It has finally arrived – our 30th birthday. We’ve been working towards this for many months so it’s wonderful for it to have finally arrived.
During June our celebration includes demonstrations each weekend of various crafts (see our calendar for details of what’s on). We have had a small group of people who have attended these demonstrations, and have had a go themselves! Don’t these ladies look like they are enjoying trying out candlewicking?
We put up a memory board with some of our history on it, and surrounded it with items showing some crafts from years past – remember decorated straw hats, fabric-covered photo albums, and smocking?
And we decorated Rankin Cottage (with a bit of help from long-suffering partners of crafters, and a mystery yarn-bomber) – it scrubs up pretty well for a building that is over 170 years old, and certainly looked cheerful.
Our Big Day, though, was Sunday 14th June, when we had an afternoon tea after the ceremonial cutting of the birthday cake. Mayor Gary Rush said a few words, and then introduced Rose Bolam, who did us the honour of actually cutting the cake. Rose cut the ribbon to open Rankin Cottage Crafts 30 years ago, and we were very pleased she could be there for our party.
Actually, we had a number of other dignitaries attend – Councillor Monica Morse, who often pops into Rankin Cottage; Betty Ives, a Bathurst Living Legend, and patron of Rankin Cottage Crafts; Jane and Robert Rawlings from the Daffodil Cottage building extension fundraising committee, to whom we made a donation; some past members of Rankin Cottage Crafts; and many of our current members, including Marcia Cubis and Pam Parsons, who were made Life Members on the day.
After
the formalities, since the weather was so nice to us, we had our afternoon tea
party in the back yard of Rankin Cottage. All in all, it was a lovely day.Happy Birthday to us!!!
