Scrub Stitchin'...Friday...

Generally Saturday at Scrub Stitchin' is the day for show & tell and theme dinner...but Chooky moved those to Friday but because one of our lovely international visitors had to leave early Saturday so her husband could get to his fun activity of their trip - cattle judging at the Royal Easter Show in Sydney...I don't have any pictures from Show & Tell because I was a holder upper for Janice's quilts and then kept on being a holder upperer with Chooky...there are plenty of pics on other blogs though...

 

We also had our group photo Friday morning instead of Sunday morning...happy campers...

Drinks & nibbles at the outside bar before dinner...my room mate Jenny taking a photo of me taking a photo of the gathering...

The theme was "Australiana" and the dress code for Saturday Night Dinner on Friday Night was "what does Australia mean to you?"...of course the room was decorated...most excellently by Di, Miranda and Brenda...among the decorating touches were Australian flag bunting hung all around the room and the table set with Australian themed runners embroidered especially by Di along with foliage and Aussie soft toys... 

So interesting and fun to see the outfits and hear the explanations of everyone's take on the theme...especially with our international campers on board...my initial thought was "sky/light" which I expanded to "colours"  - sky, wattle and fire -  a bright blue t-shirt "sky", yellow and green ribbon around my ponytail "wattle" and my CFA ID & red lanyard "fire"...I have to say Harriett and her mum Tina as "Kath & Kim" complete with impressions were hilarious...the "Kim" look that Harriett gave Tina in response to "look at me look at me" was spot on...the internationals were not too shabby...Deana and her sister Tracey, came as tourists...Sylvia, Well...goodness only knows what else she would have added if she'd had more time to go through with all her ideas!...High Tea on her head, a snake catching a mouse (a reference to the last mouse plague Chooky had to contend with) around her neck, a crocodile on her arm and she was a kangaroo with a joey in her pouch...such fun...

Gail was already in Oz when the theme message came through so she came up with a great idea...buy an Australia t-shirt and write her special memories of her trip on it...you'd think sourcing the t-shirt would be the easy part but it wasn't! she did well to eventually find what she wanted...very personal and a great memento of her trip down under...

Tracey in her tourist outfit can be seen to the right behind Gail...great ideas from the international friends...(also behind Gail is "Kath" in the purple tracksuit..."Kim" is in pink in the first photo of the room)...

 

A fun night...

 

We also had our "Make It Bake It Fake It" swap and I'll show that in another post, this one is already long enough...

Happy Stitching...