A Mammas Plan Comes to Fruition

It all started with stockings...

One year ago we had a plan. We'll all make stockings. Sell some to raise enough money to fill the others with a gift card and candy, lotions... remember?

We made a quilt to be raffled. We had 50/50 raffles, our crafty members donated their treasures and the StoneRidge community bought them up. After all was said and done we made nearly $2,000.00!

Over the course of the year the Mammas donated 4 turkeys to complete the StoneRidge baskets that were donated to the Blanchard Food Bank. And when we realized how much we had in our treasury our original plan for Christmas evolved. Not only would we give stockings, but we would play Santa for 3 families in Bonner County. 

The families were chosen by the elementary school in Oldtown. They provided us with names, ages, sizes and the children's wish lists. With our budget of  $900.00, $75 per person we played Santa.  Everything we set out to do was completed beyond our expectations.


The Mammas are a year old now and have already started planning for this new year. At our first official meeting of 2010, Kathy invited the Mammas to her home and to take advantage of using her extensive collection of beads. She has some experience making beaded items and thought we could sell them for the Mammas. Of course, we won't be making things that would conflict with Ginger.

We discussed getting our non-profit status. Without even trying we are teetering on the boarder of making too much money and having to pay taxes. Cari is going to follow up on that. We may have to change our plan for the cookbook due to cost. We are investigation other options. Cari completed the "Star" quilt and the Mammas will be finishing it so it can be sold or auctioned off. It was then decided to make potato bags to be sold at the coffee/socials. We all agreed that we will try to include the entire community with as many projects as possible.


On the 22nd we had our first working meeting making Idaho Potato Bags that will be sold at the coffee/socials beginning in the spring. It took a while to get going, but once we did things started to take shape. Some worked on the potato bags while others were finishing the Santa dolls. Margee showed us her decorated corks as we discussed other projects.



Our next meeting will be February 19th 10am - 2pm at Harlene's house. Brown bag lunch. We will continue making our potato bags and hope to complete the Santa dolls. Everyone is welcome!
 

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