Friday, March 2, 2012
Friday, December 9, 2011
COWBelles Community Craft on show at the Glebe Library!
It's been a long week.....have been sick with food poisoning - so have not been able to let everyone know about the COWBelles Community Craft Exhibition and Sale currently on at the Glebe Library cnr Glebe Point Rd and Wigram Rd. The exhibition was a generous offer to COWBelles by Library Manager Margaret Whittaker as an opportunity to showcase the great craftwork made by some of Glebe's wonderfully talented older ladies. On show are handmade jewellery, scarves, handbags, light catchers, greeting cards and bookmarks (well, it IS a library!) The exhibition has run since the 5th and will culminate in a Sale day tomorrow 10th with the opportunity to also make your own earrings on the spot. If you catch the chance tomorrow to race in for a look our ladies look forward to showing you their treasures.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
The new website is coming!!
Yay, the new website is on its way! Have bought the name.....www.cowbellescommunitycraft.org.....and the site is under construction and should be ready to launch in January. Not yet certain if we will be an e-commerce site as still have to get the 'business' parts of our group happening but it will be exciting to have an 'official' web presence and showcase the work of the Belles for all to see. Keep an eye out for us!
Irene
Irene
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Friday, October 21, 2011
Ready for the Mitchel St Fete Sat.29/10?
Wow!! it's been ages since I last wrote but it most certainly hasn't been still at all in the last months at the Old Firestation!
Our COWBelles have had the most productive winter........a mass of wonderful scarves, a huge heap of baubles and bling and some of the most amazing knitted bags you have ever seen.
It will be a fabulous presentation on the stall next weekend when all our treasures will be out on display and ready for sale. Prices will be reasonable with a discount of 25% available for people on Centrelink.....we want to raise funds but we also want everyone to be able to buy something that they really like as well!!
So bring along yourself and your family.....it's a Fete so there is heaps of fun planned for the kids!!....and check out our stall for something nice to spoil yourself with. See you there.
Irene
Our COWBelles have had the most productive winter........a mass of wonderful scarves, a huge heap of baubles and bling and some of the most amazing knitted bags you have ever seen.
It will be a fabulous presentation on the stall next weekend when all our treasures will be out on display and ready for sale. Prices will be reasonable with a discount of 25% available for people on Centrelink.....we want to raise funds but we also want everyone to be able to buy something that they really like as well!!
So bring along yourself and your family.....it's a Fete so there is heaps of fun planned for the kids!!....and check out our stall for something nice to spoil yourself with. See you there.
Irene
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Mother's Day Fundraiser 2011
Our COWBelles gathered at 10am and set up a wonderful display of necklaces, earrings, bracelets, bookmarks and sparkling lightcatchers for the community Mother's Day morning tea held with the generous cake and coffee donation from Glebe's Hopestreet mission.
The Old Firestation was abuzz with chat and laughter as local women (and a few curious men!) cruised up and down the sales displays choosing their favourite trinkets and stockpiling them at their coffee tables while they waited to pay. Ladies tried on their purchases and compared colours, shapes and designs with each other.
Glebe doyen Sarah has recently moved house and donated several treasures for sale to help raise extra funds for COWBelles. I must admit I had to fend off several contenders for the glorious porcelain teapot in the shape of Edinburgh Castle!! It is just beautiful and now has pride of place in my kitchen!
Our great thanks and appreciation must go to Julie and Geoff, both of Hopestreet and of course, dedicated volunteer Nina for the yummy devonshire tea provided free to our community Mums and Nannas. Beside the jam and cream laden scones, there were a selection of unusual and very tempting treats provided by generous community members to accompany our coffee orders and much 'I'm just tasting' went on all morning.
COWBelles raised $200 and considerable confidence from the fundraising morning and another is being planned. The COWBelles inaugural findraiser was a very enjoyable and tasty community led initiative, it was a pleasure to be there! Photos of the event can be seen by clicking the link at right.
Irene
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
News update for April
Hello to all!
It's been a busy month behind the scenes for COWBelles this last month or so.
Our Internet presence is slowly growing with our little influence on 3 websites so far and more to come as I get a grip on the whole social media thing!! Maybe in modern terms I am a bit of a dinosaur to still value paper-based promotion but there is also the proven influence of the Internet in getting the word out about our group activities, so the need and time to learn all this 'new-fangled' stuff has arrived! Very frustrating though......several times I have threatened to push my computer off the table!!!!
We received notification from City of Sydney about our Matching Grant application and it appears we have made it through the first round of assessments! Very excited but still have fingers crossed we go all the way. So many new craft possibilites but we will definitely need the money to make them happen.
