Hello, everyone!
Sorry this is a bit later than I intended....but
life got in the way. But here's what happened Saturday:
Our wonderful now ex-president Irene called
the meeting to order and got us underway voting for the new officers
for the next two years. As everyone was running unopposed, it
was more formality than anything else. Our new officers are:
Maggie and Edie: Co-Presidents
Suzanne: Demo Coordinator
Kay: Treasurer
Gail: Librarian
Kathy: Secretary
Other news:
Grovewood Gallery has again invited us
to take part in their open house on July 6th from 10-7pm. We
will need volunteers to help run the booth and organize our part.
We will also need people willing to demonstrate polymer clay.
Each person selling their work will receive
75% of the retail price, with 15% going to Grovewood and 10%
going to the Guild. Grovewood receives either $250 for the fee
or 15%, whichever is lesser.
Kathy volunteered to bring her canopy and
tables.
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We also discussed getting an out of the
area teacher. Suzanne will be asking individuals to seek out
teachers and get information for us...so if anyone knows of a
teacher, please talk to Suzanne to find out what we need to know.
Suzanne will also be doing a questionnaire for all of us to complete
about demos...what we can do as well as what we would like to
see.
Irene suggested that one "demo"
be taking pictures of our work. Several of us have digital cameras
so we could choose a meeting to bring in our work for photos.
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New members:
We have two new members. Wecome to Marci and Karen!
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Show and Tell
Monthly Challenge
- Hats
The most marvelous hat ornaments and hats themselves were brought
in. Photos
were taken so please click the link and check them out. They
included: ornaments tinted with TLS that had been made by transfering
xerox copies of dogs, a headband with glow in the dark antennae,
realistic flowers, cute easter beads, a hat out of all clay with
canes, animal print beads with reeds, and an ancient looking
pin out of old sculpey, valentine hat with heart shaped polymer
pins, and a very elegant, simple geometric design with interference
colors. Other cool show and tell items included some really gorgeous
glass and polymer bead necklaces.
The tip of the day (from Karen): Use fabric
to create a small pounce for cornstarch or powder for applying
it to clay.
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The demos were very interesting, featuring
techniques of using t-shirt transfers, photocopies as transfers,
and ink-jet tattoo transfers. (See pics below.)
Question from the secretary: I can give
more notes that I took during the demos, but since some people
earn money teaching, I hesitate to give out this information
without permission. So for this meeting I won't, but I'd like
to see this discussed either online or at the next meeting. I'll
ask about it at the meeting.
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We had a large group this meeting, about
17 people.
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Next month's challenge: Make something
using bright, neon colors.
See everyone next month!
