Our April speaker is Gary Johannas, a trained and experienced hypnotherapist who will give a fascinating talk on hypnotherapy including a well deserved relaxation session for us all.
See at the Congregational Church Hall at 7.30 pm on Wednesday 22 April.
Apologies – 31st May is actually your last chance to submit tips and recipes for our WI Centenary Top Tips booklet due out later this year. Get emailing and send them to: marketharboroughwi@gmail.com
You can also hand in hard copy to a Committee member at the April or May monthly meetings.
(copyright – your personal, favourite recipes, please!)
Today is your last chance to submit tips and recipes for our WI Centenary Top Tips booklet due out later this year (end of May). Get emailing and send them to: marketharboroughwi@gmail.com
(copyright – your personal, favourite recipes, please!)
Last Wednesday saw our first ever skills raffle. Members donated their time to do a whole host of things, including learning to knit or crochet, baking a cake, demonstrating decorating cup cakes, learning to play poker, babysitting, making bath bombs and bubbles and a car valet.
If you were a lucky winner (or even the skills person), then do send in a photo and a few words letting us know how it all went! Email: marketharboroughwi@gmail.com
The 15th is the correct date! Apologies for the typo! Follow this link for timings and directions:
Have a great evening and let us know how it goes!
A brilliant evening thanks to the resourcefulness of the Committee. Having been advised only yesterday that the dancers could not make it due to a ‘family grievance’, several Committee members stepped in, sought ideas on the Not the Official WI Facebook page, located a whole range of resources (coloured card, tissue paper, wool, stickers, pens, rulers, scissors and Easter eggs) and made tonight a successful evening.
Members eagerly made decorated Easter boxes and filled the contents with tissue
paper strips and tiny Easter eggs. .
An Easter quiz rounded off the evening plus our first ever Skills Raffle. Members had donated a whole host of exciting offers. These included a car valet, babysitting, baking a cake, decorating cup cakes, learning to play poker, making bath bombs and soaps, learning to knit and crochet and playing the piano. All part of our ‘caring and sharing’ theme. Don’t forget to let Helen Salisbury, Committee website/blogger have pictures of the fun you have with the skills sharing and what you make or do.
Sue Drage amazed members this week with her vast range of items made from recycled items. It was ingenious what could be made from items such as old bottles, plastic bags, drinks cans, sweet wrappers, magazines, old t shirts, paper clips, CDs, egg boxes and ties.
Sue has developed these crafty skills in recent years, making items for her own use, others to sell and has also been asked to go into schools to work with children. She even knits using old plastic carrier bags as ‘yarn.’ Her most bizarre request has been to make a spacesuit for a chicken!
Sue utilises her card making skills as well as her knowledge of origami. Tools include a hot glue gun, PVA glue, clear nail varnish, sellotape and cling film.
Thanks, too, to Sue’s husband, Richard, for coming along to help set up her display.
Bags, jars, bird feeder and cases from clear plastic bottles.
Tote bags made from drinks cartons (left) and crisp packets (right)
Decorative ‘shoes’ modelled on real shoes – layers of cling film, sellotape plus decorations. Bracelet from folded paper (no glue).
Sue’s favourite bag made from flattened drinks cans
Do you have skills that you could use to make items for sale at a craft fair? If so, you might want to get busy now and make use of the long winter evenings.
Your committee is planning a craft fair in the town as part of our celebrations for the WI Centenary. What better way to share members’ many and diverse skills?
Exact details of all aspects of this event and how it will work out will follow in the next few weeks. In the meantime, if you would like to be involved with helping to plan the fair or may be interested in running a stall or be able to donate items, let a Committee Member know or Contact Us or call 07547 890 756.
Phil Johnson, supported by his daughter, Abigail, gave members a fascinating insight into the history of this farm, sited in a picturesque spot next to Eyebrook Reservoir, right on the edge of Leicestershire.
Abigail did the IT bit, projecting photos, film maps and inventories detailing the history of Rectory Farm dating back to the original tenants in 1865. Phil ably took us through the history, development and diverse roles of the farm, to taking over the tenancy from his father in 1936, working with Italian prisoners of war, to the present, when he is planning to retire. However, negotiations are underway for the tenancy to pass to Abigail and her sister – we wish you well in your venture.
Tina won the quiz identifying a range of household and garden implements gathered over the years.
Abigail and her sister are justly proud of their successful Eyebrook Wild Bird Feed business. You can find out lots more about Rectory Farm and even download a map showing a walk across the fields and looking out to Eyebrook Reservoir. Something for those spring days ahead?
Make a fascinator -maybe you have an exciting event coming up where you want to dress up your special outfit? Then join a group of Market Harborough WI members on 13 May 2015 to make a unique fascinator. Cost £25, deposit of £5 needed by 28 January meeting to Fiona Thompson.
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