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A special note: My newsletter is sent out by a mail list manager - please do NOT use your reply feature for newsletter messages. They go to a machine - not to someone at our company who can help you. A list of frequently used email addresses is at the bottom of this letter. To unsubscribe from the newsletter list, please go to: http://www.marthapullen.com/newsletter/addme.htm Enter your email address, check the "remove me" box and click "Submit" Almost instantly, you will be sent an email verifying your wish to unsubscribe. When you get that message, simply hit your reply button, then your send button, and you will be unsubscribed. SEWING TIP OF THE WEEK I do sewing for my little granddaughter. She is growing so fast that her measurements keep changing. To keep up with her current measurements, I tape them (dated) on the side of my sewing maching. This way I do not lose them or get them confused. I recently made her a little shorts outfit with a scalloped stitch on the bottom. To keep the shape of the scallops and prevent any fraying, I used the lightweight iron-on tricot interfacing. This gave the bottom some body, but still allowed it to hang softly. ...Jane Cook LETTER FROM MARTHA Dear Friends, I have just about loaded the car to drive to Tuscaloosa to film 13 more shows for you for the next season. What a joy and privilege it is to be able to create these television shows for you. We are thrilled to be in about 2/3's of the public television markets in the United States as well as in Canada and Puerto Rico. A special thanks to all of you who have called your PBS station to request Martha's Sewing Room and another special thanks for all the stations who have chosen to air our show. We have almost finished the new subscriber (Sew Beautiful) hour long video for this year. I'll tell you more about it when we are ready to "ship" it. Morgan Ross and Bradley had their dancing recitals on Friday and Saturday nights. We have spent the entire week-end doing family things, and I love those family week-ends at home with family. Next week-end we fly to Phoenix for Anna Garrin's christening. The next week-end we have Cecil's dance recital. She just turned 2 in May! Should be interesting. Joanna is one of the dance teachers at Cecil's school and she will dance in the teacher number to music from The Lion King. She can still do a back handspring, a back tuck and an aerial cartwheel which used to be her specialities when she was a dancing teen! Speaking of Joanna, she can't wait to welcome the kids for the kids school. We have so many wonderful projects - sewing machine projects, hand embroidery projects and a little hand smocking also. We have many wonderful teachers who will teach classes along with Joanna. There will be one field trip to the Space and Rocket Center - Alabama's most visited tourist spot. It is really fun, and everyone who visits Huntsville should experience it. We also have swimming parties planned for every day! I will give you a little hint about next February. Since Sarah Joy and Rebekah will be here on furlough, we will have one group (only 15 children) in grades 3-6 for one "home schooling" kids' school. Since they can't be here in July, we are having this home schooling event in February. They both love to sew with their Mom, Suzanne, who loves to sew also. Arlington (Martha's Sewing Market) is going to be more fun than you have ever had! Buy tickets at the door - and the doors will be open for ticket sales at 7am each morning. Be sure to get there to attend an 8 am class so you will get both an 8am and a 9am class before the market opens. The booths are completely sold out, and we are featuring some brand new vendors. We have more pre-sales of tickets than ever before and we can't wait to see YOU!!! It is time to begin thinking about signing up to go with us in November for our "London at Christmastime" tour. This year, I promise, it is going to be better than ever. We have added things based on suggestions from last year's group and we have the world's best trip for you this year. We have many people already signed up and I don't know if we will have one bus or two! If you want to be assured of a place, please go ahead and call Diane at 800-547-4176 ext 109 to hold your place. Joe saw a travel show on the travel channel last week which listed the top 10 most visited places in London. Guess what? We have many of them on our agenda this year plus many more places!! The places from that tv show I will give are in order of popularity: 1.Tower of London (with the crown jewels) 2. London Eye (the big ferris wheel from which you can see forever) (We don't have this scheduled but it would be a quick cab ride on the free day for any of you who want to ride.) 3. British Museum 4. St. Paul's Cathedral and Westminister Abbey (Not scheduled since we did that last year. You can see them on your free day if you haven't already done so.) 5. Buckingham Palace changing of the guard (our city tour will go by here) 6. Oxford Street (Our hotel is about 1/2 block from Oxford street - a much more wonderful hotel than we had last year and the world's greatest location.) 