What’s Going On with the HOMEMAKERS

We are lucky to have Winnie once again to demonstrate her latest Chinese New Year flower arrangement. Learn new techniques in flower arrangement - and bring home a nice surprise for your families. Building Happy Homes is the goal for each one of us. Get some tips and ideas on how to do this in our special talk for this Homemakers session.

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Our flower arrangement expert is at it again! This time with a different kind of Advent wreath - complete with tiny figures of the Holy Family. Prepare for Christmas and bring joy to your family! Christmas is also a wonderful time to create family traditions. Learn more about the importance of having family traditions in your family.

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In order to help our families, we first need to know how to take care of ourselves. Join us as we learn how to do facial massage (刮痧) with Christina. Then Cindy, will teach us how make some healthy sesame fig nut balls, plant-based smoothie and no bake nuts! All super exciting, healthy and easy!!

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Bring Spring into your home with a lovely flower topiary made from scratch. Winnie Hau has graciously agreed to teach us how to make this Spring topiary. Register now!

Date: May 5, 2023

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Family traditions abound during Chinese New Year! Decorating our homes helps bring about the warm feeling of excitement at the coming festivities.

We had Winnie Hau come over to teach us this lovely Chinese New Year flower arrangement! We learned a lot of new techniques. Since nature has its way of never repeating itself, each one's arrangement was unique, depending on how the stems of the flowers curved. All were fantastic and everyone had a great time!

HAPPY YEAR OF THE RABBIT!

We were very busy towards the end of November and the beginning of December. We decided to come up with some calendars as a fund-raising project for the future venue for retreats in Hong Kong. We thought it would be nice to have each month with an image of Our Lady and a quotation from St. Josemaria.

Our initial goal was to print 200 calendars. The response of friends exceeded our expectations. It was clearly the hand of God and Our Lady as orders kept on coming in. In the end, we printed 900 calendars! In addition, some good friends gave very generous donations for the project! We are very grateful to one and all for supporting our endeavour. As we look at the calendar during the year, we will keep each one in our thoughts and prayers. Thanks again to everyone!

We were so happy to have Grace back teaching us how to make an Advent Wreath. Everything was done by Zoom but Grace was still hands on even if it was virtual. She could check on the work of each one - and truly each one made a spectacular wreath!

We just realized that we have been making Advent wreaths with the Homemakers for 7 years now!!! And we plan to continue this tradition in the years to come.

The experience also made us realize that even if Grace is no longer in Hong Kong, we can continue to benefit from her expertise as we organize more Zoom classes with her for 2022.

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Maggie and Carrie were kind enough to join us once more. This time to make a SECRET CANDLE. We were so curious what it was all about. We prepared our secret message and learned how to made this candle that would be the perfect gift for someone special. It came with a beautiful and elegant black glass. They even taught us a trick on how to position it so that the message is facing the right way since we would not be able to see it once the wax settles and cools. Truly smart!

We were also lucky to have Mary Choi join us to give an enlightening talk on 'Bringing Transformation and Growth through Coaching'.

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READY FOR CHRISTMAS!!!

JOIN US as we learn how to do some beautiful Calligraphy and create some special watercoloured cards

Its a wonderful way to give your Christmas cards a very personal touch.

"Sending Love & Care - With Watercolor and Calligraphy"

Watercolor, Brush Lettering and Card Making tutorial!

Participants can learn from a fine artist, Nancy Lee, a founding member of Artist Cradle, to create beautiful greeting cards by using simple but unique watercolor background technique and adding meaningful wishes by applying calligraphy brush pen in hand lettering.

Christmas is near, this is an important time to bring joy and love to those you care about. Share your support and good wishes by sending your hand painted greeting cards to your friends and family or to share your art on social media and stay connected.

This tutorial is for both beginners and anyone who has interest. All paints and materials will be provided in class.

Each participant will bring home a Tombow pen, practice sheets and watercolor paper cards.

A talk on “Christmas 2020” will be given by Vicky Sam.

Date: Nov. 14, Sat
Time: 10 am - 12:30 pm
Venue: 10/F Hanchung Mansion, 8-10 Hankow Road, TST
Registration: by WhatsApp - 91000251 (Vicky)

WE'RE BACK!!!

After having to cancel the July activity due to the COVID, we finally had this special activity with Daisy Fung. Painting wooden trays!

We took advantage of the small window presented to us and had it last October 9.

活動: 心靈療癒手繪托盤畫
Activity: Keep Calm and Paint On  (Serving Tray) by Daisy Fung

Talk: The Importance of Art

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We all had a great time and look forward to seeing you for our next activity!!