Southern Connecticut
Polymer Clay Guild, Inc. ++Pictures will be taken of member's work for the guild website gallery pages. ++The Bottles of Hope Website is up and running thanks to Lucille Schacht and all her hard work! Please go to
http://www.bottlesofhope.org ++Raffle of a Chrysalis Brooch donated by Elise Winters ++ Membership materials will be handed out to those not at the March meeting and mailed to those members not usually attending. =====Looking ahead: ===== Congratulations + Michele Raffaele and her husband are the proud parents of a bouncing baby boy! Andrew Joseph Nastri was born April 4 and weighed in at just under 8 lbs and 20 1/2 inches. ===== Classes, Workshops, Retreats For a registration form, click on http://www.angelfire.com/pa5/ppcg/Guildwebpage/retreatform.html +June Milwaukee, WI Bead and Button
Show; Diane Villano will be teaching various classes. Details in later NaN's Polymer Clay Workshops Summer/Fall 2003 L. BaLoMbini + We still need more Bottles of Hope. ===== Traveling Exhibit ===== Reminders Beginning with the basics, section show the Skinner blend, and moves into millefiori caning. Snakes are gathered around a center and wrapped in another color. Later in the book, they are pinched into leaf shapes to form hearts, flowers, leaves and angel wings. The first section, Polymer Clay and Paper Crafts, gives directions for making a love magnet card, snowman ornament card and a scrapbook combining clay with a silver metal emboss sheet. Polymer Clay and Jewelry is especially original. A heart locket pin opens to show a photo. A spirit song amulet uses a ball-point pen as an armature. Bake it, remove the pen, make end caps and decoration. Next comes a heart pendant that resembles dichroic glass, due to the use of fabric foil (Jones Tones). Many attractive pieces are shown in the gallery, to inspire experienced artists as well as beginners. Review submitted by Genevieve Ciavarelli
Not-A-Newsletter for April
19, 2003 Meeting
=====Suggested agenda for April 19 Meeting
Please bring to the April or May meeting a FEW (1 or 2) pieces to be photographed.
++There is a link to the message board, please check it out (and please post too!)
http://forums.delphiforums.com/boh1/start
++Sharon is finishing up the guild message board and it should be ready for posting to by the meeting
http://forums.delphiforums.com/scpcg/start
Sharon is still collecting the Member Wish Lists. Please bring them in or email them back if you haven't done so. These will help us in our planning of activities that are important to you. Thank You!
Photographing of members' work to continue
Demo by Tracy VanBuskirk at the May meeting
Diane Villano won the Sue Rankin's lovely pin and will be donating the May raffle-chain item.
Lynne Schwarzenberg will give a demo on cleaning your pasta machine.
Sharon passed out "Member Wish Lists" and is still accepting lists from members. If you have not sent in the list, please take the time to do so.
+ Congratulations to Jody Bishel for her article on Gold Layering appearing in the current issue of Expression magazine.
+ Congratulations to the following Clay ConneCTion 02 attendees and guild members whose winning Bottles of Hope from the CC Challenge were selected for the Yale Physician's Building permanent collection: Jennifer Bickerstaff, Terry Hudson, Dawn Naylor, Ann Orlomoksi, Sue Rankin, Diane Villano, Vicki Wulwick.
Please let editor know of any classes you are teaching! Include Content or title of class, Date, Time, fee if any, location, and contact persons for signing up.
+ April 26-27 Arlington Center for the Arts Nan Roche. Sponsored by Beadesigner International. Details TBA.
+ May 4th Sunday, Diane V. will be teaching beginning millefiori at GHC.
+ May 10th Saturday Lynne S. will be teaching at the Mystic Stamp Shop
+ May 11 (10-4) Sunday. Jody Bishel is teaching a class at Brookfield: Renaissance Goblets
+ May 30-June 1, Atlantic City, NJ Gwen Gibson, Artiology Arts
Retreat,. See Jan 2003 NaN.
+ June 7 and June 8, 2003 Saturday & Sunday,The Philadelphia Area Polymer Clay Guild will hold its annual retreat.
Location: Community Room of the Sidney Hillman Apartments 22 South 22nd Street (a half block south of Market Street), center city Philadelphia. Some overnight accommodations are available for out of town guests.
We will have food, vendors, a silent auction. And clay demos.
Polymer Clay Express is making a return visit! They are sure to have lots of new products. Connie Sheerin of Crafts ala Cart will be at the Retreat with new products and she is going to do some demonstrations. Robin Beam from Ranger Industries will also be in attendance. She will be demonstrating Ranger's rubberstamping products.
If you register before April 30, you get a discount.
Any questions, contact Martha Aleo marf@netaxs.com
+ July 26-27 Woven Wire for Polymer & Mixed Media
+ Sept 13-14 Finding Your Way with Polymer clay
+ Oct 11 From the Top
Come visit me in beautiful Blue Hill,Maine. Prices and descriptions of classes are on my web site and some new work as well. My show schedule is also on the site so stop by and chat.
http://www.lbalombini.com
Laura Balombini
+August 3-10, Ravensdale, Issaquah, WA Jody Bishel will be teaching. Details upcoming.
