Happy New Year to All!

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

~ George Eliot

Merry Christmas One and All !

Christmas Gift Suggestions by Oren Arnold

To your enemy, forgiveness.

To an opponent, tolerance.

To a friend, your heart.

To a customer, service.

To all, charity.

To every child, a good example.

To yourself, respect.” 

~ Oren Arnold

Sharing the spirit of Christmas. Celebrate.

this is a nativity set i made in 2009 which is made of fabric and i only take it out from its box every year at christmas time and for the next 16 days only it is on display at my house so am also displaying it on this page to celebrate and share the spirit of Christmas.

Final Cut-off Date of Dresses - Nov 30, 2017

Just a friendly reminder for those who are still intending to donate dresses for the 2017 Christmas collection, the final cut-off date is this coming Thursday, 30th of November 2017. All dresses must be posted on or before this date. For postal address, please send me an email and.or message from my facebook page. Thank you.

First cut-off date for donating dresses in 2 weeks time

Wow. Time flies so fast. In two weeks time, the first cut-off date for donating dresses for the 2017 Christmas collection is going to happen. The first cut-off date is Tuesday, 31st of October 2017. If your dresses are ready, please send me a message for the postal address. Not to worry though. If you cannot make it on the first cut-off date, the final date for donating dresses will be on Thursday, 30th of November, 2017. Another 4 weeks to give you enough time to make dresses. So the choice is yours. Get on board. Sew and send your dresses.

If you cannot seem to find the time to sew but still want to make a difference, sponsor a dress. For as low as $10.00 you  can make a difference to a life of a disadvantage kid. To sponsor, all you have to do is click on the link below. Thank you.

Dress Sponsorship Program

Proceeds from the sponsorship will be donated to the Christina Noble Children's Foundation Australia's clean water tank for clean water project in Vietnam. Tax receipts will be issued for your donation by the foundation. Thank you.

Dresses for 2017 Christmas Collection now open.

With Christmas fast approaching, today am officially opening the special dress collection for Christmas 2017. Please be guided by the guidelines on how to make dresses especially on fabric materials to use. All dresses must be between the sizes of 7 to 10. Same for boys' clothes if you are intending to donate for the boys, sizes must be between 7 to 10 and will appreciate if you could include t-shirts to match the pairs of shorts. There will be two cut-off dates for dresses to reach my address. -

(1) First cut-off date - 31-Oct-2017
(2) Second cut-off Date - 30-Nov-2017

For guidelines on how to make the dresses, please click here. It takes time to sort, pack and organize these distributions, so please make sure parcels are in by the due date you choose to send. To those who are contemplating on making donations and/or ready to send parcels, please send me an email for the postal address.

Postal address enquiry

If you want to make a difference and do not have the time or does not know how to sew but still want to help provide clothing for the less fortunate, why not consider sponsoring a dress. Proceeds from the sponsorship until the end of the year (31-Dec-2017) will be donated to the Christina Noble Children's Foundation's clean water tanks for clean water project in Vietnam. Wow! that is hitting two birds with one stone. So why not sponsor a dress. Click below for the link to sponsorship -

Dress Sponsorship Program

Or you can make a donation directly to the donation page of Christina Noble Children's Foundation and please make sure you identify your donation as 'Dress Sponsorship' in the comments box to be allocated dresses.

Clean Water Tank Project

A tax receipt for all sponsorships will be issued by the foundation.

All sponsored dresses will be earmarked for the following locations - 25 dresses for Kenya, 25 dresses for an orphanage in Bangkok and 25 dresses for the Philippines. All these dresses will be handcarried.

Any questions, please drop me an email.

Guidelines for making dresses for the 2017 Christmas collection

Soon I will be opening a new dress collection for 2017 Christmas distribution. For those who are contemplating on making dresses to donate, please be reminded on Dress A Girl Australia's guidelines on how to make dresses especially on the materials to use. It is my wish that the dresses to be given away can be outgrown by the kids who will receive them, that they can be worn for a longer period of time or even possibly handed down to a younger sister and/or brother  so fabric materials to be used in making the dresses must be of a material that can withstand rugged environments like 100% cotton. Ribbons should be avoided when making the pillowcase style of dresses as they do not last.

Guidelines on how to make dresses

For this Christmas collection, sizes between 7 to 10 will be preferred. Same size preference for pairs of shorts if you want to donate for the boys.

For any questions or more information regarding dresses to donate, please send an email to dressagirlaustralia@gmail.com.

Change in payment type

My dressagirlaustralia website no longer accepts paypal payments for dress sponsorships or any type of transactions but credit/debit cards are still accepted via stripe. For everyone's info. Thank you.

Dress Sponsorship and Donation to CNCF FYI

Just to let everyone know that anyone who wants to sponsor a dress and/or dresses will need to donate their sponsorships directly to Christina Noble Children's Foundation using the link provided on each dresses from my website. Please make sure you click on the link "CNCF Clean Water Tank Project" . Once you are on the donation page, enter the amount you want to sponsor and the rest of the information required and please do not forget to enter "Dress A Girl Australia Sponsorship Program" on the message box. This will help identify any donations made on behalf of Dress A Girl Australia. 

