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The Board reports.......
December beginning balance $1833.05
No Income to report for December .00
Charity Report ~ from our Antlers.... (the Lotto page will also be updated.)
.... from Needles:
As QD would say I am now the antler for both Brenda and Claudia so from the Mississippi to the Pacific....
Claudia is now President, and Brenda is with granddaughter who is undergoing surgery
this January, so Needles will do the party.
For the Charity Quilt.... I would like for the ladies to send to me 3 - 10" squares of fabric for quilt
tops, all different colors.
For a lotto draw - another 3 - 10" squares if you want to be in the lotto too.
I am making "Wacky Quilts". They are very cute. Any type of material you want to send will be fine. The more sets you send in the better chance you have to get in on the lotto drawing. Remember these are squares of fabric for charity that will go to help keep another person warm whether it be a child or an adult. With your help we can keep another one warm. Won't you please help us help others?
I am saying Thank you to all ahead of time.
You can send the fabric to me at :
Mary Nelson
P. O. Box 255
Tyrone, Oklahoma
73951-0255
I will appreciate all that you send and will put it all to good use. And good
luck with the Lotto draw!
Sincerely
Mary aka Needles.
.... from Willo44:
Twisted Nine Patch Lotto Blocks
Here is a new twist on an old block! Take a simple nine patch block and turn it into something spectacular! You will use this block over and over
again to make anything from table runners to quilts in a snap! The block will be 12 inch unfinished, submit two blocks for each entry, one for lotto
and one for charity.
Email me: kaseychristensen@shaw.ca for sign up and
directions!
Willo44
If you are quilting an RPLOTN quilt - and have it ready to give away - please take a photo and let us (and Smoky) know so we can update our Charity quilts web pages.
.... from Brenda:
Lotto blocks from 2006... Claudia won them! and promptly and graciously declined
the blocks.... saying
"....well, I think you should keep the blocks and use them for charity quilts.....They would get used that way....LOL......I am so slow......I would love to have more blocks.....but please let me donate them back to the Antlers...........Thank you very much.......
My "winning" will be to see a picture of the finished quilt ready to donate.
Purple Hugs.....
Claudia in ND"
Brenda will be sending the blocks to Needles and she can start a quilt.
For 2007....
I will be changing my lotto blocks for 2007 to a four by four block - any color.
Picture will come later.
The block should be 4 1/2 inches finished - working with 4 - 2½" squares.
Brenda
Warm Hearts Report:
GAquiltR is in Florida for the holiday season - but reports 5 warm hearts given out in December.
Hugs,
GAquiltR
NOTE: A web page has been created for the Warm Hearts at www.rplotn.com/warmhearts.htm
- PLEASE let her know if someone is in need of the comforting gesture from the RPLOTN group. She will send out an e-card on our behalf, and the Warm Hearts page can be updated if you request it - with any special projects for our sewing sisters who need our special support.
Membership Report:
Please welcome a new one to our group:
Colleen/AB who lives in Caroline, Alberta, Canada
You can reach me at lostberrypicker@gmail.com
Betty/lostberrypicker
SSS Report:
Ladies the best way to mail to your SSS is as follows: From address as her's and to address her's. This way they don't know who is sending and also wondering why they sent themselves something.
Also another way is to have a go between angel. Maybe you can arrange to have the package all ready with stamps on it, but not cancelled, send it to the angel and then they send it on. Seems lots used Angels last year. Just some useful suggestions in getting your packages out to your SSS.
Also I would like all SSS's please email me, that they have received all information for 2007 and that the system is working.
Purple Hugs,
Donalyn
SSS photos can be found at http://www.rplotn.com/SSS2006.htm
... go to the main web site www.rplotn.com and choose
the Secret Sewing Sisters link in the left column!! Pass it on!!
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December Birthday Report No report this month.
Irishga
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December - it went where?
This year end came and went far too fast. Here is it mid January - and I am still wondering why my Christmas tree is still up and decorated. Perhaps because I have not yet figured out how to combine working two jobs and household duties and other commitments - including this newsletter.
Family is healthy - Christmas was spent together and with friends and relatives. Missed my parents who are living out on Vancouver Island - and they missed us. So much so that mother has decreed that her clan will travel to the island next Christmas! It will be interesting. You'll hear more!
Operation Red Nose was a success - thru the Friday and Saturday nights of December, and New Year's Eve, a total of 766 impaired people were chauffeured home. These folk kept over 400 volunteers busy - as any one night saw only 50 or 60 volunteers out to drive/navigate or escort. New Year's Eve we had 230 volunteers out - 189 driving a total of 208 rides, 8 volunteers answering phones for rides, 12 volunteers coordinating the ride teams, and the remaining volunteers greeting and registering everyone coming in, training new volunteers and generally overseeing the goings on. Most of the 230 people were on hand at midnight to ring in a Happy New Year together! It was quite the experience for me working for them! No need to bore you more!
As life returns to normal (?) I have a quilt to finish and send out the door this weekend so that it reaches Toronto by the end of the month. It's a fundraiser for cancer. You'll hear more!
DS (21) has moved back home. He and girlfriend will be raising their child separately - baby is due in April. A lot of the excitement of a new life has kind of fizzed on me - but not nearly as much as it has for the parents-to-be. You'll hear more!
With two cats to help me quilt - I should be able to get more done right? Hobbes has joined the family - coming home with DS.
Never a dull moment around here!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!
Smoky
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