7. Savoy Hotel - We are having "high tea" at the Savoy 8. Portobello Road - we have a whole morning planned here as we did last year 9. An art gallery (I didn't get the name and we aren't going here.) and 10. London Zoo - We don't have this planned but of course you could go if you wanted too. We have many more sights planned including a whole day at the Royal School of Needlework and Windsor Castle, two Broadway plays and a wonderful Elizabethan evening at Hatfield House (Henry VIII's Castle). We will see Queen Victoria's wedding dress and other clothing of hers and Princess Di's at Kensington Palace. All of you members of the Inernet Embroidery Club, your new designs and antique tidbits are now on the web site! I hope you love June's selections. I HAVE A WONDERFUL SURPRISE FOR YOU IN THE IEC!! Check the web site about the middle of June and we have a second embroidery design for you this month!! It is a larger design and you will need a 5 X 7 hoop to do this larger embroidery. It is our very first large embroidery for you in the IEC. This is a bonus design! For those of you who are not members of the IEC, yet, this is a great time to join! You will get all of the designs from January plus two designs this month. We are having fun with our internet embroidery club and our members love the discounted prices on something different each month. Plus this month you get both a 4 X 4 design as well as the 5 X 7 design in the middle of the month. Plus we have two beautiful embroidery CD's ($90 value) which IEC members get for $49! Go to www.marthapullen.com to sign up to be a member if you would like to join our internet embroidery fun. Call 800-547-4176 ext 104 to speak with David and he will sign you up if you would rather do that. Remember, we have a secure web site! That is important to all of us. There is much more news, but I must get in my car to arrive in Tuscaloosa before dark. It is about to storm outside and I have to stop to get gas in the car before I can leave. I'll write more next week, of course. May God Bless You and Those You Love, Martha LETTER FROM SUZANNE I had not heard from John, Suzanne and the children in a couple of weeks. They had been away from e-mail access. The first part of the letter told about John's severe and very painful ear infection which had not been helped with two antibiotics. They had to drive to Cotonou ( the capitol city) to get to a European trained doctor to finally get it under control. He had a serious inner ear infection as well as an outer ear infection. The doctor would not release him to go back north to their home for a full week. John is well now. Suzanne has given me permission to share her story but says to tell all of you that Christopher is much better now and is going to be alright. As always, they appreciate your prayer support very much. I want to tell you once again how wonderful the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Church is to our missionaries. They insisted that John come on to the capitol city for treatment rather than waiting it out for his ear problem with just antibiotics they could get in their town. The other missionaries in Cotonou helped Suzanne with the children while they went to a specialist for his treatment. After reading this letter, as well as all of the others concerning their health problems, I am never going to complain about American medicine again. What a blessing that we live in this country and don't have to go through what Suzanne has to go through to get her baby treated. Can you even imagine having to drive 8 hours to get an ear infection treated? Can you imagine standing in line in 100 degree heat all day to get numbers to have lab work done on your baby when he is burning up with fever? Christopher is 4 years old and quite a large child. Think about Suzanne's carrying him around in this heat nearly all day at a primitive hospital. (Suzanne's letter-June 1, 2001) Dear Mom, I think we need to start praying that all five of us will live to furlough!!! It seems like everything is falling apart. You know how sick John was and how we just got home Sat. Now it is Thursday and Christopher is BAD sick. If it weren't that we had just been down I think we would have gone to Cotonou. As it was we went to the hospital at Tangiyeta (45 min north of here) and had quite a day. I thought you might enjoy the tale. I was sitting in the living room at 6 about to start exercising when Christopher came and crawled in my lap. He felt hot and I said, "Are you sick?" He looked real