Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Needle Felting Flowers

Our meeting on the 22nd of November featured Esther Grav leading us in needle felting flowers.
We had a great time getting out any frustrations by punching and punching and punching the needles through the fibre.
Not one needle was punched through a finger !
We missed Nancy and Karen who were kept away by the foggy night.



Joy, Esther, Shirley and Jane



Jane and Vickie concentrating.




Janice and Kim




Here we are holding up our creations.




Our fabulous felted flowers.




Friday, November 19, 2010

Guild Outing was Lots of Fun !

On the 13th of November, a number of us set out from Cobourg for an adventure.
Joy, Janice, Jane, Kim and Mara piled into Kim's car and headed for Nancy's farm - Spinning Wheel Alpacas. We were joined there by Karen.
On arrival, Nancy gave us a tour of the farm and introduced us to her animals. We met not only the alpacas, but also her rescue chickens, a rescue pig and her dogs. We were all impressed by by the farm and Nancy's energy.
After the farm tour, we gathered in Nancy's store, drank hot cider and shopped.




Nancy, Kim, Joy, Karen, Janice and Jane in front of the store.


Exhausted by the shopping, we headed for White Feather Farms Country Store and a bit of lunch. The picture is a bit blurry - Kim must have been more exhausted than the rest of us.


After a great lunch, we wandered through this amazing store that sells everything from soup to nuts to clothes to linens to..................................? Again we shopped.
Then it was on to Myrtle Station and Ferguson's Wool Shop. Another amazing place. Tiny, but crammed full of every type of yarn you could think of. Guess what? - we shopped again.

After such a tiring day (shopping can be exhausting!), we headed home by way of the backroads. We did have to stop and re-energize with ice cream cones in Enniskilen in order to make it home.
All of us had a great time sharing this experience.