Weekend Workshops and Wrapping Parties at Corroboree Park Hall in Ainslie
We are excited to announce that our partnership with Northside Community Service is continuing to grow and that moving forward, we’ll be hosting our weekend
Inspire Festival at Ginninderry!
We’re so grateful to Vickii and the team @Visabel for giving us the chance to showcase our charity yesterday at the Inspire Festival at Ginninderry!
Introducing our Local Hero Finalist!
Introducing our Local Hero Finalist! We are sharing the exciting news that Mary is a Westfield Belconnen Local Hero finalist for 2024! The winner receives
Happy National Student Volunteer Week!
Happy National Student Volunteer Week! This week, we’re shining a spotlight on our incredible student volunteers who bring so much heart and dedication to our
Another Amazing Delivery Alert!
Another Amazing Delivery Alert! This week, we dropped off another 15 bags of our lovingly handcrafted goodies to The Canberra Hospital! While we were there
Heart-warming News!
We had the joy of delivering almost 50 of your beautiful hearts to the North Canberra Hospital! Huge thanks to our lovely Vicki, who not
GOG Delivery to the Canberra Hospital Foundation
Big News, Team! Recently we delivered a whopping 19 bags of toys and blankets to the Canberra Hospital Foundation The lovely Tarini was overwhelmed and
Creative Markets Expo
Huge thanks to Richard and the awesome team at the Old Bus Depot Markets for setting us up once again with a stall at the
Fabric Donation
Huge thanks to Sam and Jim recently who dropped off a car full of fabric for Mission Stitchin’ to work their magic with! This wonderful
Canberra Foundations Collaborative morning tea
We are so excited to share that last week we were invited to attend the Canberra Foundations Collaborative morning tea, where the Collaborative Grants Round
A Big Thank You to Woolworths Gungahlin!
A Big Thank You to Woolworths Gungahlin! We are so grateful to J and the lovely Woolworths Gungahlin team for supplying us with bags to
World Wide Knit in Public Day 2024
World Wide Knit in Public Day 2024: A Huge Success! We are thrilled to share that our World Wide Knit in Public Day events at
A huge THANK YOU
A huge THANK YOU to all our amazing members for their incredible support in creating snuggle and sensory toys for patients in Canberra Health Services,
Thank You to the Dept of Rock!
A massive thank you to the Dept of Rock – Celebrating Public Sector Rock & Roll for inviting us to be the designated charity for
Congratulations to Ivy!
This month, Ivy was honoured at the 2024 ACT Nurses and Midwives Excellence Awards for her ‘Excellence in Educational Practice.’ We’ve been privileged to be
WOOL EXPO
Thank you to @oldbusdepotmarkets for having us at the Wool Expo! Especially Richard, for all your support. We had lots of great interest and plenty
THANK YOU!
An enormous thank you to everyone who supported Team GOG in today’s Mother’s Day Classic, to raise awareness and funds to fight breast and ovarian
Community Fun Day!
COMMUNITY FUN DAY Thank you to everyone who joined us today at the @ginninderry Family and Community Fun Day! It was a great turn out
A Wonderful Portrait by Beitbox Designs
A wonderful portrait of our GOG founder (and a colourful array of GOG Goodies!) by Beitbox Designs Thank you so much for sharing this, Megan,
POP-UP MARKET
GOG had a great morning on Saturday, at the first @abycoffeehouse pop-up market in Strathnairn! It was great to chat to attendees and share more
Exciting News from Our Ginninderry Workshops!
We couldn’t be more thrilled to share the amazing growth and vibrancy of our Ginninderry Workshops with you all! 🌈💫 Our workshops are blossoming into
Heartfelt Moments at our Taylor Crafternoon
Taylor Crafternoon was filled with so much joy, laughter, dancing and heartfelt moments! Alongside our usual yarn-filled activities and creative sharing, we had the pleasure of
Evatt Community Connection Meetup Mornings!
Our newest Community workshop at Evatt Primary is a lovely group where creativity knows no bounds and learning new skills becomes an adventure. Our beautiful
International Women’s Day – CBR GRRRLS To The Front!
GOG WRAP-UP Such a good night @thebasocanberra for CBR GRRRLS TO THE FRONT! Thanks to everyone who came by to hear about GOG’s work or buy
An Egg-cellent early Easter at Dickson!
What an EGG-cellent time we had at our last Craft and Conversation before Easter break last Thursday! Our Dickson members hopped into the holiday spirit
Easter Deliveries 🐣
Hopping with joy! Our second batch of Easter deliveries has just arrived at the Walk-in Centres, ready to sprinkle some Easter magic to children in
Special Delivery!
