Sunday, 19 February 2017
February Newsletter - Madges Creations
Madge’s Creations
Newsletter – February 2017
Hi
Everyone,
Well
it is almost the end of February now!! And
what a busy time February has been so far…
As
I said in the last newsletter, I have been part of the “Girls Sheds” and this
was held yesterday – for just over a week Flo and I have been busy little bees
cutting and glue-ing our creations
together ready for “the day”.
Some
lovely gentlemen came round on Saturday afternoon and put up a flag to show
people where we were – some ‘nice’ people came round during the night and took
it away!! – say no more!! Flo and I were
up bright and early to make sure we had everything ready for people to come and
see and buy. The lovely Rotary men came early and replaced our flag – the day
was to start at 9am and shortly after that we had our first car load arrive. It
was wonderful to meet so many people who came to see (and buy) what I do here
and to meet Flo. I hope that everyone
enjoy their day travelling round all the ‘Girls Sheds’ to see what everyone
does. I did wonder what I would do if I retired
– now I am wondering how I ever had time to go to work!!
A
big THANK YOU from me goes out to:
Marilyn
for all her hard work
David
and his helpers who were at our gate for the day
Flo
– the “Cricut Queen” and my sister for all her support and help
Anne,
Ann, Joycelyn and Heather who kept us fed and watered during the day
To
everyone who came to our shed on the day.
Meeting
and making new friends is wonderful.
A
number of you have asked if we can do Cricut nights so following are the dates
for our next Card Classes and Cricut Nights:
March
2017
Wednesday
1st This will be our first
Cricut Night. 6.30pm till 9pm
It is important that you let me know prior that
you will be here so that I can have enough places set up.
Tuesday
7th 10.30am – card class
Wednesday
8th 6.45pm – card class
Thursday
9th 1.30pm and again at
6.45pm
Saturday
11th 10.30pm and again
at 1.30pm
**
the Tue, Wed, and Sat classes do the same card. ($5 each)
The Thur class does a different card. ($10
ea)
CRICUTER’S
– we will be doing a cricut class on the 1st (as above) and also on
15th, after that our regular ‘Cricut night’ will be the Wednesday
night following our card class week.
Don’t
forget to ‘book your seat’ at one of the classes – give me a call or email. As
I need to re-arrange our craft room if you can let me know by 28th
Feb. that would be great.
A
few pic’s from the ‘day’ are on my blog which you will find at:
madgescreations.blogspot.co.nz
I
wish you all happy crafting
Madge
Ph:
353-3880
band Rotunda
basket of flowers in containers
Sewing machine, cake mixer, Mrs Pots, Coffee pot
Saturday, 21 January 2017
January 2017 Newsletter 1.
JANUARY 2017
MADGES CREATIONS
Hi All,
I decided that as we are now almost through January I had better get my
act together and send out our newsletter.
I do hope you all had a
wonderful Christmas and New Year with your family and friends – for most of us
I think the weather was not our usual ‘hot summer sun’ days – however being
with family and special friends it really doesn’t matter what the weather is
like. To those of you who found 2016 a bit of a challenge with life and health
I do hope that 2017 will bring you improved health, no stress, and lots of fun
times.
Some of you know that we have one of our grandsons living with us as
his mum lives overseas and he attends Uni here. Keith and I thought it would be
a nice ‘gift’ to both him and his mum if we sent him over to spend Christmas
with her. So for several weeks prior to Christmas each time I spoke with her on
skype etc I tried to get information as
to when she had holidays and if she was working over Christmas or going away
etc without letting her know that he was coming. So – we ‘invented’ a young
lady and called her ‘Jan’ telling our daughter that ‘Jan’ was coming to Dubai
and would she be able to stay with her for a day or two. Our daughter was
delighted to put up a New Zealander for a few days and agreed to meet her at
the airport (at 5.30am!!).
