Meeting Minutes 12 Mar 2013
26 Present
Welcome &
Announcements:
We
had several new visitors, which was a boost to our egos! We warmly welcomed them and went around
the room introducing ourselves.
Cecelia gave a brief overview of what a typical meeting looks like and a
few things we do each year. We
plan on having Yves Leterme come for a workshop next year. Next month we’ll be learning Uncial
from Pat Musik. In May, we’ll be
assembling the cupcake tiers in Tammi Jo’s garage. In July we’ll be stuffing the goodie/messenger bags for
conference, and in August we’ll be celebrating the end of conference with our
annual picnic.
Karen
is our Librarian who faithfully brings a suitcase of books with her to each
meeting. If you have extra books
on hand, the guild library would be a nice place to house them. She also passed around the conference
volunteer sign-up sheet.
Leslie
let us know about SpringsPaper, a paper supply store that took the place of
XPedx, on Academy and Maizeland.
She told us of another store she discovered that buys/sells/trades used scrap
booking supplies. Scrap4Less is on
Academy and Austin Bluffs. If you
go to Archivers and are given 5 free sheets of brown cardstock, any of the
darker shades of brown would be good as backings for the One Day Vendor
booklets we’ll be assembling soon.
Show & Tell:
Kim
showed us 3 cupcake tiers she assembled from odds and ends she bought at
Goodwill. Glass or porcelain
plates, bowls, and/or short candlesticks/salt and peppershakers are glued
together with Liquid Nails. Start
collecting yours to make in May for conference. Sherry and Jacqui had cards they made and Cecelia showed us
some of the practice work she’s been doing to fulfill her ” 100 days of
lettering”, a challenge to sit and practice something every single day.
Presentation:
Cecelia
gave a brief introduction to the folded pen by showing examples of past
prototypes starting with the drafting tool, moving to the ruling writer, to Jim
Chin’s butterfly, moth, and firefly pens, to what we have now which can be
ordered from Paper and Ink. Brody
Neuenschwanderm has a 5-part video on YouTube from the International Exhibition
of Calligraphy on making and using the ruling pen. We had handouts of sample ruling pen lettering and Cecelia
demonstrated angles and letterforms for us to practice. It was a great meeting met with lots of
enthusiasm. Thanks, Cecelia!
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| Our guild hard at work |
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| Cecelia demonstrating with a homemade ruling pen |
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| Kim's Cupcake Tiers |