This month, thanks to the generosity of all our amazing members, we were able to make a special delivery of 15 garbage bag size bags
Heartfelt Gratitude to our Amazing Volunteers!
Heartfelt Gratitude to our Amazing Volunteers! We had the incredible opportunity to donate 90 child and teen beanies to Roundabout Canberra, all thanks to YOUR
GOG Delivery
GOG DELIVERY!! Our wonderful ‘delivery angels’ had the honor of delivering the amazing array of goodies that poured in after the holiday season! It was lovely
Amazing Nurses and Midwifes
Kathleen is an absolute superstar, both in her contributions to GOG right from the beginning and in the incredible work she does as a nurse
GOG at the Canberra Show
SHARING THE GOG LOVE What a fantastic weekend at the Canberra Show! It was wonderful to see so many new faces come by the stall and
GOG at the Multicultural Festival
MULTICULTURAL FUN It was fantastic to be part of the Canberra Multicultural Festival last month! We hope you all enjoyed it and were able to
First Working Bee for 2024!
Amazing Start to the Year at our First ANU Working Bee! What a fantastic kickoff to the year at our first Working Bee! The energy
Volunteering Awards Ceremony 2023
Big Cheers to all the incredible winners and nominees from the 2023 Volunteering Awards ceremony! We’re bursting with pride to announce that our very own
Inaugural Canberra Community Chest Race Day
Congratulations to ‘Rise Above’ – Capital Region Cancer Relief the ‘people’s choice’ entry in the inaugural Canberra Community Chest Race Day last November. ‘Win the
Ginninderry Community
Thanks to Ginninderry Communty for supporting our Friday afternoon community workshop and other events, like our Pink Ribbon picnic. Read about it in the story
NEW COMMUNITY GROUP 2023
Our Monday Craft Connection at Evatt Primary School is finally here, and we couldn’t be more excited! Back in October we kicked off our newest
🌟✨Celebrating Our Wonderful Community!✨🌟
We wanted to take a moment to share some heartwarming highlights from our most recent Working Bees. Our gatherings have been filled with laughter, creativity,
GOG Donations
😍GOG DONATIONS😍 A big list of thank yous from us today: 🌟THANK YOU to the lovely Kerry for coordinating another big GOG donation drop-off
🌟🏥 Bringing Smiles with our GOG delivery! 🏥🌟
🌟🏥 Bringing Smiles with our GOG delivery! 🏥🌟Last week we were greeted by Taiya at the CHF Office for what has now become our fortnightly
Embracing Generosity: A community that Cares!
We couldn’t be more excited to shine the spotlight on an absolutely amazing group of individuals who define what it means to be selfless and
THURSDAY CRAFTNOONS WITH GOG MEMBERS.
Thursday ‘Crafternoons’ @Taylor have found their perfect rhythm with this vibrant group of women – there’s an undeniable energy that fills the air! But it’s
Knit in Public Day 2023
GOG EVENT ALERTIt’s almost that time of year again, GOG’s KIP – World Wide Knit In Public Day!! Get your hooks and needles ready on
Moray & Agnew Volunteer Wrap Session
What a great afternoon we had at the wrapping party at Moray & Agnew! Mary, Zoe, Kerry, Susan and Alex had the opportunity to join
COTA Seniors Autumn Expo
GOG spent the day, alongside Northside Community Service, at the COTA ACT Seniors Expo in Autumn!!Mary, Kerry and Nuria have been busy sharing information about
International Women’s Day
Happy International Women’s Day! Today we‘re celebrating our female-identifying GOG members and each and every one of you, from the nurses and doctors to our
ANU O’Week Workshop
What a fun afternoon we had at ANU for our O’Week Worshop! We were joined by some students who were really keen begin their crochet
First Working Bee of 2023!
The New Year went off with a bang at the SC Club for our first ‘Bee’ for the year!! We were all excited to see
GOG Reflections for 2022!
As another huge year for GOG flies by, and I start to look back and reflect on what has been, sitting down to write this
GOG Elves working hard for Christmas Tag and Bag!
Thank you to the beautiful GOG Elves who checked, tagged, wrapped, and stacked mountains of Goodies ready for delivery next week! We’ve been overwhelmed with
Gog nominated for Volunteer Teams Award 2022!
Hi all! The amazing work that you do to support our local community, has once again been recognised and GOG has been nominated for a
Last Mission Stitchin’ of 2022!
Last Friday was the last Mission Stitchin’ workshop for the year! These amazing ‘Angels’ produce beautiful hospital gowns, stunning quilts and other gifts for GOG
Tagging and Baggin at GOG HQ
Huge thanks to these lovely GOG elves who stopped in to HQ to help bag and tag Goodies all afternoon. Many hands definitely made light
GOG Drop at the Canberra Hopital
Zoe was lucky last month to drop of a whole H E A P of incredible Goodies to Olivia at the Canberra Hospital Foundation on your
GOG Pink Fundraiser Highlights 2022!
