126 Dresses Start their Journey

Yesterday Paula came by and picked up 126 dresses!!  They are starting their Journey to Cambodia with a group from Northshore Baptist Church.  It is sew exciting to know that 126 little girls will be having new dresses soon and will receive the love and dignity that these sewers gave!!

Thank you to all of the wonderful sewers that made these adorable dresses!!

Thrifty Shopping

Yesterday I had someone tell me they didn't like going to garage sales and a second person said that they had gone to Value Village for the first time.  Now I am thinking I must be a very strange duck because if my husband and I are looking for a cheap entertaining Saturday we will go garage saling and to the thrift stores!!  We love it!!  So here is my latest project with Dollar Store, Thrift Store and Garage Sale finds...

I started out with these head bands from the Dollar Store... 8 for $1

Here is the cost breakdown for each headband I decided to make

0.13 for each headband

0.01 for glue sticks found at Value Village

0.03 for puffs using a coupons from Michael's

0.01 for the flowers from a silk leis from a garage sale

Total cost per headband... $0.18... not bad!! and they will be traveling with me to Uganda

This is why I love going to garage sales...

If you would like to help me with fundraising please visit

http://www.ministrysync.com/event/website/?m=1290933#0

Dresses to Mexico

Recently All Saints Lutheran Church took dresses to Mexico to help with the celebration of Children's Day.  We have received some of the pictures of that event!!

We also sent Headbands with the dresses and underwear, necklaces and dolls!!

Thank you Kathy for taking the dresses!!

Sewing Saturday

Last Saturday we had a sewing event at the Woodinville Fire and Rescue Station.  Thanks you to them for allowing us to use a beautiful space!!  We had several new sewers that made their first dresses and we also had several gals drop by that could not stay but brought fabric for us to use!!

Here are some pictures of our day...

And here are some of the dresses that were finished...

And a special Thank You to Anne for arranging so much of this Sewing Event!!  She has been sewing for Dress A Girl Around the World for a long time and is such an encouragement to me!!  

Rebecca's Closure

Last week Rebecca, a high school senior doing Dress A Girl as her senior project, had her closure presentation.

Rebecca had dresses displayed made by the students...

She also did a presentation for the students and teachers...

There were displays...

Rebecca's Goals and Achievements!!

It was such a pleasure to work with this talented and motivated young lady!!