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2008 Yorkie Yule Fest - 30th November
Megalong Valley, NSW
This will be our 7th Yorkie Yule Fest
We are grateful to Leura Whisk for their donation to
our Yorkie Yule Fest this year.
http://www.leurawhisk.com.au/
Top quality home made jams, pickles and chutneys will be available,
also cottage craft woollen-filled doggy doonas. Your dog will love those.
We also have some gorgeous Jodie Rose yorkie jewellery.....not to be missed!!!!!
Competition at the Yule Fest -
Most Festive yorkie
pictured below from last year is Crikey, dressed in his Christmas best
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Last year's Yorkie Yule Fest project was the calendar for 2008. It was a great success and we will be repeating the initiative for 2009.
Orders are now being taken for the calendars.
With thanks, and hope to see you all at the Yule Fest on 30th November. If you need further details, feel free to contact me.
Also, it would be very helpful if you could advise how many copies of the calendar you would like. They make wonderful Christmas gifts.
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The 2007 Yorkie Yule Fest, held on Nov 25th , is over now until November 2008, and what a great day it was. See the write-up below .......I would like to pay tribute to all those generous people who contribute their time, energy and 'good's of all kinds as without you all, the Yule Fest would not be the success it is. Bringing yorkie lovers together............!
2007 Yorkie Yule Fest story, as presented by Chris Haigh (Chris was also the 'judge' of our fun events).
EI is having a devastating effect on the horse industry in and it's very easy to get depressed and negative about the whole situation.
There was nothing negative or depressing about the Yulefest. It was a seriously FUN day.
I decided only to take Mickey-Chin and Sprock because they were the only two that I'd had time to bath and semi-spruce up. But Sprock decided he didn't want to come, which is very unusual because he loves the car. So it was Mickey-Chin as the sole representative of the Bimbimbie Yorkshire Terrorist Brigade. The windy road down into the
Megalong
Valley was a bit of a worry for him and on the second last bend he finally succumbed to car sickness. I knew I'd been sensible in travelling him on my lap with a very thick towel between him and my jeans.
After almost all the party goers had arrived we got the Dog Show into full swing. Once again, I had the honour of being the 'Sensible Lady Judge' of all the fun events and David was gainfully employed as “Master of Ceremonies’.
First class was 'Most Loved Yorkie'. It was 'no contest'. Every Yorkie was most loved by his or her owner(s), so they were all awarded 1st prize.
Competition was stiff in the remaining classes - waggiest tail, happiest face, darkest eyes, oldest Yorkie, youngest Yorkie, largest Yorkie, smallest Yorkie, kissiest Yorkie, owner look-alike, prettiest bow, neatest hair cut, most festive Yorkie.
I can't remember the names of the winners and 2nd placegetters, but being a versatile judge I also doubled as event photographer so, hopefully, Jan will be able sort through the pics to identify them for you.
My Mickey-Chin definitely won the youngest Yorkie class and was also the hands-down winner in the special class for scruffiest Yorkie. I'd defy even professional-groomer Cathy to turn my little ragamuffin into a show dog.
The neatest haircut went to little Annie, who also took out the prettiest bow class. Max was unquestionably the winner of the largest Yorkie class, but he wouldn't have stood a chance if my Wolfie has been there. Wolfie makes a standard size Australian Silky Terrier look vertically challenged!
Crikey was beautifully presented by Lyn to win the 'most festive' class, with 2nd and 3rd places going to very festively adorned yorkies. (Jan, who was busy doing other things, apologises that she is not able to fill in the name gaps, but you are welcome to help us do this by submitting the names where applicable.)
Drawing of the continuous raffle was also great fun. How many prizes were there? It seemed like hundreds. And so much variety - First prize was a very stylish Yorkie size travel bag. Then two very pretty Christmas wreaths. From then it was 'choose your gift when your number is called’.
I had my eye on a very appealing hedgehog boot scraper (which actually turned out to be a tortoise - but a little bit of species confusion is neither here nor there). Of course, I NEVER win raffles and things weren't looking good as the draw continued. Despite the fact that David was drawing the tickets my numbers just didn't come up. Typical! But the hedgehog/tortoise did come home to Bimbimbie, thanks to who the kind person who had donated it to the raffle, and then chose him when her ticket was called and promptly gifted him to me. He now lives happily by the front door and survived all the Terrorists’ inquisitive noses. The guys have learned very quickly that boot scraping prickles hurt!
Lunch, on a spare and share’ basis was great and as it drew to a close the number of contented Yorkies snoozing on equally contented owners' laps increased steadily.
Group photo time stretched the wide angle capacity of Jan's little camera. It wasn't that all those Yorkies and their owners were big people - it was just that the Yorkie Family is a very BIG family. But everyone got 'up close and personal' and just managed to all squeeze together in frame.
