The next few months.

So, our little club had been up and running for a few months, and we felt under pressure to keep hunting for projects each month. Following on from the very popular handbags, we used acetate. Shaker cards was the next project, followed by glittered acetate. I do like to revisit some core items used in the club, to show everyone that some items are not one-trick-ponies. So we used acetate for shaker cards, with magic motifs and glitter, and also using stamped images, and glitter. Amanda and I had such fun one night really annoying the hell out of my OH, as we laugheed and made such mess. But her gorgeous teddy bear stamp with heart was crying out for chocolate/copper glitter for him, and red/purple glitter for the decorations. Just gorgeous. We have made so many of that design.

Spurred on by our success, and heading towards Christmas, we planned our October and November regular meets, as well as a Funday in November, where we charged £10 for a days crafting. For October we used Dufex toppers - with adhesive stones as accents and permanent pens to colour the image. Our November Funday was a lot of hard work - but only 10 people turned up. Never again. For all the hard work it was not worth it. We did 4 projects - using fabric squares (again decorating with glitter, adhesive stones), Shrink plastic, friendly plastic and a shaped Christmas Card to finish. Very popular with those who did it, but too much work for very little return. Our November project was 'Secret Santa' - where we asked everyone to bring in something wrapped up as a present and we swapped presents. Some people just did not get the idea behind this, and it was not a great success - some people used this as a dumping ground for their unwanted items whereas some others went out and bought cheap little stamps, and embellishments.
The end of our first year - we always have December off (people have much better things to do than to meet up on the last Thursday of December...) and despite me asking, nobody wants to organise a Christmas get-together.
We use November to go to the NEC for the Crafts for Christmas show - always a good day out. It is normally Amanda, her Mum Sheila and me who get up early and make a packed lunch and head off to the NEC to get there for opening at 9.30. It is quite scary to think about what we buy - we sadly now have been making a book of all the things we have so we don't duplicate anything (but we still manage to...).