Spring greetings
to you all!
What gorgeous
weather we’ve had recently, doesn’t it make you feel good?
Blue sky and
sunshine, lovely – please stay.
Much like last
month’s meeting – making porcelain beads, buttons, pendants and all manner of
little trinkets with Lisa Stevens.
A lovely evening of chatter and play also
makes you feel good and we still have the thrill of getting the finished,
glazed items back from Lisa!
This month Helen
Blenkinsop will be talking to us about how to preserve memories.
As a Women’s
Institute maybe we’re more familiar with preserving fruits and vegetables, but
how often have you heard a story from an elderly relative’s past, or witnessed
your own children do something or say something that made you think ‘I must remember that’?
Well, Helen will
tell us how. And she knows, because
she’s done just that having spent four years
working with her parents to capture their memories and produce an 80,000 word book
for future generations to enjoy.
Helen is also a published author and writes suspense-filled thrillers with a touch of romance under the name AA Abbott; take a look at
her website for more details about her books.
Bring along a pen and paper to the
meeting on Wednesday and if you like, old diaries and photos - perhaps from
your teenage years, or older ones that you've inherited. Also a
bit of pocket money, as Helen will have her books for sale!
Looking ahead to
our May meeting, we’d like your help please.
We’ll be
welcoming Vicky Harrison from Paper Village and Louise Horler from the Dress a Girl Around the World Project – read more about this lovely charity that
provides little girls in third world countries with pretty dresses, HERE.
We‘ll be making fabric flowers and decorating
pockets and patches, which we will give to Vicky to add to the pillowcase
dresses made during the sewing sessions she’ll be co-ordinating over the summer.
So, can you help
by digging out any scraps of fabric and cutting out 12cm diameter circles for
the fabric flowers? We need 6 circles to
make 1 flower, so your help will be appreciated!
Otherwise, any
pieces of fabric, or haberdashery such as buttons, ribbons, bias-binding,
pieces of lace and the like that you’d be willing to donate to the cause would
also be very welcome.
In the meantime,
be sure to support Vicky’s latest project as it reaches its climax. Maybe you’ve already been involved in making
pieces for the City of Briswool, a huge, woolly representation of our fine
City. It will be on display in Paper
Village during the Arts Trail weekend of May 17th and 18th.
Finally, the
Race for Life is happening in Bristol on Sunday 6th July and Malago
WI has entered a group. If you’d like to
be part of it, you just need to enter our Group ID code when you register and
we can share our fundraising efforts for Cancer Research UK as well as perhaps
co-ordinate training sessions for those inclined to run! Let us know if you’d like to be part of this
wonderful event with Malago WI.
Until Wednesday,
MWI x
