This month we decided on a ‘Show & Tell’ session, so we could see just exactly what our talented members are getting up to at home! What an array of crafts there was-from card making & paper-craft to good old knitting & new fangled decorative wreaths! It was lovely to see so many people who were brave enough to take part & delightful to hear about their crafts & have a chance to try out most of them too. Thank you to everybody who came along to make it such a successful & enjoyable evening. Our special guest was Natalie Kay from the Stanley Picker Gallery at Kingston University, who had offered us a visit & workshop at the gallery. She came to tell us about her plans for the day, for which several of us signed up. This meeting positively encouraged our favourite way of spending our meetings-chatting!  We did a lot & enjoyed it no end!

Did you spot my deliberate mistake? Not in any way an error on my part of course!  Oh-OK-I got it wrong, I’m sorry! The next meeting-the Show & Tell Craft Evening, is in fact this Tuesday-the 13th, not the 23rd of May. While I’m here, could I just bring to your notice that our meetings are scheduled to start at 7.30, so we would appreciate it if you could arrive a bit before then so we are ready to go at the proper time. Thank you.

  Don’t forget to bring something you’ve made to join in the fun at next week’s meeting-anything you’ve made yourself-drawings, embroidery, scrap art, cakes, jam, dresses-anything at all. It can be something you made decades ago, or hopefully, something you have made for us to sell at our upcoming Hampton Carnival stall-now there’s a hint if you like! Don’t worry-we won’t be expecting professional standards! There will be plenty of time to discuss all the pieces with their creators-maybe you’ll discover a new hobby-maybe it’ll rekindle interest in an old one! But if nothing else, it will be, as always, time for us to chat & share a laugh! Hope to see you there-why not bring a friend with you? Please remember that we are now trialling bringing our own mugs for tea & coffee to save us using the plastic ones-if nothing else, you’ll get a bigger drink!