February 2012 Meeting

We had such a terrific turn out as we welcomed 5 new guests! Kathy introduced us to Traditional Versals, gave us a little history, and provided us with handouts and plenty of examples. She demonstrated how to execute these fun letters and we were able to try our hand at it with one of her exemplars. The following two pictures are her renditions of versals in a modern context. Doesn't she do great work? Thank you, Kathy!

Cecelia's

Deb's card

Kay's

Sherry and Carole's

Cheryl's

Evelyn's

Cheryl and Kathy S

Minutes from February

Meeting Minutes 14 Feb 2012

32 present

Welcome & Announcements

**We started our meeting promptly at 6:45. Cecelia announced the upcoming Back to Basics Copperplate class being offered this Saturday the 18^th with Carole as the Back 2 Basics Point of Contact for the year. The next Play Day will be March 17^th at Tammi Jo’s making cards as part of our community outreach to be sent to ill guild members, soldiers, etc. Future notices will be sent in the eDigest.

**Cecelia will be teaching a 3-week class on Roams to get those taking Peter Thornton’s workshop up to speed or for anyone wanting a solid introduction to Romans.

**Cheryl announced the workshop for April 28-30 and handed out practice sheets and information to those who signed up. The optional Monday class is filled with 10 people. The guild underwrites the cost of these workshops and offers them at $75.00 for 2 solid days.

**Cheryl offered to drive and make reservations for a field trip of sorts to Santa Fe, NM the end of March to see the pages of the St. John’s Bible that are on display until early April.

**The five new visitors, most from the Beamis class Lonnie and Cecelia’s teach, were introduced and welcomed.

**February is “dues month” and Kathy S. has made new membership cards for us.

**Evelyn passed around the snack sign up sheet for more volunteers.

Show & Tell

**Another good turn out and time to share what we’ve all been doing since we last met.

Presentation

**Kathy did a superb job of presenting Traditional Versals in a concise fashion. She started with a slide show of historical examples, explained the Roman and Uncial influences, and provided us with a basic history and evolution. She had handouts with plenty of examples and several exemplars for us to study. She demonstrated the strokes on the overhead and asked us to follow along by copying one of the exemplars she had of several letters. We worked right up until it was time to clean up.

Play Day Dresses

Last Saturday six of us had a lot of fun together sewing the simple-to-make pillow case dresses that will be headed for Haiti. With just a bit of ribbon, rick-rack, imagination etc. there were a lot of very cute creations hanging on the clothesline by the time we finished for the day.

January 2012 Meeting

Here are some pictures from January's meeting. Enjoy!

Candy and Sherry demonstrating


Paper-bag Weathergrams


Kathy S's Tyvek Weathergram


Leslie's


Sally's


Evelyn's


Carole's


Deb's


Deb's


Mary's


Cecila's


Kathy S's


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Minutes from January

Meeting Minutes 10 Jan 2012

25 present

Welcome & Announcements:

**After quick introductions, Cecelia reminded everyone to get to the meetings on time. We should set up and visit from 6:30 to 6:45 when we will devote roughly 15 minutes for business and announcements. We’ll have a quick Show-and-Tell and give the remaining of our meeting to our presenter(s).

**Elections were held and the new Board Members are…Cecelia/President, Kathie H./VP, Sherry/Treasurer, Tammi Jo/Secretary, Cheryl/Workshop Chair, Candy/Communications Chair, Leslie/Outreach Chair.

**Candy said our annual application to meet at Mesa Hills Bible Church was approved.

**Sherry noted that her church is collecting holiday/birthday cards for soldiers and encouraged us to participate.

**Kay passed around the catalog for this year’s Ghost Ranch classes.

**Peter Thornton has agreed to come for our Spring Workshop at the Falcon Fire dept on April 28-29. The topic(s) he will present will be decided later.

**Lonnie and Cecelia will be teaching Copperplate during 3 Saturday classes at Bemis starting Jan 28.

**Cecelia will be teaching Foundational for 5 Thursdays at her home in February.

**Our first Playday will be a sewing day at Karen S Sat, Jan 21 from 9-noon making dresses for little girls in Haiti.

**Unofficial theme for this year is “Team-Teaching”. Cecelia explained that we will have a Point Of Contact each month with 2 helpers. Ideally, the POC will bring a sample of what she plans to present the month before. The idea is to divide us into 3 groups that will spend about 15 minutes at a table, rotating to a different table when the time is up.

**Tammi Jo will present 2-3 ideas each month for things to collect/save for future use.

**Sherry and Lisa will co-chair the Playdates.

**Carole R agreed to be the POC for the Back2Basics classes.

**We all agreed that the Show-and-Tell time was very valuable and should continue.

Show & Tell:

Quite a few gals were busy even during/after the holidays and brought what they had worked on or painted since our last meeting. TJ showed us a few things we should consider before throwing away like calendars, tea bag papers and transparent envelopes.

Presentation:

Weather grams! Candy did a fine job explaining what weather grams were, showed us examples using paper bags and Tyvek, and passed out info (with Sherry’s help) including pictures and samples to spur us on to writing modified haikus on Tyvek with waterproof pens they brought to share. She explained that a hole can’t be punched in Tyvek with a standard hole-punch, so she showed us how to fold our weathergram at the top and cut a hole for lacing string to hang in the trees.

The Society for Calligraphy of Southern California December Bulletin

Enjoy looking at another guild's bulletin and Happy New Year everyone!

http://www.societyforcalligraphy.org/PDFs/bulletins/bulletin.pdf

Annual Christmas Party

We enjoyed a wonderful time of warm fellowship last night at our annual Christmas Party hosted this year by Kay! Her house was the perfect spot to gather, eat the food we brought, and poke around her creative space. Thanks, Kay! As usual, the highlight was our card exchange and none of us were disappointed! (Well, that's not true. I was disappointed Gretchen didn't come up with something to top last year's snow-globe card!)