...our 12th get together...

...our lovely get together felt so short. the saying is just to true, how time flies when you are having fun. the stunning heart-button-badges was done by dipped 'n dusted. our gift was donated by dipped 'n dusted and tjou-tjou. our lucky winner of the lucky draw was jesse from jezze prints...

...its a get-together...

...our tenth get-together happened at its's a house, as usual we had
a fab afternoon, the badges were AMMMMMMMAZING! the food was good
and the company was great. our monsters are nearly-nearly finished.
looks now we now have a dog (leo) and a kid (siena) as new members ;)

all in all a lovely day with lovelier people...

...lucky bliksem...

...as usual we had our lucky draw, the prize was a collection of goodies

donated by isabeau, tanielle, h and i, and the lucky lady to win it all,

was lor! congrats!...

...once upon a time...

...at 'it's a house' sat 8 hideous monsters on a long covered sofa,

waiting to be auctioned and help out a needy cause... 

...our picnic in the park...

...yummy yummy picnic fare with the most amazing group

of creative chicks in town. as usual we had a fab day for our end 

of year get-together at green point park. with homemade cheese sticks,

caprese salad, meringues, cupcakes and oh so much more

already getting excited for the next one,

this past year has been incredible, the help and support from all of you,

for all our 'causes', its truly amazing how we can make such a big difference 

when we do all these little things together. design really can change the world!

so a big fat hug and a sloppy grateful kiss to you all...

...ronel you lucky thing...

...green with envy that ronel was the lucky draw winner 

of an exquisite piece of jewelry donated by tessa, 

you ladies are amazing, always keen to give, of your time, 

your energy and even your beautiful artwork, we really appreciate

all of you who have been, and continue to be so generous...

...with love from c&h...

...is it really possible that we celebrated our 9th meeting 

at the end of last year at our fab picnic in the park. 

here is the porcelain badge that h&i made, with our 

gorgeous lorraine modeling her badge with such spunk 

and charisma...

...and the second winner is...

...our newbie michelle was the lucky winner of a porcelain bowl, donated by me, enjoy...

...and the first winner is...

...thanks to tanielle from forget-me-knot for the awesome recycled giveaway...

...our second last meeting for the year...

...dim sum, ice tea and baked berry cheesecake, mmm oh yes, 

and some design 'business' too...

(next meeting's the picnic :))

...lucky packet from roule...

...we were green with envy when margaret won the lucky draw at 

our 7th get together. roule put together a tote bag of goodies 

including some beautifully illustrated post cards, and a lovely locally

designed and produced colouring in book (also illustrated by roule),

lucky lady in red!...

...our 7th yummy lunch date...

...as usual our get-together was awesome, thanks to isabeau for our 

knot-so-lovely badges, roule for the stunning goodie bag that margaret won, 

and welcome to a fab new member vicky...

...this is knot our 7th badge...

...isabeau did knot make it, we did knot hand it out at our 7th get together, 

and we do knot love it...

...jesse's surprise...

...we were all so jealous when lorraine won these stunning hand printed buttons donated by jesse at our last get-together...

...we love my laundry...

...coffee, wine, dim sum, and a chocolate fondue...

wtf ~ is this the best group to be apart of or what?,

saturday at ilovemylaundry  was awesome, and we also loooooved 

the badges from anja, she rocks! yay can't wait til the next one...

...badge of gratitude...

...we absolutely love our badge of gratitude and appreciation, 

anja made these awesome badges out of clay, debossed each letter 

individually by hand, painted them gold and delivered them with love, 

so to anja, we all say thaaaaaaanks...

...are you sweet or soutie...

...two of our members collaborated on these beautiful badges. kristen from design kist and mandi from unwrapped. tiny envelopes containing either a 'soutie' image or a 'sweet' image was placed in a bowl and passed around the table.

we just love our new colourful badges, what a great idea...

...and the lucky gal is...

... kristen! thanks to shop bow peep we had a stunning pressie to give away in our lucky draw. look-see, look-see...

...good food, great company...

... what more do you want at a lovely venue like woodlands eatery. we celebrated life, creativity and new friendships...

...le pique-nique...

...oooh la la and what a picnic it was, from homemade scones, meringues, cheese straws,
traditional lebonese dip, olive bread, and let's not forget our pink eggs, to champers and
gingerbeer. yummy, yummy, yummy. the greenpoint botanical gardens made for the
perfect setting. what a perfect lazy afternoon, i think we're officially the coolest little
club in town...