Hello Fellow Queens,

I am happy to say we had our 3rd gathering and only one hatter was not able to come.  But she's still a dedicated hatter just had to miss that one due to family responsibilities. 

One of our hatters brought her teenager along because she'd had therapy right before our tour and mom thought since we were going to be doing a bit of walking going from shop to shop that the excercise would do her good.  The daughter just moved back in with her from dad's so it's been a rough road with health issues. 

We had a great time, of course, and a wonderfully declicious lunch.  We went to all the handmade shops on a small street here in town.  There were so many things we loved and plan to go back to get but we bought very little while we were touring.  I think we were all a little weary with the economy the way it is. 

But we found lots of things we loved and didn't know was available here in town.  So now we know where to go. 

We will probaly skip December, as that is such a busy month.  But I left it up to them to decide. 

I want to make little christmas goody bags for them to show how much I love and appreciate them for coming out and looking forward to coming out each month.  I found rhinestone pins in each of their titles except the Dutchess.  So i'm rethinking that idea, good thing I didn't have my credit card handy when I saw the others or I would have been very upset to discover they did not have that one. 

I hope everyone else has had a great gathering this month!!

Have a red hatty weekend!

  Hello Red/Pink Hatters,

We had our second meeting this past Saturday.  It was the same ladies that showed up last time plus one.  So that made it 4 ladies and we had a blast.  We had 2 young ladies ask about us and i didn't have any red hat cards but i had my single adult program cards from my church so i had to give them one of those so they would have my name and number. 

The other lady that join us this week is so talkative and open to people that the minute they would ask a question, she'd be on, oh it's great, it's fun, here is one of Steph's card and call us and we'd love to have ya.........  I dubbed her Dutchess Fabulousness, she is really a hoot.

We had lots of great ideas and ate lots of food, we almost had to be rolled out of there.  We still ended up leaving without choosing the next three gatherings.  They are all kind of leaving it in my hands to choose.  So i'll have to sit down next week and pick the next few gatherings from the idea list we came up with.  Hopefully in the future they will get more comfortable with taking turns, but for now it's okay.  I'm just glad they are coming and we are having such a blast.

Hope everyone had a great holiday weekend.