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Ragtime
Diane has the latest from the Crafty Crew: "What a great way to use up otherwise fairly unusable fabric pieces. Lovely rag wreaths from...
Michelle Chapman
Aug 1, 2024


Floral fun
It was lovely to invite Sadie back to demonstrate summer flower arranging this time after her successful one for Christmas table centres...
Michelle Chapman
Jul 25, 2024


June Jaunt
Judging by our activities lately we Belles do like a good jaunt! And so it was towards the end of June when we got on board the coach for...
Michelle Chapman
Jul 24, 2024


On the button
The Crafty Crew had a delightful time creating these button trees recently. It was a great opportunity to raid their button boxes and get...
Michelle Chapman
Jul 16, 2024


Time for a field trip
Ann Mackie reports: "The Happy Hookers decided it was time for a roadtrip. So for this month's meeting we went, successfully, in search...
Michelle Chapman
Jul 15, 2024

July Book Club
Quite a mixed bag of books this month, with scores as low as 3 and high a 9.
Wendy Warman
Jul 10, 2024

June Book Club
Here's the summary of the outstanding June reads...
Wendy Warman
Jul 10, 2024


Off to Londinium
Michelle Chapman reports: I was delighted to represent four WIs - our Belles, Lockside, Marden Belles, and Pewsham - at the NFWI AM at...
Michelle Chapman
Jul 10, 2024


Off to the palace
Blenheim Palace that is! Three Belles - Jenny P, Michelle and Pauline - joined other local WIs for the trip organised by Kington Langley...
Michelle Chapman
Jun 17, 2024


Try some typography
Diane reports from the end of May: " I e njoyed another afternoon with Crafty Crew, this time trying out typography art under the...
Michelle Chapman
Jun 17, 2024


Sam the Herbalist
For our May meeting we had a fascinating talk from Sam the Herbalist. She is a very engaging and knowledgeable speaker she also brought...
Wendy Warman
Jun 16, 2024


The cutting Crew
Diane says: "Extra long table required for April's Crafty Crew. Fun with paper and scalpels and happy to report that everyone went home...
Michelle Chapman
May 22, 2024


Up the cut!
Carolyn Gilman reports on Facebook: "What a super evening despite the weather. Four Pewsham Belles joined Durrington WI for a canal trip...
Michelle Chapman
May 22, 2024

May Book Club
We had another great selection of books to discuss this month, lots reaching scores of 7 and 8 out of 10. However, Sheila's kind offer...
Wendy Warman
May 18, 2024


I will wear the green willow *
Well not quite wearing the green willow, but we did have plenty of it to play with at our monthly meeting! As Ann said on Facebook: "What...
Michelle Chapman
Apr 29, 2024


The Churchill Story
It's a while since we've posted about a John Aubrey Group meeting and it's thanks to Carolyn Gilman, one of our joint members who's...
Michelle Chapman
Apr 26, 2024


I'll bookmark that!
It was nearly standing room only at the Happy Hookers on Saturday, where easy and fine yarn bookmarks were the make of the day, a nice...
Michelle Chapman
Apr 25, 2024


April Book Club
April saw our first 'group' read of the year. Seven of us read The Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss and we gave it very mixed reviews. It...
Wendy Warman
Apr 14, 2024


Hola AM!
March was time for our Annual Meeting and we were delighted to welcome Deb as our new Treasurer and thank Jenni (outgoing Treasurer) and...
Michelle Chapman
Apr 7, 2024


Fun with air dried clay
Sometimes an activity doesn't quite go to plan... as the Crafty Crew found out recently. As Diane said in Facebook: "So, we were a little...
Michelle Chapman
Apr 5, 2024
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