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Dolly Dressers notice

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…

Dolly Dresser news

Vicky Buholz and Vickie Benson folded up the material that was left after someone ransacked our cabinet and took a lot of our material. Time to put a lock on it!

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.…

Dolly Dressers donate

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…

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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…

Dolly Dressers prepare Easter bags

Members filling candy bags to be used for the Easters bags.

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…

Dolly Dressers 2014 highlights

Johnnie Schofield standing next to her truck filled with 2,400 Beanie Babies which an anonymous person gave to us.

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…

Dolly Dresser news – November 2014

Pictured left to right are Johnnie Schofield, Rose Zimmer and Vickie Buholz going through some of the items we received this month. Photo by Viv Sloane.

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…

Dolly Dressers October update

This picture shows less than one quarter of the donations that were received over the summer. Photo by Viv Sloane.

Viv Sloane Seven members were present at the September meeting. Our meetings are held the first Thursday of the month, September through May. We always welcome new members. For over the first hour of the meeting we sorted all the things we received during the summer; beautiful materials and other sewing supplies plus about a…