Pink Fundraiser Highlights of the day! Baby GOG draws the first raffle ticket of the day….and draws out her own! Alex guesses the number of
Community Threads with ANU Thrive
Today we held our penultimate ANU Thrive workshop and were joined by some new faces ready to start their journey and our lovely regulars! Our
GOG at the Seniors Expo
So many lovely people interested in what we do at the Seniors Expo at Epic today! Thanks to northsidecommunityservice for inviting us again and to
Another Successful GOG Drop!
Well done to all GOG mambers for preparing another bountiful GOG drop! We cant wait to see all of the goods distrabuted to those who
GOG drop to Canberra Hospital!
Today we made another ‘GOG drop’ to TCH and were met by Steve from Canberra Hospital Foundation, who not only took our bags of GoG
Christmas In July Fundraiser with GOG!
It was such a joy to get together for a Christmas in July lunch at the Dickson Tradies. Everyone got into the Christmas (in July)
Working Bee and Community Threads 14 August 22
Thanks to everyone who joined us for the working bee and community threads workshop at the ANU yesterday! We hope you have enjoyed the three hours
Update on our Community Threads Workshop!
Update on the first GOG communitythreads workshop of semester 2!Last Friday, a group of ANU students and GOG mentors met at the newly launched ANU
Special Guest at Craft and Conversation!
Last week at Dickson ‘Craft and Conversation’ we had a special guest come along and ‘bring his friend’! Jim, who makes countless beanies, scarves and
Craft and Conversation!
Thanks to everyone who came up to Dickson for some craft, or conversation, or even both! we love seeing you lovely people getting your GOG
Another successful GOG drop!
Thanks to every GOG member who worked hard and put so much love, energy and creativity into these bags full of ‘Cosy Comfort Goods’! Today we
GOG Workingbee – 21 June 2022
Take a look at how GOG members were busy working on the BOM (Blanket of the Month) and other projects during the workingbee last Saturday!
A successful GOG Knit-in-public day!
If success is measured in smiles, laughter, and stitches, then today’s Knit-In-Public was a HUGE success! GOG members were joined by members of the public
Her Canberra weighs in on GOG’s Knit-in-public Day!
Ready, set, KNIT with Good Omen Goodeze this World Wide Knit In Public Day Grab your knitting needles and get ready for a yarn: World
GOG at the Senior’s Expo
GOG all set up at the Senior’s Expo! Thanks to #northsidecommunityservice for the opportunity to join them today! Thanks Gautam, Kate and Lisa for their
GOG at the Canberra Hospital Foundation’s Volunteer Week Morning Tea!
Last Thursday GOG was honoured to be invited to the Canberra Hospital Foundation’s Volunteer’s Week morning tea to celebrate the wonderful volunteers and all their
World Wide Knit in Public Day is here again!
GOG EVENT ALERT It’s that time of year again, GOG’s KIP- World Wide Knit In Public Day!! Get your yarns and hooks ready on 11 June,
GOG Get together on the North side!
We feel so lucky to have been able to spend the afternoon with these awesome people again today! So creative and giving and all doing
Craft and Conversation Grows!
New Craft and Conversation Group!As of this Thursday, GOG and Northside Community Service will be starting up a ‘Craft and Conversation’ Group in Dickson every
GOG at the Pearce Crafter’s Market!
Thank you so much to Vicki Woods, Kerry Boden and Colette Brown for their super generous support at the Pearce Crafters Market – ACT yesterday!
GOG presents at Calvary Hospital
Thank you Song and Calvary ICU for the invitation for us to present an inservice on GOG and how the Comfort Care Goods can be
April’s First Craft & Conversation
Craft and Conversation at Taylor was so much fun yesterday afternoon! The group is slowly returning to it’s “pre-covid” numbers, and as always, the more
Working Bee and Community Threads at it again!
We had a fantastic turnout for our combined working bee and community threads workshop on Saturday afternoon! It was great to catch up with so
Update on GOG’s community threads
Update on GOG’s Community Threads workshop co-hosted with ANU Thrive!This week we were delighted to welcome some new faces, to see their interests in our
First ANU Community Threads Program 2022!
Welcome back to our first ANU CTP Workshop for 2022!On Friday – the last day of the orientation week at the ANU- we welcomed nearly
A Productive Craft and Conversation!
Craft and Conversation at Pixie and Bear Cafe yesterday! Productive and fun afternoon! Lovely to be able to meet and share in person again! Come
GOG features in Canberra Weekly!
