Meeting Minutes 8 Jan 2019
20 present (2 guests)
Round Robin Valentine’s with Kimmi, Sherry, & Leslie
Welcome & Announcements:
**Candy recently had surgery on her other knee and is rehabbing at home. Kimmi is running the meeting as VP.
**We welcomed Vickie Lee, a friend of Kimmi’s, and we welcomed Lonnie Watts back. She was a member in past years.
**Membership dues are still only $25 for the year, due in February.
**Karen S wants to pass the library on wheels to someone else.
**Barbara Close is coming to Cottonwood on March 2/3 to present Pointed Pen Variations. Cost is $75 for members, $150 for non-members. Registration will begin with a check sent no sooner than Jan 21. Look for a bulletin in an upcoming eDigest.
**TJ will offer a 4-week Basic Italic class in her home beginning Wed Jan 23.
**TJ collects cards tops from any occasion to send to St. Judes’ Children’s Hospital.
**Leslie passed around the guild member birthday card list to sign up for a month. We will have a card making party at Kimmi’s on Friday, Jan 18 to stock our card coffers.
**Tom reminded us to look for copyrights that have been freed up with the turning of the calendar. Khalil Gibran’s copyright for “the Prophet” has been released.
Show & Share:
**Tom had a digital art piece he titled “The Boys Go To Breakfast” featuring the front end of an old model car one of them drives when they meet for breakfast.
**Kathy lettered 2 poems in Italic and also passed around some of her Christmas cards.
Presentation:
**We had 3 tables set up to reproduce 3 different Valentine’s Day cards. Kimmi’s featured fun disc envelopes with floral paper hearts, cut out bees, and doodads. If we finished early, she filled them with treats! Sherry had 3 beautiful examples of white hearts done in pointed pen on red paper, and Leslie had a heart-shaped bird peeking out from a cut-out window with Peek a Boo written on the front.
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| Sherry's hearts |
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| Leslie's Peek A Boos |
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| Kimmi's cards |
