Christmas Party

I hope to see all of you at our Annual Member Only Christmas Party on 5 December 2009 at 5:30 pm. The newsletter will be mailed out this week with directions. Please come with up to five ornaments to participate in the ornament exchange and a Dirty Santa gift. We always have such fun so I hope to see you there.

We have a winner!!!

We couldn't wait any longer. We asked Joann Ford, a fellow vendor at the Wright Street Methodist Church to pull a name for the Santa raffle and the winner is - drum roll please - Sherry Mize!! No one was more surprised than Sherry that she won. She said she never wins anything so this was a good one for her. We are all very happy for you, Sherry. A big Thank You to all the members who went about selling those raffle tickets - a total of 238 tickets were sold.

The Craft show went well also. We set up Friday morning - no small feat since we are all getting older and slower but we did it on our own. The show started at 1 pm on Friday and we did really well the first day. Then on Saturday we managed to do as well even though we were threatened with rain all day. Luckily, it held off until we were packed up and ready to go home. We received a lot of nice compliments from customers and we had such a wide selection - happy snowmen, cute Santas, decourpage boxes, scrapbook items, angels, stars, Santas and snowmen painted on just about anything and everything. The large tree we were able to get this year helped in showing off our ornaments. There was no shortage of volunteers to man the booth and of all the booths there we had the most variety of items and I think we did the best in sales also. Our chapter owes a big Thank You to Francis, Sherry, Julia, Janice, Jane T, Crystal, Barbara, Sue, Lucy, and Brenda for putting this together for the chapter. Also, to Pat for donating some of her ornaments.