Sunday, January 25, 2009

Recap from January meeting at Bella Milano

Recap of our January 21st meeting at Bella Milano

Well ladies we had another great meeting!! We were at Bella Millano and our guest speaker was Amanda Eichholz with Big Brother Big Sister. She gave us some more in depth information about their mentoring program, as well as, told us about their big fund raiser coming up,
"Bowl for Kids Sake"

Here's what they need.....

-Bowling Teams to sign up to raise money
-Volunteers to work the bowling events
-Mentors to actually be Big Brothers & Big Sisters


If you would like to make a donation but not get a team together, please give your donation to fellow Abe's Divas - Connie Kennedy...her e-mail address is floataquote@yahoo.com

If you've always wanted to be a Big Sister, but didn't think you had the time, they have a great solution. You can do 1 hour a week on your lunch hour! You can use that time to have lunch with your little buddy, or play a game, or any activity you'd like. You go to their school during that hour and it sounds like a great way to help, even if you don't have a lot of free time!

If you're interested in helping with anything , please contact Amanda at aeichholz@bbbscapitalregion.org

Regarding Blue Thong Society National
If / when you joined National PLEASE make sure that Judy knows you have done so, because National is saying that some have not joined when in fact, they have. As of today we have 27 ladies who have joined BTS.
National has also canceled the conference that was scheduled in LasVegas in March. They are thinking about having a one day event, more information will be coming on that.


Chemo Caps
WOW!!!! I left there tonight with 32 more caps than I walked in with, that's AMAZING!!!! 20 of those caps were done up by Janet Wilson's friend Judith Williams, this woman is AMAZING!!! She has single handedly knitted up 32 caps to date, thank you SO SO SO much Judith!!

What's started as a one time project has grown into a full "knitting charity" group!!! If you or someone you know wants to be a part of our charity knitting, PLEASE let me know. Also I need to establish a knitting email group (so I don't keep bugging you non knitters) so if you are interested in being on my "knit list" please email me at Miggylane@aol.com. The quick run down is we will have a new project every 3 months, we'll do chemo caps through February and we'll start Washcloths for Sojourn March 1. Those of us who will be knitting need to get together late February to iron out the rest of the details, but if you want to be part of this, just shoot me a note. We have a blog for our charity knitting also (http://www.springfieldstitchesforacause.blogspot.com/)

I have asked my friend Dan about poker lessons, so stay tuned for more on that.....


I think that's all for now!!

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Pictures from tonight's meeting

A good time was had by all.... The recap of our meeting will follow tomorrow...

































Thursday, January 8, 2009

January Meeting

Abe-s Divas - Springfield Blue Thong Society Chapter
January 21, 2009 - 5:30pm
Bella Milano
4525 Wabash Ave (yellowstone shopping Center)
Speaker - Amanda Eichholz
Big Brother - Big Sister

RSVP - Judithameiron@comcast.net
217 698 8674

December pictures