The Board reports.....

RPLOTN  Treasurer’s Report – April 30, 2005

Available funds balance from March 31, 2005                  $2443.70

Income:

No income reported in April, 2005                                                             0.00

Expenses:                      

Receipts from Annie Ste. Marie for Charity quilts:

                    Quilt backing fabrics                                           $69.84

                    Charity quilt shipping                                          140.77

Total expenses pd to Annie St. Marie cq #129                                             - 210.61

Available funds balance as of April 30, 2005                      $2233.09

Submitted by G. Kay Neal, Treasurer, RPLOTN

Warm Hearts Report:

April 24th: Thus far for April, I have sent 2 WH cards.

Hugs,

GAquiltR

NOTE: A new web page has been created with for the Warm Hearts - 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 with any special projects for our sewing sisters who need our special support.

Membership Report:

Editor's note:  MC' s mom passed away, April 20th.  Her report will be completed in June.

Judy, laine and TxsRed have left the guild.

If you have any roster changes, please send them to:

rplotn-membership@sympatico.ca
Magicat, Membership

SSS Report:   

Secret Sisters is moving along just the way it is supposed to.  

Well, that is if you don't count lost email addresses, mixed up snail mail addresses, and the other usual glitches.  Any Secret Sister who finds herself 'missing in action' please do feel free to email me, and I will try to locate the problem.  Also reminder to the Sisters to check the

  Fabric Stash Secret Sister Bulletin Board  

now and then as this is often where the ladies go when email addresses et al get lost. 

(smoky notes - it's also a great place to leave "secret" messages for your sister too!!)

Louie/TX

Charity Report...  People giving their time to RPLOTN!!!!!!!!
        Becca/AK     Lez/EDM     Colleen/MT       Needles/OK     Polly/TX
         Tyrena/TX    Lulu       Wendy/ONT       Purple Cathy
47 blocks and labels were sent to Glenda/OR for joint pillows for patients to rest their sore joints on.  Glenda's way of thanks to the center that 'brought her back' from her fall.

I will post reports of donations in the areas quilts have been sent, when they are donated.
Right now they are being put together and/or finished.

We received a thank you letter from Bruce Joyner of Cystic Fibrosis. The 4 quilts donated will be auctioned off by Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. (see link: Cystic Fibrosis).  The first three sent are going to be auctioned in North Carolina. The one quilt to be sent to Atlanta for auction.  There will be more sent to him when they are completed.


R.P.L.O.T.N COMFORT QUILT STASH REPORT:
APRIL INVENTORY

BATTING:
18 YARDS
6 Twin sized battings in packages from Warm And Natural Co.

12.5” BLOCKS:
20 Blocks

8.5” BLOCKS:

6.5” BLOCKS:

CHARM SQUARES:
 32 assorted 6.5” squares

QUILT TOPS:
8 tops finished

YARDAGE:
24 yards for backing

LABELS:
25 labels in bank

When quilts are donated, I will post reports in the next month’s newsletter.

****OUTSTANDING************* ACTIVITY Feb and March:
      02-06-05... $ 69.84 backing fabric
     02-22-05... $108.67 Postage
                   ....$ 32.10 Postage
     03-30-05............ 120 Half yard cuts of fabric donated anonymously from Fabric.com
     03-31-05............ 6 Twin sized battings donated from Warm and Natural Company
    Note: after losing some of my copy pasting from the meeting, I have gone back and reposted these figures above to correctly state the dates.     You can check out the posts I put in Yahoo regarding these donations for a more detailed story.

THANK YOU Everyone who is receiving boxes of projects to donate in the future.
KEEP WORKING HARD TO GIVE TO THOSE LESS FORTUNATE!!!!!!
ANYONE WHO WISHES TO PUT A QUILT TOGETHER, or has a quilt top that needs batting and backing & binding. PLEASE LET ME KNOW!! AND AND I WILL SEND YOU BORDERS, BATTING, BATTING AND BINDING or whatever you request. 

Thanks!
 {:oD Annie-TX

May 2005 Birthday Report               

The Birthday Report...   

April 2005 Birthday Report...This month was a total flop!  I sent birthday greetings to 20 ladies and due to a glitch in Angelwinks (or so it would seem), no one received them.  Angelwinks gives the option of holding cards and sending them out when you direct them to and I use that option when filling out cards to our membership.  Somewhere in this month's sending something went awry.
 
My computer also fried as Windows XP was downloading an update towards the end of April and a heavy Spring snow storm killed the electricity.  When the power came back on, the program threw itself into an Error mode and fried Windows XP!.  PC Fitness has worked on this computer for three weeks, reloading from scratch and testing, testing, testing.  It has been frustrating to say the least!
 
I am so sorry you ladies did not receive your greetings but later this month I shall send out Belated Greetings to you.  Please tell me if you receive it by just clicking on my return address in the body of the message!
 
Colleen-MT,  Birthday Gal

              Birthday Greetings from all of us!!

Happy Birthday from your quilting sisters and Colleen/MT, the Birthday Gal for 2004-2005

NEWSLETTER Report

Ahhh - spring is really here (LOLOLOL). I laugh because we did have beautiful weather for most of the month, but as I write this report, the temperatures are below freezing, snow is blowing again!!!  Meanwhile, my tulips are blooming - and huddling close!!  My irises, hyacinth and hostas are all poking out of the ground - and, at the moment, thinking twice about how the heck they ever got planted in Edmonton!  I fear for the bleeding hearts and strawberry plants - but nature is one to never give up.  Speaking of never giving up....  my soccer team went to an indoor tournament in Calgary in mid April, and after a tie and a loss, won a game!!  THEN - we went on to win the Bronze placement in our Tier.  A happy bunch of ladies over 35!!  Now, in spite of the cold, we must knuckle under - our first outdoor game will be Mother's Day - ohhhh I sure hope it warms up by then!

Once more I am in awe of the stories and pictures you send.  What an incredible group of quilters !!  Cyber hugs to you all - and thank you once again for your wonderful input. 

Pictures of the quilts that have been made for the RCMP families I wrote about last month can be found at: www.piecesquiltshoppe.com.  Look under the photos page link.  For those RPLOTN members who sent squares - they are truly appreciated.

SMOKY

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