Little Dresses for Africa are outta here!

I finally finished them! Thank you to all of you that helped.

I sent out 134 dresses.

That's 134 little girls that will get to have something new to wear!

What a great job!!

By the way, angels helped with the shipping. Not only those of you that helped financially,

but I did all that I could for the cheapest shipping, & got an estimate online.

When I went to the post office, the cost was much less than the estimate.

I asked the gal if she was sure it was right. She said it was.

I was expecting to pay $200 to ship out the boxes. It was less than $50.

I stood there, staring, looking for the invisible hands that were playing with her computer.

I really had been stressing about this part of the project.

Isn't it nice that HE knows what we need. Even something so simple. Thank you.

I'm a total spaz & didn't take pics of all my dresses.

Above are a couple I took awhile ago.

And to show some pretty flower trim we added to about 30 of the dresses.

Here are some pics from the website. I encourage you all to visit the site.

It's inspirational & exciting to read about people

who are doing good things in the world.

They have sent over 30,000 dresses to Africa. That's just sooo amazing.

The organization was asked to send some dresses to Haiti due to the recent events.

They rely on donations to ship out the dresses.

If you're interested in helping them more,

you can alway ship pillow cases or supplies to them.

They have several sewing groups to do the work.

I know I will be doing this again.

Little Dresses for Africa

OK, I need to get this project back on track & finished.

Does anyone want to help??

I need some bindings ironed or the straps sewn on.

That's it. You can take them home to work on, or come over for a bit.

It's super easy.

My goal is to have them shipped out by the end of this month.

I will be having another time to work on them.

It will be my house, Friday Jan 22 6:30 -9pm.

THANK YOU!!

Little Dresses for Africa

There WILL be child care from 3-5:30 pm!!

Little Dresses for Africa service project.

Changing lives one little dress at a time.

Friday, September 25th

3 pm – Finish

9821 Old Placerville Rd

Sacramento CA, 95827

Over 135 pillowcases & fabrics have been collected. Please come

to help assemble & sew them into dresses for African orphanages.

See the original post here.

Items to bring along: thread, scissors, elastic, rotary cutter & mat,

iron/board, pins, sewing machine, serger, YOURSELF!

(Be sure to label all items with your name.)

Any extras like Ric Rac, lace or ribbon can add nice touches.

If you're a thrift store shopper, there's always some ric rac for .50 cents or so.

All & none talent is needed. From cutting & sewing to ironing &

sizing. No sewing skills are necessary. Only the desire to do good.

Come for as little as 10 minutes.

Children old enough to help are welcome.

If you would like to do these at home, let me know!

I can drop off some supplies & show you how to do them.

Even if it's only the prep work!

I do need some one to be my second in command.

You just need to be able to boss people

around & be there for the most part.

Feel free to call or email with questions.

Jennifer Hasleton 747-5110

jnjhasleton@gmail.com

Little Dresses for Africa Project

So I'm starting a service project that will involve several organizations. Please participate!

Little Dresses For Africa

 

“We are not just sending dresses, we are sending hope.”

 

-Little Dresses for Africa is a non-profit

organization organized to help send relief

to the children of Central Africa.  Simple

dresses are made out of pillow cases and

distributed through the orphanages in 

Central Africa to plant in the hearts of

little girls that they are worthy.

 

You can help by donating gently used pillow cases, fabric scraps for binding or elastic. The goal is to collect enough to make 100 dresses, create the dresses, then send them on over.

Often Walmart has great fabric for $1.50 a yard. All that is needed is 1/2 yard for a full dress. That would be a .75 cent purchase. Although I'm not encouraging buying things for the project, it's a great option

 

Visit the website http://littledressesforafrica.org

Please feel free to contact me with any questions. I also have fliers you can post at work or community boards. Everyone is invited to participate. 

 I will have a pillow case counter on my sidebar.