Lots of news this week – please read through to the end!

December Meeting – New Day, Time and Location

Our December will take place on Saturday, December 1 at 1:30 PM. This month we will be meeting at the Lafayette Arts & Crafts Center, 501 Ingleside Avenue. The Center is around the corner from the Sue McCollum Community Center in Lafayette Park.

Plenty of free parking, we’ll meet in the front classroom. Bring a cold (or warm?) drink and maybe a small snack to share.

The theme for the meeting is Going Organic.  We’re going to spend some time working with techniques inspired by Ronna Sarvas Weltman. Pods, chips, and other shapes inspired by nature will be our guide.

We added Ronna’s latest DVD, How to Make Polymer Clay Beads to our library last month, and Barbara will bring her copy of Ronna’s book, Ancient Modern: Polymer Clay And Wire Jewelry. You can also preview some of the projects on Ronna’s YouTube channel.

What to bring: basic clay kit, texture tools or sheets, a small burned out light bulb (if you have one) or a metal paint palette to use as a curved mold. If you are new to clay and don’t have a pasta machine, please let Barbara know and she can bring one for you to use.

Holiday Ornaments Class

As part of our arrangement with the City of Tallahassee Parks & Recreation Department, our first polymer project class will take place at Lafayette Arts & Crafts Center on Saturday, December 8. Barbara, Ellen, and Cindy have signed up to teach this class and provide supplies. Supplies for future classes will be ordered by the Center. If we have a large number of registrants, additional helpers will be needed. Please share this class opportunity with your family and friends. Here are the details:

When December 8, 2012 1-330 PM
What Polymer Clay Ornaments for Christmas or Hanukkah (Family Friendly Class)

Join members of the Tallahassee Polymer Clay Art Guild to make ornaments for your holiday decor using polymer clay, a colorful, safe, oven-hardening modeling material.

Supplies will be provided and you will leave with one or two completed ornaments for yourself or to give as gifts. Younger students will use cookie cutters to create snowflake, gingerbread, star or dreidel ornaments that can be decorated with a variety of materials. Older children and adults can choose to cover glass ornaments with slices of colorful clay millefiore canes or sheets of marbled or metallic color.

Children 14 and under must be accompanied and supervised by an adult.
Students under 15 years of age will not use cutting blades for their projects.

Contact Lafayette Arts & Crafts Center for registration information.
http://www.talgov.com/parks/parks-cc-artscrafts.aspx

Munro Supplies Buy

Paige Scott is organizing a supplies buy (discounts!) from Munro Crafts. This is a perfect time to stock up for Jana’s class in March. If you live out of town, no worries – we can ship your items to you via Priority Mail Flat Rate boxes.

Contact Paige at scottsareus@gmail.com or call her at (850) 491-1043

Registration Open for Jana Roberts Benzon Two-Day Workshop

We are pleased to announce that registration is open for Jana Roberts Benzon‘s workshop here in Tallahassee. Jana is teaching her Laser Cut technique over the weekend of March 9 & 10, 2013.

Here are the details (please go through all pages so you don’t miss a thing!).

Tory Hughes Five-Day Workshop in New Smyrna Beach, FL

Tory Hughes will be teaching for Florida Society of Goldsmiths at Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach in January of 2013! You can get all the details at their web site www.fsgne.com. It is a 5 day workshop and will be full of Tory’s magical techniques and ideas. I am happy to answer questions or find answers for you. You can contact me with through email at artyheart@aol.com. Hope to see you there!

Deb Sims for Tory Hughes