Scheduled demo was delayed until another
time due to illness.
Questions brought up:
Are we non-profit? No
Do we need to become non-profit? Probably
not until we are making a lot more money.
Auctions-would have to report on taxes
if a single contributor is over a certain amount
Numerous questions on sales taxes - so
far our only sales have been at shows where the individuals have
handled their own sales tax.
Other discussions and information:
We have a free ad in Mountain Xpress that
is now being run periodically rather than every week due to space
limitations.
We discussed who would send out mid-month
reminders. Suzanne is going to do that since she is also sending
out demo information at the same time.
We discussed the need for an officers meeting.
List of membership for this year...we currently
have a list that was circulated for last year, and Kay is putting
together the list of paid members.
In the minutes we aren't putting detailed
instructions (y'all have to come to a meeting for that!), just
the general business information, etc.
Carol Duval's schedule is on HGTV.com,
although there was some question about the accuracy of the listing.
She has great polymer clay demos from time to time.
Tip of the month: Edie: mix silver with
white pearl to create a much nicer silver.
Jan's idea: could we each e-mail a tip
during the middle of the month to the mailing list?
Gail asked about lending oven to a library
doing a polymer clay day with the kids. It would be without our
supervision, so for liability reasons we had to vote no.
Gail asked about how to organize library
purchases and was referred to the PCGuild e-mail list for guild
business/officers.
Suzanne had a great interest survey for
all those who attended. It asked about what we were interested
in as well as what we thought our strengths were.
Three books were mentioned as possible
purchases:
Images on Clay, Stamping Polymer Clay & Wire Designs, Classy
Clay with Rubber Stamps and Wire They will be purchased.
A book catalog was circulated. We have
most of the good books out of it, but people are encouraged to
make their own purchases and we will get a discount if enough
books are ordered. (Gail, correct me if I'm wrong on the details
of that!)
We are holding off on more book/video purchases
until we can come up with a structure for the purchasing.
We then had a great display of our neon
color projects. Lots of great stuff...check the website for more
details. (Here are photos.)
Donna Kato has a new clay out and (I forget
who...I'm sorry!...missed that) someone had some samples. It's
available from Prairie Craft.
Next month: a sales month
Project: the most unusual/bizarre/strange thing you've ever made
out of polymer clay (for example, I made some markers for knitting
needles once!)
Great meeting!
See y'all next month!
submitted by Kathy Wu, March 20, 2002