+BOTTLES OF HOPE
Diane Gregoire emailed out an appeal and Tracy needs more for the Relay for Life.
Please bring completed bottles to the meeting.
+ The Bottles of Hope workshop at Laurel Gardens was very productive. We made around 50 bottles and had help from some of the residents. Thank you Diane V., for helping some of the older ladies with bottle production. I think they made more than we did *G*!
We still need more bottles, so bring them in to the meeting if you can.
The "Relay for Life" in Bethel will be May 16.
+ Leigh Ross is planning on writing an article for PolymerCafe on the Bottles of Hope.
" I would appreciate any and all information, insight, stories, feelings etc... From any of you to work into an article that is both informative as well as interesting. I'd like to know everything that has happened to the BOH project for the CT guild and how it's touched all the other guilds that have been involved as well as give a call for all the guilds to adopt the BOH idea in their areas!!!"
APRIL Hagaman Memorial Library, 227 Main Street, East Haven
MAY South Norwalk Public Library, 10 Washington St.
JUNE Miller Memorial Library, 2901 Dixwell Ave. Hamden
JULY CH Booth Library, 25 Main Street, Newtown
AUGUST Wallingford Public Library, 200 North Main St.
SEPTEMBER North Haven Memorial Library, 17 Elm St.
OCTOBER Seymour Public Library, 46 Church Street
NOVEMBER Guilford Public Library, 67 Park Street
DECEMBER Milford Public Library, 57 New Haven Ave.
JANUARY 2004 Blackstone Memorial Library, 758 South Main Street, Branford
FEBRUARY 2004 Cheshire
+ Leigh Ross is compiling a Teachers' Directory on Polymer Clay Central. If you teach, please check it out.
http://polymerclaycentral.com/
+Raffle-chain drawings will be held Jan, Mar, May, Aug, and Oct. If you win the raffle, you also provide the item for the next raffle
==== Book Review
POLYMER CLAY EXTRAVAGANZA by Lisa Pavelka
The author's aim was to write a book for beginners as well as for experienced adult clay artists. Projects range from a simple snowman ornament greeting card to an elaborate garden angel.
===== MINUTES FROM THE March 15, 2003 MTG OF SCPCG
There were 14 members at the March meeting.
Welcome Lisa Gauthier from Milford, who joined the guild in Feb.
Thank you Jody for your demonstration on yet another way to use Liquid Sculpy. We love making our own texture sheets!
The results of the board meeting were presented, and guild members were asked for input on many issues. Our membership list was updated. The BoH website is a work in progress, but coming along. It can be seen at
http://www.bottlesofhope.org/
Guild membership is asked for any input on the Guild Website http://www.scpcg.org/ Members are asked to bring in 1 or 2 items of their work to be photographed and included in a Gallery on the Guild Website. If you already have online photos of your work, you can email it directly to Lynn S. riverpoet@aol.com
There are some videos missing from our guild library. Please check your shelves!
Updated pages to the membership book were handed out.
We have a catalogue from Krause publications. (http://www.krause.com/ ) The guild can make a ‘group order’ and get large discounts. Catalogue will be available at the April meeting, or contact Diane Villano if you cannot make the meeting.
The guild aquired 2 new books, and if you write a review you may have them for one month free rental. Polymer Clay Extravaganza is one
Tracy is involved with the Relay for Life again this year. She needs about 200 BoH. (some were produced at the Laurel Gardens event on April 5th, but more are needed. Diane G. needs more finished bottles also.)
Genevieve was presented with the Birthday gift from the Guild. A decorative plate, covered in a mosaic of patterned hearts made by many of the guild members, and beautifully assembled and finshed off by Sharon M. Happy Birthday Genevieve!
The Chrysalis Brooche donated by Elise Winters will be raffled at the April meeting. (See her webpage, top center for similar design to the one we will be raffling. http://www.elisewinters.com/work/work.html )
Respectfully submitted,
NaN Editor, Vice President, and Acting Guild Clown; temporary and terrible secretary - Debbie Goodrow - deb_twinkle@yahoo.com
====Member Links
++Lynne Schwarzenberg
River Poet@aol.com
http://www.wtcpins.com/
++Barbara McKie
mckieart@earthlink.net (Barbara McKie)
http://www.mckieart.com/
++Libby Mills
mills3456@cox.net
http://www.libzoid.com
++Tricia Hamel
tjhamel@peoplepc.com
http://www.collagefh.com/
++Lucille Schacht
Lucille@cshore.com
Polymer Clay
http://lujs.tripod.com/my-polymer-clay.html
Egg Lessons
http://members.tripod.com/~LuJS/EggLessons-INDEX.HTML
++Marie Segal
Clay Factory of Escondido Beach
http://www.clayfactoryinc.com/
++Leigh Ross
Polymer Clay Central
http://www.polymerclaycentral.com/index.html
Links for art in New Haven and CT:
http://www.artscouncil-newhaven.org/
http://www.ctarts.org/