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BIRTHDAY WISHES  Birthday wishes this month go to: Josie  and also  to Joan. No leap year birthdays this year.

Our Burns celebrations were well received and enjoyed by all who attended. We were treated to a lovely rendition of Addressing the Haggis by Lizzie Allan (somewhere under that beard) who put her heart and soul into it. This was followed by the serving of Potatoes & Leek soup. The ingredients were picked from our vegetable garden and proved to be very tasty. Tea and coffee was served along with traditional shortbread and biscuits donated by the Co-Op and displayed by some of our members above.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS

February –

13^th February – Marbling Session

March –

Card Making workshop – date yet to be confirmed.

 

‘Tip of the Month’

Don’t shred or throw away those lovely Christmas cards. We would welcome them to recycle / reuse to make new cards.
They could then be sold at our Christmas fayre to help raise funds.

 

Community Garden 

With the onset of spring we look to our green-fingered volunteers to come along and tend the grounds, vegetable and herb sections also.

Without your assistance we would not have such a rich choice of vegetables, etc. Your time is much appreciated by all and a big THANK YOU to everyone.

REGARDING THE EASTFIELD COMMUNITY CENTRE'S THREAT FROM CLOSURE: 
The Eastfield Community Centre Management Committee take this opportunity to thank all of our supporters who are members of our community groups and those who submitted the on-line survey to the South Lanarkshire Council helping us to fight our corner. Very well done! The good news is that the centre will not be closing 1st April 2024 as we are in negotiations presently applying for an Community Asset Transfer. This will take perhaps several months to realise, and we ask you to continue using the centre to the full and maintain your unwavering support for this facility on your doorstep. Let us do our best to keep our community alive as we use this precious resource for our activities, groups and forging long lasting friendships.

Welcome to Chatty Crafters monthly newsletter. Our aim is to keep our members informed of  "up and coming" events.

Sessions held every Tuesday afternoon, Eastfield Community Centre

BIRTHDAY WISHES Lyn celebrates her birthday this month in January. This also happens to be the month of the birthday of our famous Rabbie Burns on the 25th which is celebrated by ways of a Burns’ Supper……. Information to follow

Welcome to Chatty Crafters monthly newsletter. Our aim is to keep our members informed of up and coming events.

Sessions held every Tuesday afternoon, Eastfield Community Centre

BIRTHDAY WISHES TO... Caroline, Marjory and Gordon who all celebrate their birthdays this month.

Forthcoming events -

December –                                              

5^th December – Xmas lunch, - 2pm:  The Parkville Hotel, Blantyre.

12^th December – Workshop for Xmas Table Decorations.

13^th Dec – Rat Pack singalong at Concert Hall 7.30 pm- please arrive outside around 7.00pm to collect tickets

2024 –We are pleased to welcome Health ‘n’ Happy in leading the following sessions: 16^th January - Stress Balls,

30^th January -  Body Boost Bingo

13^th February -  Marbelling Session.

GARDEN                                                      

Our thanks to Thomas at Community Payback who organised

a team to cut back branches and clear trees which gave the garden a much needed tidy up in readiness for winter,

 

 

Welcome to Chatty Crafters monthly newsletter. Our aim is to keep our members informed of up and coming events.

Sessions held every Tuesday afternoon, Eastfield Community Centre

BIRTHDAY WISHES Brian C celebrates his birthday this month in November.

Forthcoming events -

November –

18^th November – Christmas Fayre at Eastfield Community Centre.

11.30 a.m. – 3.30 p.m.

Please note, we have limited storage space at the Centre and therefore would ask that anyone wishing to donate any items for selling do so nearer the time.

21^st November – Health and Happy – Energy Saving Chat.

 

December –

5^th December – Christmas lunch – The Parkville Hotel, Blantyre.

12^th December – Workshop for Xmas Table Decorations.

13^th Dec – Rat Pack singalong at Concert Hall 7.30 pm- please arrive outside around 7.00pm to collect tickets

 

2024 – We are pleased to welcome Health ‘n’ Happy in leading the following sessions:

You can look forward to a variety of sessions in the New Year i.e.  16^th January - Stress Balls, 30^th January -  Body Boost Bingo and 13^th February -  Marbling Session.

Busy times ahead.               

Carol and Brian join in Chatty Crafters at the same time as the group at Eastfield, only whilst on a Mediterranean cruise.

 

Welcome to Chatty Crafters monthly newsletter. Our aim is to keep our members informed of up and coming events. For anyone interested, VASLAN (one of our sponsors) have a video on YouTube outlining what Chatty Crafters do at the Centre including input from our President/Vice-Chairperson, Carol Loch and Anne Crawford.

Sessions held every Tuesday afternoon, Eastfield Community Centre

BIRTHDAY WISHES Evelyn celebrates her birthday this month in October.

