Saturday 15 December 2012

We WI-sh you a Merry Christmas! (I know, I know...)

What a month it has been for The Iron Maidens! On Wednesday we signed the papers and officially formed as a branch of The Women's Institute. Now the fun really starts. I don't know about the rest of you but I am absolutely thrilled to be part of a group of such fantastic women. Each and every one of us brings something special and unique to the branch and I can't wait to see what we get up to in the coming months and years. Personally I hope it will involve plenty of ridiculous behaviour and 'No Need for Tweed' tattoo-design cross-stitch samplers.

For those of you who missed our December meeting, don't worry - there wasn't any salt dough anyway. However, we did witness a Christmas miracle in the form of paper crafty bits for card making:
 



And a chocolate making set! This was rather popular as you may imagine... 

 
Everyone was encouraged beforehand to bring along their own crafty Christmas projects too, and a few ladies established a Knitters' Corner to keep them busy.

 

 We also drank rather copious amounts of mulled wine (special mention to Cosi for setting the ball rolling on that one) and ate plenty of cakes and mince pies. There were zillions of Christmas crackers and every one wore their stylish paper hats on pain of death. Our very own Rachel 'Pooki' Lloyd was on hand with her flashy camera (pun intended) to create photographic evidence of our silliness. Credit to her for all the photos in this post. You can see the full album here.


 It was truly wonderful to welcome so many new faces to the group this month, may it continue. If you or anyone you know is interested in joining the WI but is worried about it being a little fuddy-duddy or conservative, we may be just what you're looking for. Every woman is welcome, but no tweed allowed. For realsies. I hope you all have an absolutely fantastic Christmas and an even better New Year! 

See you in 2013 x

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