Aranui Handiscope

09/10/2026

Good morning, Family and friends - hope you have been enjoying the great weather in the week - been wonderful 😍. Our holidays are over and we will be back on Tuesday! and to be honest it will be countdown to Christmas 😁 and then we will be into our Christmas crafts - scary how the year has gone. So look out for the wonderful crafts being made by our lovely members and volunteers. Have a great weekend everyone and we look forward to seeing everyone back on Tuesday. With blessings from the team 😀

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27/09/2026

Good evening family n friends on this very cool Sunday evening. Last Tuesday we had a lovely afternoon completing our diamond art designs, so much interest in getting creative n patience in doing them. 🤗 We got to celebrate one birthday, Cathy a lovely member who actually celebrated her bday today. So we wish you a very happy birthday n hope you had a wonderful day 🥳🥳🥳. Other members enjoyed a few games, word searches , sewing or knitting. We hope in the new term to start our Christmas crafts as this will come upon us fast. We wish some of members n volunteers good health, as away recovering n we look forward to catch up in the new term. We are now on a two week breather, so until next time stay well n enjoy the holidays with blessings from the team.

17/09/2026

Good evening family n friends, sorry not put up a post before. Our lovely members have been very much enjoying their craft work with the Diamond Artwork 🤗 it's been so wonderful to see members get in and get creative, thinking they couldn't do it. It's been relaxing and enjoyable. This past week we had our lovely.Pam show us her latest quilt work, absolutely stunning ❤️❤️ photo to show you. We also welcomed her daughter visiting from Aussie 🤗plus to our delight to welcome back lovely Hilary, a long time carer from Skill wise, who had been away- delighted to have you back on board 🤗
Have a wonderful week everyone , keep well from all the team

01/09/2026

Good evening family n friends, hey. I'm good tonight 🤗 what an afternoon we all had. 🤗 Alot more people all back after being away unwell.lovely to see many back.
We got into a lot of diamond art which every one has been so keen to do n get creative with. Others enjoyed their own activities of knitting, word searches, colouring in or sitting to chat
Which is all good. Much earlier in the year everyone got into knitting piggy squares and a coat was created, today this amazing coloured coat was donated to one of the locals who was absolutely thrilled with his new coat. 🤩 He mentioned it was so warm. So it was great to be given to someone who loved it n be wearing lots. Certainly won't miss him walking around 🤗 have a wonderful week everyone , take care and enjoy the sunshine. With blessings from all the team 🤗

30/08/2026

Good evening family n friends, apologies for the lateness of putting up post of our Tuesday afternoon. 😬 This winter has certainly been hard for many of our members n volunteers with many away for health, this flu is certainly hitting hard. We wish them a speedy recovery.🤗 While some are lucky to be away on holiday so we wish them a great time relaxing n having a great time 🤗 so while we were down on numbers we had a great afternoon with playing bingo , happy members with the special treats or something from the gift box. Happy faces🤗 we got to sing to our lovely jas who celebrated her birthday on Thursday 🎉🎂 we hope you had a wonderful day jas. This coming week we will be back with finishing our diamond art n painting for some, these have been two biggest activities we have done that have been so enjoyed. So that's great. So until later in the week take care of yourself n blessings from all the team

18/08/2026

Good evening family n friends . Today we had the continuation of the. Diamond art work. Taking time, but slowly getting there. Everyone had a lovely afternoon enjoying their activities n enjoyed their afternoon tea.😋😋 With the sudden change in the weather, people were happy to get home into the warm again 🙂🤗 just a few photos from today, thanks to Tina. Happy birthday was sang to our latest volunteer Patty. We all wish her a very happy birthday n celebrate well 🎂🎉🎉
So until next week take care, keep well, these bugs certainly hitting hard. With blessings from all the team 🙂

15/08/2026

Good evening family n friends. Sorry I didn't get to post the other day. Health has been hitting many people and our lovely group had a number of our people away. We certainly hope your feeling much better now.🤗
Our lovely team and our members had a great afternoon doing diamond art crafts that be finished off this coming week. Plus we had our little sales table. We had one member Michael show us his award he won by playing bowls for the special Olympics, so that was awesome. We finished off with our singing voices for one of our members Vanessa who celebrated her birthday 🎉🎉 we hope you had a great day. So until next week keep warm, keep well, with blessings from the team

03/08/2026

Good afternoon family n friends. Due to the bad weather forecast for tomorrow it has been decided to CANCEL our group tomorrow. We would rather our lovely members, carers n volunteers remain home n keep warm n safe 🤗
The cafe will be open at St Ambrose in the morning for Toasties should anyone be out and about. Otherwise we shall see you all next week when we shall have our sale tables up n going. Look forward to seeing you all then. With warm blessings from the team