People’s Choice wine to star at the Emporium Hotel’s Cocktail Bar

Emporium Hotel is a chick luxury hotel in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane. It is in the same precinct where the Channel 7 reality series, Conviction Kitchen was filmed.

On Wednesday 29th June, a special one off event will take place at this hotel where its Wine Sommelier Robert Lavelle will guide guests through a blind tasting of twelve carefully selected Premium drops, resulting in a people’s choice taking pride of place on the Cocktail Bar’s wine list.

How it will work: four stations will be arranged around the grand onyx bar, each featuring a different varietal – Pinot Gris, Semillon Sauvignon Blanc, Shiraz and Cabernet Sauvignon. Each guest will vote for their favourite wine from each station. The wine with the most votes will then be added onto the new Emporium Hotel Cocktail Bar menu.

Delicious tapas will keep the hunger at bay as the “honourary sommeliers” work their way through the selection.

Emporium Hotel’s Wine Tasting Event

Date: Wednesday 29^th June, 2011

Time: 5.30pm – 7.30pm

Where: Emporium Hotel Cocktail Bar

Price: $45 per person – Very limited places available

Includes: Wine tasting, tapas and lucky door prize

RSVP: Lilian Hare at [email protected] or (07) 3253 6999

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As the year comes to a close, you might be thinking about things you want to do, or do differently, in your life in the next year, and your crafting life should definitely be part of whatever resolutions or goals you set.

I feel like one of the most common goals for crafters of all varieties, not just cross stitchers, is to be more organized. Earlier this year I shared a post about organizing cross stitch supplies, and in the vault you’ll find ideas for storing embroidery floss in particular, as well as this post about how one cross stitcher uses a Caboodles box to keep her projects contained.

You might also want to finish projects that you’ve started but abandoned in the past, or to let go of some things that you know you’ll never finish (if you need help decluttering your craft supplies, I’ve got an ebook to help!).

Making more time for your crafts is another good goal, and may be especially important if you’re trying to avoid the news or social media. Start small, with scheduling in an extra 10 or 15 minutes a day, or declare that after supper is craft time, or whatever you need to do to hold that time for yourself. Doing something like a 100 day project is an easy way to commit to working on a craft regularly.

Another resolution you might consider is learning new skills or trying more difficult projects. I’m guilty of staying in the beginner zone when it comes to cross stitch for a really long time, but writing about it here has inspired me to try bigger, more colorful and more difficult projects, which is the challenging kind of fun. If there’s a project you’ve always wanted to do but were afraid to try, make this coming year the time you do it.

And if you are still learning the basics of cross stitch, check out my learn to cross stitch guide over at Our Daily Craft.

Do you have a cross stitch related resolution or something you want to learn this year? I’d love to hear about it!

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