creative gathering (aka craft circle) this weekend!

It's on again! Drop me a line if you want to dedicate some hours on Sunday afternoon to creating!

To have a sneaky peek at what these groups look like (and if the cake is any good!), go to craft circle on my flickr.

Happy Thursday (one day to the weekend... yippee!) xx

summer pickles creative gathering.... you are invited!

Hi there! (thanks for popping in!)

This is the invitation I put together for our creative gathering in July (previously called craft circle but that made some people nervous!). Of course you are more than welcome to join in our craft circle (aka creative gathering) as our virtual membership is growing! So if you are a lone crafter, get crafting at 2pm on Sunday 29th July and let me know the link to your photos so I can link to these from here.

.... to be involved, you just have to be crafting at 2pm on Sunday 29th July! Let me know if you intend to join us by popping me a note below...

Happy crafting!
xx


Oh! and for those of you who aren't familiar with the great Australian tradition of the Country Womens Association (CWA), here's a link for more information.... www.cwaa.org.au/ One of the best things about the CWA when I was growing up was the craft and the sponge cakes! They still sell their recipe books which are great and include no-fail recipes for traditional bake-off items, like scones, and slices... They now do a lot of work to support Country Women of Australia in supporting their men (there is a lot of depression in men in the bush at the moment because of long drought).

oh dear... IT gets in the way of a good idea...

Okay, so computers are never to blame... but unfortunately no one can open the invitation to the craft group... hopefully though things have now been sorted out, so i should start to get some rsvps soonish enough...

I was trying to work out why I am so excited, and i think it is because there is a big whopping gap now for opportunities for women to get together in groups. I think back to when my mum was my age (and I was eight years old --- my goodness she was young!), and she was involved in the mothers' club in at school, and all sorts of other school community type activities. Country women have the CWA (okay, I have mentioned the CWA twice now... find out more about the national organisation here, and the NSW branch - a much better website - here). But if you are not sporty, and don't have children, it can be tricky to find a group of women (and an excuse) to just spend time with in a group. So this will fill some of that gap, focussing in first on some of my favourite women in this city! Should be lovely...

Anyway now I am rambling and still don't have any photos to share... worked on my monster toy over the weekend and could not get the pattern for his head right at all, so I have put him at the back of a cupboard and he will call out when he is ready to be finished. Have done a load of new clips but can't work out what is the best way to photograph these, so just haven't, at this stage.

Chat soon, and take care xx

craft circle in progress!

Hi again!



okay, after our trip to the markets I got excited, spoke with Kaz, and now the craft group is (hopefully) in progress! I have emailed out the invites tonight and will start making some casual phone calls during the week... I am so incredibly excited about this, i think it could be a lot of fun. Just an excuse really to sit around together, talking, crafting, even being totally quiet if we feel like it... should be wonderful.

here is the invitation I sent out..

chat soon xx

how about a creative (craft) circle?

hi again!

I have been thinking in the last couple of days... how about a craft circle? I really love the thought of women sitting around, eating, drinking, sketching, sewing, knitting, crocheting, papercrafting? I think I might try to set something up... am going to run the idea past a few of my crafty girlfriends and see what they think.

I found these handy hints on how to start a knitting group on another website (awful name for an organisation... so negative!) and will have a little ponder about it.

I am heading out this afternoon to the Rose St Market in sunny Melbourne this afternoon, will let you know how it goes.

Beautiful weather down here - we are very lucky... Sydney is dealing with some terrible storms at the moment - have a look here if you are interested.

chat soon,
xx