I’m A Clubwoman

Our state convention was last weekend. I really want to tell you about one of the greatest centerpiece ideas I’ve ever seen.

oh yah I bought a new car!

My club sponsors an absolutely amazing project each year. It is a Student Art Festival held at one of the local high schools every spring. Hundreds of students from all the feeder junior highs and from the two high schools enter their art creations.

Every year Junior Woman’s Club of Columbia hosts an annual fundraiser for Palmetto Place Children’s Shelter.  Our annual event for the last few years has been “Baubles and Bubbles”.  Held at the Hilton Hotel, it includes catered food from Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse, a silent auction and a champagne diamond drop.  It is such a terrifically [...]

It has been a long time since I’ve blogged for “I’m a Clubwoman”.  Right after we started this blog, and the week before my Club’s big fundraiser, I fell and broke my finger.  I am right-handed and it has really been a rough few months.  The day after our fundraiser I had surgery, which my [...]

I am trying to get “caught up” on all the ways to keep in touch with everyone.  I started with a MySpace page, mainly to keep an eye on Catherine, my 14 yr. old.  I found a lot of friends there too, but I just didn’t have the time to constantly update my site as [...]

Terry pulled her lawnmower into her yard shed and headed up to the house for a glass of lemonade. By the time she walked back outside, it was on fire. Try as they may, the volunteer fire fighters didn’t get all of the flames put out, and the yard shed burned to the ground.

Now, when [...]

Writing a grant is a lot like writing a business plan. But don’t let that scare you. A grant proposal has several sections that allow a foundation to get to know the need in your community and how your project plans to meet that need.
Explain the need
This portion of your funding request, isn’t the time [...]

The March 20th was the first day of spring and Persian New Year.

My book club met last night. We reviewed and discussed The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls.
April’s book is The Book Thief. We are thinking our May book may be The Lace Readers. If anyone has read these books would appreciate your opinion.
The book I began reading after The Glass Castle was/is Kiss My Tiara – [...]

I’m not sure what happened to my walkin’-around-money, but over the past six months it has disappeared along with a lot of my retirement savings. This is not the way I planned it when I retired in June 2007.

If you are a fan of the long-running syndicated show “Gilmore Girls,” then you know about Lorelai Gilmore’s love for snow. Every season when it starts to snow, she sniffs the air and goes through her list of all the wonderful things that happen in the winter, and she (almost) makes me long to be surrounded by the white powdery stuff.

I know we have all been hit hard these last 6 months and even before.  But I believe that change is just around the corner.  It will not be coming from a Democrat or Republican, nor President Obama nor US Senator or Congressman.  It is coming from God.  It is Spring – showing us that [...]

You all have the clubwoman who wants to do it all, but everything just gets in the way.  That has been me for the past 6 or so months.  I won’t go into the gory details about my daughter’s drama, holidays, etc.; but the latest problem has been illness.  Nothing major…just allergies, then the flu, [...]

I think I said I would share more ideas on the craft stuff that a group of us do.  So I amd sharing.  These are just a few.  Would love to hear other ideas for fun crafts