Halloween Fayre and Open Day!!!

Hello!!! Sorry for the huge gap - we are so busy over at Loving Hands website and forum ( www,lovinghands.org.uk - forum link is at top right hand corner of the web page) the forum us incredibly busy now with new members joining every day - over 1200 on the forum now and we have over 2600 members in total - it is wonderful!!!

This year has seen LH HQ redecorated and sorted out with shelving etc and we have built a new storage shed out back (now officially known as 'Gaffers Den' ) so we have more room for all the items coming and going through here now ;0)

Soooooo - To service this ever growing community we are having a fundraiser at the end of October ;0)

Loving Hands arfe having their first ever - HALLOWEEN FAYRE - it is perfect timing for Halloween and will beat all the other Christmas Fayres to the punch ;0) We will have lots of stalls and invite some other people in to do stalls to sell things people will maybe want for Christmas presents as well.

There will be the usual Raffle, Tombola, Cake and Candy, Handicrafts, Teas etc and we will have fun things for the kids too - a fancy dress contest, a best carved pumpkin contest, bran tub (with scary things in it so they have to feel past the spiders, skeletons, bats etc to find the parcels ;0) etc, etc.

Hopefully it will be a really fiun day and we will raise lots of money for Loving Hands - I want to get in loads of inks, stationery, stamps etc to keep us going for the next wee while ;0)

so that is;-

LOVING HANDS HALLOWEEN FAYRE
SATURDAY 29TH NOVEMBER, 2011
10AM TO 1PM
IN KELTY CHURCH, OAKFIELD STREET, KELTY. ;0)

ENTRY FEE £1 ADULTS 50P KIDS THIS INCLUDES COST OF TEA AND CAKE FOR ADULTS AND JUICE AND CAKE FOR KIDS ;0)

BUT - it doesnt end there!!! Oh no - we are then having a High Tea at the Halfway House in Kingseat at 7pm so that members can have a lovely evening and a relaxing chat after the Fayre.

BUT - it doesnt end there!!!!!!!! Oh no - we are then having an open day here at HQ on the Sunday from 10am to 4pm so that any members still around can come and see the new HQ and Gaffers Den and help themselves to lots of goodies from the stash in the Den ;0)

So it is all very exciting! Lots happening and lots to keep us all busy. If anyone wants to donate to the fund who cant make it we do accept donations to our Paypal account (I pay Parcel2go through it!) the account is charityknitters@yahoo.co.uk we also accept cheques or postal orders made out to L. Jaap (Loving Hands) and sent in here to HQ (Loving Hands, 18 Clentry Crescent , Kelty, Fife. KY4 0LG. (This is the address to send in your donations of knitting, crocheted or stitched items - school uniform items for kiddies from 3 to 8 for our schools, items for shoeboxes etc, any spare blankets, sheets, towels, duvets, wool, fabric, threads etc, etc as well ).

Happy New Year

Here we go again - another year and we are now over 1600 members here at Loving Hands! Brilliant! There is going to be an article about my own experiences and Loving Hands in Yours magazine on the 25th January so hopefully that will trigger even more members to join us!

We now have groups in Kelty, Carrickfergus, Stonehaven, Portsmouth, Glasgow West, Cardiff, Peebles and Warwickshire! Who knows - this might be the year we get a group near you!

Sadly my last surgery failed as well. I went in and had the balloons fitted in october, they waited 3 weeks before they began filling them and did it ever so slowly but my stupid body wouldnt play ball and I got anothe rinfection and two of the balloons decided to burst through the skin again. Result was I ended up back in hospital having the balloons taken out again anSd IV antibiotics to clear up the infection. Never mind - once all these new wounds have healed we will hopefully try again - maybe third time lucky!

We are all looking forward to the new challenges being posted on Loving Hands forum on 30th January. Wonder what I will have in mind for everyone this time ;0)

Scotland's Knitting Only Show will be on May 14th from 10am to 4pm at Perth Racecourse again. This year we are trying to make it very much a Loving Hands get together. A lot of the ladies are planning to book into the Travel Lodge at Perth or the Huntingtower Lodges just along from there. We Iill arrange a block booking for dinner at the Glover Arms on Friday and Saturday nights so everyone can have some fun together as well. Looking forward to it already - I am planning to have nice new Loving Hands badges made before hand so we can all wear them to identify one another much easier ;0)

If you want to join us go to the Loving Hands website at www.charityknitters.org.uk and then click on the forum link at top of the page - if you register on the forum dont forget to send me an email to charityknitters@yahoo.co.uk giving me all of your details, full name, postal address and the name you have chosen to register on the forum with. Sadly I am having to pre approve members before they can fully join the forum now as we have been hit by really nasty spammers - not the sort of thing we need to see on a hand crafting forum I can tell you! I have to protect my lovely members from that sort of thing ;0)

Looking forward to welcoming you on board soon xxx