January 11, 2003
We had a good turnout for the January meeting at AB Tech.
About a dozen of us welcomed new member Lynda Meckel and
Maggie's friend Piper Long. We were happy to welcome back
Kathy Wu after her summer job ended.
We discussed Werner Bonitz's suggestion that we use a
professional photographer for getting pictures of our work
that will show it to best advantage. We need to think about
this: how many of us need or want professional pictures,
how the cost will be coped with, etc. I will ask Werner if
he can give us a couple of names of photographers we might
contact.
We also discussed putting notices of meetings in as many
publications as we can in an effort to recruit new members.
Copy will be sent to Gail and to Karen for this purpose.
Gail will cover Asheville, Kay --Hendersonville,
Edie-Brevard & Waynesville, Karen--Lake Lure. Lynda
suggested sending flyers to area rubber stamp shops. Irene
offered to put together a flyer for us and Edie will make
up copy for that. Maggie suggested we check with Treasurer
Kay first to see if we can afford to have flyers printed.
Our scheduled panel discussion for February is shaping up
to be a very interesting event. We have so many members
with expertise about this,including Pat Pettyjohn (retail
shows),Irene (wholesale), Jan (beads), Kathy Wu
(alternative shows), Marilyn (consignment), Lynda (home
parties), Byrd (teaching). And others not at the meeting
whose expertise would be welcomed, like Pat Smith. Suzanne
offered to be moderator for the discussion.
Maggie brought in a working draft of the tips she has put
together so far for our tip pamphlet project. A few more
ideas were added, but we could use lots more. If each
person brought in one or two new tips for the next few
meetings we would be close to having enough for a small
pamphlet.Ideas could include tips, techniques, tools-hey,
there's a title possibility!!
We then had our refrigerator magnetswap-these were this
month's challenge -and there were some great solutions to
the challenge, as always. Show and tell followed with lots
of interesting things to see and talk about.
The January swap/sale followed. This is always anticipated
and is a great way to either sell or swap work or unneeded
supplies.
Irene set up a spot to photograph work for the newly-
refurbished website. She is doing a splendid job and the
website looks really professional. The members gallery
will be a fine addition to the site.
Maggie's demo followed. She showed how those
biodegradable, meltaway foam pellets can be used to make
intricate beads. And then, before our eyes,turned a few
tiny shaped pieces of flesh-colored clay into faces loaded
with character!! Great job, Maggie!
February's challenge was decided on-it is to make something
with a heart motif (not surprising for February).
Stay warm, everyone.
submitted by Edie Siegel, January 19, 2003
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