pitiful and said, "Wes." I checked and sure enough he had a high fever. After some discussion we decided that I would drive up there with him and come back as soon as I was done. I drove up the bumpy mountain roads and got there without any trouble right on the minute when the hospital opens in the morning. So far so good. The doctor hadn't come in yet so they asked me to wait, but after about 15 min. he showed up. He said Christopher was having a malaria crisis and needed to be hospitalized for a couple of days to have quinine IV. He had only looked at Christopher briefly and hadn't yet done any lab work so I told him I was a nurse and couldn't I do the treatment at home with him (in my mind as I swatted flies off of Christopher I was thinking that there was no way we were going to stay overnignht in a hospital ward that doesn't even have screens on the windows, filtered water, etc.). He agreed to that and told me to go start the lab work. This was where my troubles really began. I paid the emergency room bill and then they told me to go to the secretary before going to do lab work. So I did. Unfortunately so did everyone else who needed anything done that day and do you think it was an orderly line? Of course not. Christopher was laying down on a concrete slab bench and everyone kept literally shoving me out of the way to get in front of me. After thirty minutes of this I decided that I had better be rude and shove too so I slowly shoved my way to the front. The secretary disdainfully looked at my slip that I was supposed to pay and said, "You can't pay - you don't have a patient number. Go to the ER and get one and then get back in line." So off I went to ER. (All the time carrying Christopher who has a HIGH fever and all our stuff). The ER said that was ridiculous that the secretary had to give me the number and sent me to the pediatrician. The pediatrician also said that it was the secretary who had to give me the number - the man who sent me away! But at least he took pity on me and sent an aide to go get me a number from the secretary. Then I had to go back in line to get a more detailed bill (the total was $3 - I would have gladly paid much more to have not had to deal with all the hassle) and then to the same secretary that I had been to to start with. He wouldn't take me until everyone else had been taken care of. Then I finally got to "pass go" and go to the lab. At the lab I was the last one they took for the day so it was a good thing we started early! They told us to come back in an hour and a half for the results. We know some missionaries in that town so we went to their house and let Christopher sleep on the couch for a while. Then we went back to the hospital. Of course the lab work wasn't finished. They finally got it done and to our surprise no malaria, but high WBC meaning an infection. So back we go to the pediatrician who chews me out for taking so long (like I could help it). I politely suggest a less invasive treatment than hospitalization and a quinine drip since it doesn't appear that he has malaria and he agreed and gave him a prescription and we finally got to come home. I thought I was getting malaria coming home - I don't know when I have had such a bad sick headache, but it was just the exhaustion and stress and having been in the sun all day (most of my waiting at the hospital was in the sun). So my prayer now is let us stay healthy and survive until furlough!!! (Note from Martha) They will arrive inHuntsville for furlough, God willing, on September 1, 2001!! They will live primarily in Atlanta in a missionary house; however, they will spend some time at my mother's house in Scottsboro, Alabama. I want them to spend as much time as possible at our house in Huntsville. Suzanne's parents, John and Nancy Laramore, are missionaries in Africa. They will be home on furlough in Atlanta at the same time. What a blessing for all of us to have both families here at the same time. SUMMER SALE-EXTENDED FOR ONE MORE WEEK UNTIL JUNE 10, 2001 This week we are offering 30% off on two books. Heirloom Sewing for Women (400 page hard cover book - regularly $40) for $28 plus $7 shipping (total $35). Sue Pennington's new book, Easy Elegance, we are also selling this week only for 30% off. Regular price of Sue's book is $16.99 plus $5 shipping. This week only it is $11.90 plus $5 shipping. If you purchase both of these books at their sale price the total shipping will just be $8 for both of them since they will travel in one box. If you purchase both books at 30% off the books plus shipping will be $47.90 which is about the price of the women's book minus the shipping cost. Call 800-547-4176 ext. 117 to order. NEW INSPIRATIONS 1 CD SHIPPING! ONLY FOR IEC MEMBERS AT THIS TIME! This is the newest CD which has scriptures and famous sayings enclosed inside 21 beautiful designs! My