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This months Lones newsletter is all about craft and the envelope ended up being more crafty than I expected. I failed miserably to buy A5 envelopes or bring home the A4 ones I keep stored at work so instead I had to come up with a envelope – a recycled Hello! magazine came to the rescue.
To finish off I added white sticker labels to the front for the address and I even made a little seal for the back – roughly drawn trefoil with ‘Lones Newsletter’ written around it
The time has come for the SS100 badge to be designed. This year it’s on the West Coast but it’s main thing is to mark the 100 years of Girlguiding. So the badge was to reflect this (say goodbye to my puffin plan). I decided to limit the options a lot more this year – one badge design but the busyness and colour will have to be discussed with the badge maker. Partly because I don’t have the official centenary colours as pens and partly because the size is supposed to be the same as the past years to it’s tiny.
Camp blankets and badges are serious things in the world of Guiding and Scouts. Despite my involvement for the past twenty years it’s only in the last two that I’ve made the camp blanket (hand sewn of course).
I was asked about what badge is my favourite – this one is
I’d love it to be deep an meaningful but a lion eating an oreo is really all it is (well the cookie says ‘78 and that is when I appeared on the earth).
I was at a Guiding event in Edinburgh the other week and I have a travelling bear (part of the centenary fun) anyway I made said bear a green beanie hat and a green sling bag. Though more excitingly from a Guiding perspective was that the bear is named Dinah after the current Scottish Chief Guide and at the event I finally met the real Dinah and so did the bear 
I went to the centenary launch today was was modelling my Shrink Plastic charm bracelet
. Simple to do just trace promise badges onto shrink plastic, cut them out, punch holes in them and shrink!
For a Senior Section craft I was making a charm bracelet using Shrink Plastic.
I had some spare so I decided to make myself a pair of jigsaw earrings to wear at Capital Jig in October.
I used 2mm link chain. I picture makes them look much darker than they really are – I used crayola metalic pens to colour in the jigsaw peices.
I just read “The Story of The Girl Guides in Scotland: 1908 -2000″ by Elizabeth Robertson.
It’s easy to read, interesting and informative though a tad erratic in it’s inclusion policy. My favourite facts were:
The girl pictured here is Allison Cargill who was the first girl in Scotland to attempt Girl Scouting. She joined in with a local Scout troop and her and her friends called themselves the Cuckoo Patrol.
Senior Section first appeared in 1916 in Scotland (known as Senior Guides).
Lones in Scotland first appeared in 1919 (though apart from a couple of camp references and a couple of Queen’s Guides little mention is made).
The original cooks badge required you to either skin and cook a rabbit or pluck, truss and cook a chicken.
The first Scottish Commissioner (known at the time as Deputy Chief Commissioner) was Loelia Buchan-Hepburn – she was 19 when she took on the role.
Tragically the highland cow logo is too close to Aberdeen Uni’s Student logo apparently. So the thistle wins.
So my last suggestion didn’t really say Girlguiding (neither did last years that I had nothing to do with but hey…).
So here are the other three options I’ve now given the group.
I made this necklace as a kit to go out in the Lones newsletter. It was so fast to do I thought I’d share.
You’ll need: adhesive transfer sheet, acrylic pendant, jump ring and cord.
Remove the protective plastic covers from the acrylic pendant.
Get the adhesive sheet (Herma Transfer Adhesive Sheet) and remove the backing paper. Press the pendant onto the glue dots.
Carefully re-lift the pendant – it is now evenly covered in glue dots (which are easily visible).
Position the pendant over the paper image you wish to use and press down evenly.
Carefully trim off excess paper (you might find using a craft knife makes this easier and neater).
Pierce a hole carefully through the paper inline with the one in the pendant.
Thread a jump ring through and close (you’ll need pliers for this bit).
Thread a cord through the jump ring and wear.
NB: To improve the life span of your pendant carefully apply clear nail varnish or PVA to the back of your picture.
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