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Contact:


Sharon Mihalyak
sharchar@aol.com
Diane Villano
dianev_scpcg@yahoo.com
Bottles of Hope Coordinator
bottlesofhope@hotmail.com

SCPC Guild Activities:

2008 Weekend of Clay

We will be holding our annual Weekend of Clay at St. Paul's in Wallingford on Saturday, March 8th and Sunday, March 9th.
The class lineup includes:
Sculpting a Tree Frog: Christy Sherman
Cane Slice Caterpillar Bracelet: Libby Mills
Variations on the Retro Cane: Jenn Dorion
Polymer Personalities: Tricia Hamel

Classes are for guild members and will cost $10 per class.
Classes are 10am to 1 pm and 2pm to 5 pm each day.

Clay Days

We hold Clay Days throughout the year. Check back to see when the next one will be!

Clay ConneCTion Retreats

Our 5th Retreat was a resounding success! Pictures have been posted on Polymer Clay Central in the Guild Gazette. Please join us in thanking all our wonderful sponsors.
Past retreats: 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 2 tables at the Bead Bazaar on Sept 15-16, 2007
Sponsored by the Connecticut Bead Society Bead Bazaar
The Holiday Inn, 201 Washington Avenue, North Haven, CT (Rt 5) Exit 12 off I-91
We will be selling original work by our members. Stop by and visit.

Over 40 vendors will offer for sale everything from vintage glass and lampworked beads, semi-precious and freshwater pearls, raku and porcelain, seed beads and silver, polymer clay, beading supplies and much more. Door prizes.
Hours 10-5, admission $4

Fill in and print out the forms below if you are a guild member and wish to sell your work at the Bazaar. Bring the forms along with your beads to the August meeting.
Bead Bazaar Inventory Instructions
Bead Bazaar Inventory List.

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!!!
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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