things about making Clown Rounds is having a little leave-behind, or a small token as a reminder of the visit. Of course stickers often come to mind, but there are many things that can be made at low to almost no cost — simple is best. But do keep in mind the facility guidelines, and get any item approved before you begin handing it out.
Here is a nifty-gifty basket I just made up for our next Clown Rounds… I purchased this cardboard ‘handbag’ from a crafts store, in the party section, and filled it with fun small give-away items.
TIP: Make your own gift basket or bag by cutting the bottom off a cereal box to the desired height, cover it with fun contact paper (so you can wipe it clean, for hygiene). Attach your handle with brads or knotted yarn, rope or ribbons, fill it with cool stuff — and away you go!
Great Give-away: Make Miles of Smiles with the Funny Smile Makerz Kit
Share Your Smile Everyday - Make the World More Beautiful!
Join this worthwhile-wonder-full worldwide celebration, won’t you?!
On 10-10-10 Wherever in the World you are!
Begun by my friend Bronwyn Roberts in Australia.
More info: http://letslaugh.com.au/smileproject
About: My friend Certified Laughter Leader Pam Wener’s Smile Project Event in Montreal
Here is a great video on Smile Project Montreal, featuring Pam Wener, Certified Laughter Leader:
Total coolness!
Isn’t this a great-fun video?! Seeing Pam share our Funny Smiles at The Smile Project Montreal makes us smile! How totally FUN and completely wonderful to see her sharing Smiles and laughter, as she does! Crowd reactions are absolutely priceless and precious.
The colored craft sticks Pam uses are way cool FUN, too — great idea!
It’s heartwarming to see Miles of Smiles appearing all over the world YaY
What a thrill to have our Funny Smiles touching so many hearts!
Miles of Smiles — it’s a simple idea really, isn’t it?! It’s all about the idea — a simple-simple concept. Let’s hope this becomes a true epidemic!
Join the Miles of Smiles Campaign — Smile project — share a Funny Smile!
Get your own Funny Smile Makerz Kit here: Funny Smile Makerz Kit+MORE