Viv Sloane We had eight members present at out March 3 meeting. Donations of fabric, buttons and dolls were sorted. Vicky reported that a donation of 70 books and beanies and 16 nice sets of dolls were given to Sun Lakes Charities. Annette delivered a total of 170 books and beanies to five schools and…
Viv Sloane Eight members met at Annette Kitto’s house where we met for a workshop. Donations were made to Child Help and thank you letters were received. Jose’s Closet also received a donation. The rest of the afternoon was spent matching and packaging books and beanies; about 400 were done. The goodies that Annette and…
Viv Sloane We had 10 members attending our January meeting. That includes Paula Swanson who will be helping us for a few months. Deliveries of most of the Barbies, books and Beanies went to West Valley Foster Child Help. Other deliveries went for the Clothes Cabin and Jose’s Closet and School for the Deaf for…
Viv Sloane Seven members met in the Sewing Room for our last meeting of the year; six went to Poolside for a lovely lunch before. We received a large bag of baby hats to use for our baby dolls as they were made too small for real babies; also a box of beautiful cashmere squares.…
Viv Sloane Five ladies attached our September meeting. Several of the ladies are not back from going home for the summer. We sorted fabric and other items. Several dolls were brought in. Vicky and Irene have been busy this summer dressing 150 Barbie’s and getting them ready for distribution. They also worked on many other…
Vivian Sloane Eight members attended the April meeting. They went to the lunch at pool side as several of the ladies are going home for the summer. Karen Polusny was kind enough to give us dolls, fabric and trim, etc. as sadly she is no longer able to sew. We received a generous check from…
Viv Sloane Eight members and three visitors attended the February meeting. Annette Kitto reported many distributions including three schools (150 books and beanies and 15 babies), 50 Beanies and books to Tucson schools, two new Title One schools, five Barbies to Clothes Cabin and the amazing organization called Jose’s Closet serving 700 kids. We have…
Viv Sloane Nine members met at Annette Kitto’s house. She served a delicious lunch and Vicki Benson provided dessert; 6000 Beanie Babies were received from an anonymous donor and sorted according to type. Books also were cleaned and sorted. Most of the day was spent matching books and Beanies and sacking and tying with ribbons,…
Viv Sloane Five ladies attended our November meeting. A delivery was made the end of October. Our December 4 meeting was attended by eight members. We welcomed returning members Annette Kitto and Vickie Benson. A few of the members brought items for us to go through. Vicky Buholz presented a list of the 180 items…
Viv Sloane Five members attended the October meeting. We spent over an hour going through all the items donated by Dorrie Meehan and Karine Williams. Lots of beautiful fabric, trims and other items. We are very sad that Mary Kauffman will not be able to join us this year. Not all our members are back…