Christmas Table Arrangements

This week we did a Christmas floristry workshop, we learned how to create a festive candle arrangement.

We used local foliage leftover from our wreath workshop the previous week. We arranged the spruce, holly and conifer around a candle and then wired dried orange slices, cinnamon sticks and pine cones to decorate the centre piece.

Everyone created a fabulous table arrangement to take home with them.

Christmas Tree Festival

In December we exhibited a tree at St George's
Christmas Tree Festival. The theme for our tree was was inspirational women. Our members chose women throughout history right up to the present day.

Some people chose local women who have made a huge difference to our community, some chose scientists whose discoveries saved many lives. We chose women from activists to athletes, it was difficult to only choose a few women each.

Our members made the decorations during a craft session the previous week. We were pleased with our tree, it was a sparkly celebration of incredible inspirational women.

This is all the inspirational women featured on our tree. Rosa Parks, Mary Anning, Gwen Moffatt, Amelia Earhart, Frida Kahlo, Marie Curie, Valentina Tereshkova, Virginia Wolf, Lady Gidiva, Golda Meir, Irena Sendler, Malala Yousafzai, Emmeline Pankhurst, Angela Carter, Maya Angelou, Jeanette winterson, Janet Allen, Joyce Marlow, Megan Markle, Jameela Jamil, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rachel Atherton, Greta Thunberg, Oprah Winfrey, Cathy Freeman, Anna Freud, Florence Nightingale, Rosalind Franklin, Brit Marling, Margaret Astwood.

Fused Glass Workshop

This week we did a creative workshop with Kay from Simply Glass.

We learnt how to make wonderful fused glass Christmas tree decorations. It's a perfect mindful activity which the whole group enjoyed.

We can't wait to see how the decorations turn out once they've been in the kiln.

Metal Stamping Workshop

We did a creative workshop lead by Kim from Darn It! this week. We learnt how to metal stamp jewellery. 

It’s very therapeutic hammering the metal although quite noisy.  We all took home several pieces of personalised jewellery.

Our First Evening Meet Up

We listened to feedback requesting some meet ups that people could attend outside working hours. The result was our the first evening social at Bele Bakery in May. Everyone had a great night, we met some new faces and did a beginners crochet session lead by one of our members Sarah. Bele Bakery provided some fabulous cakes to go with our brews.