friend DJ in California made us two quilts using these scriptures! They are beautiful. One is a wall hanging with three of the scriptures and quilting fabric surrounding them. The other has all of the scriptures stitched out on one quilt. What a gorgeous present for someone you love. You can see samples from the newest Martha Pullen embroidery CD if you go to the web site. You cannot purchase this CD for four months unless you are a member of the Internet Machine Embroidery Club. If you are a member you can purchase this beautiful disk with scripture and famous quotes for only $49. A membership in the IEC would be a great present for you or someone you love. The membership is only $59 for the whole year and you can read about all the goodies you get with your year's membership. ARLINGTON, TEXAS MARTHA'S SEWING MARKET IS NEXT MONTH! - BUY YOUR TICKETS AT THE DOOR - JUNE 21-23, 2001 Arlington is going to be the biggest show we have ever had. Three vendors are coming from Australia and more are coming from all over the United States than we have ever had before. All of the booths are sold unless we have a vacancy that we aren't expecting. We have almost filled my "sit and sew class" the day before the show begins. Send your e-mail to diane@marthapullen.com. ARLINGTON CLASS SCHEDULE (DAY BY DAY - HOUR BY HOUR) FOR THE FREE CLASSES IS NOW ON THE WEB SITE! GO TO WWW.MARTHAPULLEN.COM TO SEE! To read about all of the FREE classes (once you pay your low daily admission fee of $15 (less per day if you order now)) go to www.marthapullen.com and click on the "Sewing Markets" bar at the top of the page. Then click on the details of the classes and you will love reading about all of the classes you have to choose from over the three days of the market! They are so exciting. I think you will enjoy reading the classes even if you won't be able to attend this year. It is not too late to get a plane ticket and fly on down to Arlington (Dallas) to come to this market. I think after you read about the classes, you might want to do just that. They really are exciting! BABY DOLL SURVEY - MARTHA PULLEN'S NEW DOLL MADE BY GOTZ OF GERMANY DOLL COMPANY Click Doll Poll to participate. You should have received the baby doll survey via e-mail. If you are interested in possibly purchasing one of our new baby dolls (made by Gotz and available late October) would you please tell us which one or ones you are especially interested in. This if the first time we have had a baby doll in our Gotz line of Martha Pullen dolls. We have chosen a 21-inch doll, very much the size of a real baby and a 16-inch doll, which is a little smaller and easier for a very little child to carry around. Of course, the dolls will be signed and numbered and will come with a "play with" daygown. Included in the price of the doll will be a doll-dressing book with gorgeous baby doll clothes to fit both sized dolls. Since the small doll is "preemie sized" this book will also be a great resource for those of you sewing "preemie" clothing for babies and ministries to hospitals. The larger doll (with the doll dress, the signature, the number and the doll-dressing book) will be $79. The smaller doll (with all of the goodies just mentioned) will be $59. The two large dolls will be different: one has blue eyes and one has brown eyes. The two smaller dolls will have the same thing. They will be named four different names and two of the names can be either a boy or a girl doll. We have named the dolls Dress Me Sarah, Dress me Rebekah, Dress Me Alex and Dress Me Sydney. We are not ready to take any orders at this time. For those of you who are shop owners, you will be able to order also, so you might want to survey your customers to see just how many you will want to order for your customers. Hopefully, you sewing teachers will have lots of baby doll clothes sewing classes, especially for Christmas surprises of a lifetime for the recipients. Anyway, if you are interested in these dolls, please respond to the survey telling us which dolls you would like to have. I know many of you have all of our dolls and you are interested in getting the lowest possible numbers. I will tell you on this e-mail newsletter FIRST when we are ready to accept doll orders and assign numbers. They are assigned on a minute by minute basis, first come, first served as always. Once again, right now we cannot accept orders. We just need your responses to your interests in the dolls. MARTHA PULLEN LICENSED TEACHER DATES Many people have asked about becoming a Martha Pullen licensed teacher. We have two Viking dates; one Pfaff date and one Bernina date already lined up. The August Viking date is completely filled; we have another Viking date with a few vacancies, February 15-21, 2002. We have a few vacancies in the Pfaff date, October 2-9, 2001 and a few vacancies for Bernina, January 