Adding new jewellery skills to my repetoire so will have wonderfully quirky new approaches to 'jewellery' when we expand in June. Felt, polymer clay, and odd bits of 'junk' will materialise as pretty objects for neck and ear ornaments when we grow our interests mid-year. Definitely looking forward to the wonderfully experimental jewellery that our COWBelles are sure to create.
Our group is settling in to the necessary changes that have happened with COW and COWBelles now that our fabulous Beckie has left us and had her baby............by the way, was Cordelia BEAUTIFUL or just BEAUTIFUL!!!! last Friday, 15th when Bec came to visit us with baby in tow? So many sooky, cooing 'nannas' handing Cordelia about. Both mother and daughter looked well and fabulous as they were off to see Dad graduate from Uni. (Congratulations Ethan, we are proud of you!) I know all COW members want the best for this young family!!
Some of the changes affecting COWBelles are our self-funding for a period of time while the Grant is considered and a slight change to the bus booking proceedure. It is taking a little time to get used to the changes but the Belles are a committed lot and take change in their stride. A copy of the COWBelles April Newsletter is available to read at right in the 'Publications' list.
A sturdy group of COW members is set to convene en masse at the Old Firestation on Friday 29 April for the unpleasant but very necessary bi-annual visit to the BreastScreen clinic. Inventive as usual, they have booked the community bus to take them as a mutually supportive group, along with books, food, cross word puzzles and crafty bits, to the Prince Alfred clinic to have their breast checks and provide community support to each other while they wait. A great example of the closeness of support that is such a fundamental mainstay of women in Glebe's community.
Finally but most importantly!!......we are having our first fundraising sale for Mother's Day!!!!!!! Yay!!
On Friday 6th May COWBelles will hold it's first fundraiser at the Old Firestation from 11am-2pm. The ladies will show off their handmade jewellery treasures amid tea, coffee and homemade treats. We are inviting people to come along have a look at our jewellery, buy some of course and stop for a chat about the great Mum, or Nanna! in their life. We are looking forwrd to a great community day. The flyer can be seen in the 'Publications' listing at lright.
Irene
It's been a busy month behind the scenes for COWBelles this last month or so.
Our Internet presence is slowly growing with our little influence on 3 websites so far and more to come as I get a grip on the whole social media thing!! Maybe in modern terms I am a bit of a dinosaur to still value paper-based promotion but there is also the proven influence of the Internet in getting the word out about our group activities, so the need and time to learn all this 'new-fangled' stuff has arrived! Very frustrating though......several times I have threatened to push my computer off the table!!!!
We received notification from City of Sydney about our Matching Grant application and it appears we have made it through the first round of assessments! Very excited but still have fingers crossed we go all the way. So many new craft possibilites but we will definitely need the money to make them happen.
Adding new jewellery skills to my repetoire so will have wonderfully quirky new approaches to 'jewellery' when we expand in June. Felt, polymer clay, and odd bits of 'junk' will materialise as pretty objects for neck and ear ornaments when we grow our interests mid-year. Definitely looking forward to the wonderfully experimental jewellery that our COWBelles are sure to create.
Our group is settling in to the necessary changes that have happened with COW and COWBelles now that our fabulous Beckie has left us and had her baby............by the way, was Cordelia BEAUTIFUL or just BEAUTIFUL!!!! last Friday, 15th when Bec came to visit us with baby in tow? So many sooky, cooing 'nannas' handing Cordelia about. Both mother and daughter looked well and fabulous as they were off to see Dad graduate from Uni. (Congratulations Ethan, we are proud of you!) I know all COW members want the best for this young family!!
Some of the changes affecting COWBelles are our self-funding for a period of time while the Grant is considered and a slight change to the bus booking proceedure. It is taking a little time to get used to the changes but the Belles are a committed lot and take change in their stride. A copy of the COWBelles April Newsletter is available to read at right in the 'Publications' list.
A sturdy group of COW members is set to convene en masse at the Old Firestation on Friday 29 April for the unpleasant but very necessary bi-annual visit to the BreastScreen clinic. Inventive as usual, they have booked the community bus to take them as a mutually supportive group, along with books, food, cross word puzzles and crafty bits, to the Prince Alfred clinic to have their breast checks and provide community support to each other while they wait. A great example of the closeness of support that is such a fundamental mainstay of women in Glebe's community.
Finally but most importantly!!......we are having our first fundraising sale for Mother's Day!!!!!!! Yay!!
On Friday 6th May COWBelles will hold it's first fundraiser at the Old Firestation from 11am-2pm. The ladies will show off their handmade jewellery treasures amid tea, coffee and homemade treats. We are inviting people to come along have a look at our jewellery, buy some of course and stop for a chat about the great Mum, or Nanna! in their life. We are looking forwrd to a great community day. The flyer can be seen in the 'Publications' listing at lright.
Irene
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