Good Omen Goodeze wants to give a massive thank you to Anja de Rozario for her amazing article! We also want to thank Kerrie Brewer
GOG Vax Challenge Wrapping Party!
Hello GOGs, I hope everyone is having a wonderful Friday, ready for the weekend.Yesterday we had a small wrapping (party) ‘working bee’ of the small
Happy New Year to you all, our amazing GOG supporters!
Happy New Year to you all, our amazing GOG supporters! Wishing you a kinder, gentler ‘twenty two’ filled with friends, family, love, laughter and precious
GOG Christmas Delivery to Canberra Hospital
And that’s a wrap! On the 22nd of December we dropped off the last of our hand crafted knitted, crocheted and stitched goods to Canberra
Good Omen Goodeze November Donations!
Thank you for your November donations! We love getting your donations to those who need them most!Thank you so much for the time and effort
GOG Covid Vax Toy Challenge!
GOG is taking on the challenge! The Covid Vax Toy Challenge! We’ve offered to support some of our 5-11yr old Canberrans who will be getting
Community Threads Update – 11/12/21
Thanks to ANU Thrive for once again including us in their Summer Activities Program! We welcomed over 20 students today who were all there to
Feels like Christmas! – GOG Volunteer Tagging and Bagging
What a busy Thursday we had! A group of Good Omen Goodeze volunteers gathered together to prepare our goodies for their trip to the hospital
Good Omen Goodeze at the Volunteering Awards!
Congratulations to every GOG Volunteer who has contributed in any way, to make our ‘new kid on block’ charity, the beautiful ‘family’ that supports Canberra
Good Omen Goodeze 2021 Christmas Party!
Thanks to everyone who came along to our Christmas Party on this ‘International Volunteers Day’!! It was so fitting for us to have our party
Our stunning ‘Pinktober’ block of the month blanket!
Another beautiful Block of the Month Blanket from squares made up by the GOG community and stitched together by our very own Mary Ann! The
Good Omen Goodeze Christmas Party! – Get tickets HERE!
Well, It’s finally that time of the year! Plans for our Christmas Party are under way and once again we’ll be heading to the Tradies
Inaugural GOG AGM
Inaugural GOG AGM Last Saturday we held our very first official AGM at the Tradies, and it was lovely to have so many of our
GOG Pink Picnic Fundraiser!
Well, with our Pink Picnic Fundraiser finally done and dusted, we have raised a whopping $756 towards breast cancer research! We played games, laughed a
Another gorgeous GOG block of the month blanket!
This block of the month blanket was made up of squares from our World Wide Knit in Public Day, and our community threads program. It
Three more beautiful block of the month blankets!
Can you spot yours? Our amazing Mary Ann has been hard at work joining these gorgeous BOM rugs, including some of the fun themes like
Goodies Delivery! – 6 August 2021
Goodies Delivery Friday!!Drop-off time is happy time!!! Thank you to our wonderful GOG community for your gorgeous goodies and thank you to all the GOG
Our founder Mary was interviewed by HerCanberra!
Our founder Mary was interviewed by HerCanberra and this is the beautiful article they did about us. Thank you Her Canberra and thank you to
Craft and Conversation Group Update – 22 July 2021
Our Craft and Conversation group grows each week, and the progress our Community Threads Project ‘beginners’ are making is just stunning! Thanks to Northside Community
A busy working bee – 18 July 2021
Yesterday we had a great turn out for our first working bee in a month and it was a lot of fun! We had some
Amigurumi Workshop!
Amigurumi Workshop! We had another fantastic Working Bee this weekend, and what a great turnout there was for Susan’s first ‘Amigurumi’ Workshop! Those lucky to
Tagging and bagging our latest donations at the GOG headquarters!
On this very special ‘World Chocolate day’, we’d like to give a huge shout out to the lovely Goodeze community who offered to help sort,
We’ve completed our first Community Threads project!
We are so excited to announce that we have completed our first Community Threads Project! These squares were completed by our Community threads program students
A highly productive Craft & Conversation!
The penultimate Craft & Conversation for term two was a quiet but productive affair! Surekah and Naoko both brought in some beautiful beanies to donate
FUN and FOTOGRAPHY!
