Scrapbooking Designs to Print
We now have 4 downloadable sets of scrapbooking paper designs for you to print to use to make scrapbooks about your many fun activities. Our Free Sample of 2 pages will show you how it all works.
These scrapbook sets are not affiliated with or endorsed by the official Red Hat Society, but simply here for your fun.

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     Scrapbooking Set #1

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Remember that any of these pages can be printed in lots of different sizes, so you can make photo frames, name tags, placecards, napkin rings for all your functions. They can also be printed in your printer's 'draft or economy' mode for a pastel version of what you see here.

Scrapbooking Set #2

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These scrapbook sets are not affiliated with or endorsed by the official Red Hat Society, but simply here for your fun.

We hope that all your lovely ladies will find these scrapbook designs useful for scrapbooking your photos and memories from the many socials, parties and functions.

For those of you who want a little history on who this group of gals is and how they came about:

All across America (and elsewhere) bodacious women are gathering in groups and calling themselves The Red Hat Society. It has become quite a 'movement'. The official colors of the Red Hat Ladies are Red (of course), Pink & Purple. The organization is dedicated to fun after fifty (and before) for women of all walks of life. They believe silliness is the comedy relief of life and, since they are all in it together they join red-gloved hands and go for the gusto together. Underneath the frivolity, they share a bond of affection, forged by common life experiences and a genuine enthusiasm for wherever life takes them next.

The idea was begun by Sue Ellen Cooper of Fullerton, California when she and a few friends took inspiration from a popular poem entitled "Warning" by Jenny Joseph. Since the poem mentions wearing a red hat and purple clothes, she and her friends formed a group that met on a regular basis for tea in their red hats and purple dresses.

Here is a portion of the poem that started it all:

Warning

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
And run my stick along the public railings
And make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
And pick the flowers in other people's gardens . . .

by Jenny Joseph

When Sue Ellen and her friends were featured in Romantic Homes magazine in July 2000, they began hearing from other women who wanted to start their own chapters.
They suggest rather strongly that women under 50 stick to a pink hat and lavender attire until THE BIRTHDAY (50). This adds an element of fun to aging, which they think is invaluable to women who have learned to dread aging and avoid it at all costs. They believe that aging should be something anticipated with excitement, not something to dread.
You can learn a lot more about the Red Hat Society and see if there is a local Red Hat Society in your area at their official website- www.RedHatSociety.com

To give you an idea of the fun these ladies have, the following is a press release about at summer Red Hat event:

Red Hat Society Tea Party at the San Francisco Zoo, July 24, 2004
The Strutting Peacocks, a Red Hat Society Chapter, will be throwing a Tea Party on July 24th at the San Francisco Zoo. Tickets are $35 per person and that includes admission to the zoo, admission to the tea party, a tour of the zoo, and games. All chapters and new members are welcome to attend.

The Strutting Peacocks, an Red Hat Society Chapter, will be throwing a Red Hat Society Tea Party on July 24th at the San Francisco Zoo.

The Strutting Peacocks and guests will mingle with the resident live peacocks at the San Francisco Zoo. The catering services at the zoo have graciously agreed to create a tea service for the Red Hats, something that is not normally on their menu. Over 200 Red Hat Society chapter members from Northern California are invited dress in their purple outfits and red hats to meet, eat, play games, win prizes, and celebrate the birthday of the Queen Peacock, Amber-Leigh. Tickets are available on the Strutting Peacocks website for $35 per person.

Saturday July 24, 2004
10 AM Zoo opens
Noon - 1 PM High Tea in the Lorikeet Meadow Tent
1 PM - 4 PM Games, Prizes, Zoo Tour
5 PM Zoo closes

For more information about this event or to buy tickets, please visit www.thestruttingpeacocks.com/birthdayzoo.htm 

The Red Hat Society provides fun social opportunities for mature women. Inspired by the poem Warning by Jenny Joseph, ladies get together in purple outfits and red hat for monthly teas and brunches. Physicians are recommending the Red Hat Society to older female patients to keep them active, give them a sense of community and self worth.

The Strutting Peacocks is one of more than 25,000 chapters worldwide who have had countless stories written about their outings in national publications including the New York Times and Boston Globe newspapers and Women's Day and Romantic Homes magazines. For more information about The Strutting Peacocks, please visit www.thestruttingpeacocks.com .


For more information about the Red Hat Society or to locate chapters in your area, visit www.redhatsociety.com .

To schedule an interview with the founder of the Red Hat Society, Sue Ellen Cooper, please call Cathy Risling at 562-713-0356.

See our next two sets of graphics HERE and our Name Tags HERE