All up a great day and a happy day.
Mickey-Chin spent most of his day sharing a play pen with Jan's little Validate - a few days older than M-C and half his size. A perfect little show dog in total contrast to my little scruff. But they had good games and companionable sleeps in M-C's basket. M-C slept all the way home with his head on his little rawhide bone prize. When he got home he refused to share it with anyone else, but was happy to let them argue over possession of the squeaky hotdog and even squeakier blowfish toys that he'd scored as a Xmas present and show prize. Nobody wanted to wear the Yorkie Yulefest 2005 T-shirt however. 'We don't do dress-ups' was the Brigade's joint position.
I hope EI is long gone by Yulefest time next year, so I also hope that next year's Yulefest won't clash with that big
Canberra horse show.
After the last raffle ticket was drawn and the last prize taken from the table it was time for the big draw of the day - the lucky door prize.
The prize had been brought all the way from
Hawaii by Terri - a super-elegant Yorkie travelling 'handbag'. It really is the ultimate fashion accessory for well-dressed, travelling, female Yorkie owner. The lucky winner was Marika Alexander - well the ticket was actually Kel's, but Marika wasn't handing it over!
Kel and Marika's Maxi was asked to try the bag on for size and was none too impressed with being zipped into position and was definitely of the 'I want out NOW!' viewpoint. Perhaps some quiet at-home training may be in order before a live run is attempted.
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I would like to pay tribute here, and huge thanks, to all who helped in any way at all to make these Yule Fests so successful and memorable, not least of all the people who simply turned up to have fun!!
** Yorkie Yule Fest in Hawaii, USA - 22nd October 2006 - that was a fabulous event.
** Yorkie Yule Fest, Megalong Valley, NSW - 26th November 2006 - this was our fifth YOYO (yorkie-owned, yorkie-obsessed) gathering.
Rain, hail or shine, the 'shows' go on as we have a wonderful all-weather facility.
Bargain Table - with lots of lovely things for the special dog/s in your life.
Programme:
* Introduction and Greeting
* Judging of our fun classes
* Potluck - bring enough for yourselves and a bit to spare and share
* Gift Exchange for your dog
* Raffle - the main raffle prize this year was the wonderful quilt, comprising 'squares' from yorkie lovers all over the world.
Please contact Jan Clarke at yorkies@ix.net.au for further details if required or use the 'contact' link on this website.
Here at Yetholme, there is nothing that gives us more pleasure than bringing congenial yorkie-lovers together.
A brief outline of the programme of events appears above, so if you'd enjoy spending a day with a bunch of yorkies and their people each year, please watch this space or email me for the details. A fun day is guaranteed.
We have a wonderful all-weather facility, so rain hail or shine it will go on. Last year was a wash-out weather-wise but it did not hinder our enjoyment of the day one little bit.
The first Yorkie Yule Fest was held at Wallerawang (NSW) in 2002, and it has grown in number each year since. We have now found a wonderful venue in the beautiful Megalong Valley that we hope to call 'home' for the future. Quiet, peaceful, and off the beaten track, there are excellent facilities so that no matter what the weather, it makes no difference - the show will go on!
It is a purely-for-fun day with yorkie lovers coming from all parts of the world, as well as interstate.
In 2005, additionally, we held a mini Yule Fest in Hobart, Tasmania, coinciding with Hobart Royal Show and other shows held at the same time. This was THE most enjoyable time and we have some great memories of the occasion.
Yorkie Yulefest 2007
I remember the first Yorkie Yulefest. 2002 Wallerawang, NSW. It was a great picnic. A great barbecue. A fun day. As the last of the great 'NO, I'll never be part of this show dog scene', I got to be the 'Sensible Lady Judge' at the first-ever Yule Fest.
David and I loaded up the 'Puppy Playpen' and I loaded up the Terrorists - ALL of them!!.
There was The Archbishop, Misty, and Nicholas The Wonder Pup. There was Hugo, my venerable elder statesman. They all came to the party and party they did. They were FERAL! Jan's Yulefest scrapbook has some wonderful pics of Misty scaling the heights of the playpen to get out and about and have some proper fun. The Bimbimbie Yorkshire Terrorists aren't quiet kids and they aren't 'halter trained'!
This Yulefest was different for me - but it was in many ways better and more precious.
David, the Terrorists and I haven't been able to come to the Yulefest since 2003 because it clashes with a major horse show in
Canberra . We don't show dogs but we do show horses. It's our job. We could come to the Yulefest this year because that
Canberra show was cancelled because of the ongoing effects of the outbreak of equine influenza.
2006 the project for the Yorkie Yule Fest was a beautiful quilt, portraying pics of our yorkies and beautifully put together by Cathy.
2007 our project was a 2008 calendar featuring 192 different yorkie pics.
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