We had a great time chatting and making Hearts for Heroes and Bottles of Hope - please bring any you make this month to the Oct meeting. Anita Lerner has volunteered to send the Hearts on to Linda Weeks and Marcene, Gina, Bev and Tejae will deliver the Bottles of Hope to various locales. Thanks to those who are participating... it is wonderful to use our art to give from the heart.
The new convection oven seemed to be a success! We had a little scorching (I think someone may have used Sculpey 2... which is not as happy with the new higher temps that can be used with Kato and Premo.) Next time we will move the rack down a level or two!
Next month we will have a Watch making (bracelet making if you don't want a watch) demo by me... the watch lady - with make and take kits.... I will bring a large variety of watch faces (silver, gold and copper colors), the Power Cord and a variety of spacer beads in the same metallic colors. A full kit (face/cord/spacer beads) is 10$, or just a face and cord is 5$. You can make your own poly clay beads prior to the next meeting and/ or learn a trick or two from our very own Shane Smith.
The most successful beads for a watch band are not real thick or long - tube beads, round beads and other flat shapes work very well.
DUES DUES DUES if you haven't paid yet - Please do so...contact the treasurer @
annemadedesigns@yahoo.com for info on how to take care of that.
I will be purging my email lists soon, too... so those who are on the non-member list will no longer be getting information about meetings and events... please sign up... 30$ is an amazingly inexpensive way to stay in touch with the growing polymer clay world and such fun to meet and learn from others. just email me to find out how to join - or better yet, come check out our next meeting :-)
SWAP - the swap sign up is now closed.... there will be two groups of 7.. so make 7 (that means you will have one of your own to keep too:-) We will no longer keep a set for the guild... taking photos will be a more efficient way to archive our swaps. We have moved the actual swap date up to the November meeting since we may be moving in Dec...
MEMBERS - Please consider getting more involved in the guild activities and "up-keep" - time commitments are not lengthy, particularly if we share in the tasks that keep the guild an inspiring and fun place to meet and learn from other Clayers/Artists.
NEEDED (We may have clearer ideas after our board meeting - but off the top of my head at this moment....
___ Nominations for Secretary (already nominated is Gina Stephenson)
___a person or two to organize potlucks (typically just one per year at our December meeting)
___ a person or two to organize bi-annual silent auction and other fund raising ideas
___ a person to facilitate workshops and handle registrations etc.
Hope to see you all in November!
Peg Montieth
President
