Va Fashion Doll Club October Meeting- the Raffles...

Wrapping up the meeting was our raffles. The raffles were items or giftbags of little items grouped together to be raffled off to defray the cost of the Christmas tea party which was to be held at The Jefferson Hotel in Richmond, Va. 

If you click on the link it will take you to an Italian marble breath taking lobby which is where the iconic staircase was copied from in the movie from 
Gone with the Wind so many years ago. In the gilded age, or the early 1900's, the Jefferson was known for having alligators swimming in the marble pools in the lobby while the guests took tea or had lunch. Now, the alligators are merely metal statues that stare at you amongst the ferns from those same marble baths. 

But onto the raffles!

The denominations of raffle tickets we could buy were $10- 10 tickets, $15 -15 tickets, and $25 -25 tickets if I remember correctly. It may have been 50 tickets for $25 . I bought $10 worth of tickets. You put your tickets in a pink bag with the photo of the item on the pink bag, which was usually next to the raffle item.  There were dolls,Outfits,  furniture, jewelry, bags, books, poster of Francie from Convention, gift baskets of lotion, key tags, soap, that were Barbie related, and all kinds of items sure to please. 

There were 20 raffle items. The rules were: You could only win 2 items, so if you won more than once, as each raffle was called, you had to put an item back if you won something you liked better. This was difficult for many people who won more than twice. There were alot of nice raffle items. 

I won her!!! I had been wanting her forever!! 

I really didn't expect to win anything at all. The other items on raffle are below-

The raffles went wonderfully well and it wouldn't be a doll meeting at Linda's (Jewelz) house without a visit to her doll room! So here are some fab pics of her fantabulous Barbie room!

VA Fashion Doll Club October Meeting Part 2 -Sports & Tailgating

My club does different memes on their meetings and throughout this year the theme has been Places of Virginia.  So instead of our usual Halloween meeting, where we all pull out the Halloween dolls, we did combined two themes- with Francies' 50th birthday which I covered in Part 1, and our diorama setup, Sports/ and tailgating. 

What the club members were supposed to do was to bring a doll or dolls and a table with food for tailgating at a regular football game. Most of the club members have sons or daughters or in colleges with teams, like Virginia Tech, and so on. (Frankly, my idea of tailgating is a little different having been to the horse shows and charity races at the Strawberry Hill fairgrounds here in Richmond. That's tailgating on a whole another level, so the football thing was new to me because I frankly can't stand football. That's another story, lol) 

I did not bring any dolls to this presentation since it was so specific and I do not have any cheerleaders, football themed outfits, etc. I loved the vintage ones I saw, and would love to collect them, they have a timeless look. Now onto the pictures!

Leslie, one of our club members, did a great scene on the Wisconsin Bucky the Badger cheeseheads. from her daughter's college. They are even wearing little cheeses on their heads! She also got the themed college clothing from a seller on ebay!

The stickers for the car came from her daughter's college too, which she put on one of her cars. She had this set up at her daughter's high school graduation did similar themed ones/dolls for her daughter's friends. I thought that was really cool. 

And of course, no doll club meeting would be a meeting without FOOD! We had all sorts of wonderful tailgating themed foods. This was only a sampling as not all the food had got there yet with all the members when I took this photo. 

More on the raffles on part 3 of this club meeting tomorrow! And you will see the prize- the doll I won!Lisa