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

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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!)

November 2011 Meeting

Kimmie used scraps of stuff she had around her house to make these cool textured bits of art! Any photos you might have? Send them my way and we'll get them up!

Here are some pics of the gift tags we made

Minutes from November

Meeting Minutes 8 November 2011
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Welcome & Announcements:
**Surveys were passed out for us to fill in and return to Kathie H asking what we liked about our programs, workshops, or topics last year and what we’d like to see in the coming year. The board plans to use the information to plan next year’s events.
**Cecelia would teach Carolingian at the next Back 2 Basics class on Saturday the 19th.
**Our new website www.summitscribes.org is up and running. Hopefully anyone interested in lettering arts will be able to find us on the web. A bulk of news for our members will come through the e-Digest and/or the Summit Scribes blog.
**Cecelia asked for volunteers to help find and plan a spring retreat. Kathy S agreed to head that up with Cheryl, Tammi Jo, Mary R, and Karen S helping out.
**Forty-four actual pages of the St. John’s Bible will be on display in Santa Fe until April. Maybe a road trip is in order! If so, talk to Cheryl
**Cecelia passed around a Michael Jacobs paper folder/scoring tool she made from part of a paper clip with directions for making one ourselves.

Show & Tell:
**The FREE table was full again and there were several drawings from the Kristin Doty workshop as well as a variety of card ideas. Our homework/project drawing went to Cheryl.

Presentation:
**Deb, Carole R, Karen S, Kimmie, and Tammi Jo showed us how to make 5 different holiday gift tags from supplies they brought. Deb had a folding tag with a Christmas ball on the front, Carole die cut pieces of a city snow scene for us to assemble, Karen had a Christmas sticker on a red square with a red ribbon, Kimmie had us cut white circles and brown branches for our snowman, and TJ had us roll thin strips of paper to glue onto a stamped snowflake.