11-17, 2002. If you are currently teaching sewing, we would love to have you become Martha Pullen licensed teacher. If you have not taught sewing, yet, but want to build a home based business, we would love to have you become a Martha Pullen licensed teacher. The licensing lasts for your lifetime as long as you teach the classes we have developed for this licensing. We share with you how you can work and plan to build a business in the sewing education business. NEW BOOKS IN THE DEVELOPMENT STAGE! NOT READY TO ORDER YET! BUT WE ARE EXCITED ABOUT THEM! We are well into the development of four new books. We are not ready to take orders on any of them at this time! The quilt book is fabulous and has so many heirloom quilt projects: 17 quilts and two pillows to be exact. The Sew Kool 4 Kids book will have easy to make kid's clothing, easy to make doll clothes for 18" dolls, and hand sewing projects for hand embroidery. The "Anna Garrin's Baptismal Gown" book has the most gorgeous christening dress, slip and bonnet you have ever seen with massive amounts of machine embroidery (from any machine) as well as lace shaping and elegance. The Baby Doll Pattern Book will have clothes to fit both the 16" and the 21" baby dolls. Of course these are great for babies too including preemie babies. I will let you know, before anyone else, when we are ready to take orders for these books. MARTHA PULLEN SCHOOL OF ART FASHION-JULY 22-29, 2001!! Our school this summer is almost filled. Some classes are filled with long waiting lists; others have one or two openings. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts for the joy you have expressed at our schools. Thanks for coming back over and over again! Thanks for all the new people who are coming for the very first time. Joanna is so excited about actually teaching in the kid's school this year. You remember last year she was in the hospital with baby Chase so she did not get to teach at Joanna's School for Kids. NEW BABY BONNET KITS You must go to the web site and see our brand new bonnet kits made from imported handkerchiefs or doilies. We have five and they are super easy to make since all of the embroidery is already done for you. We got the idea for these kits from the schools here in Huntsville. The ladies scrambled to purchase these beautiful handkerchiefs and we showed them how to put them together in a super easy, super beautiful baby bonnet. Joe said to me after the last school, "Please have kits made up for our web site showing people how to make these bonnets." The kits are ready for you to go to the web site to look at and to purchase if you would like (www.marthapullen.com). Everything you need, except white thread, is included in the kit. ELEGANT SEWING FOR BABY - A RUNAWAY BEST SELLER, THANKS TO YOU! We are thrilled to be shipping our newest book. From your comments, you love it! For $19.95 plus $5 shipping I think this may be the best bargain in the sewing industry. I have just counted the projects in this book. Does 50 projects sound good for $19.95? The price for the 112-page book and 3 large 16 page pull out pattern sections is only $19.95 plus $5 shipping. Total $24.95!! E-mail toni@marthapullen.com or call 800-547-4176, ext. 117 or place a secure order in our on-line store. LILLY (13" African American GOTZ Doll) SALE! $49 for $99.95 value! Read on! We have about 50 of the Lilly dolls left.These are the last of the 13" doll series, which included Morgan, Bradley and Emma. All of those are gone and will not be made again. If you would like one of these 13" LILLY dolls, we are going to run a special, which can't be beat! First you will get the signed, numbered doll ($70 value). We are also including the Three Best Friends: Heirloom Doll Clothes book ($24.95 value) PLUS the Three Best Friends Coloring Book ($5 value). This is a total of $99.95! Once again this week you can have this whole package for $49 plus $7 shipping. Total $56! Lilly has beautiful brown skin and short curly gorgeous shiny hair. For those of you who have the other three of this series, this would be a great final addition. We have less than 90 of these dolls so first come, first served. Please order immediately if you want this doll - call 800-547-4176 ext. 117 (Toni). Please call or e-mail (toni@marthapullen.com) for this special since it is not available on the web site. SEW BEAUTIFUL TALENT SEARCH!! Please go to www.marthapullen.com to read the rules about our new talent search. There are fabulous prizes and we want everyone to enter! Many beginners will be entering as well as experienced seamstresses. We have so many categories and so many prizes. You have until September to sew and sew some more. There is a page about the talent search in the May Sew Beautiful magazine! You can print out all of the entry forms and the rules from the web site. SUBSCRIBERS TO