Prep Day

This coming Tuesday 28th Feb, we are having a sewing prep day at DfG headquarters (a.k.a. my house) from 9am until 12.20pm. 

We will be cutting fabric, snapping shields, counting bags and liners, etc. 

Please let em know if you would like to join us so we can arrange work to be ready. Many thanks

BINGO

Make sure you get along to tomorrow's PDO Bingo day. Fantastic prizes, great company, lots of laughs and all that for only 5 rial (and admission to PDO for the day). The last one was such fun. We are so grateful to them for supporting us.

Zero Waste is a GREAT thing to have.

I wanted to share that we are very proud that we have ZERO wastage now from our cottons. Once they come off the die-cutter then we cut out what can be used for pockets. Then any useable pieces are kept for Hebah who makes them into lovely little quilts / rugs for children less fortunate (and some Mug Mats too) and THEN the final scraps are being used by Lisa to stuff cat beds that are then sold at craft fairs and the proceeds come back to us to buy more fabric ;-) Same goes for the bags. Our PUL scraps also go into the cat beds.

Love these ladies! Here are a few rugs and mats made with some of our DfG offcuts.

Thanks for stopping by ...

February Volunteer Morning

We had an amazing Volunteer Morning today, these ladies are simply the best. 

A huge thank you to Xeynab who made the most beautiful cake which not only looked great but also tasted soooooo good!   If you are an Instagramer (is that a word yet?) you can follow Xeynab and her lovely creations on https://instagram.com/handcraftededibles.

More information to follow tomorrow about an exciting Bingo Day coming up on the 16th Feb so PLEASE save the date. 

I am dead on my feet after such a busy morning and thank you to all the ladies for making sure I went from one side of the room to the other repeatedly, I got in over 8000 steps ;-) .

PANTY DRIVE

If you were at the last Volunteer Morning you would know that we had a little giggle over the meaning of "panty drive", and I assured everyone that it did not mean that we were taking to the streets of Muscat driving around in our panties to support DfG!!! (Oh dear what a thought).

BUT here it is, this month we are having a PANTY DRIVE. 

We are in need of women's full brief underwear. All the details are on the flyer.

If you would like a PDF copy to share please contact me. 

Thanks all, and I hope to see you TOMORROW at the VOLUNTEER MORNING.

Volunteer Day Tomorrow

Hello all, my sincerest apologies in not keeping the blog up to date. Our main source of communication is Facebook but I am endeavouring to get another volunteer to assist me with Social Media and that should resolve our delay issues.

We had a wonderful Volunteer Day this month and we packed 170 kits! Woo-hoo it was fantastic.

The attempt at a serious photo ...

But that is just not us, so we acted normal ...!!!!

We also had a prep day last week so that we had enough raw components to give out and sew on our volunteer TOMORROW!

Please come along if you have some time, even if it is just for half an hour to see what we are all about.

Thank you for all your support.

Break in Transmission - Service will resume in January

(now who is old enough to know what that means?)

Good morning lovely DfG ladies, 

It is with HUGE regret that I need to advise that ALL DfG activities for the month of December are to be cancelled. You can imagine how gutted I am as this upcoming volunteer day was to be our great "pack" day. 

Currently I am in hospital, which was quite unexpected, as I am having some neck and spine issues. The great news is that I will most likely return home in next day or two, however I will be unable to do much at all. I have limited neck movement and can not lift anything nor sit at the sewing machine or a computer for any long periods. Besides that my brain is la-la-mushy.

I truly did consider going ahead with our volunteer day, and the fair tomorrow, and the sewing classes but taking a "supervisor" (lol) role but to be honest getting ready for these events I need to pull things out of the very many boxes in the DfG room and on the medication I am on at the moment I just can't get things straight in my head (haha now I know some of you think I am a muddle head like that all the time!!!! but this time I have an excuse ). 

Every now the universe comes along and gives us a little wake-up call about our life and health. Well Ms. Universe has rightly whooped my butt this time and YES I am now listening ;-)

I love you ladies, and that is not the pethidine talking, and I look forward to a very productive January together. 

xxx Cloda