During her fascinating talk, Lucy shared the stages of making a wig and we then watched her intricate work, knotting hair to form a wig. She explained how she uses various hair in her wigs including human, synthetic and yak hair and how she has used these with individual clients and in her work at Madame Tussauds
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.. Another brilliant evening last Friday with Ben Frazer showing us how to decorate cakes. We had a great turnout with over 40 members & guests braving the weather, but everyone agreed it was well worth it. Ben gave us lots of hints & tips, including several different ways of making attractive roses & flowers from sugar paste. As it was Valentines nights, we all enjoyed a glass of rose wine together with heart shaped chocolates, cakes, macaroons and biscuits. We will definitely be booking Ben again for next year. Our January meeting saw us all painting gift cards under the brilliant instruction of Chris Kinsey. Even though most of us had never painted before Chris made it really simple. The end results were very impressive and the evening was enjoyed by everyone. We finished the evening with tea & coffee and delicious brownies & banana cake supplied by Sue. Another great evening at Stanwick W.I. At our AGM we were delighted to present the Warwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance - our charity of the year with a a big £316 cheque plus £50 for the Children's Air Ambulance. We give 20% of all the profits made from our fundraising including fashion shows, chocolate evening, and many cake stalls. Thank you to everyone. The money will be put to good use. Sue as President stood down after 3 years in post. Jean Mole is now our President. At our September meeting we found out about the fantastic work of Marie Curie within our community. We also were thrilled to discover that Stanwick WI won best young person's created website in the Northants ACRE community website award. Well done Sasha! Award was presented by John Griff from BBC Radio Northampton Sid Charlton, former company administrator of the Globe in London, entertained us with with tales from his time at The Globe. He told us of how its unique and authentic layout brings a very different more intimate relationship between the actors and the audience. Sid recommends standing to watch a performance, this only costs £5 but he feels really enhances the quality of the performance. Having whet our appetite for Shakespeare, we are now keen to try the Globe for ourselves! This WI evening wins the record for the most number of questions during a session! Wendy and Kevin Potts from Honeypotts demonstrated their expert knowledge of beekeeping throughout the evening and talked about how honey is made and gets from flower to pot. The group were definitely left wanting more and could have easily listened for another hour! We finished the evening with a range of different honey bakes which were readily consumed! A thoroughly enjoyable evening. www.honeypotts.co.uk We discussed changes to the new WI constitution and also had a debate on the "Save our High Streets" resolution. Although many members supported the spirit of this resolution (proposed by the National WI), they had some concerns with the wording of it which calls every WI member to make the high street their destination of choice for shopping. After all the debating, we finished the evening with a game. We had been asked to provide 12 cakes for the visitors, staff and patients and Cransley Hospice and we were delighted to take 21 different cakes to the hospice the next day. Thank you to all members and supporters of Stanwick WI so much for your efforts. Over 100 ladies eagerly anticipated the chocolate evening hosted by internationally renowed chocolatiers Auberge Du Chocolat. We welcomed visitors from surrounding towns and villages and many local WIs. We learnt that eating a small amount of good quality chocolate is indeed good for you - it lowers cholesterol! Six brave ladies volunteered to pipe their idea of "success" in chocolate. We were instructed on the correct way to eat chocolate - eat good quality chocolate (only 1-2 squares at a time), leave it in your mouth to melt (to release the flavour) and do not chomp! www.aubergechocolat.co.uk Louise Tuffin and Claire Wylde from the local Wildlife Trust explained about the new project at Irthlingborough Lakes and how this aims to improve the wildlife in the area and educate the public about wildlife. We completed the evening by attempting (with varying success!) to make willow stars. www.wildlifebcn.org/reserves Susan Copperwheat entertained us all with an A-Z of cures for all sorts of ailments. We found out how courgettes could be useful if chased by an angry bear, how banana skin had been used to get rid of veruccas and wearing a used sock tied around your neck would help you if you were under the weather!! After talking about the benefits of avocado and watermelon, she warned that this might lead to a rush on these fruits in local stores!! This was an amusing evening with much hilarity and finished off by some delicious home made cakes. During the evening we sang an excellent rendition of "Jerusalem" in practice for our fantastic Chocolate Evening on 26 April. For this event all Stanwick WI members are encouraged to bring a plate of food to share. This will be a fantastic evening - we are expecting up to 100 people. Over 60 ladies quickly took their places for a thoroughly enjoyable evening with Ben Frazer, contestant from the Great British Bake Off. Ben's passion for cooking shone through as he showed us how to make macarons, and told his story of how he came to be on the Great British Bake Off. Baking tips were in abundance as we also learnt how to make bread rolls crispy, how to make a ganache, how to fill a piping bag and what bakeware we should use. He also generously donated some beautiful cupcakes which soon disappeared amongst our eager crowd. Have a look at Ben's website at his blog for recipe ideas and courses www.cupcakeartisan.co.uk David Price entertained us with stories of these "Courtesans" who were admired for their beauty and intelligence. Forthcoming Stanwick WI Events all at Stanwick village hall 7.30pm
At our meeting we had an entertaining evening listening to our local talent - Stanwick Handbell Ringers and many of us got up and played various tunes - we improved so much that by the end of the night, the rest of the audience could name the music in the first few notes!! It was great to catch up with some friends from Raunds WI who joined us for this evening.. We finished off the evening with some delicious cream teas and cakes.
At our May meeting we voted on the all important national midwife resolution, our votes will be carried forward to the national WI AGM. Sue Foster, our president, celebrated a milestone birthday. Helen inspired us with moves we could do on our feet that would help us feel amazing. We will be selling tickets at our next meeting for the forthcoming wine tasting events in September
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