Above are the results, a fun collection. These are the fronts of the cards and below are the backs - each positioned to the relevant front. Aren't they great?!
Thanks for the photos, Marion.
Besides Nosey Nurse Nita and her Naughty arsenal of Narcissistic weapons, the proceedings were blessed by Nun, Sister Anne. We all had lots of fuN, ate well, laughed a lot and ended the year on a high Note. Next year the them will be "T" so you're forewarned and have a whole year to think about it.
Thanks Lyn for organising a most enjoyable and successful fair. Everybody was very happy with your arrangements. I did hear one compaint though .... some people made so much to sell that they need bigger tables please! There was a bigger variety of craft for sale then usual with more people joining in, which is really good. At this rate we might end up having to hire the Entertainment Centre! (Only joking, the CWA Hall is perfect.) I think everyone went home feeling very content with the way it all went. 
But Marion has sent us a link to her album of photos taken at the exhibition of our postcards in Ingham. To take a look just click here. Don't they look great? Marion would you like to add a report of your visit to the exhibition in the comments?
Pam W has given poor old Santa a heat rash in the rush to get Christmas under way! To see photos of some of the show and tell click Santa's posterior. We had a fun day at the Wednesday social morning ending with the Bookies Group's Christmas lunch at the West End pub which was most enjoyable. Thank you Janet for organising it so successfully. The venue was cool and quiet, the food was delicious and the company was the best! Janet has a photo of the group to post and I have this photo of her taking it!
Do you remember the picture of Sue's completed bear? Aren't these photos of her little grand-daughter's pleasure in the bear just so heart-warming?
Embroidery will reconvene on Thursday 18 February 2010. Everyone is welcome. For further information please contact Arlene. 
The drop of rain which fell early this morning seemed to bring a good crowd out to the Wednesday social morning and there's was a lot to share and show at the meeting, some of it quite unusual. If you weren't one of the lucky folk to touch and feel, you can still see a lot of the items by clicking on the altered book above. 
Give a Bookie a piece of paper and a cd and with flying fingers snipping, folding and glueing, under Janet's watchful guidance, and they'll transform it into an intricate little fanned book before you know it. (For a closer look click on the above collage.) 
A member of the city council came to our meeting to put our aspirations for relocating into his perspective. Thanks to the ability of Margaret D and Nita O'B, who have untold levels of frustration tolerance, I don't think he was totally successful in blighting our enthusiasm.
Show and Tell was consequently very late but welcome light relief! For more photos click on Annette S's merriment above. 
Today a large group of Fibres Folk met at Barb's for a workshop on rusting a variety of papers, lace and cloth in the rust baths which Barb prepared. A tannic solution, caustic soda solution and iron solution. We all dipped and dripped and lay our bits of paper on the lawn with branches over them to stop them blowing away in the wind - and watched the magic happen. It was a lot of fun and the results were very rewarding. 
To see the rest of the photo's just click on Rick's smile! 
has listed our Fibres and Fabrics blog right at the top of her list of blogs to visit? Now that's a very friendly gesture in the blog world. Thank you Kirsten.
A group of Fibre Folk took advantage of a tour of the artists of Magnetic Island which was offered last week. It must've been very absorbing because not many photos were taken! Thanks to Annette and Margaret who took those you can see by clicking on the photo of Beryl and Susie relaxing in what appears to be shopping trolleys!!
Dinie led a very successful 'Scrumbling' session which will be continued at the coming Fibres on Saturday gathering. (If you missed the post on scrumbling go back to the post dated Friday, 22nd May 2009 for an explanation.)
Pam was welcomed back from Fibres Tasmania 2009 by a very aristocratic Lah Cat which Susie M made her for her Altered Book display.
Amongst the items passed around at Show and Tell was this beautiful painting by Birte which she says she brought instead of her weekly watercolour because that didn't turn out as well as she'd imagined it would so found a home in the wastepaper basket. (That's me with camera reflected back at you in the glass and you might find me searching through Birte's wastepaper basket for her rejected but certain-to-be perfectly good work!)
After Show and Tell Deb P showed the Bookies group how to make a Christmas tree from a paperback novel. To see more photos please click on the above photo of Deb making stars for the trees.
It seems Barb N and Pam W had a wonderful time at Fibres Tasmania in Launceston and they brought back fabulous work from the workshops they attended. Above is one of Barb's mixed media pieces from her workshop with Glenys Mann. And below is some of Pam's amazing felting.
To see more photos of their work please click on Pam's felting above.
The theme for this month's postcard is 'I had written him a letter' and it has inspired everyone involved to new heights! To see a few of the postcards please click on Annette's message above.
