Tuesday, 18 December 2012

Christmas Fair 5th December

We had a brilliant cold but clear night and sold all our delicious chocolate brownies.
We also sold a lot of handmade lavender bags made by Abigail's mum and Nan which raised even more. We made a total of £147.00 which is a record!
Well done all.

The following day was our last meeting. We decorated hand made Christmas cakes with lovely vintage style ribbon and gingerbread biscuits.
We wrapped them in cellophane and made them look pretty. A perfect gift for someone nice!

We have now finished for Christmas but will meet again on 10th January. 



Sunday, 11 November 2012

11th November 2012

My its been a long time since I updated this and that's because I forgot how to sign in. Ha!Unbelievable what being Brown Owl can do to your brain..

Since The summer we have been busy.
15 girls went to PGL in Hindhead for an action packed weekend of adventure and here's the evidence!


We actually took loads of pictures but it will take some time to load up so that's a project we are working on.
We then decided to have a Jumble sale in the Village Hall and managed to raise £230 which considering the poor turnout, was fantastic.
We had some lovely donated items and the best part was it was all taken away for us afterwards except the books which I sold to the Petersfield Book Shop.

This term we are working towards our Toymaker badge and will attempt sewing!
We are asking for extra help because, we will need it.


On top of Butser Hill on Sept 27th for 'Out and About' badge



Louisa and Ella on the Challenge Course



Doing the Sensory Trail at PGL



Later on this month we will be doing our usual stall at the Christmas fair selling chocolate brownies and other goodies....and I promise, that I will do my best, to update this Blog, to keep you informed and to keep the Brown Owl Law.


Thursday, 5 July 2012

28th June 2012

We were so lucky that we had a dry and sunny evening for our magical trip to Chapel Common in Rake.
The girls did a 'Scavenger Hunt' looking for all sorts of twigs, leaves and prickly things and then took advantage of the dens that mystery people had made amongst the birch trees.
They improved them by adding more sticks and bracken and would probably have been happy to spend the night out there! They seemed happy to be running freely outside after months of being cooped up.
We were happy too letting them choose their own fun.







...looking for items on the list

Friday, 22 June 2012

Flower Festival and Scarecrow Trail- 21st June

We had a lovely meeting playing with and arranging flowers for the St Mary's Church Flower Festival. We had a windowsill to decorate and each six made a gorgeous display in a small jar and Abigail's Nanna put together a wonderful display with help from Sophie and Megan.
With all the leftover flowers, the Brownies made a hand tied posy to take home for mum.




Our Brownie scarecrow which will be getting wet and blown about, is up and standing to attention outside the 
hut.



Monday, 28 May 2012

May Fayre May 26th

What a long, hot day but great weather!
We had a good stall this year selling lovely crafty handmade items from Liz Stemp which sold like hot cakes.
We had some very good guesses at the weight of the fruit and veg basket which was very full and you could only just lift it!
Gina Logan won in the end, a very close call.
Lots of little ones took advantage of our 'make a crown' activity to get out of the sun so all in all, a great day.
It was busy and the girls worked hard, taking it in turns to sell.


This week is our last meeting for a few weeks and we'll be enrolling our Tweenies at our Jubilee tea party.






Monday, 21 May 2012

19th May


Apologies for the lack of posts recently - It's been a busy time and no decent photos to share.


 

Last week we painted some jubilee style bunting- one piece each which we will string together this week and put up.


We also discussed how we were going to build our scarecrows for the scarecrow festival in June- we have lots of work to do as the girls decided to do one for each six!
It finally stopped raining so we got outside for a much needed game- we played Port, Starboard which was a hit and they begged us to keep goingagain and again!


SATURDAY 19th MAY


The Re-scheduled Car Boot Sale took place at West Liss Rec ( very handy, just outside the hut) and we had tons of things to sell thanks to all the donations- we made £97.40! astonishing! Well done to all that helped.





Sunday, 29 April 2012

29th April

What a month! It's the wettest drought I've ever known...


We'd planned all sorts of outside activities after a winter of being cooped up in the hut, but that wasn't going to happen with this weather.
We cobbled together a meeting which in the end was great- we learnt how to do a fire drill, did a quiz for our World Guiding Badge and played a mad 'Commonwealth' game which had them all squealing with excitement.
We also got letters from our Girl Scout Troop in LA which was brilliant.


We kind of knew that The planned Car Boot sale wouldn't go ahead. The Rec is so sodden and on the day, the rain just didn't stop falling so the council were forced to cancel it.
We'll do another one at the Cricket Ground or Rogate soon. We have items in the footballer's changing rooms which we'll have to move.
Ah well.
The vagaries of the English weather.
If I tell you that I had planned a BBQ with the Liss Guides for Thursday's meeting, you'll think I'm mad. But I have! Help!