Community Garden.

Our wheat has now been harvested and arrangements are currently  being made with the other members of Camglen to bake with it. Our garden continues to flourish and as you can see our sweetcorn is ready for harvesting.

Our garden now….

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Welcome to Chatty Crafters monthly newsletter. Our aim is to keep our members informed of up and coming events. August was a busy month for our club with in-house workshops for Button art, wreath making with our young friends from 6VT Youth Café in Edinburgh. We were treated to a lovely evening at The Theatre Royal, Glasgow, to enjoy the Musical of 42nd Street.

Selection of photos from the Flower Arranging / Wreath-making workshops.

 

Sessions held every Tuesday afternoon, Eastfield Community Centre

BIRTHDAY WISHES Mary and Linda celebrate their birthdays this month in September. Isabel will also celebrate her special birthday in September.

Community Garden.

Our garden continues to thrive thanks to our volunteers giving their time. We are harvesting our wheat and hope to grind into flour sometime soon. This is a joint venture with other members of Camglen and our aim is to bake some bread.   [Below are some of our produce so far]	Our garden now….
	Forthcoming events - Herb Garden     –           Date To be confirmed October 31st October - Pam’s Cumbrae Creations – [Picture painting an Ostrich]
We welcome any volunteers who can spare a few hours a week to help, even those of you who are not ‘green-fingered’ can help in pulling out weeds or even just brushing up around the site to keep the area nice and tidy thereby a joy to sit out in. How time flies….  we would appreciate any suggestions on how we can celebrate to mark the event.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Welcome to Chatty Crafters monthly newsletter. Our aim is to keep our members informed of up and coming events. On 11th July we had an in-house session doing button art overseen by our very own Anne Crawford, This was a huge success and a fun-filled time enjoyed by all.

A group of our members showing off their finished canvases…

Even one of our sponsors Liz from ASDA got into the swing of things..

Sessions held every Tuesday afternoon, Eastfield Community Centre

BIRTHDAY WISHES Margaret and June celebrated their birthdays this month in August.

Community Garden.

Our vegetables are sprouting well……… we will be harvesting our wheat and grinding it to flour sometime in August. This is a joint venture with other members of Camglen and our aim is to bake some bread.

Our garden now….

 

 

 

 

 

Congratulations to  our Muriel Fleming on her video with VASLAN for their volunteers week (who are one of our contributors) in which she gave an insight to what working in the garden meant to her wellbeing.

 

We welcome any volunteers who can spare a few hours a week to help, even those of you who are not ‘green-fingered’ can help in pulling out weeds or even just brushing up around the site to keep the area nice and tidy thereby a joy to sit out in.

 

CRAFTING WORKSHOPS

At some point in the month, Jane, will be bringing in sample books which have fabrics, beads, yarn etc – these are from Jane’s earlier college days doing Fabric & Design and hopefully will give us more crafting ideas.

Carol has now secured some old household keys and hopes to introduce our members to the art of making wind chimes – date to be confirmed.

 

Forthcoming events -

AUGUST

Tuesday 1^st – Flower Arranging – by Stems of Burnside

Tuesday 8^th – Chatty Crafters will be hosting a workshop of various crafts including knitting, card making and Wreath Making, to Members of 6VT Youth Café from Edinburgh supported by Community Rail Partnership and arranged with Suzie from Rail 74.

 

Tuesday 22^nd – The Musical of 42^nd Street  - Meeting outside Theatre Royal,

Just off Buchanan Street Bus Station,  at 7.00 pm

 

Herb Garden     –           Date To be confirmed

Pam’s Cumbrae Creations – Date to be confirmed

Welcome to Chatty Crafters monthly newsletter. Our aim is to keep our members informed of up and coming events. On 20th June we had a basket weaving session hosted by Max. A group of our members showing off their finished bird feeders….

Sessions held every Tuesday afternoon, Eastfield Community Centre

BIRTHDAY WISHES Muriel celebrates her birthday this month in July.

Community Garden.

Our front garden some time ago…..

Our garden now…..

 

We welcome any volunteers who can spare a few hours a week to help, even those of you who are not ‘green-fingered’ can help in pulling out weeds or even just brushing up around the site to keep the area nice and tidy thereby a joy to sit out in.

 

CRAFTING WORKSHOPS

A sewing machine is available should anyone wish to use it. This can be for their own use such as garment repairs etc. Any ideas as to what could be made on the sewing machine would be welcome, ideally small items that we can sell at our Xmas Fair that will help raise funds towards the upkeep of our club.

Unfortunately, our Flower arranging workshop had to be postponed as the tutor was unwell. We have re-booked it for 1^st August. Anyone who has secateurs are asked to bring them along.