All tax receipts from the donation will then be issued directly to you via the email address you have provided to CNCF. To sponsor a dress and make a donation, please click on the image above or click on the link below -

CNCF Clean Water Tanks for Vietnam Project

Let's help save lives by providing clean water tanks for families in Vietnam. Thank you.

Sri Lanka collection now closed.

Just a reminder to all who are donating to the Sri Lanka collection, you should have posted all your parcels by now to get to me this Friday, Sep 1st.Thank you.

Items needed for Sri Lanka

If anyone would like to donate any of the following items, it will be very much appreciated and if you can send them to me as soon as possible. These items are to be sent to Sri Lanka but unfortunately, the packing for these items starts mid-September.  I only got confirmation of these information this afternoon. So if you would like to contribute, please make sure I have the items by the end of August (latest by Aug 30) 

1) T-shirt dresses and/or peasant dresses or any dresses with sleeves
2) T-shirts
3) School supplies (i.e. pencils, 128 pages exercise books etc)
4) school totes or similar to library bags
5) girls' undies

If you want to sponsor some dresses with sleeves, now is the time to hit 2 birds with one stone. The dresses will be sent to Sri Lanka and the proceeds of your sponsorship will be donated to the Christina Noble Children's Foundation for their clean water tanks for clean water in Vietnam. All you have to do is click on the link below or go to the CNCF Donation page using the link below, make your donation and let me know how many dresses you have sponsored.

The link to the Dress Sponsorship program is -

Dress Sponsorship Program

OR
you can make a direct donation via the link below - please enter 'Dress A Girl Australia Sponsorship' on the message box -

100 water tanks for Vietnam in 2017

For any questions, please send me a message and/or email me at dressagirlaustralia@gmail.com.

Thank you! Much appreciated.

Update on Dress A Girl Australia's data on Picasa Web album

About a year ago, the Picasa Web album was discontinued by google in order to focus on a single photo service in Google Photos. Due to this move, although it was made known to everyone who was using the Picasa Web album that all photos and videos would still be accessible including tags, captions and comments at the Album Archive of the new Google Photos, I seem to have lost a lot of links. Not all my Picasa Web album data has been saved in the new system.  I received a notification email that my blog was encountering error links (about 50 links) and that I need to correct them. 

It will be impossible for me to restore those links as I am not sure where to find those photos if they are not in the Album archive of the new Google photos so I have decided to remove all links to Dress A Girl Australia's data on dress distributions, dress donations received from the year 2011 to 2015 in my blog to eliminate the errors. I will need time to verify what photos have been saved on dress donations received and at this stage it may not be possible to start from scratch but new links will be posted in my blog for any data that I could possibly recover.

For feedback on dress distributions made from 2011 up to the present, this page here could possibly provide quick access to links on dress distributions to anyone who might be interested. Thank you.

Happy Mother's Day to all!

To all the mums (moms) out there....Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Easter everyone!

P.O. Box is closed

Just a reminder to everyone and I do hope you all understand that the P.O. Box number I used to have is no longer open. No one and nobody should be sending anything at all to this P.O. Box number. As I have mentioned several times before I will not be responsible for anything or any contributions sent to this box. I know you want to make a difference and I am trying my best to help everyone but some people are not helping at all. I think everyone's understanding is not too much to ask. Thank you.

Sewing Again for 2017

I am sewing again after almost six months and the dress below has been added to my Dress Sponsorship Program.

Share the Love this Valentine's Day!

Spread Love this Valentine's Day! Share the love! Make a difference for a change from what is happening around the world. Sponsor a dress. For $10.00 you get to provide a dress to a disadvantaged girl and feel loved. 

To sponsor, all you have to do is click on the link or image below -

Proceeds from any sponsorships will help pay for the cost of distributing dresses. Thank you.

2016 Distribution Statistics

Please see below final numbers for the year 2016 by Dress A Girl Australia :

Dress A Girl Australia's Distribution statistics for the year 2016 -
-- Dresses - 640
-- Shorts for Boys - 37
-- T-shirts - 71
-- Leggings - 27
-- Quilts - 14

Location of Distributions for 2016 - Philippines, Uganda, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea and Kenya

Total Distribution since 2011 -
-- Dresses - 9543
-- Shorts for Boys - 1908
-- Ready to Sew Kits - 99
-- T-Shirts - 1091
-- Quilts - 149
-- Leggings - 27

Thank you to everyone who made these distributions possible. Thank you for helping make a difference to this wonderful world of ours. Much appreciated!

New Year 2017

2017 . A new year. Another year to make a difference.
Check out my Dress Sponsorship Program for 2017. Proceeds from the sponsorship will be a big help in funding the cost of distributing dresses and make a difference to more lives for the new year 2017.
Sponsor a dress. All you have to do is click on the image below or click here. Thank you.