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Minutes for December 2016 Meeting

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Minutes recorded by Deborah

There were 10 members at our December 10, 2016 meeting. For Show and Tell, everyone showed their dirty Santa gifts to exchange. Check out pictures on the guild’s Facebook page.

Katharine will be teaching our January meeting. Almond will be teaching in February. 

Inchies will be swapped in January meeting with a Winter theme.  

Don’t forget you can check out DVDs and magazines from the library.

OLD BUSINESS

In the business meeting Angel motioned to approve the November 2016 minutes. Laura seconded the motion. 

NEW BUSINESS

Retreat in April is being planned. Karen Lewis will be teaching.  Keep checking the website for classes.

Shirley agreed to contact magazines for publishing events.

Bring bags for drawing if you won before.

Our next regular meeting will be January 14, 2017, 1:30 pm at the Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center at the OKC Fairgrounds. 

December 2016 Meeting: It’s a Party with Dirty Santa!

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Our next guild meeting will be Saturday, December 10, 2016 from 1:30-4:30 p.m. in the Contemporary Arts Center at the fairgrounds.

As usual during our December meetings, we will not have a lesson – but we’ll have snacks, a social time, and play Dirty Santa (so much fun!!!) So please bring some yummy goodies to share with the group, and we’ll have a fun afternoon!

About Dirty Santa: REMEMBER the items in the Dirty Santa game are NOT gag gifts but should be something you’d like to receive. Everyone playing the game brings a hand-crafted polymer item. An item using a technique learned this past year or one you just enjoyed making and sharing. Playing Dirty Santa is optional – but please, please do bring an item. It is so much more fun with many participants, we had such a good time last year.

I’m reposting the rules that Tom has adapted for our Dirty Santa game:

How to Play Dirty Santa

Everyone playing the game brings a hand-crafted polymer item. Sometimes an item using a technique learned this past year or one you just enjoyed making and sharing. Please, please bring an item. It is so much more fun with many participants.

VARIATION: Since we will be showing off our gifts during Show & Tell, I will bring gift bags to mask the items for the game. Just to keep it in the spirit of Dirty Santa.

Numbers are written on pieces of paper for every gift and placed in a basket, bowl or hat.

Each person draws a number. Getting a higher number is actually better because you will have more chosen gifts to choose from.

The person with #1 picks a gift to open from the array of gift bags. The person with #2 can choose to take another bag or steal the gift from #1. If a gift is stolen, the person who had it then steals from someone else or picks another gift to open. Gifts stolen cannot be directly stolen back. They must be in the pool of opened and unopened gifts for at least one turn.

The game continues like this until everyone takes a turn select an item or stealing an item. The last person to go can steal from anyone in the game or select the remaining item.

NOTICE: If the first person has not had their selection stolen during the game, they may steal a gift from anyone else. This may open a new round of stealing, but that’s the nature of Dirty Santa.

Once a gift is stolen three times, it is retired from the game.

Minutes for November 2016 Meeting

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Minutes recorded by Deborah

There were 11 members at our November  12, 2016 meeting.  For Show and Tell we had flashbacks, bottles of hope and State Fair entries. Check out pictures on the guild’s Facebook page.  

Katharine will be teaching our January meeting.

Inches will be swapped four times a year.  Next time will be in January meeting with a Winter theme.  

Don’t forget you can check out DVDs and magazines from the library.

OLD BUSINESS

In the business meeting Penni Jo motioned to approve the September 2016 minutes. Angela seconded and the motion passed.

Bottles of Hope will be going to the OK Kids Korral at the Toby Keith Foundation. You can pick up bottles at meetings.

Paper boxes of different shapes were shown. If interested contact Penni Jo.

NEW BUSINESS

Retreat in April is being planned. Karen Lewis (KLEW) will be teaching.

Shirley agreed to contact magazines for publishing events.

Our next regular meeting will be December 10, 2016, 1:30 pm at the Oklahoma Contemporary Art Center on the OKC Fairgrounds.

December meeting will be our Christmas Party. Bring a gift you would like for Dirty Santa (no gag gifts).

November 2016 Meeting: Chalking and Carving

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Our next guild meeting will be Saturday, November 12, 2016 from 1:30-4:30 p.m. in the Contemporary Arts Center at the fairgrounds.

This month, Angela will be talking about chalking and carving. We’ll focus more on technique than on a specific project, so if you have an idea you want to do, bring what you need for that. Otherwise, just come ready to play. Angela will have some extra supplies, and we’re good at sharing, so don’t feel obligated to buy any supplies you don’t have.

Tools

  • Pasta machine
  • Small ceramic tile for curing and working
  • Scissors
  • Carving tool, such as Speedball Linoleum Cutter
  • Clay blade and any other favorite clay tools
  • Work surface

Supplies

  • Chalks or artist soft pastels * (If you have them lying around, Angela likes scrapbooking chalks such as EK Success Chalklets or Inkadinkadoo artistic blending chalks, but these aren’t readily available anymore.)
  • Chalk applicator, if desired (fingers work great if you don’t mind getting messy)
  • Light neutral color clay such as Premo ecru, about 1 block (this should be enough for the main project and the fortune cookie mini-project)
  • 3″ cookie cutter
  • Rubber stamps and solvent ink (such as StazOn), if desired for project *
  • Baby wipes

* Note: Pastel sets and rubber stamps are 30-40% off at Hobby Lobby this week. 