Every working bee has it’s own special vibe and this Saturday’s vibe was ‘fun and fotography’! We had our usual small groups where our beautiful
Working Bee – 18 Apr 2021
Sunday’s working bee was a hit. There’s a regular turnout now of the same students and GOG members who haven’t been for a while. We
Community Threads Project Update
It was wonderful to again hold a combined GOG Community Threads Project and Working Bee at The Marie Raey Teaching Centre (Room 2.02) at the
GOG Appreciation Post
This morning Kat, Susan and I were grateful to be invited to the Hospital Foundation “Crafters Thank You Morning Tea” at the Hellenic Club on
Working Bee – 14th March
On a bleak day, it was wonderful to have a fabulous roll up for our first combined GOG Community Threads Project and Working Bee at
Craft and Convo Thursday’s
Hey all! Thursday afternoons are always busy at Margaret Hendry Primary school where we host Craft and Conversation but yesterday took it to a whole
Working Bee – 21st Feb 21
Sunday, 21 February, saw another happy gathering of members of the GOG Tribe at the Jamison Southern Cross Club to create, to chat, to share
Community Threads Project Update
Friday afternoon a small group of GOG Mentors met at the Street Theatre Café to promote our wellbeing project to students of ANU. It was
Craft & Convo
There are so many joys associated with being part of GOG. Obviously making and donating something I know will be precious to someone who needs
Working Bee – 6th Feb 2021
The rain cleared to find a happy group of GOG members around the tables at the Dickson Tradies yesterday. It was especially lovely to welcome
Working Bee – 24th Jan 2021
It was a small, but a happy group, who braved the heat to make their way to the Southern Cross Club at Jamison – to
Christmas @ Canberra Hospital
The words ‘Thank you’ just never seem to be enough, but they are all I have. So, “Thank You” to all the creative, caring and
Working Bee – 9 Jan 2021
Yesterday, a happy tribe of GOG members gathered at the Dickson Tradies to laugh, to chat, to share ideas, to craft, and of course, donate
Farewell 2020
As a year like no other draws to a close, I wanted to thank each and every one of you for your interest in and
Christmas in ICU
Christmas came a little early for patients at Canberra Hospital last week. On Sunday, they received handmade gifts crafted by 300 members of the Good
Christmas Goodies
We had the privilege of being asked to deliver the Christmas Goodies to the ICU again this year. We brightened the mood of everyone in
ICU and GOG Care Package arrives safely! Gogsters and Poppies supporting our VIC nursing heroes!
I received this letter today from Royal Melbourne, ICU team and wanted to share it with you all. 🥰 Thanks to everyone who contributed to this bundle
Sustainability = Creativity!
I love a visit from Kathryn! 😍 Not just because she’s makes the cutest Little Gogsters, but she demonstrates so well how sustainable GOG is as an
‘GOG’s Community Threads’ Covid-19 Mental Health and Wellbeing Innovations Grant!
I’m very excited and proud to announce that GOG is one of only 20 groups and individuals selected by ACT Health to receive a ‘Covid-19
‘Community Threads’ Project Grant
Good Evening Goodeze! Tonight, I’m very excited and proud to announce that GOG is one of only 20 groups and individuals selected by ACT Health
GOG Drop August 2020
Today I had the pleasure once again of dropping several bags of ‘Goodeze magic’ 😉 to the lovely Helen Falla, CEO of the Canberra Hospital Foundation on
Christmas in July! 😉
Today we had our first in person working bee in what seems like years. 🤩 It was incredible to meet everyone face to face, to be able
Shout out to ‘Shout’!
Gratitude Post! 🙏💜 Today I’d like to send a huge thank you ‘shout out’ from GOG and Mission Stitchin’, to Carol and Elsa from ‘Shout Inc’
International Nurses Day
In honour of International Year of Nurses and Midwives, and to celebrate Nurses Day, GOG decided to mark this occasion during unprecedented times, with a
Mission Stitchin’ – back with a vengeance!
So excited today to visit Pat and the girls for their first workshop for 2020!!🤩 Could not believe the number of gorgeous rugs, beautiful gowns and
Zoom Working Bee 3 May
Once again, we had another fun as well as informative Zoom WB this afternoon! 🤩 It was great to see the projects that everyone’s been working on
Zoom Stitch In!
Here are just a few of the Goodeze who popped in and joined us at our Zoom Working Bee this afternoon! 🤩 Along with the usual catch
A Bag of Bunnies
A ‘bag of bunnies’ about to hop on into ICU! Thanks to everyone who contributed to these cuties! 💕💕
Thank you from GOG to our ACT Health Staff
ALL of us here at GOG would like to send our love and heartfelt gratitude to the amazing nursing staff in ICU, and all ACT
SFX Woolverines Delivery
Last week I had this special delivery of gorgeous Goodie dolls and rug from the SFX Wolverines! 🤩 They’ve continued to ply their craft, develop their skills
Uberknits
Morning all! 🤩 Today I’m introducing ‘UberKnits’ 😆 on this glorious Canberra Autumn day! Any members who would like supplies delivered to their doorstep or have Goodies they would
A Sweet GOG Story….
