Donation Acknowledgement FY13/06 #81 - Dresses&Shorts from Lyn Granger

Number 81 on the list is a parcel of 20 dresses and 8 pairs of shorts 2 of which have matching shirts from Lyn Granger of Kiama Downs and all made with much love. Postage to send the parcel was paid for by MayAnn Conway also from Kiama Downs as her contribution to keep Dress A Girl Australia going. Thank you.

To Lyn, thank you so much for your unwavering support of Dress A Girl (Around the World) Australia and to MayAnn, thank you so much for your thoughtfulness. Thank you ladies for your kindness and generosity. It is much appreciated.

Donation Acknowledgement FY13/06 #80 - 7 dresses from Maureen

Number 80 on the list is a parcel of 7 sleeved dresses from Maureen O'Brien which I think would look great on Bangladeshi little girls. 

Thank you Maureen for your thoughtfulness and generosity. Thank you for helping make a difference in the lives of the less fortunate girls anywhere in the world. Much appreciated. Thanks.

For everyone's info, I have created a special album for donations made on behalf of the Bobkin Sewciety Dress drive 2013. Please click here to check out the album or you can locate the link from the left navigational pane. If there are any dresses that have already been sent and acknowledged that are not on this album, please let me know. Thanks a lot!

Donation Acknowledgement FY13/06 #79 - From a special group of artists and crafters of Jabiru

This parcel of 8 dresses and number 79 on the list is from a special group of artists and crafters in Jabiru, about 3 hours out of Darwin in the national park and the project was organized by Penny Hart. The parcel was sent by Ann O'Dea who is one of the group members. The group took up this project and dyed some white sheets donated by a 4 star hotel which were still in excellent condition. Some of the fabrics used to make the dresses also came from their cupboards. They created some lino blocks to add prints to the materials. Some of the group members are great sewers, some are new but everyone did a great job making the dresses from start to finish which can be seen from the images below. The group hopes that the girls who will be receiving them will enjoy wearing the dresses the same way they enjoyed making them.

To Ann and the rest of the crew, I am sure that each girl who will be lucky enough to receive and wear the dresses will have a great time wearing it. Who knows it could be the very first dress they will ever own. Thank you for the time and effort you all spent dying and adding prints to the dresses which makes it more special. Thank you for your kindness and generosity. Much appreciated.

Donation Acknowledgement FY13/06 #78 - 22 dresses and 1 pr of shorts from Linda

I think in a few days time I will be able to close my collection for the children of Cambodia with the 22 dresses and 1 pair of shorts I received from Linda Smyth of Revesby and is number 78 on the list. 
Linda has been keeping herself busy with larger sizes and (do I remember it right?) using her new sewing machine. :-).
Here are the dresses from Linda- 

To Linda, thank you so much for your unwavering support of Dress A Girl (Around the World) Australia. Thank you for your kindness and generosity. It is very much appreciated. Thank you.

Donation Acknowledgement FY13/06 #77 - Dresses from J Rich of QLD

Finally I have new batteries for my camera and the first images taken comes from a parcel of 5 dresses from J Rich Queensland. This parcel is number 77 on the list and for the month of June. In case anyone is wondering why I grouped them into months when received  it is because it is easier for me to trace each dress when I start sorting and packing. I can easily trace who the donor(s) is.
So here are the 5 dresses from J.

Thank you J Rich for the dresses. Thank you for dressing 5 disadvantaged girls anywhere in the world. It is much appreciated. Thanks a lot!

Donation Acknowledgement FY13/06 #76 - 12 dresses from Threading My Way

One more acknowledgement and I would call it a night. Number 76 on the list is a parcel of 12 pretty dresses from Pam of  Threading my Way. 

Pam, thank you for your unwavering support of this campaign. Thank you for your kindness and generosity. Much appreciated.

Donation Acknowledgement FY13/06 #75 - Dresses from Jane

More acknowledgements for the month of June and this time #75 on the list are 3 dresses from Jane Daley adding 3 more dresses for Cambodia.

Thank you Jane for the 3 pretty dresses. Thank you for supporting Dress A Girl Australia in its campaign to dress the less fortunate children anywhere in the world. Much appreciated.

Donation Acknowledgement FY13/06 #74 - 17 dresses from Frances Cornish

Number 74 on the list and the last for the night is a parcel of 17 dresses from Frances Cornish from the fabric materials donated by Betty Marshall who was so pleased to see the dresses and going to such a worthy cause.
Here are the 17 dresses - all with sleeves.

Thank you to Betty Marshall for the fabric materials and to Frances for making them into dresses. Thank you both for your kindness and generosity. Much appreciated.

