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What have we let ourselves in for!! We’re going to need a bit of help with this one … taken on a large order to raise funds. We’ll be screen printing, cutting & prepping all our donated, recycled fabric for a marathon amount of bagmaking. HUGE, HUGE thanks to the folks at the beautiful Hilltop Grove Estate for kindly hosting us.
Next workshops:
Wed 12 June, 11.30am onwards
Tues 18 June, 10am – 2pm
Our first mini sewing bee was so much fun, we’ve been invited to Cafe Mojo in Mundaring to do it again!! Drop in and say Hi, or jump on a machine and help out.
Here’s our #1 Pop-up Mini Sewing Bee set up outside our longtime supporters, Leaf & Bean Cafe. Thanks to Jody, Ben & Gerard for the kickass coffees 
But we will soon be Joy-less! One of our most prolific Boomerang Bag organisers is leaving us, so we decided to fulfil one of her big dreams: taking the bags to the shoppers. Joy’s been a dynamo for the cause, enlisting a whole tribe of wonderful sewers from Mundaring Sharing and setting up some great connections in the community. We’re very, very grateful and she will be missed! Our mini sewing pop-up sewing bee – with Wendy, Joy, Jenny & Lori was a great success. Really worthwhile conversations & connections … so we’ll be doing another on Tuesday 10 July at Cafe Mojo.
The Plastic Free July website has some fantastic resources to help you make choices about a range of actions & how they stack up environmentally. http://www.plasticfreejuly.org/
This will be our last sewing bee for 2017. We have HEAPS of donated material and would love your help to create heaps of bags to put out there into the community. To say Thank You to all our wonderful volunteers, we’ll turn on the snacks this time. Come for a short time or stay the whole time. We’d love to see you.
Woohoo! Our GO2CUPS launch has made the Hills Gazette. Click on the photo to read Sarah Brookes’ great article.
MiT member Vanessa Charlton at Leaf & Bean cafe. Picture: Bruce Hunt d475829
Free courses coming up very soon for National Recycling Week. Click on each event to see links to registration pages & more info. But get in quick to book. The super popular Earth Carer’s Course being run right here in Mundaring (after work & with free food!).
Our next Sewing Day back in the lovely surroundings of Helena House Hall at Helena College Darlington Campus. First Tuesday of the month. Please check in at the Admin. Building first before coming to the Hall on the Lower Ground Level entrance from the rear is best.
TUES Sept. 5
10AM – 2PM
Helena College Darlington Campus, Helena House Hall
145 Ryecroft Road, Darlington, WA 6070
We need lots of these alternative bags to help our community transition to the plastic-free shopping habit of bringing their own bags. Come and join in some creative fun (with a social purpose). There are plenty of non-sewing jobs, but these things are always needed:
These community-created Boomerang Bags are placed at participating local shops and are available free to Borrow & Bring Back. They encourage a habit of re-use amongst local shoppers and are part of a transitional strategy to encourage the use of natural alternatives AND Ban Single-use Plastic Bags in our Shire (and the world)!
This is a joint campaign by the Wasteless Pantry and Mundaring in Transition.
Hope we see you soon, so sign up for Workshop Reminders.
BREAKING NEWS!!
We’re taking the WA Local Govt. advice to heart and have just started circulating a PETITION TO BAN SINGLE USE PLASTIC SHOPPING BAGS in The Shire of Mundaring. The issue will be brought to a Council meeting in mid-August so please sign to show our Councillors that there is widespread support for this within the Shire. Find them currently at Kinfolk Cafe & Leaf & Bean Cafe opp. Woollies. If you want a petition for your business or can help collecting signatures in your area, just message us here at transition@mt.org.au
