A very happy birthday

This weeks meeting also got to wish a well loved member Michelle, a very happy birthday, hope you had a great day Michelle and hope you liked the cake ;)

A wonderful morning

We had such a nice and relaxed group this week, there was myself and alot of the newer members of our group which was great as I got to know them much much better:)

I cant believe how wonderful Shirley is doing at Crochet - Shirley has been crocheting for three weeks after attending the group and has done a fantasic job at making A blanket for a double bed and had started a pattern from The happy hooker book, she has learnt the craft so fast!
Also Julie is making a beautiful baby capelet(also from the happy hooker)and it is turning out perfect (you wouldnt think it was her first time trying the pattern!)
Siobhan was there also and went home last week without any lessons and made her first crochet project!
Helens Mom(cant remember her name - will edit this next week) was there making a fantasic bag with such unusal yarn
We had our first Male member Dyson came with his mom and is doing a great job crocheting granny sqaures

All the members have seemed to be buying The Happy Hooker book - Im delighted as I'm always using it - and we all get to share tips from it with eachother
It was a very quite morning over coffee and I really enjoyed getting to know you all :)

No room at the Inn!

Art by Rania Hassan

This weeks group didnt go to plan very well because on the same day the Menlo had three large groups
* A wedding
* A Football Team
* Our Group
This has never happened before and the hotel has told me it more than likely wont happen again.
I know some people felt very inconvenienced and voiced maybe a change of hotels - this wont happen. Also the group is getting larger (which isnt a bad thing) this means we will have to be even more self contained on those 'large group days'
CafeCreate is always going to be free, that is why we cant book a room in the Menlo Hotel otherwise everyone is left paying to join a socail group,
I will finish off with this
There may be times when we are left sqeezing into whatever corner is free in the Hotel but this week was the first time that it happened and the Menlo has been very good to us and at the end of the day it offers us more room then a cafe would, also new members will always be welcomed into the group

Lots of new members!

This weeks meeting was great as we had many new members attend (following our write up in the Galway Independent paper)
I am looking forward to getting to know each of them better so I can write up on them more personally.
Due to some of the older members being absent it was decided that the group photo will take place another weekend so that we can get everyone in
Also we were mentioned on NEWSTALK radio station this week, which is very exciting!
onwards and upwards ;)
Neen