For more information contact
Diana in the Pacific NW at e-mail
dianamca@smallpawsrescue.org
9 year old Gigi likes these blankies!
15 year old Small Paws® Rescue "Sable" says thanks for all of the donated fabrics!
Some of our volunteers have some pretty special hidden talents! They are the very special ladies of Small Paws® Rescue known as "The Blanketeers!"
Each adopted Small Paws® Rescue baby receives a beautiful hand made with love, recieving blanket, made by the blanketeers!
Some of the blankets made by the Small Paws® Rescue Blanketeers
If you would like to particpate in this heart WARMING program, this is how you can do that!
OPERATION: BLANKET THE FLUFFS
We have been enjoying making sure that each
of the
fluffs, adopted since
the program began, has it's own little
blankie
and
from responses we've
had we know the fluffs love them. Sewing
these is a
labor of love for Trudy
Clark, who found herself buried under
a pile
of
blankies until more
elves were recruited to help. Now,
with the
help of
an ever-growing group of
seamstresses, we are rolling right
along
and have
blankies going all over the country.
To help make the program self supporting
we have
blankets for sale in the gift shoppe
Proceeds from these are used to help
pay
for
batting and postage and fabric for
more blankies.
We've had members
helping by donations of fabric, and
their
donations
have been much
appreciated. Thank You, thank you,
thank
you.
You've been angels.
How about if you'd like to help but
don't
have a
stash of fabric?
Here's what I told one member who wanted
to go out
and buy some for us
to use:
Thank you so much for wanting to contribute
to the
blankies. You are an
angel. Unless you already have these
materials
you
want to send, may I
make a suggestion? Rather than go shopping
and pay
the post office to
mail the fabric to one of the seamstresses,
how
about letting us shop?
The Blanketeers go to Wal Mart and
JoAnn's,
find
the $1 a yard table or clearance sales,
and
can get
a lot of materials
for what you might pay just in postage
to
send a
small box of material. A
donation to SPR, earmarked for the
blanket
fund, in
the amount of what
you would have been willing to spend
on fabric
and
postage, would go
ever so much farther than if you were
to
go shop
and mail it. This also
helps with purchase of batting and
thread
and
postage to mail the
blankies to the fluffs. Donations made
to
SPR,
earmarked for the
blanket fund, will find their way to
us.
If you do have some fabric you would
like
to mail -
or if you would
really enjoy choosing some wonderful
fabric
for us,
we'd be very
grateful, and will put it to good use.
To
be most
useful, a piece of
fabric at least 2/3 yard is the very
best,
or a
remnant at least
24"x24". Any smaller, and
it goes
to the bottom of
the pile for
piecing sometime in the future :-)
We can
use woven
cottons (or
cotton/poly blends), cotton flannel,
lightweight
denim, and fleece.
e-mail dynmyte@gorge.net for the name and address of
a seamstress who can use your fabric.
Here's That Rainy Day
Maybe I should have saved
those left-over dreams
funny, but here's that rainy day!
Here's that rainy day
they told me about
and I laughed at the thought
that it might turn out this way!
Where is that worn-out wish
that I threw aside,
after it brought my lover near?
Funny how love becomes
a cold rainy day
funny, that rainy day is here!
Funny how love becomes
a cold rainy day
funny . . .
that rainy day is here!
Music by Jimmy Van Heusen
with lyrics by Johnny Burke , 1953
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