SCPC Guild Activities:

Clay Days

There are no Clay Days currently scheduled.

Clay ConneCTion Retreats

Our next retreat will be held in 2012, dates to be announced. The four day format was a rousing success, and we plan on the next retreat being 4 days as well, from Thursday - Sunday.

Past retreats:
Our 7th Retreat was expanded to four days of fun, and a fabulous time was had by all. Photos can be found on the Guild Flickr Page.
Our 6th Retreat was held at a new location, Connecticut College in New London on July 25-27, 2008, and we had a blast!
Pictures from our 5th retreat were posted on Polymer Clay Central in the Guild Gazette. Please join us in thanking all our wonderful sponsors.
Clay ConneCTion 2004
Clay ConneCTion 2002, Clay ConneCTion 2000 and Clay ConneCTion 99

Check out our Tips & Tidbits page, containing polymer clay tips from our Retreat attendees.
Instructions for making eggs

Transparent Liquid Sculpey FAQs from Jody Bishel on our site at TLS FAQ

Bead Bazaar

SCPCGuild will have tables at the CT Bead Society's Bead Bazaar in North Haven, held in September.
We will be selling original work by our members. Stop by and visit.

Events

Please check out our Traveling Exhibit page for a listing of our exhibit schedule.

Clay Days are scheduled throughout the year. For information please check the guild's messageboard at http://forums.delphiforums.com/scpcg/start Or contact Sharon Mihalyak at: sharchar@aol.com

Members Gallery

You are welcome to see some of the work our members have created in the Members Gallery

Bottles of Hope

One of the retreat events that seemed to touch people the most was the "Bottle Challenge" - making the "Wish Bottles" or "Bottles of Hope". This is the creation of our member, Diane Gregoire, who has faced the challenge of cancer and discovered tons of these glass bottles being thrown out after chemo treatments. She took some home and began to cover and decorate them with polymer clay. She then distributed them back at the hospital. Her fellow patients were delighted by them and the idea she had of taking a strip of paper and writing a wish, putting it in the bottle and believing the wish would come true!!! See our Bottles of Hope page for Diane's story of the origin of the Wish Bottles and check out our BOH Gallery page . . .

*from this*	*to something like these!!!*

We are hoping that the idea of making and distributing the Bottles of Hope, or Wish Bottles, will spread to other polymer clay guilds - or individuals, who would like to decorate these bottles themselves, with clay or with anything else . . . see more of the bottles entered into the Bottle Challenge at our Clay ConneCTion 2000 Retreat!!!!

For winners of the Clay ConneCtion 2002 Bottles of Hope Challenge . . . see more bottles on Polymer Clay Central!!!!

Contact: Bottles of Hope Coordinator bottlesofhope@hotmail.com
Bottles of Hope Website: http://bottlesofhope.org