The Community Centre is closed for 2 weeks in July For summer break.  Therefore, class will NOT BE ON Tues 18^th and Tues 25^th July.

Forthcoming events -

JULY  - Due to summer holidays nothing arranged for this month

AUGUST

Tuesday 1^st – As mentioned above, Flower Arranging

Tuesday 22^nd – The Musical of 42^nd Street  - Meeting outside Theatre Royal at 7.00 pm

Herb Garden     –           Date To be confirmed

Pam’s Cumbrae Creations – Date to be confirmed

 

 

Wreath Making with Anne – Date to be confirmed

Welcome to Chatty Crafters monthly newsletter. Our aim is to keep our members informed of up and coming events. Our trip to Edinburgh for Afternoon Tea in the Charlotte Rooms, giving us an Orient Express Experience was a huge success and our members gave a real feel of sophistication by dressing in all their finery, including the wearing of  ‘fascinators’.

Sessions held every Tuesday afternoon, Eastfield Community Centre

BIRTHDAY WISHES Birthday wishes this month go to 6 of our members. Susan Bussens, Brian Loch, Karen Liddell, Anne Crawford, Elaine Donnelly and lastly Helen Leggat.

Community Garden.

With the summer weather having arrived our garden continues to thrive.

We welcome any volunteers who can spare a few hours a week to help, even those of you who are not ‘green-fingered’ can help in pulling out weeds or even just brushing up around the site to keep the area nice and tidy thereby a joy to sit out in.

Some of our members working ‘hands on’ in the Sensory garden……….

CRAFTING WORKSHOPS

The introduction of a sewing machine has been a great success and Jane has been a great help in ensuring that all members had a lap bag made for their individual use and we look forward to any ideas as to what other items can be made with a view to making items that could be sold at our Christmas Fete thereby increasing our funds.

 

Any volunteers to help in the garden would be most welcome.

 Forthcoming events -

JUNE

13^th – Flower Arranging session – Those of you not wishing to participate can still come along as usual and do your own thing.

20^th - Basket weaving session – Again, if this is not your thing, please do feel free to bring your own craft to work on.

 

JULY

No events as yet...

 

AUGUST

Tuesday 22^nd – The Musical of 42^nd Street  - Meeting outside the Theatre Royal at 7.00 pm

 

Welcome to Chatty Crafters monthly newsletter. Our aim is to keep our members informed of up and coming events. The visit to Youth Café in Edinburgh on 6th April was very successful. The Youth members  were delighted to engage in the skills our members were offering.  These included, knitting, sewing, crochet and card making. They in return had our members interacting in a Tik Tok – bringing us up to speed with today’s mobile phone technology. We look forward to their future visit to Eastfield where hopefully more youngsters will be interested in the skills we have to offer. Workshop date will hopefully be around August.

BIRTHDAY WISHES 

Birthday wishes to Helen  who celebrates her birthday this month in May, and to Janice who celebrates her birthday also in May. 

Community Garden.

 David, our garden specialist from L.E.A.P, will be guiding us through building up our garden and in particular will be doing a Herb Kitchen Garden workshop – date and time to be advised.

We have already picked fresh leeks from last year’s planting and these were made available to the members at the A.G.M.

Chatty Crafters raised bed so far has Lemon Balm, Sage, Strawberries, Brussel Sprouts and we are preparing seed trays. We have planted wheat in one of our beds as part of the ‘slice soil’ project.

Any volunteers to help in the garden would be most welcome.

 Forthcoming events -

MAY

23^rd - Afternoon tea – Orient Express Experience, Edinburgh.

Bus leaves from Eastfield at 12.00 pm. Afternoon tea at 2 pm.

Bus pick us back up in Leith at 5.00 pm, returning to Eastfield Community Centre.

JUNE

13^th – Flower Arranging session  and   20^th - Basket weaving session

JULY

Propose going to Rutherglen Town Hall on Sat 15^th July to see ‘The Steamie’ so please voice your interest asap so we can arrange.

CRAFTING WORKSHOPS

Enquiries ongoing , ie bird feeder etc. including a Kitchen Herb Garden and names are being collected to confirm interest.

We now have available a sewing machine and anyone interested in using it is most welcome.  If you wish to learn how to use the sewing machine we have some members willing to assist in showing the basics including how to thread up and fill the spools, etc.

WANTED – Another project suggested is the making of wind chimes and we are looking for any old keys that you may have lying around and don’t have a use for.  Please bring along to the class.

 

AGM

The AGM was held on 18^th April and Committee members re- elected.

This included Carol Loch as Chairperson, Anne Crawford as Vice-Chairperson, Margaret Hendry as Treasurer, with Linda Smith, Jane Dick and Isabel Thornton making up the rest of the Committee.