In addition to the main project, since the guild’s first meeting was 10 years ago this month, Angela will revisit the polymer clay fortune cookies from our very first lesson.

If you have old handouts or other memorable items from the guild’s early days, we’d love for you to bring them along.

Minutes for October 2016 Meeting

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Minutes recorded by Deborah

There were 14 members at our October 8, 2016 meeting.  For Show and Tell there were bottles of hope and State Fair entries.  Check out pictures on the guild’s Facebook page.  

Inchies will be swapped four times a year.  Next time will be at the January meeting with a Winter theme.  

November meeting – Angela will be teaching.  Look on website for details.

Don’t forget – you can check out books, DVDs, and magazines from the library.

Old Business

In the business meeting Wendy motioned to approve the September 2016 minutes.  Laura seconded and the motion passed.

Bottles of Hope are in high demand.  12 bottles are needed a month.  Connie and Angel will decide on a plan for future bottles.

New Business

Deb Hart Workshop will be on Saturday, October 29th, from 9:30 to 4:30 in our usual room at the Contemporary Arts Center on the fairgrounds.  There’s still time to sign up!  Only $50 and includes lunch.

Retreat in April is already being planned.  Karen Lewis classes are being decided.

Our next regular meeting will be November 12, 2016, 1:30 pm at the Oklahoma Contemporary Art Center on the OKC Fairgrounds.

December meeting will be our Christmas Party.

Drawing winners for the month:  Laura, Angel, Tom, and Deborah.

October 2016 Meeting: Pinecone Ornament

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pineconeOur next guild meeting will be Saturday, October 8, 2016 from 1:30-4:30 p.m. in the Contemporary Arts Center at the fairgrounds. We will have our drawing at the meeting, so be sure to bring something if you won an item in our last drawing! This is also inchie month, with a Fall theme.

Deborah Di Maggio will show us how to make these pinecone ornaments. Looks like fall is definitely here!

Materials

  • 3 packages of clay (Premo), using any of these possible colors: raw sienna, black, gold, bronze, burnt umber
  • Paper maché egg (Deborah will provide these)

cuttersTools

  • Pasta machine or roller
  • Knife blade
  • Teardrop cutter (other suggested cutters shown in photo – click to enlarge)

Minutes for September 2016 Meeting

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We had 18 members and 1 guest at the September 10, 2016 meeting. We held this meeting at the Unity Church in Warr Acres, since our usual meeting space was busy with the upcoming state fair. The fellowship hall where we met was nice and spacious — thank you to Unity Church for allowing us to use it, and to Connie making the arrangements for us.

Show and tell items included name tags from last month’s lesson, hollow beads, Bottles of Hope, mud cloth pattern necklace, recipe holder, an angel, and a turtle box. Thanks to Tom, photos of these items are available on our Facebook page.

Our September program was “Pumpkin & Fall Leaves Box,” presented by Chris Crossland and Karen Humphreys. Our teachers were extremely well-prepared and very generous with instructions and extra supplies.

In the business meeting, Laura moved to approve the August minutes. Lee Ann seconded and the motion passed.

Vice-President’s Report: Jane gave an overview of the upcoming programs:

  • October: Marsha and Deborah
  • November:  Angela – carving & fortune cookies
  • December:  Party / Dirty Santa

Treasurer’s Report: Angela gave the treasurer’s report. We now have 31 members.

Bottles of Hope: Connie thanked those who had donated Bottles of Hope. She encouraged us to continue making them, especially bottles for kids, as we hope to donate about 12 per month.

New Business:

Jane gave a report about Penni Jo, who has undergone several medical procedures, but is doing well and hopes to leave the hospital on Monday. Jane collected cards to deliver to Penni Jo.

Old Business:

State Fair Demo: Angela handed out gate tickets and parking passes to those who volunteered to help with the state fair polymer clay demo, which will be held September 18th, from 2-6 p.m. Tom will bring the handouts and banner.

State Fair Polymer Clay Entries: Angela reminded attendees that their entries for the State Fair’s Creative Arts competition are due by Sunday, September 11th.

Deb Hart Workshop: Deb Hart will be our special guest teacher for a workshop on Saturday, October 29th, from 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. It will be held in our regular meeting room at the Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center on the fairgrounds. The cost will be $50 and will include lunch. Attendees may also purchase a copy of the handout to take home for an additional $10.

  • After discussion, the group decided the class should be on Deb Hart’s turtle box.
  • Myra offered to set up an EventBrite registration form. We will post the link soon.
  • Angela will take & place orders for a Panera Bread lunch. She will need someone to pick up the order and take it to the class.

Retreat: Tom is going to get in touch with Karen Lewis to see about getting more details on class offerings. Myra has put up a preliminary page about the retreat.

 

There was no drawing or swap this month. Our next meeting will be October 8th, 1:30 pm at Oklahoma Contemporary Art Center on the OKC Fairgrounds. We will have our inchie swap, with a “Fall” theme. We will also have our drawing, so please bring a door prize if you were one of last month’s winners.