Tuesday, January 1st .....

It’s been a while since I posted anything on the blog and today seems like an appropriate day to start again.  In October, I was bogged down with the last-minute rush for the Craft Fair, so the blogging was put on hold and then my innate trend to avoidance took hold and I didn’t get back into the swing.

The Craft Fair was a big success – great feature artists, wonderful crowds and very enjoyable social events.  The Cocktail Party and Official Opening which was held on the Friday night was one to remember.  We had our very good friends, Kit, Rhoda and Rex Reventar, visiting us from the Philippines and I was delighted to be able to showcase the sort of events our club can run.

The Official Guest was the Premier of Tasmania, Lara Giddings.  She comes across on TV as someone a little out of her depth; she is female, single and young, so the old guard of Tasmania don’t warm to her.  In fact, she was very impressive, genuinely nice and easy to chat to, but authoritative and dignified as well.

The food at the Cocktail Party was outstanding.  We had spent a bit more than we should but nobody will forget the fabulous oysters served with Bloody Mary shots, or the huge king prawns. There was a harpist playing throughout the evening and we had invited SiSi, a cabaret artist we met last year, to sing a song.  What a hoot!  The music was New York, New York but she had written new words … I want to be a part of it, Deloraine Craft Fair, and so on.

We had planned to take an exhibition of quilts to New Zealand after the Fair but, in the end, we left it to the curator and her husband to go without us.  Marilyn had some time in Sydney with her family while I tied up the loose ends of the Fair and started to draft out plans for next year.

Christmas and New Year’s Eve have come and gone and we are starting to look forward to how 2013 will unfold.  We are booked on a cruise which leaves Auckland on January 25^th and I am hoping to get to Scotland in April/May.  Otherwise, it will be another year of focusing on the Craft Fair.  But, of course, there’s more to life than that and who knows what interesting events will come about.