floribundance

Jo C ran a strict class for us this week - if you weren't testing your brain with her killer quiz then you were exercising nimble fingers cutting and trimming and primping to make the prettiest little table tussie-mussies.  From the sidelines, it was a joy to see such absorption and everybody delighted with their creations.  

We are immensely grateful to Jo who put in such a lot of work to make our evening so successful - that word search certainly kept us quiet, and you've got to admit that takes some doing.  Congratulations go to the winners of Jo's quiz - what exactly do you have to do to remove pollen from your clothes?  Can someone tell me sometime, please?  Hopefully those who attended our coffee morning visit to the Geffrye Museum this morning are now experts on the art of flowers - and a good cafe experience - and will be front runners for any more quizzing.  

Thanks also to our bakers for their flower-themed cakes and biscuits (sorry to have missed out on the lavender shortbread, Clare).  We were very pleased indeed to have raised a very commendable £38 for cake break for MS.  You'll also be pleased to learn that a might haul of your old bras made the first stage of their journey to Africa when Niki dropped them off in New Cross!  And the abandoned cats and dogs of East London should be a little more comfortable with the supplies of blankets. towels and linen we collected and have now left with the Celia Hammond Animal Trust.  All in all, it was a wonderful end to our time at Chisenhale, though we will be popping in again to help out serving tea, coffee and cakes at their parent's morning in May.  

Don't forget, next month we meet at St Margaret's.  Exciting!

out and about

If the recent publicity associated with the V&A's quilt exhibition has whetted your appetite for all things quilty, you might want to go along to see the London Quilters Highlights exhibition at Swiss Cottage Library  (a short walk from Swiss Cottage tube station).  There are dozens of quilts on display, including this amazing piece of work by our own Janet Beck, with a range of styles exhibited.  The exhibition is on until the 29th May and is free.

You can find details about this and other events on our new events page.  And if you want to keep your diary up to date on where we'll be serving tea and cakes this summer, take a look here or click the link at the top of the page or in the sidebar..

april flowers

We are making the most of spring now it's finally arrived with a flower theme this month.  Our evening meeting on Tuesday 20th April will be a lesson in making a small floral display, given by our very own Jo Cass.  You'll need to bring a small jug, tea cup and saucer, tea pot for one or similar small container.  If you have secateurs or strong scissors to bring along, that would help.

We'll also be joining in Cake Break for MS, so if you are a keen baker, please bring some flower themed cakes to sell... and some spare cash if you can to buy some cakes to take home.   All proceeds will go to the Multiple Sclerosis Society.  Don't forget, this is our last meeting at Chisenhale Art Gallery - 7.30 for 8 start as usual.  Tea and coffee will be available but feel free to bring a bottle if you wish.

We're continuing with a floral theme for our coffee morning on Friday 23rd at the Geffrye Museum, 136 Kingsland Road, E2 so that we have the opportunity to visit their special exhibition A Garden Within Doors, a look at they way plants and flowers have been used in homemaking.  We'll also be able to take a look around their lovely herb garden which should be coming along very nicely by then.

Looking forward to seeing you there.

thank you very much!

A big thank you to Pamela and the Royal Docks Community School for inviting us to make Morsbags with some of their special needs pupils over the last couple of weeks.  It was an absolute pleasure for us and we were delighted with the lovely thank you cards you made for us.  We hope the young people like their new bags and get lots of Easter eggs to put in them.

Thanks too to Darren for his talk on osteopathy last week.  Now we all feel guilty about our high heels and are thinking about giving them up, abandoning breast stroke and taking up Pilates.  We were so shaken up that we had to take consolation from the first class cakes at the Skylight Cafe on Friday morning - top marks for the caramel shortbread and the lovely atmosphere.

While we are on the subject of cakes, let's have a huge round of applause for EEWI member Christine for the cross stitch sampler she made for us. We'll be showing it off at our cake stalls throughout the spring and summer.  We'll put up the dates here - don't miss us.

And finally, ta, tata and bon voyage to Nadine who has been looking after us at Chisenhale.  We'll miss you and hope that they look after you in Berlin as well as you have looked after us.

Wild Food Cycle

If you are interested in foraging, there is a wild food cycle on Saturday 13th March.  Check out our events page for details.

women celebrate!

Fab afternoon yesterday serving tea and cakes to the lovely women and girls at the Brady Centre as part of Tower hamlets International Women's Week celebrations.  Such a friendly atmosphere and so uplifting to see the young women receiving awards for their art work. 

Thanks to our loyal team of bakers and servers.  And a special round of applause for Clare's husband for making the colourful (EEWI labelled!) perspex cake stands for us so quickly.

There are more women's events on during this week.  Find out more on the Women in London website here.

stop press: coffee morning time

Please note that the start time of the coffee morning  on 19th March has come forward to 10.00am!