Donation Acknowledgement FY13/06 #73 - 12 dresses this time from Heather Harris

It is so rewarding to know that everyone is having a great time sewing dresses to make a difference in the lives of the less fortunate children anywhere in the world. Thank you.

To continue on with donations, number 73 on the list is a dozen of dresses from Heather Harris which includes her very first attempt on a t-shirt dress. It is the dress at the bottom left corner of the picture below. These dresses were made from the fabric donations of her mum Joyce Goodings and her sister Debbie Nikolic.. 

Thank you to Joyce and Debbie for providing the materials for Heather to sew and thanks a lot to Heather for making the materials into dresses. Much appreciated.

Donation Acknowledgement FY13/06 #72 - From Di Menzel

Number 72 on the list is a parcel of 4 skyblue dresses from Di Menzel with matching yo-yo flower embellishments. I think I have some yo-yo flowers which I can make into headbands to match the dresses. Wouldnt that be cute?

Thank you Di for the dresses. Thank you for your kindness and generosity. Much appreciated.

Donation Acknowledgement FY13/06 #71 - June parcel from Sarah

Am starting donation acknowledgements for the month of June and number 71 from a lady who is living the year of 2013 making a difference and feeling wonderful about the whole thing. Sarah Tanmahapran from Victoria has sent 4 shorts, 5 dresses and a pack of 5 undies this time and has contributed a total of 38 dresses and 28 pairs of shorts just by sewing.... one small dress at a time.
Here are the contents of her June parcel -

To Sarah, thank you so much for your consistent effort and time spent on this campaign and thank you for your unwavering support of dressing girls around the world. It is much appreciated. Thank you.

Donation Acknowledgement FY13/05 #70 - From Katherine Nott

Number 70 on the list and still for the month of May is a parcel of 7 dresses and a pair of shorts from Katherine Nott. Also included in the parcel were 21 Christmas stockings she made to sell. Hopefully it will raise a little bit of dollars for postage later this year.
Here are the 7 dresses and pair of shorts. In the meantime I will be posting the Christmas stockings in my website and later in the year sell them when I have my Christmas market stall.

To Katherine, thank you for the dresses and the pair of shorts. And thank you for the Christmas stockings. It is very much appreciated.

Good Use of Sewing Skills by students of Beaconhills College of Berwick

This is a re-print of a special feature of the 14 students and their textile teacher Mary Gast on the Star Community Gazette issue last June 12, 2013 of Berwick Victoria. They were featured for the work they are doing making dresses for the Dress A Girl (Around the World) Australia campaign.

Click on the image above for a larger image and readable version of this article or please click here. To read the article from the original print version, please click here.
If you want to know more about this campaign here in Australia, please send an email to dressagirlaustralia@gmail.com.

Donation Acknowledgement FY13/05 #69 - 21 pairs of shorts, 4 dresses and kits from Betty

Have to be short in acknowledging if I want to start sewing dresses again and make up for the lost time and at the same time try to finish donation acknowledgements. This time the parcel is from Betty Barrett which contained 21 pairs of shorts, 4 dresses and 5 t-shirt kits. The kits are meant to make it easier for me to reach my goal of one-dress-a-day for 365 days as they are pre-cut and all I have to do is sew. The 21 pairs is helping me reach the goal I have set this year of 500 pairs of shorts.
Here they are -

To dear Betty, thank you so much for thoughtfulness, kindness and generosity. I do appreciate it very much. Thank you.

Donation Acknowledgement FY13/05 #68 - Bundles of Fabrics and 4 pairs of shorts from Nicole

A lot of catching up to do on donation acknowledgements for the month of May and June is about to finished. Number 68 on the list are bundles of fabrics and 4 pairs of shorts from Nicole Devet. At last the bundles dried up today and I was able to take pictures of it.
Here they are including the 4 pairs of shorts -

Thank you Nicole for your kindness and generosity. It is much appreciated.

Dress Collection for Sri Lanka now close

Yes, dress allocations for the children of Sri Lanka is now closed. Collection is now filled with 100 dresses.

Allocations for pairs of shorts for the boys will be done and possibly more dresses when I come back from my trip. Details of donors who made this collection possible will be released when the parcel has been sent.