Every thing we craft has a story, sometimes it’s a ‘simple’ one: a trip to the store to purchase yarn; a find from the GOG
Littlest Crochet Boss Progress Report
Some inspiration for you today brought to you by our ‘Little Crochet Boss’. He’s such an amazing role model and so many of our ‘littlies’
GOG Coronavirus Update
The situation regarding Covid-19 changes daily and GOG is making every effort to adapt to these changes, for the health and safety of all the
14 March Working Bee Cancelled
Goodeze, in the light of current events we’ve cancelled todays meeting at UCH in order to keep our members and the patients safe. We will
Taylor Craft and Conversation # 4
This week we welcomed our newest member, Anna Maria to our C and C and into GOG! It was great to have her join our
Palliative Care Service Project at TCH
The work of the end-of-life group is amazing! Thank you for everything that you guys do. It is a privilege to be able to make
March 1 Working Bee
So another wonderful GOG Working Bee is done and dusted! It was fabulous to have more new members join us, and, to have some students
Lovely Loud Vicki! 💖
So grateful to ‘Loud Vicki’ 😅 for her generosity in collecting and recycling everyone’s cans and bottles! Thanks to all of the GOG members who have donated
300 Goodeze!
Today we reached a fantastic milestone! Gog now has 300 Facebook members!!! Everyone has a story and gog has helped people share these stories, bring
Craft and Conversation #3
Just love being part of this fun afternoon of ‘C and C’ and connecting with some beautiful people!😊 Any GOG members who’d like to join us
Craft and Conversation #2
C&C #2Another fun afternoon welcoming more new members at MHPS; laughter, chatting, teaching, learning and a specially made cappuccino and 🍪! Thanks Tammi for the coffee,
Seniors Skills Share Afternoon
GOG was invited along to a ‘Seniors Skill Sharing’ event this afternoon held at the Canberra Seniors Centre. We enjoyed an afternoon of chatting and
February 15 GOG Working Bee
As storms rolled in and torrential rain fell at times in Belconnen, a happy, relaxed and highly productive team of GOG members, from old hands
Taylor ‘Craft and Conversation’ 2020
Today we held our first ‘Craft and Conversation’session at Taylor since the new year and it was a great success, despite the strange weather. We
Raiders Club Working Bee, 2 February
On another hot day in Canberra it was wonderful to escape into the air conditioned comfort of the Canberra Raiders Club near Kippax for today’s
Happy New Year Goodeze!
Happy New Year Goodeze! 🥳🥳 It’s been such a fun and productive year! We’ve achieved so much and I’d like to take this opportunity to thank each
Goodbye 2019!
It was wonderful to see another amazing turnout of the GOG Tribe at today’s working bee on a very hot and smokey day. It was
It’s a GOG Xmas Eve in ICU!
The most rewarding Christmas Eve I’ve ever spent, delivering all your amazing Goodies to patients and family members in ICU. 🎁 Something I’ll never forget and hope
Xmas Eve Shenanigans at TCH!
Santa’s ‘little helpers’ spent the morning wrapping gifts, and making preparations for delivery later tonight! Such a joy to bump into Harry and Carol and
TCH and UCH GOG Drop
Today I had the pleasure and privilege to do two GOG drops yesterday. One to TCH and one to UCH on behalf of you all
Xmas BOM Working Bee
The GOG Working Bee was a hive of activity this afternoon, as conversation buzzed, and hooks and needles flew and clacked as members worked on
Last C&C for the Year!
Craft and Conversation Thursday! 😊 “The hour went by in a flash!”, was the consensus this afternoon at our second and unfortunately last C&C session for the
It’s a GOG Christmas Delivery!
Yesterday we were incredibly privileged to deliver over three large suitcases full of beautifully handmade Christmas Goodies, to the Canberra Hospital on behalf of all
Canberra Health Services Volunteer Awards
So proud today of these two today, Mary Barlow and Carol Richards. Two volunteers representing two fantastic projects making a difference to the patient experience
Woolverine Christmas Super Heroes!
The Woolverines have done it again!! 😁 Look at these super cute ‘super heroes’, all ready to bring some joy this Christmas! 💕 A huge thank you to Sue
New hospital care program to comfort the dying and their loved ones.
Ian Bushnell – 5 December 2019 (Riot ACT) Watching a loved one die can be the worst day of anyone’s life, but it need not
Craft and Conversation!
Today GOG in conjunction with Northside Community Service held its first ‘Craft and Conversation’ session at Margret Hendry School. The focus today was crochet and
Christmas BOM!
A few Goodeze are madly working to put together the fabulous festive blankets with your lovely Christmas squares. Here’s the first two, done and dusted
Happy Christmas from GOG!
Thank you to all the Goodeze that were here today and to all our GOGS who couldn’t make it today, for all that you’ve done
That’s a GOG Christmas Wrap!
