Happy New Year 2017

The Trinity Centre was packed with members as Mary welcomed us to a new year of meetings with a heartfelt 'Happy New Year'.

After a rousing rendition of Jerusalem we were giving a brief resume of what we've got to look forward to in the year ahead both in terms of meetings, trips and outings and other wider WI activities.

Shiloh Rotherham thanked us for our tremendous support with their Christmas shoebox appeal and Mary mentioned that we would be supporting Weston Park Cancer Hospital once again this year with our annual 'Time 4 Tea' morning in conjunction with Holy Trinity Church.

After our January babies had received their 'happy birthday wishes', we'd paid our subs and voted for our WI Resolutions Rachel Lewis from Rotherham Society of Artists spoke to us about her work.

Rachel displaying some of her work

Rachel explained that despite enjoying Art as a subject at Primary and Secondary school, she had followed a 'science' based career into Physiotherapy.  It was only after the birth of twin boys in her early 40's that she started to take her 'Art' more seriously and won local and then national acclaim in competitions.  This success allowed her to start a second career as an Artist and Art teacher.

Pam and Rita admiring Rachel's winning entry to Eric Twigg Foods 50th Anniversary Competition

Sue - our Rotherham United Chief supporter proudly displaying the New York Stadium made of pies!!

After a question and answer session Sue Dixon gave a vote of thanks to Rachel before we could admire her work in more detail as well as have the opportunity to buy some of her work in the form of greeting cards, bookmarks and present tags.

Whilst we enjoyed a coffee and chat after the presentation, Joan Corker (also a member  of Rotherham Society of Artists) explained to us the 'art' of Zentangle - a form of creative doodling.  Joan said that as long as we could hold a pencil we could  do it and we were soon relaxing and losing ourselves in patterns making bookmarks.

 

Sheila - engrossed in Zentangling!

A lovely relaxed evening and great way to start 2017.

Happy New Year to all members - not only Thorpe Hesley but all those in the Rockley group and wider Federation.