Dress Distribution #30 - 150 dresses for the children of CDO Philippines

Off to Manila this Saturday to handover 150 dresses for the children of CDO Philippines to the Ladies of Zonta International CDO Chapter Philippines. It takes more than a month to arrange for distribution and I only have 5 days. These dresses are in good hands.
Here are the 150 dresses -

made possible by the following donors -
1) Helen Shearer
2) Georgia Wood
3) Suzie Pickett
4) Gaylene Hermann
5) Jo Kelly
6) Rachel Platt
7) Prudence Mann's mum
8) Margaret Adair
9) Sharyn Paull & family
10) Monika Osvald
11) Ladies of Kapunda Sewing Group
12) Betty Barrett
13) Linda Smyth
14) Lyn Wagner
15) Wendy Yates
16) Karin Maltby and the Ladies of Perth
17) Hobart Embroidery Club and others
18) Wednesday Group Quilted Crow in NewTown Tasmania
19) My mum Jolly

20) Dress A Girl Australia

For larger images of the dresses, please click here. For more details on dress distributions, please click here or click on the special 'Dress Distribution' tab found at the top of this page.

My heartfelt thank you to all the donors who made this distribution possible. Thank you all for your kindness and generosity. Thank you for helping make a difference....one small dress at a time.

Dress Distribution #29 - Dress A Girl in Samoa in July

Dresses will be distributed to the girls in the Samoan villages when Suzanne Cross goes on holiday in Samoa in July. I have packed 25 dresses for her and have also included 10 pairs of shorts for the boys. Here is the parcel which I am sending Suzanne  sometime this week when I have the chance to go to the postoffice -

 

and here are the dresses and shorts included in the parcel -

made possible by the following donors -
1) Gaylene Hermann
2) Betty Barrett
3) Karin Maltby and the Ladies of Perth
4) Lyn Granger
5) Heather Harris
6) Deborah Parish & Ladies of Kapunda Batch 22-May-2013
7) Sponsors of Dresses and pairs of shorts from the Kapunda Quilt Exhibit - (Valda, Peter and Chris Lush, Claire, Larraine, Alecia, Andrew and Bonnie Richmond

For larger images, please click here. For more details on the dress distribution or any distributions done so far, please click here or on the 'Dress Distribution' tab which can be found at the top of this page.

Thanks a whole lot to the donors who made this distribution possible. Thank you all for your kindness and generosity. Thank for helping make a difference....one small dress at a time!

Donation Acknowledgement FY13/05 #67 - Hundreds of dresses from the Ladies of Kapunda Sewing group and dress sponsors

Took me two days to sort the hundreds of dresses I received more than half of which were sponsored by people who supported the Dress A Girl Around the World campaign. Sponsors who believe that every girl in the world should own at least one dress and that it should be a reality and not just imaginary. 

There were 111 dresses and pairs of shorts sponsored which I have splitted into 3 batches. Here they are -
Batch 1 -

Batch 2 -

Batch 3 -

For more information on the sponsorship and check out larger images, please click here.

Here are the rest of the dresses and pairs of shorts donated by the Ladies of Kapunda sewing group -

Thenk you so much to the following people for making this huge collection possible -

1. Delilah Balmer, Margaret Doecke, Sally Giles, Chris Redden, Liz D'Giocomo, Loris Pullen, Sue Schmidt, Margaret Adair, Kathy Pfeifer, Loretta Vodic, Nelda Hossack, Shirley Bell, Lorraine Sandow, Marilyn Pitt, Anne Richardson, Julie Gorski, Trish Sweet, Dianne Cain, Julie Quast, Mary Lauke, Claire Clarke, Helen Blane, Jan Tompkins, Marilyn Barry and Deborah Parish. 

2. Kerry and Leanne of the Kapunda Quilters 

3. Kapunda Quilters

4. Kapunda Country Womens Association

5. Glenda Scira and her mum Dora Eisen for their help in collecting fabric materials

6. Paisley Parish for the t-shirts and making teas and coffees while these dresses were being made by the ladies and to the wonderful husbands Brian Parish, Les Pfeifer, Geoffrey Redden and Robbie Dieckman. Thank you for your moral support to these wonderful ladies.

Last but not the least to everyone who supported the exhibition and the rest of the supporters whose names I may have missed. Thank you for your sponsorship. Thank you for your support. Thank you for making a difference....one small dress at a time. Much appreciated.

Dress Distribution #28 - 25 Dresses for Cambodia (Dress A Girl Kapunda South Australia)

The ladies of Kapunda Sewing group in South Australia will be sending 25 dresses to Cambodia to be handcarried by Donna Fay, a nurse who will be doing some volunteer work in the SHE Rescue Home with a mission/sponsor group in July. SHE Rescue Home is an organization that provides a safe-haven for girls as young as 5 who are victims or at risk of human trafficking and other crimes. They provide a future, hope and an opportunity for the girls to realize their dreams and their family restored. Here is Donna with the 25 dresses she will be providing to the girls in the SHE Rescue Home

Thank you so much to the Ladies of Kapunda sewing group for providing the 25 dresses and to Donna for giving Dress A Girl (Around the World) Australia an opportunity to dress girls in Cambodia. Thank you.

