A crafternoon

Yesterday was a typical winter afternoon. In fact it was so cold and wet that at 2.30pm it was almost dark and there was a pretty loud and long thunder and lightening storm. Somehow this was the time that we managed to find ourselves out and about. Go figure.

John, Rachel, Lu and I decided it was a good afternoon to tackle some of our tasks for our brownie badge. But we needed supplies. So we went to The Warehouse and Pete's Emporium for masquerade mask bases and crafty 'stuff'.

Along the way we took turns giving the driver directions on how to get to the next location. By doing this we ticked off another task.

(check out the 'brownie badge' page of my blog for the full list of tasks)

At home we set up the table with all the items we could possibly need. - paints, glue, brushes, feathers, sequins, crayons, paper, scissors, pipecleaners, pencils and a plastic mat to protect the table of course.

John worked on his mystery world on the laptop. This is the finished product. How awesome is this!!

Meanwhile, us ladies worked on our masquerade masks. Theses are the finished items. I feel like I could definetly hide at a ball behind one of these beautiful masks.

Rachels mask

Lus mask

My mask

While we waited for paint and glue to dry we designed our dream homes. Now we just need some handsome, millionaire men to sweep us off our feet and build them for us.

Rachels dream house

Lus dream house - two floors!

My dream house

To top off the afternoon we each took coloured pins (Pink for Lu, Green for Me, Yellow for Rachel and Blue for John) and plotted on the world map where our ancestors came from. Not so surprisingly we found that most of our pins congregated in New Zealand and Europe - mainly Scotland, Ireland, England, Sweden, but Lu bucked the trend with a pin in Canada. Please ignore the smaller pins, they are showing where I've recieved postcards from as part of the postcrossing.com website. 

After such a crafty afternoon (or a 'crafternoon' if you will) we now have about half of our brownie badge tasks complete. I still need to read my mystrey book, so will get on to that this week. We're planning on going for a walk somewhere this afternoon that is new to us all, as part of the 'explore somewhere new' task. But trying to find somewhere in Wellington that three Wellingtonians and a Hamilfornian have never been is proofing more than a little difficult. We may have to settle on somewhere the Hamilfornian hasn't been and that the Wellingtonians haven't been for a long time. I'll keep ya posted on where we end up!