Saturday Sept. 17th Social

Craft-A-Thon at Sue's house

AND Celebrating our First Year as Hawaii Alpha Chapter!

Here are Sue's rice-bags, to be used for hot or cold, to soothe aches and pains.

Oh, I do like that yellow rice-bag;-) And Denise is making ribbon leis.

Jennifer is showing Patricia her awesome hand-sewn quilt that she has been working on

for several years! The bottom quilt block is sewn in a special way and then the top square

is added, then folded-in and sewn on...it really is amazing!

Mom and I made cards and bookmarks wiht pictures that Sue had taken!

Our sea turtles "honu"... a SunRise over Diamonhead ... and turtles made in the sand!

Emily is working on a Scrapbook....

and Nancy wants to check it out because it is so interesting!

Patricia's cardmaking...doesn't she have on a very nice Lei?;-)

Teresa's making bracelets for a fundraiser...she made several, and I helped make one;

it was not as easy as she made it seemed when she made them, or I am all thumbs...

Denise and

Emily received Secret Sister gifts;-) "Your welcome sisters";-)

Beginning Day

Patrica Ulloa-Curcio

told Sisters about palmarie

and how it is Alpha Chapter's

Service Project

Please checkout her website

Thank you

www.palmariecommunity.org

Our first meeting of the year- The Tradition of LEI

It's time to start the first meeting. We met on a beautiful day at Denise's house.

One of our sisters finally brought her newest creation for us all to cuddle. The baby was passed many times!

A quick meeting to review the upcoming events for the year and then it was time for snacks on the lanai!

And the baby was passed.

Denise and Jennifer gave a slide presentation about the Hawaiian Tradition of Lei.

Including a demonstration of stinging plumeria for a lei.

We then all got the chance to weave our own ribbon lei, with the instruction and help of Jennifer and Denise. Of course we use the Beta Sigma Phi colors of yellow and black.

 

A quick easy craft project for all abilities! The first one finished (Judy) was awarded a chocolate lei, the second finisher (Sue) was given the plumeria lei strung earlier.

We all ended up with our own beautiful handmade lei, so we were all winners!

And the baby was passed...

To see the presentation that was given this day, CLICK HERE.   Pictures for this presentation were mostly from THIS BOOK.  If you'd like to know how to make this style of lei CLICK HERE (link not working yet-please be patient)

Beginning Day

Alooooooo-HA!

Welcome back for a brand new year of fun and adventures in Sisterhood!

This year started of as always, with a Beginning Day Luncheon held at the Hale Koa Hotel in Waikiki.

 

It was our first chance to get caught up with some of our sisters from the summer break and the first public showing of the Scrapbook.

 

We also got our first look at our new Yearbooks!

It was so good to sit together and share a lovely meal with our sisters from all over the island.

And it was indeed a lovely meal!

There were a few unexpected treasures found along the way. Emily found her mother in one of the books brought in by another sister.

After lunch we shared memories of traditions as well as much laughter.

It was a great day and a great feeling to be back with our sisters again!

Now hold on tight, it's gonna be a fun year!

May, the final meeting and social of the year.

Aloha Sisters and Mahalo for joining us once again.

May once again brought us back to Susie's house where we held our Ritual of Jewels ritual for those present pledges that passed the test.

Afterwards we celebrated and held a partial revealing of Secret Sisters Gifts.

Our Final Social of the year was held at Kapolei Golf Course.

We held a mini ritual for our Sister that couldn't join us earlier.

One more group shot of all our lovely sisters before we part for the summer.

A Big MAHALO to my sisters for such a wonderful first year, and I am looking forward to next year already! Aloha and have a great summer.

April Meeting, Social and Founder's Day (again)

April saw us back at Susie and Gerry's house once again for the meeting and social.

Susie demonstrated Gerry's invention to make bacon in the microwave and allowed us all a sample.

A brief meeting and we continued on with our program, and introduction to the book Susie generously gave each of us a copy.

And of course raffle gifts!

 

Founder's Day was wonderful event where we were able to meet other sisters from other places on our island.

We all enjoyed each other's company and a nice lunch.

April Meeting and Social

Aloha Ladies!
Pictures will be coming soon of April and May, I am having technical difficulties right now and cannot get pictures uploaded... Will keep trying, though!