To know more about the works of SHE Rescue Home, please click here. If you want to help the Ladies of Kapunda Sewing group provide more dresses to the disadvantaged children anywhere in the world, click here to visit their facebook group.

Special thanks to special people

About three weeks ago the Ladies of Kapunda sewing group in collaboration with the Kapunda Quilters held a quilt exhibition. The Ladies of Kapunda had a successful fund raising activity of Buy-a-dress-donate-a dress. They were able to raise enough funds which hopefully will last them a year in postage cost with a big help from the Kapunda Quilters. Isnt that amazing!

Although a bit late (but better late than never at all) it is time to extend our  heartfelt thank you to all the ladies who were involved in the exhibition and everyone who did donations on the 2-days event.

To the Kapunda Quilters who have been so amazingly supportive, for the dresses they made to sell and the donations of fabric materials including the proceeds of their quilt raffle which they happily donated for the postage fund of the Ladies of Kapunda sewing group, thank you so much.

To Chris Cain for the bundles of fabrics she donated to make into dresses and pairs of shorts, as well as Hilary Adlam, Iris Turner and Kapunda Quilters Sharyn and Kerry, thank you for your support. It is much appreciated.

To Denise, Sue Schmidt and Di Fennell for the T-shirts and undies donations. Thank you so much.

To Deborah Parish for all the hard work in organizing the Dress A Girl activities to make the exhibit a success, thank you so much Deborah.

Last but not the least, to the general public who came and supported the Quilt Exhibition, thank you. All the time, effort and money spent that made the exhibition a success is very much appreciated. Thank you for helping make a difference in the lives of the disadvantaged children around the world.

Donation Acknowledgement FY13/05 #66 - Bunch of dresses from a group of Ladies from Canberra

It's been a while since I last did an acknowledgement and I think there will be more delays as my camera is not being nice to me these days. I ordered new sets of batteries(one extra as a backup) but it has not arrived yet so am trying hard to use the old one which dies on me after a few pictures have been taken.

Anyway, Number 66 on the list for the month of May are 40 dresses from the Ladies of Canberra namely Beryl Hourigan, Marilyn Jenkins, Marie Dale, Kate Hardy and Terrie Ross. I actually expected a different number (one less maybe) but yes I found 40 dresses inside the parcel. Here are the dresses I received from them -

Thank you so much ladies for your support of Dress A Girl (Around the World) Australia and thank you to Frances Cornish for helping spread the word around. All your efforts and time spent are very much appreciated. Thank you.

31 Dresses for the 31 Days of May

Didnt miss a day so was able to accomplish 31 dresses for the 31 days of May. I started with a pillowcase dress and ended the month with a pillowcase dress too. Here are the dresses I made for my one dress a day for 365 days for the month of May - 27 t-shirt dresses and 4 pillowcase style.

Thank you to the following donors of fabrics and pillowcases who made these bunch of dresses possible.-
1) Louise Wright
2) Linda Smyth
3) Kim Foster
4) Erlyn Ballesta and the members of the Cenacle, Servants of the Lord and Espiritu Santo Parochial School in Sydney
5) My mum Jolly
6) heyboom for the t-shirts
7) Dress A Girl Australia

To be kept up-to-date with my One dress a day for 365 days' journey, please click here or click on the special tab 'One dress a day for 365 days Diary' found at the top of this page.

Thanks everyone and I look forward to starting the month of June.

New collection for Papua New Guinea

I keep telling myself that I should not start on a new collection until I have finished all my sorting and packing but sometimes during my sorting I see some dresses that I think is better off being sent to another location than what I have originally had in mind so here I go again. 

I am starting a new collection for the special children of Mt Hagen, Papua New Guinea. This time the collection will be for the girls who are between the ages of 8 and 18 and who are in different grades in school. For anyone who wants to contribute please note that a law is now in place that women and girls must dress modestly and that means with sleeves and the length must cover the knees whether sitting or standing to keep them safe and protected at all times. 

Thanks heaps everyone!

Two beautiful quilts for 2 new babies in South Africa

I received these 2 new baby quilts today from Gaynor Botcher and Margaret Doecke. I am arranging for these 2 beautiful quilts to be given to Nkosi's Haven and Village in South Africa for the 2 new babies they recently had through QCCT.

My heartfelt thanks to Gaynor and Margaret for these two wonderful gifts. Much appreciated.

If you want to know more about Nkosi's Haven and Village, please click here or you can visit their facebook page here. To know more about the works of QCCT, please click here.