Hi ladies, I think all of us agree, lots of chatting, eating etc., going on all day, not too much creating, BUT, it is nice to catch up and chat the day away. Lorelle showed us how to make a pretty patchwork card and most of the ladies made one and gave it back to Lorelle for the Cancer Foundation. There were lots of variations, of course I stuffed mine up and ended up doing a completely different card!!! It was a great day though and we all enjoyed it. The swap was a success with all of us getting some lovely "country theme" embellishments/tags etc.
It's hard to believe, but next month is July and everybody seems in favour of the Christmas in July theme so we will carry on that tradition. This year we are going to make 3 Christmas cards, put them in a bag and have a lucky dip on the day, so everybody that takes part in this will get 3 Christmas cards all ready made. They can be all the same or different cards, whatever you wish as long as they are Christmas cards.
ALSO - there will be Secret Santa, the usual small gift of $5.00 value. For the new ladies, we each buy a gift to the value of $5.00 and they are numbered and picked out on the day, it is a great success and everybody goes home with a lovely gift.
AND - we will be doing another swap and to keep in with the Christmas theme, it will be a Christmas Tag - either for a present or for a scrapbook page. At the moment we have about 10 taking part and I will email everybody with the names and final numbers nearer the date. If everybody could let me know who wants to take part in the Christmas Tag Swap, please let us know asap and at least before 10th July so that everybody has time to do up their tags.
Welcome to Tanya Nielsen who joined us yesterday, we hope you enjoyed the day.
Gosh what a long post......I think that is about all the news for the moment.
Take care and have a good month
Cheers
Linda and Dilys