So excited to make a fantastic start on our Chrissy delivery today at our Santa’s workshop! 🎄Thank you Goodeze for giving up your afternoon and to
GOG Inventory and Cataloging
Doing inventory is quite a job! 🤯 Each item its photographed, then the photo is uploaded to the cloud where it’s link is copied and embedded on
GOG Working Bee – 17 November
Thank you to everyone who came along to our last GOG WB for the month. In addition to the usual exchange of knowledge and ideas,
‘Kind Awards’
What a surprise Tess, Mel and I had today. Our support of GOG was recognized and we were nominated for a ‘Kind Award’.We received these
Meet GOGS Newest Goodies – Fiddle Mupsters!
Introducing our newest ‘Goodies’ – ‘Fiddle Mupsters’! 😁 Thanks to Kathryn, we now have a very special way to use the larger teddies and soft toys that
Halloween Hookey Time!
There was a touch of Halloween and a whole lot of creativity on show at another fabulous Good Omen Goodeze working bee as members stitched,
That’s a wrap!
Here’s a glimpse of what happens on the other side of a GoG Working Bee! 😍 Thank you to Carly, Link, Kerry, Mel, Kath, and of course
Mission Stitchin’ – It’s Raining Cats, Dogs and Frogs!
There are so many things I love about running GOG, but one of my absolute favorites; one that really nurtures and replenishes me is a
‘Mico’ meets Daryl Somers and the Cast of ‘The Producers’!
Last night myself, Barbara and Wendy attended a performance of ‘The Producers’ at the Gungahlin Theater. The performances have been running all week and 10%
GoG Pink Ribbon ‘Feast’!
Thank you to everyone who came along to our Pink Feast ‘Fun-raiser’! 😉 It was such a fantastic day with everyone who attended getting right into the
Hands Across Canberra Annual Luncheon
Extremely grateful today to be given the opportunity to represent GoG at the Hands Across Canberra (HAC) Annual Luncheon, held in the beautiful Gandel Hall
“Friday I’m in Love….” 😉😍
Another Friday and another visit to Mission Stitchin’ to collect some stunning Goodies! Exquisite quilts by Chris and Lynn and ‘therapy pillow’ pillowcases by Pat
The South African Connection!
“How wonderful that GoG has inspired another group of creative and compassionate people to craft such gorgeous comfort toys for children across the ocean! I
Beanie Delivery
With this icy cold weather settling in, these two bags of beautiful beanies just cried out to be taken to where they will be needed
GIVIT Donation of the Week!
Thank you to GIVIT who kindly listed us as their charity ‘Donation of the Week’ in yesterday’s edition of the Canberra Weekly! 💖 Excited to see
GoG Drop
It was lovely to meet up with Amy at the Donation Station in TCH recently to hand over the latest bundle of Goodies. We’re only
Quality Improvement Project on Track
So lovely to receive this heartfelt feedback yesterday from a family member of a patient in ICU via Carly Silberberg at TCH on the official
SFX Woolverines Strike Again! 😍
The latest ‘bag of goodies’ donated by the wonderful ‘Woolverines’ of SFX! 😍 The number of participating students continues to grow and in this weather, I can’t
QI Project on the Move!
Its offical!Last week we started our register and are formally tracking the comfort goods from GOG for our quality improvement project on how the comfort
World Wide Knit in Public Day 2019 Roundup!
What a fabulous day today turned out to be! We had lots of interest in GOG and our projects and it was wonderful to be
Mission Stitchin’ Super Stitchers!
Horsing around with the Super Stitchers at Mission Stitchin’ this afternoon. 😁 It was like Christmas in June! 🎁🎄 Bags of fabric were exchanged for gorgeous gowns, knee rugs
Campbell High Visit
Tess and I had the honour of speaking to the students and teachers at Campbell high school regarding the positive impact their generosity is having
Campbell High Student Donations
Among all the beautifully and lovingly crafted ‘Goodies’ we received on the weekend, I was delighted to receive almost 20 beanies that were made and
What’s in a name….?
When someone finds out about GoG, they often say to me, “I wish I could help out, but I can’t crochet” or “I’m not a
GoG Quality Improvement Project
Today I felt privileged to be invited in to meet with the Quality Improvement Team and Dr Bronwyn Avard, Director of ICU, to talk about
Spotlight Donation
Gratitude Post!! 💜 A huge thank you to Quentin and the team at Spotlight for an overwhelming donation of materials to GoG that arrived yesterday! Gorgeous yarn
Canberra Hospital “Knitting for Mindfulness” In-Service
“A study conducted by Harvard Medical School’s Mind and Body Institute found that knitting induces an enhanced state of calm similar to that of yoga!”
