Brisbane Bloggers - Stitchers Inc - Christmas Party

This afternoon we gathered to mark the end of the year as a group and to swap our Secret Santa presents.

There were a few extras - choccies, bon-bons and stars.
Sandi made a bob-bon for each of us - complete with joke, hat, 2 wine glass charms (they make useful additions to earrings!!!), a piece of fabric (I got a purple piece - very lucky!!!) and of course a "snap".  They were beautiful:

 De made these very clever folded stars

There was a bountiful supply of food....

And here are some of the presents....

 Here is mine all wrapped:

Mine came from Maree and was a cute mat to use for Santa's snacks, a box of Maltesers decorated to look like Santa and a box (handmade) containing a set of cards for all sorts of celebrations - they are just gorgeous - thanks again and again Maree.

(we have two Marees - Organising Maree and this Maree who is very big into papercraft...maybe we should call her Paper Maree???)

This is what I made - for Teresa.

Bronwyn Hayes Mug Bag.

I 'think' she likes it!!

Maree, (Organising Maree) who does all our organising, also gave out two "lucky door" prizes.  A big thanks to her!!!

We started the day at high noon - and managed to squeeze in a few minutes of stitching towards the end  ...

A fun afternoon...

Thanks again to everyone.

For more pictures - you can visit Noela  and go here to see Lynda's gorgeous cross stitched ornament/pincushion.  Not to forget Teresa who always does a very informative post. And Marilyn has a great shot of the Celtic table runner she made as well as a lot of other goodies.  More from Cheryll and De

Stitchers Inc - aka Brisbane Blog Meet - 14th April

A huge thanks to Maree who  has found a great convenient location (especially convenient for me) for our blog meets.  She has created a new name for us - Stitchers Inc - and that is what most of us did - some of the time anyway!  There was also a lot of talking laughing, cofee-ing, and of course some show and tell!.

The pincushions had a little party:

 and a showing of our April SAL project:

(Marilyn, De, Jeanette and me)
(Thanks Teresa for the picture!!)

Thanks Maree for organising the place and the morning tea and the lucky door prize.

We had some "newbies" and some "M I As"  and we are all looking forward to the next one.

Have a look here and here and here for better posts & pictures.