Around this time of year Anna of
in my closet organises a Christmas workshop!
Last year we had gathered in her cozy kitchen and made Christmas trees. You can see the blog post
here.
This year there was the idea to make ornaments but not for ourselves but to donate them to charity. It was joyfully approved. There was a proposal to offer them to
ELPIDA (=Hope) The school of people with autism.
Workshops are not an easy thing to organise. But Anna is a master on that! So first we gathered in Anna's kitchen to decide which ornaments we will be making.
After coming up with some ideas we took the time to dress up some Christmas baubles with fabric and somehow recycle them.
We decorated the baubles on a wooden pallette Christmas tree made by talented Vasso, Anna's sister.
Then the next day we gathered up at
Koumbi Coffee and Crafts cafe. I adored their Christmas decoration!
We were about 20 people.
We divided into smaller groups and each group made one type of ornament. My group made Christmas trees. Eleanna of
auts-pins, Christina of
Christie's Trees and more, Evangelia of
Happy Deck and myself made the trees.
The other groups made little gloves,birds, hearts,boots and more.
We enjoyed the meeting and while making crafts we sipped coffee and ate the lovely sweets that Anna's sister Vasso of
Me to dahtylo sto vaso made. I had never before eaten cake pops and loved them. And so did Santa's little assistants like Sophie, my former pupil! Can you believe I taught this little girl English in a Primary School years ago? And now we are crafting together! It is so great!
All elfs and reindeer were concentrating on their job.
The next day Anna and Melina decorated the pallette wooden tree Vasso had made with all the ornaments and gave it to ELPIDA.You can see it here.(Photo taken from Elpida site)
Their bazaar was today and it is still on tomorrow Sunday so local friends why don't you visit them?
You can also read all about the workshop and see more photos in Anna's blogpost
here.(Following photo taken from Anna's blogpost)
