What's going on up in the North?

The Finnish Brown Owls report about the past two months. February's theme was learning a new skill, tatting. The beginning wasn't too encouraging, but after the idea had matured some time, the secret was revealed:

I hope to show a small finished project some time this year.

In March the Brownie activity was sewing. The Charity of the Month was Unicef, and I made two dolls for adoption. Because I also gave the dolls as birthday presents to blogging friends, I paid the adoption fee to Unicef, securing two real children the necessary 6 vaccinations to save their lives.

 

April's charity project is the Chemo Cap Campaign spreading rapidly all over Finland. I started crocheting and knitting in the last week of March, and yesterday I mailed these 7 caps to the local campaign office:

 

Being a single Brown Owl in this country makes it a bit lonely business, but following the blog posts of you other owls down there on the other side of the world inspires me. If I had a group here, I would definitely include tea and biscuits to the meetings. It would be lovely to chat while working! Should any one of you happen to visit Helsinki some time, we could arrange a meeting as I'm only 50 km away. Just let me know!

Welcome Owls!

Hi Owls!

This is the Brown Owl's Members Blog! Hurrah! It's a multi-author blog for our crafty peeps! In the coming weeks we'll be choosing a few members to be in charge of posting stuff over here.

If you have something to post - you can email your ideas/text to one of the Brown Owl's Prefects (who will be listed in the side-bar) - and they'll happily upload your news or photos or whatever you like for you!

We'll be making sure that our interstate members get a BIG look in over here - as well as our internationals. Because Brown Owls is for crafty people everywhere! And we all want to know about you and what you're doing, right?!

I'll be introducing you to our Brown Owl's Prefects over the next month or two on the Brown Owls Blog

xx Pip