Gosh....happy new year...let's see... do you think my new year's resolution should be to improve on updating this newsletter? ok, I'll try.

Hope you got to see the last issue of Cloth Doll Magazine; great issue and a free pattern from me to you was within. (see links page for cloth doll magazine)

Upcoming events for Reets:

• March 4 and 5: Manteca Doll and Quilt Show
• March 11 and 12: Reets teaches her new bunny at Ocean Wave Quilts in Trinidad, California - their # is 707 677 3770. Sign up now.
• May 19-21: International Quilt Market (wholesale show) - Minneapolis, Minn.

What great letters i receive. i truly wish i could pass them all on to you. One i received from doll maker Fifi in Tennessee who made up the Reets "Hot Mocha Mama" (#RR29) pattern, but not just one pair. She and 5 of her friends held a luncheon for 32 ladies and each place had a Mocha Mama sitting on a wine glass (ooh, sorry i missed this one) and had their names on them for place cards. Fifi sent me a marvelous picture of her luncheon table. (sometimes ya wish you could be EVERYWHERE don't ya?) thanks so much Fifi. i LOVED it:



The Golden Dollies newsletter is published by Gloria in California. i enjoyed a very enlightening, joyful and inspiring letter from Gloria who is a doll maker in her golden years who writes with great creativity... i can imagine the dolls she's made.

Therese S. in California is looking foward to "many happy hours with needle and wool." guess she loves wool felt as much as i do. thanks to her and to Shirley in Nevada for your letters and compliments. Also a big thanks to all who wrote me about the Cloth Doll Magazine article.. that was fun.

and here was a glorious moment... i received a wonderful, primitive black dolly from my email friend Frannie... for weeks i was in heaven just gazing at her... i still am. Someday Frannie and i will meet.

here's a little story for ya. i'm kinda not up on things..i mean, im not a tv or news enthusiast, or much of a reader either. i do however, give the radio half a listen as i work during the day. all last year, i was haunted by that repeated question, (you probably heard it too)....

"why Toukay" ?

i mean i didn't really listen to much of what anyone had to say about "Toukay" because i hate repetitive advertising.. annoying you know.. but after awhile it wears on ya right? for awhile i thought they were saying "Why Parkay".. you know the butter stuff.. but then i heard the "T" and started wondering myself... well yeah, "why Toukay?"... is it like the best or something?.. should i like go buy some a the stuff? .... finally, i'd heard enough. i set out on a mission to get some a this Toukay. and i mean i looked EVERYWHERE on the market... no luck. Went to the second market (we only have two) and continued the search. NONE! Dejected i went home, figuring the stuff must be so increduously popular, both markets were completely sold out. With every trek came the same results and more dejected i became. Admittedly, obsession started consuming me. i started tapping on the neighbor's doors and asking (very politely mind you) "may i please borrow some Toukay?" and i'll admit i'm new in the neighborhood but every single one of em just looked at me like they didn't even know what i was talking about. hmpfff... what a welcome! and god by now this episode was giving me hot flashes...i swear.. i was getting desparate to say the least. One week i even went to the town hall meeting because it said 'refreshments will be provided' cause i was just so certain they would be serving up some a this "Toukay" - hot as it was an all. And you guessed it... nice looking spread but the Toukay was nowhere to be found. Finally i collapsed with exhaustion over the whole thing.. then i got depressed and then apathy overtook me... "what the heck..it's probably just a new toilet paper or something.. who cares" At last i got back to work and every time i heard it mentioned again i just turned off the radio.... big blabs...why advertise something you ain't got?!..void!

Then for christmas..guess what we got... a TV...i was so mad and disappointed i wouldn't watch it for a week. then new year's eve rolled in and i was a bit drawn to all the excitement and you know it..before too long i saw it up there on the screen...

Y 2K...!!!!!

if only i'd a known... just spelled it wrong. . . .wish me better luck this year now that i know well what to look for.

gosh, thanks alot for reading all that.

and sincerely, Happy New Year

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