What a surprise she got when she was standing there with a card that
read “Jan” and Lucas walked up and said “Hi Mum, Merry Christmas”!!! she was
SOOOOOOOOO surprised and we were all so
happy that we had managed to keep the secret for so long. They had a wonderful
3 weeks together.
Keith and I went out to our granddaughters place for Christmas day and
they put on a wonderful bbq for us and we sat outside and watch the little ones
play and just relaxed and enjoyed everyone’s’ company. It was sooo nice (and I
did not have to do a thing!!!).
It was also a special time for me over Christmas as I had the privilege
of having Flo here for about 10 days. She spent Christmas day and New Year Day
with her family and then came back and spent just over a week here with
us.
Then, one of our exchange students, who stayed with us 6 years ago,
came back to New Zealand and stayed a few days with us as she travelled around
to see some of the places that she did not get to see when she was here as a
student. It is so nice to have students at 16 and 17 years old as they attend
our schools and then see them again 6 years later all grown up!!!
Cont:/
Right – on the crafting front – I have been busy almost ‘living’ in the
craft room and creating all sorts of lovely items (great as Flo was here).
I thought that I would give you all a little break though January and
let you get over Christmas and get schooling all sorted before we began again.
I know it is a very busy time for a lot of you. SO, now is the time to start
creating again and our classes will begin in February on the following dates:
Tuesday 7th February 10.30am
Wednesday 8th February 6.45pm
Thursday 9th February 1.30pm
and again at 6.45pm
Saturday 11th February 10.30am
and again at 1.30pm
As a number of us now own (or are interested in owning) Cricuts, please
let me know if you are interested in doing a “Cricut Time” on a Saturday or Sunday on a regular basis. This
would be where you could bring along your Cricut and laptop, work on your own
projects and/or learn & share with others here. Of course there are
purchased SVG files that cannot be ‘shared’ , however when you see something
that someone has done you may like to purchase it – sometimes it is seeing
something finished that encourages you to want to make it yourself. For those new to Cricut we can share
information like how to purchase files, how to up-load them, how to size them
etc and of course making sure we all know how to save them so we don’t loose
them!! For those who are more advanced
it will be great to share more advanced info.
ANYWAY – do let me know if you are interested.
And as always – please let me know which class you will be coming to so
I have enough packs ready. Don’t forget, you can always bring a friend.
This year I have decided to keep the cost of the classes to $5.00 per
pack for Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday
classes and $10 for Thursday classes.
I am still happy to purchase any dies / stamps / cardstock / craft items
/ cut images etc, you may like. (Items ordered this year will need to be paid
for at the time of ordering)
DO NOT MISS THIS
EXCITING FUN DAY OUT!!!
GIRLS SHEDS!!
SUNDAY 19TH FEBRUARY
2017
This is run as a Rotary Club of Takaro Project – guaranteed to be a
great day!!
Read on……….
Tickets can be purchased from: PN I-Site, Caltex Energy Centre (Tremain
Ave), Capers Café, and Bernina Sewing Centre (pays to take cash – those some
have ‘cash-out’ facilities.
The tickets are $30 and INCLUDES
lunch!! How is that for great value!
SO – get your
tickets - grab a map, fill a car with your besties and head out for the day to
see what the Girls of Palmy and
surrounding areas are doing in their special spaces.
The ‘Girls Sheds” will be open from 9am – 4.30pm.
Enjoy!!
Well I am going back to doing some crafting for the day as it has just
started pouring down with rain again!! Good time for crafting.
I look forward to seeing those of you who come to classes and to
hearing from those of you who are a little distance away.
Well the rain is certainly pelting down now so am off for a cup of tea
before crafting for the afternoon.
Happy Crafting to you all,
Madge
Madge’s Creations.
Madgescreations.blogspot.co.nz
(If any of you who are a distance away and would like info on doing a
‘Girls Sheds” in your area do give me a call/email, and I can pass on details
to you.)
flower basket in box (file from Tina Fitch) - BBQ card (The Treasure Box)
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