The Kitchen Table Network

Busy times ...

Last week was a busy one with the Morning Tea on Wednesday, 19th Sept and the RWIN Awards on Saturday 22nd (not to mention the start of the school holidays!).

Morning Tea was once again at Full Cream Cafe, Thornlands ~ with thanks to our guest speakers, Jill Stopa and Denise Kolcze.   Over the months that we've held our TKTN Morning Tea at Full Cream, we've received such fine service ~ nothing is too much of a hassle for Felicia and Laurette.  We'll be back for sure ~ but next month we'll be enjoying the stunning views from The Lighthouse Restaurant (maybe the dolphins will once again grace us with their presence).

On Saturday, we attended the RWIN Awards with the beautiful Petra Mackin Bell, who'd nominated us!  TKTN Member Helen Hinwood (along with Sue Watt who has also attended our Morning Tea) was MC and did a fantastic job.  Whilst we weren't awarded 'winners' in our category, we were honoured to be amongst an amazing group of local women who give of their time to contribute in so many ways to our community.

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Model Members for a charitable cause ...

On Tuesday, 31st July some of our Members volunteered to play 'models' for the BE AN INTIMO HERO Fashion Parade Fundraiser (see earlier post of invitation).   Alana Salm decked us out with heads of pretty curls whilst Michelle Molloy did a wonderful job of make-up on most of the models (I had to get back to the kids between 'hair' and 'fashion parade' so was left to my own devices in the make-up department).  A wonderful night was had by all ~ please click on the pics below to enlarge ~ and thank you to Rachael Ryall's husband, Mark, for the photos.  (I'm not cruel enough to include the 'before' pics ... although all of the girls are beautiful with or without the warpaint).

Thank you too to the Members who attended as spectators!

July Morning Tea details ...

Invitations were emailed out today!  Please do take special note of the venue (for the cooler months, we're going to the cosy Full Cream Cafe/Pine Lodge Equestrian Centre, Thornlands) and new submission guidelines.  Please contact if you have any further enquiries.

                                    

We look forward to seeing you on the 26th!

Oh What a Night ...

For those of you who've clicked on ABOUT in the top right corner of this page, you'll know what a profound impact 'The Secret' and Bob Proctor's SGR Program have had on Jackie and I and, specifically, with regards to the creation of The Kitchen Table Network ...

Last night, Jackie and I were amongst a fortunate few (hundred) to attend a free seminar presented by Bob Proctor  and marketing guru, Gerry Robert .  WOW!  Truly inspirational ~ and wonderful to see the friendly face of TKTN Member Gayl Chivers there too.  Ah yes, we do look like Bob's own groupies ... but here we are meeting the man himself and Gerry.

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Ridiculous beginnings ...

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.--Albert Camus

 

... or around a kitchen table, perhaps!

Today, 31st May 2007, The Kitchen Table Network had its own ridiculous beginning.  Ridiculous in a good and funny and wonderfully surprising way.  Because not even in our dreams (and we do dream BIG) could we have known that so many would share our vision for personal change. 

Thank you from the bottom of our humbled hearts.

Please have a wander through our photo album in the left column (Inaugural Morning Tea) ... excuse that most of the photos are of us; more guest pics next time ~ and thank you to our photographer, Lonneke.

And now, it's back to tinkering with these pages so that they're interesting; informative and fun for you.  As those of you who have IT experience will soon realise, I haven't received one formal instruction with regard to computers ... the limited knowledge that I have is self-learned through cursing and tears and determined persistence ... but, at the least, hopefully it will highlight that the computer is somewhat of a paper tiger (I love that expression!) when it comes to preventing you from achieving your goals.

Magical mystical journey...

I can hardly believe that it was only just over three weeks ago that we actually decided to follow the lines of one of our favourite quotes: Take the first step in faith...

We've come so far in so little time and it's all seemed ...well ... pretty easy!!!   Not that it hasn't involved a heck of a lot of effort but there have been few bumps in the road ~ with the notable exception of Cleveland State School's announcement to hold their Under 8's day on June 1st resulting in a change of date for us.  We've jumped that obstacle and hope it didn't cause too much inconvenience.  Otherwise, our family life has carried on pretty much as usual with all the hectic joys of children and we've remained (relatively) sane.

The generosity and kindness of the businesses we've approached for support has been truly astounding!  TRULY.  Of all the phone calls I've made, can you believe I haven't received one 'NO' in response.   Not a single 'nada'.   

And so overwhelmed have we been with your enthusiasm that yesterday, when the Bayside Bulletin called out of the blue and started asking details about our event, I found myself saying:

"We've decided that we don't actually need to pay for advertising" .

He then informed me that this was for an article they were writing ... Huh??? ... A little article, he stressed, but an article nonetheless.   I couldn't hear him well and he couldn't quite grasp the concepts so it will be interesting to see what appears in the paper next week.  We'll share a chuckle regardless ... this is such a fun ride!

There are so many exciting developments that I'm jumping out of my skin to tell you about; ask your opinion on ... but opening my mouth prematurely is something I have a problem with ... so, in the interests of attempting 'professionalism' ... I'll stay mum on matters until they're set in stone.   Our little network is fairly jiving though and we'll happily share with you as things progress.

I guess that ~ I know that ~ the passion we feel for this special project of ours is why the path has seemed so smooth.  When you're happy doing what you're doing and open enough to allow for natural progression, it all seems to grow so organically and rich.   Whether our first Morning Tea has attendance of 5 or 50, we will have gained so much already.

Can't wait to see what the next step brings!

Quote:   

"Take the first step in faith.   You don't have to see the whole staircase,

just take the first step" ...

Martin Luther King Jr.