SEW BEAUTIFUL GET DISCOUNTS ON MARTHA PULLEN CATALOGUE ITEMS EVERY ISSUE! This is one of the real reasons to go ahead and subscribe to Sew Beautiful. Not only do you get a value packed issue 6 times a year (the largest sewing magazine produced in the United States of America) but also you get special prices on wonderful things which last for 2 months while that magazine is current. You also get 2 paper catalogues mailed along with your subscription twice a year! Please call 800-547-4176 ext. 116 or 115 to subscribe today for only $27.99!! You can also subscribe from our SECURE website www.marthapullen.com. ANNA GARRIN'S CHRISTENING DRESS BOOK READY IN ABOUT 8 WEEKS! We have a new christening dress book just about ready, Anna Garrin's Baptismal Gown. This dress was designed and made for our newest granddaughter, Anna Garrin Crocker. We had originally intended to do a pattern, not a book, with this dress, bonnet and slip; however, I think a booklet is ever so much nicer than a pattern and it will be the same price as a massive pattern envelope would have been - $12 plus $5 shipping. The dress is very elegant and has both hand and machine embroidery featured. A lot of Christian symbolism is built into the dress. The total length of the dress is forty-eight inches. I had always loved the shape of a teardrop in lace. To me, the teardrop symbolizes the blood of Christ, which was shed on the cross for us. This dress has many lace teardrops all around the dress. Each teardrop of white French lace has machine embroidered Christian symbols stitched in. We used Bernina, Pfaff and Viking machine embroidered designs - all from Martha Pullen cards done for those specific companies. The designs range from crosses and flowers to three circles (symbolizing the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit). The fabric for the dress is the gorgeous Victorian vines silk dupioni. LAST SHIPMENT OF GOTZ DOLLS MADE FOR MARTHA PULLEN---DRESS ME JOANNA, MARTHA AND MARY IS IN THE WAREHOUSE! As you know from our back collections of Gotz dolls, the price goes up when we get ready to retire the dolls. When this edition is gone, we will not have any more of Martha, Joanna and Mary manufactured. When we get down to less than 100 of each doll, the price will go from $79 per doll to $120 per doll. Please don't be disappointed and not get your doll or find that the price has changed! Please go ahead and order your Dress Me Joanna, Martha and Mary dolls at the current price! 800-547-4176 ext. 117 or e-mail toni@marthapullen.com. LONDON AT CHRISTMASTIME TRIP! (NOVEMBER 28-DECEMBER 6, 2001) Once again, we are taking a group of people to London during the beautiful Christmas season-November 28-December 6, 2001! We would love to have you join us! We are in a much nicer hotel this year in a fabulous downtown, shopping area! We took the most fun parts of last year's trip and the suggestions for the next trip and rolled them all into this year's planning! Please join us for the vacation of a lifetime! Call Diane at 800-547-4176, ext. 109 to request a brochure and registration form for this "once of a lifetime Christmas trip"! PASADENA, CALIFORNIA WEST COAST SEWING EXTRAVAGANZA (NOVEMBER 14-17, 2001) IS OPEN FOR REGISTRATION!! MANY HAVE REGISTERED ALREADY! We are so excited about our Pasadena, California School - November 14-17, 2001! The brochures will be ready is just a few weeks. To register, call 800-547-4176 ext 105 or 106 or e-mail louise@marthapullen.com to request a brochure. Check our web site for details! PLEASE SEND ME YOUR SEWING TIPS AND RECIPES! My personal e-mail at the office is marthap@marthapullen.com - Please send me sewing tips and recipes. I love getting them and best of all sharing them with lots of other people on this list. You are the greatest e-mail friends anyone could ever hope to have and I do appreciate each of you so very much. Save these email addresses!
orders@marthapullen.com (for order questions) SCRIPTURE OF THE WEEK Thinking about John and his family in Africa reminds me that we are all "missionaries" no matter where we are. 2 Corinthians 5
18 And all this is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through
Christ and given us the ministry of reconciliation, RECIPE OF THE WEEK Sunday Chicken (serves 4)
Whole chicken Wash whole chicken, vegetables and herbs. Salt and pepper interior cavity of chicken. Stuff with herbs. Place on rack in roasting pan. Fill bottom of pan with whole baby carrots. Bake at 300 degrees for 30 minutes per pound. Baste frequently alternating chicken broth and orange juice. Carve chicken and serve on platter surrounded by carrots. Good served with rice with mushrooms and scallions. Mrs. Bill Alexander, wife of former Representative from Arkansas This recipe is another delicious recipe from The Congressional Club Cookbook. Go to: Martha's Home Page |