Homemakers Havin' Fun...

Wednesday, April 2nd, was our Countryside Homemaker's meeting. We met at Anne Zeyzing's home.  

I taught the lesson on "Life Story".  It was a good lesson and I gave each lady a folder to begin creating their own life story.  I started by giving each lady a family tree with blank spaces for their own four generations. They filled out what they could from memory. Then we shared fun memories from these people in our past. This set the tone for the importance of writing our own Life Story.

Anne served a nice ham dinner and we all provided side dishes and desserts to accompany her ham. It was yummy!!

Kathy Dunaway brought the craft for us to make.  She and her mom made these clever and beautiful beads out of paper strips so we could make bracelets with them. Kathy did bring a couple of paper strips to show us how to make the beads before we made our bracelets with her previously prepared beads. She was sure the mod podge on the would not dry as quickly as needed for us to complete the craft in a short time. We had lots of fun creating the bracelet that we wanted with all the supplies Kathy provided. It was a fun craft and we all enjoyed this learning experience.

Here are the bracelets created.  Mine is the green on at the bottom of the picture. I brought back a necklace from Ireland with green stones in it. Hopefully this little bracelet will be a nice match for that necklace.

As I was taking pictures of us making our bracelets, in Anne's living room Sue and Elaine were have a lovely chat.  I couldn't help reflecting that this is the purpose of these meetings. Sharing with each other on so many levels.