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We're Going to Florida

Lana Turner, Me, and the DRESS, have been invited to St. Augustine, Florida, for a series of events celebrating Anna Murray Douglass, and her contributions as an Abolitionist,  Mother, Wife, Woman.  There is little known about Anna, but no more, throughout the planning of this project in September 2022, we have coined the phrase, Anna came and got us. Peña-Peck House Woman's Exchange Lunch With Anna Tickets Anna Murray Douglass Dress

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My Friend Lois

Lois made the bag she is wearing with a canvas on the cover that she purchased in Cuba, one of many trips around the world. Lois in her Jacket and dress by.....ME! Years ago, my friend Lois, brought back this fabric, this blue indigo fabric from the Sea Islands.  It was originally a bedspread.  Her request was a that it be made into a dress.  She reminded me it was at least 15 or more years ago. Fast forward December 2016, at an event we were both vending at, she loved the patchwork denim jacket her daughter purchased. Dawn in her Patchwork Jacket in December She put in an order for her patchwork denim jacket and made no special request. ...

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