MARCH CRAFT SHOW

We had a great time at the show and were kept busy all the time.  The photos below show some of our merry crew and the size of the stand that we had.  It was a long stand with Judy Minter and Paula Whippy on the lower end selling, the teaching tables in the middle and the sign on and enquiry table on the upper end.  Thanks to our sponsors, Expertise and Chroma who provided us with this space and our paints, aprons and books.

 

 

 

 

 

Deirdre manning our sign in table.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Classes in progress.  Thanks to our many helpers who assisted the students to complete their project.  Without them the classes would have been very hard to handle.  They watched for mistakes, gave advice and picked up the mess after, cleaned brushes and sponges, re-laid the tables for the next class and essentially made the classes run smoothly and helped but happy smiles on faces.

 

The chook pattern was drawn on the bag and blocked in with colour.  Wings, crops, wattles etc. were added and then they had lots of fun painting long curling strokes in all colours in paint and Kindy Glitz to make a very flamboyant tail on the rooster.

 

Happy smiles with the finished project and some won books (given by Chroma) in lucky draws.

 

Bags were left to hang on the wall between classes to dry.  Students came back to pick them up before going home.

 

The butterfly was a stencil in negative and positive.  Very easy to do and everyone's came out a success and very pretty.

More happy faces with their projects.

A time to pause for a laugh.

Wendy D. came from Grafton to help at the show.  Thanks Wendy, your company added to the fun and laughter at the show.

Gail teaching her Rooster.

Brushes cleaned for the next class.

 

Oh! the bucket brigade!!  To acquire water to clean brushes and sponges etc.  we had to walk down to the storage room way at the back of the centre and navigate around open, spilling boxes to the sink.  Of course it was a small sink and we couldn't get the bucket under the tap????  O.K. so a little invention was needed.  We used this curved ag. pipe to funnel water through while holding the bucket at the edge of the sink.  Worked a treat but had to be careful to tip it up before putting down the bucket to turn off the tap or we got rather wet feet. 

 

We are now gearing up for the October show.  We don't teach at this show but we do have a nice guild stand and sell painted Christmas items.  So if you are in the area then, come and see us and say hello.

STITCHES AND CRAFT SHOW

The Craft show was a wonderful success.  Thank you to all who helped by painting items for sale and/or manning the stall.  We sold Christmas decorations as we usually do but we decorated the back of the stall with member's projects.  It did look pretty (well I thought so!) and we sold all our decorations!  Some of our out-of-towners painted items and posted them in.  Thank you so much for that, the pieces were beautiful and assured us that we were part of a larger community.   An interesting note: quite a few people came to the stall looking for a teacher.  They had painted in the past and wanted to pick it up again.  We helped with our teacher's list but so far they have not decided to join our ranks, but maybe there is going to be turn in the craft and we will pick up members again.

 

We had a lovely visit by Wendy Donoghue from Grafton who helped with the stall for two days.  I am told they had a lot of fun on those days....  Thanks Wendy.

 

Our raffle was won by Sandra Hundloe of Chapel Hill and will be delivered to her soon.

 

Deirdre busily decorating the stall

 

Adding the painted bags.  They sold out in two days

 

 

A lovely photo of Vi and our completed stall.  They painting of boats in harbour was our raffle.

 

This gorgeous painting was on a topper for a bottle to give filled with goodies.  Faye painted it on a circle of calico and attached to the top of the bottle with a lovely red ribbon

These were small bags about 6"x6" and were very popular with the little girls

Some of the items sent to us from out of town

 

This fun painting and the one above were done by Vi.  Aren't they great

 

 We were asked at the last minute to put an entry into the Woman's Weekly Challenge.  Below is our offering.  We didn't win first prize????? but each entry received $150.00 worth of books from the Woman's Weekly.  This consisted of three books, one on knitting and two very large tombs on cooking.  All lovely books.  We decided that three names of all who helped at the show would be drawn to receive the books.  Those details will be in our next newsletter.

 

We were asked to write in 50 words or less the inspiration for our piece.  Gum flowers and wattle were chosen being Australian flowers, the title was in green and gold, again Australian colours, the cupcake was in reference to their celebration with a 'High Tea', and the images around the cupcake are covers of Woman's Weekly from 1935 to 2013. 

 

So if you came to the show I hope you had a great time and hope to see you again next year.  Remember we will be back in March with a larger stand and lessons.