Great Meeting

I will say again what a great meeting it was and how good it was to be back. I missed everyone! Lauren's Mom was very gracious to let us have the meeting at her beautiful hom, Thank-you again...

Our next meeting will be at Shanda's house and theme for food will be fruits and jellos. The pattern is a jump start on the holidays, which means any holiday pattern is ok to share with the group.

Wow, we had some terrific chocolate desserts there and now that I am all sugar filled..yes Denise I had problems settling in for the night too, I look forward to a little fruit.

Our newsletter is schedulled to begin coming to your houses in September. Anyone who has any articles, ideas, recipes, patterns, links, stories, funnies, anything...please email me ASAP, so that I can get it into the newsletter. Deadline for articles is Sept. 5th.

Also if you have an idea for a name for our Newsletter please comment here or email me.
Some ideas are: "Stitch n' Chicks"

• Hook n' Needle Chatter Newsletter
• The Stitching News Newsletter
• Yarn Matters Newsletter
• What's Stitching Up Newsletter
• Chattering Chicks Newsletter
• Catch That Stitch Newsletter
• S&C Newsletter
• Stitch n' Cluck Newsletter

Thank you Pat for the fabulous "14K" cake that she brought for the raffle prize. Lori won this time and we were all drooling over the cake. Now Pat can you share that recipe??? Yum.. Yum...

The members package will also be distributed in Septemeber to every member. It will have some goodies in it and essential information such as; members roster, by-laws, information sheet, patterns, and a list of our sponsors and places that honor our members card for discounts.

Here is a short list of the next meeting locations:

• Sept 6th....................................Shanda's house
• Sept. 20th.................................Ranie's house (crockpot food theme)
• Oct. 4th.....................................open
• Oct. 18th...................................Pat's house
• Nov. 1st.....................................open
• Nov 15th...................................open
• Dec. 6th....................................Debb's House (Christmas Exchange party)

In December we have our annual Christmas Exchange party, that is lots of fun so be sure to mark those calendars and note that we only have 1 meeting, because of the holidays and then we do not have another meeting till the 3rd week in January. Some dates are open if you can volunteer your home for that meeting please let Debb or Denise know.

The LA fair dates for the group going will be as follows;

• Sept. 23rd (Sunday at 11am-?)

Debb,Denise, Priscilla, Donna, Pat, Lin, Lauren,Di, and possibly Shanda and Sandra

I will post this on our site too for those who are not blogging and ther will be some points recapped in the Sept. Newsletter!

Happy Stitching Gals....
Crochetoholic Debb