SP11

As you can see my final parcel from my wonderful Secret Pal has arrived. I now know her name is Gisella and she is from Germany!

There were some packets of lovely German biscuits in the box too but before I could fetch my camera my son had them opened and into the biscuit box. (he says they all taste delicious though - I will find out after I finish posting!).

As you can see from the photos she has been ever so generous with this last package - she wanted to give me a flavour of a German Christmas so there are a couple of wee straw Christmas trinkets - one to put on the mantel and one to hang on the tree - also a chocolate santa clause (Jenna has her eye on that already!) and some really unusual yarn. The card is handmade too and really pretty :0) Thank you so much Gisella - you have been a delightful Secret Pal - hopefully we will stay in touch after this. You have been a star :0)

Gisella even contributed to our Christmas challenge as she sent a prem baby cardigan with her last parcel which has been added to the collection!

Right off to try those lovely biscuits!

Christmas Challenge 2007!!!!

Here we are girls!

Our Christmas Challenge 2007! If you ever wondered what a 6 year old buried under 93 boobies looks like then wonder no more! We have had such a laught this afternoon counting and taking photos to let you all see how we have done!

The grand totals are:-

Boobies - 93

Prem Baby Sets - 102

Give yourselves a huge pat on the back - by the time the new year comes in I will have brought the boobies total up to the 100 we needed - I have one almost finished as I type so it won't take me long to make the final six!

I think this is a great achievement and we now have even more members (91 as of yesterday!) so whatever challenge we decide on for Easter there will be more members to get the items made in time!

I think for the next time I will keep a counter going and every few days update it so that you can all see if we are struggling or not - that way it will be easier to keep track :0)

Thank you all so much for all your hard work - it doesn't mean I am going to let you all off the hook - I will expect you all to keep knitting, crocheting and sewing as we leap into 2008.

You are all stars - thank you!

Countdown to announcement of Christmas results!

OK folks - it is almost time to let you all know how well we have done! I have just returned from the sorting office with another two parcels (thanks to Claire and Mary for those!) with another 12 boobies and three prem sets in them - I know we have definitely clobbered the prem set challenge but the boobies will be close so I am going to get these stuffed then we can have a count and photograph session later so I can make the announcement!

You have all done so well rising to the challenge - hopefully next year we will manage to have several more challenges depending on the requests we get from our Charities!

Watch this space..........:0)

Hope it All Went Well!

Well - did you all get what you wanted for Christmas? I certainly got a lot of lovely things - the company of my six wonderful kids and my beautiful grandaughter would have been enough mind you :0) (Although I was glad to see them all safely home so I could have a rest at the end of it all!) :0)

I am looking forward to picking up the post tomorrow so that I can see if we have made our targets. I have the camera at the ready although I might need to do the final boob stuffing by myself as our wee Jenna is ill so not really in the mood to help out :0( Hopefully the medecine we got for her today will do the trick and we can get her back on her feet and smiling again in a day or two.

I have one final parcel to post off to bring SP11 to an end - hopefully the recipient will like what I have sent her this time - it is very hard to please other people - I always try to choose the best things I can but we can't always get it right. (How many times do you have to smile and say 'Oh it's lovely - just what I wanted' when in your mind you are wondering when the next Sale of Work is to get rid of it!). My heart in my mouth I will send this final gift box and hope for a kind response this time - fingers crossed :0)

On the subject of SP11 - I have just found out that my hostess Jenn lost her father recently - on behalf of all here at Loving Hands Jenn - our hearts and thoughts go out to you. It is never easy to lose a loved one. God Bless you and your family at this sad time.

Right - the dinner is almost cooked so I had better go and feed the mad beasts! Talk to you all soon!

Happy Christmas Day!

Happy Christmas to all my lovely Loving hands members out there! I will be delaying the announcement of the christmas Challenges until Thursday as I missed the pick up at them post office yesterday so don't know what final parcels were there to be added in. I know we have definitely beaten the prem baby challenge but we were struggling a bit on the booby front so hopefully once I pick up the post (and knit like mad for the next couple of days too!) we might just make it :0) Watch out for numbers and photos on Thursday!

We will discuss the next challenge at the first meeting of 2008 (usual venues in kelty and Kirkcaly on Monday 7th January). Hopefully you will all rise to that one as well abd we will sail through it! :0)

You are all amazing people and it has been a privilege to have you all on board this year - to all my members both old and new let me say Happy New Year and lets make it a very productive one!

Till next post xxx

Happy Christmas Everyone

Happy Christmas to all Loving Hands members - thank you all for the great work you have done this year and we are all looking forward to what can be achieved in 2008. :0)

I will be counting the baby things and boobies tomorrow after I have been out to collect the mail for the last time before christmas - fingers crossed! :0)

Hopefully we will be able to think of a suitable challenge for Easter time to get you all competing again - you have all been so great contributing to the Christmas challenges - hope we have made it!


Loving Hands is going from strength to strength which proves to me that there are enough kind hearted and loving souls out there in the UK to keep me very busy for the next year or so!

God Bless you all and please keep up the good work - HAPPY CHRISTMAS!!!

Christmas Fayre and Challenges

Well - the Fayre is over - sadly it didn't go as well as we would have hoped but we have made over £200 for the postage fund (enough to post two 13.6Kgs boxes so I will get a bit of space back in the office!). Unfortunately the timing was all wrong - the church had had their own Christmas Fayre the Saturday before and they had made £1000 at their one :0( Next year we will plan well in advance, make sure we aren't anywhere near the church sale and advertise in every available space we can find!

We did have a great time though and we do have a lot of extra things left over which will be great when the market stalls start up in the JRD trust after the new year. Meg is going to take our craft items and sell them there for us which will boost the funds again :0) We are still hoping for a few donations from various sources as well. Once I have the packing boxes in place I will pack them all up with 13.6kgs in each so we can get them away asap.

Well done for all your help girls - I will post some photos of the stalls etc from home to let you all see how great it looked.

Christmas Challenges:

I have had a quick count and we have managed to collect 80 prem baby cardigans and hats and 44 boobs already! We still have two weeks to go so I am sure we will make it - keep it up gang! I am knitting boobies at every available opportunity (in between christmas shopping, wrapping parcels and writing cards!). I went out and had some cards printed for my family today and I have put the photo of our wee Jenna posing with her box of boobs on the front of it - she was so pleased when she saw what I had done! :0)

Forum:

We have hd another two members join the Forum today as well - welcome to Lis and Taylor - (Forum names) - I know you are both already members and working away for us as we speak - hope you enjoy being on the Forum as much as we do. It has been great letting everyone get to know one another better. We can't thank Pam enough for setting up the Forum and Website for us:0)

Right I am off to get some more work done - update again soon!