Its late spring here in Queensland and the days are warming up significantly. My daughter and I planned to host a morning tea on Saturday, to which I had invited a dozen or so ladies that I thought would enjoy each others company and would potentially be interested in supporting my Craft With a Mission project. This was an inspiration that I had back in august this year to make and sell handicrafts in order to raise money to give to some missionary families for Christmas, which we all know can be an expensive time of year.
I have spent every spare moment since August making items for this purpose and we had already held an afternoon tea in October that raised a significant sum towards my goal.
I rose early to decorate the deck before it got too hot, hanging bunting, putting on chair covers and laying tables, in order to be ready before our guests arrived. Whilst it takes time and effort making the place look nice, its lovely to be able to use inexpensive items (most purchased from favourite treasure stores) to transform this outdoor area into a welcoming, interesting environment in which I can spoil friends and make them feel special for a while. It is my delight to do this and so it is no bother to me, rather a joy to spend precious moments in the company of ladies that I don't get to do very often.
My daughter concocted some beautiful rose flavoured cupcakes, and I made plain scones with strawberry jam and cream. Eleven ladies joined us and we all made new friends during the course of the morning. They enjoyed perusing my handicrafts and generously helped me get substantially closer to my monetary goal, purchasing gifts for friends, for Christmas.
I have previously blogged about my handicrafts, which included denim handbags; doily dolls; floral hair clips and all kinds of bunting. I thoroughly enjoyed making all of the items, relishing handling pretty fabrics and listening to good music - all therapeutic for me. I gain great satisfaction from making things, as you will have gathered if you have been reading these entries for long.
It was a success in every way and I look forward to sending he money to the families in various parts of the world.
On Sunday afternoon our daughter treated my husband and I to High Tea at "Creativi tea" in Broadbeach, as a thank you for help that we had given her in recent months. What a lovely venue and what a scrumptious tea! French Earl Grey tea proved a big hit with us, we hadn't tasted it before, delicious flavour and aroma and the food was beautiful, all served on Portmeiron tableware - just gorgeous. we had a splendid time, and recommend it to locals to try.
Together with the Car Boot sale that we attended earlier that day, that I have already told you about, it was a wonderful weekend, just bursting with treats.
On the subject of lovely weekends, its been a real challenge to me this year to try not to focus on the weekend ahead and all the great plans I have when I am not at work, but rather look for the lovely moments to be found and enjoyed between Monday and Friday. If not five sevenths of my life is of no importance or value.
I need to keep working on that, how is it for you, I wonder?
Simply Susan
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