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September 2010 Meeting – Hollow Beads

Hi Fellow Clayers!
It’s meeting time again! Our next meeting is this **Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010 at 1:30-4:30** (please take note , we are now starting to meet at **1:30**, not **1:00**) at the Hobby Lobby on I-35 and South 19th in Moore (2650 Service Road, Moore, OK 73160 – see map)
We will be making 2 kinds of Hollow Beads – pillow and puff, led by Jane Linn. These beads make great charms, pendants, and beads for bracelets and necklaces. They are especially fun because they can be be big and bold, without the weight of traditional beads.
**Materials/Tools List:**
– Cookie Cutters- circles-about 1″ and 3/4″ For variety, may want to bring extra cutters-about 1″ diameter ie. simple circle, star, heart, square, rectangle, flower
– Cutting blade/craft knife
– Hole maker
– Tile or cardstock for baking
– Pasta machine/acrylic rod
– Hot pad or mitt
– Scissors
– Liquid Polymer Clay or bonding glue
– Type of Super Glue, preferably with a brush applicator
– Sandpaper-600 grit
– 20-24 gauge wire-about 1-2 inches
– 2 oz. of clay, any color(s)
– Scrap clay-
– 1 oz. black clay
– Optional: Skinner blend, canes, textured sheets
– Very optional (don’t buy these for this until you’ve tried it):
– Aluminum paint palette
– Amazing Molds
– Plastic finger Protector
– Drywall & Plaster Sanding Screen
This month we have our raffle with Penni Jo, Nance, and Starla, the winners of July’s raffle providing the items for the raffle.
If you have finished any past guild projects, please bring them so we can see them at show & tell. We love to be inspired and ooo-and ah!
Don’t forget to be bring a name of a book, magazine, or DVD you’d like to have in our wonderful library.