Happy Birthday to Us!

The Wylye Women WI is 3 in April and that means birthday cake! (and a drop of fizz!)

We know many of you are dab hands at the stove and so April is when we don our pinnies and bring along some of our best baked goodies. We will eat hunks of gateaux, swap recipes and vote for our favourite - it'll be tough but we'll taste every one!

Please bring along a plate of your most requested recipe or always successful cake/tart/biscuits etc.  for a bake off taste test extravaganza. Please also bring along a copy of the recipe so we can share our baking wisdom.  There will be a prize for the entry judged to be most popular on the night.

If you are not a baker this is the time to pick up some foolproof recipes- bring a notebook and pen!

And kitchen diva or not, we will all benefit from a Cupcake Decorating Masterclass with Juliet Hunt from Sweet Hearts http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sweet-Hearts-by-Juliet/178537612200522

So there'll be no excuse for shop bought offerings next time the kids' school has a bake sale!

See you there!

March Meeting

Here is the result from our Bunting Workshop led by Gaynor from Millie Moon.  Our bunting will be proudly hung at WI events, high days and holidays - and a village fete near you! Worthy of the Queens own tea party, I'm sure you'll agree.

A Bunting We Will go

This Wednesday's event (8 pm: 7th March) will be led by Gaynor from Millie Moon in Frome, where these courses are extremly popular. In true eco-style this is a great opportunity to recycle any lovely cotton remnants you might have or be able to collect over the next few weeks.

We will be creating a Wylye Women WI Bunting that we can use at future events, high days and holidays. You will each make one pennant towards it, so please bring a good stash of cotton fabric (but not Velvet, Cord or thicker curtain fabrics please). The triangles measure 160cmx220cm. Willing sewers needed!

Once you have the skills you will be able to make your own at home. There will be bunting everywhere!

Please also bring along a sewing machine if you have one. If they can be set up to have white cotton and bobbins that would help, we will also need fabric scissors and pins and extension cables if you have. Thanks in advance.

March is also our AGM- This AGM is very important as we see our current President, Lyndsey and our Treasurer, Melissa, as well as several of the current committee step down from their roles after three years of service and an exciting new committee will be born!  So we need YOUR help now to keep this WI alive! If you think you might like to find out more, please mention it to the girls, have a chat over a cup of tea and find out that it really isn't a big ask. Committee meetings are usually held in member’s homes and are quite informal – so if you can ignore the dust, don’t mind sitting on the floor and enjoy a catch up with the girls (often with a glass of wine) you'll be very welcome!

The One With the Naked Man

The Wylye Women WI Lite Girls like to liven things up a bit, as well as teach our members new skills that they might not otherwise learn. So for our first meeting of the New Year we decided to have a go at Life Drawing, led by Wiltshire College Course Leader Andrea Wordsworth. It was the coldest night of the year, well below freezing but, dear Reader, if you want a sure fire way to get women away from the TV and the central heating on a winter's night, the answer is a naked soldier. The meeting was very well attended (!), our model was a real sport, and a great evening was had by all. It was tasteful and artistic- but also quite memorable and will most likely be a talking point for some time.



Our next meeting on Wednesday 7th March at 8 pm is a fabulous Bunting Workshop led by Gaynor from Millie Moon in Frome, where these courses are extremly popular. In true eco-style this is a great opportunity to recycle any lovely cotton remnants you might have or be able to collect over the next few weeks. With Easter, WI Lite's 3rd birthday, and a summer packed with Jubilee street parties, the Flower Show and Olympic-sized celebrations in the calendar, our colourful creations should hopefully have many outings in upcoming months. See you there x

Back 2 '52

On Monday 4th June As part of the Queens Diamond Jubilee celebration Sutton Veny aims to hold a 1950’s dance in the village hall, glitter ball and all.  Just like Strictly!! They hope to be able to organize some very basic dance lessons - prob on Tuesdays starting in March, so everyone can enjoy the occasion. Waltz, Quickstep, Foxtrot, Swing, old time Valeta, St Bernard’s waltz. Jiving was a little later than that but it was a fun dance so we shall have some of that. Boys and girls welcome and it's all free. Please let us know if you want to get involved.

Our first meeting of 2012

Life Drawing on the 1st of Feb ( THIS WEDNESDAY)- is turning into quite an event. I think we've discovered what gets you out of the house on a cold winters night! What a brave boy our model is...

Everyone is welcome....Free to members/£4 non members. We have bought some bubbly to help the event go with a swing and we have purchased a number of 3B pencils, cartridge paper and erasers (If you have some please bring along, you can also BYO wine- we have glasses). We are expecting quite a few visitors as well as our lovely members so please do drop me a line if you are coming, so we know numbers. Thanks!

And don't forget its time to renew your membership for 2012, and there's never been a better time to join, so please bring along your subs £31.50 on Wednesday, and you're in! 

Look What We Made

I know Christmas seems a long time ago now but I just wanted to show you the gorgeous wreaths our members made during our Annual Wreath Making Event in December. Sharing out our various bundles of greenery and making one enormous mess in the hall rather than at home is the only way to go!

The following week saw our Christmas Party- and we had an evening of laughs watching Chris Addison in standup in Salisbury and dinner at Wagamama's. Thanks for a fabulous night girls! xx