When Harry Met Mary!
I’ve been ‘following’ Harry for such a long time now, so what a joy it was to finally meet him on Friday! Sitting in on
SFX Woolverines!
It’s been such a pleasure this year connecting with and getting to know the Woolverines! They are a big part of GoG now and it’s
Playing Santa at TCH!
Friday afternoon we made our final delivery for the year of GOG donations to Canberra Hospital! 🎁 Thanks to all our members’ donations and creative efforts,
All ready for a GoG Christmas!
20 December – Just some of our Goodeze all wrapped, tagged and ready for delivery! 😊 Thank you to ALL the GOGs who contributed to our
Goodie Dolls Delivery
27 November – Delivery of GOG comfort dolls today to a very appreciative Cathy in the Hospital Foundation Office to be distributed across the hospital
“Canberra Hospital – all AGOG this Christmas!” 😁🎄
Let’s make the Canberra Hospital all ‘AGOG’ with “Goodeze” this Christmas!! 🎁 A hospital visit at any time of the year can be distressing, but to
Foundation Thank You Function!
GOG has come of age! 😁 Tonight Wendy and I attended The Canberra Hospital Foundation “Thank You” event at the GIO Stadium, our first official function! It
Hiroshima Nursing Student Welcome Lunch – UC
Congratulations Mary for your leadership of the Good Omen Goodeze!What an achievement to get this recognition from Prof Strickland for supporting nursing education about comfort care
It’s GoG-tober!
Wendy and I had the pleasure of delivering these treasures to Kim and Catherine at the Canberra Hospital Foundation yesterday afternoon. Thank you to all
Goodeze Gratitude Post
12 October – I need to make some heartfelt thanks to some very generous people for donating materials so that some amazing Goodeze could be
UC Hiroshima University Student Visit
6 October – Recently a group of student nurses and educators from Hiroshima Uni were participating in a study tour at UC. I was chuffed
Thank you Goodies!
17 August – This week’s colourful and lovingly made blankets. So lucky to have these big-hearted and prolific ‘Goodeze’ as part of our group. Thank
GoG Working Bee – 11 August
11 August – GoG Working Bee No7 – another great success!! 😁 Welcomed new members, new skills learnt and best of all, lots of laughs! Thanks for
Woolverines strike again!
7 August – I always love looking through the bags of lovely gifts GoG receives, especially when they come from our young Woolverines! These beanies
Beaneze and Blankeze on their way!
5 August – Tonight a selection of colourful Beaneze and Blankeze on their way to Canberra Hospital! Thanks to the lovely Goodeze who created these:
Cool Critters
Take a look at these cool ‘Critters’ I picked up this afternoon! 😎 ‘Ruby’ ‘Amber’ ‘Jade’ ‘Pearl’ and ‘Sapphira’! These guys could cause a riot at the
Nimmitabel to the Rescue
9 July – Several months ago a beautiful person donated some gorgeous but unusual wool to GoG via the Canberra Hospital. Not knowing what to
Super SFX students
8 July – Just had to share these colourful beauties that the SFX students have put their hearts into creating, before they are shipped off
Footy Fever!
26 June – Evening Goodeze! 😁 After checking with the volunteers at the Donation Station regarding what Goodeze are required, I’ve been asked to put a call
Tags!
18 June – It’s said that ‘necessity is the mother of invention’… well in the absence of finances to be able to afford tags for
Head’s up!
17 June – This weekend’s donations! 👏 I’m so amazed at the generosity of our community!😍 Some beautiful beanies all completed by one donor (anon), and several scarves
Goodee Doll Working Bee
16 June – Welcome to all our new members! 😀 It’s exciting to see our numbers grow and to know that GoG is providing an avenue for
World Wide Knit in Public Day 2018
Saturday 9th June is World Wide Knit in Public Day! WWKIPDAY is unique in that it’s the largest knitter run event in the world. Each
Inaugural GoG Working Bee!
20 May – Last Friday we had our first GoG Working Bee! Ten of us got together and enjoyed a few nibbles while we shared
SFX Gorgeous Goodies
16 May – Another good news story! Last week we visited St Francis Xavier College to meet some of the amazing ‘Woolverines’ who have joined
Mission Stitchin’ Gowns Galore!
8 May – A huge thank you to Pat and the amazing ladies at Mission Stitchin’ for the wonderful job they have done on the
GoG May Gathering
1 May – Last weekend we held our 3rd ever GoG gathering! Over 12 of our wonderful Goodeze came together, shared projects, ideas and lots
GoG Logo!
10 April – Thank you to Mari Tachizawa for the design of this little cutie, GOG! Also a big thank you to Nicola Semmler for