Our traditional Christmas Craft evening this week was a cracking finish for our meetings this year. It's always such a pleasure to see everyone looking so pleased with the things they made. It was lovely too to see our "We Heart EEWI" tree surrounded by the generous gifts members brought for our friends at U-Turn.
Mulled wine, mince pies and our first Christmas Craft Market added to the hubbub. There was so much tempting gorgeousness around. Special thanks go to Jill for generously making the screen printed and hand painted bags - wonderful designs and an absolute snip at £4 a bag - there are a few left if anyone's interested, but be quick. (You'll find a link to all of our stallholders details here shortly.)
Congratulations to the winners of our annual mince pie bake off (sorry - only crumbs left when I thought about taking a picture), the Christmas Quiz and Guess the Weight of the Queensland Blue (!) competions. And many, many thanks to Jo, Elizabeth and Veronika for leading our flowery, hearty and chocolatey activities and our heroic and flu-battered Clare for her alchemical skills at mixing mulled wine.
The last word goes to , Niki who puts so much seemingly endless energy into making EEWI such a vibrant community of women:
"One of the best moments for me was seeing one of the U-Turn staff struggling down the alleyway with an Ikea bag filled to the brim with presents. Your generosity never ceases to move me and U-Turn is so grateful to us for this gesture - it means an awful lot to them so thank you from me, the committee and from Rio Vella, Project Director of U-Turn.
Our coffee morning today was so great and as the snow fell on the garden at the Geffrye Museum we drank tea and ate cake watching the landscape outside become very Christmassy indeed."
Indeed, indeed.
Happy Christmas to you all.
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