Thanks to our Supporters

So I have just finished the last of the Thank You Notes, and they will go out tomorrow.  Polydelphia! 2008 was an amazing success.  Through our Silent Auction we raised enough money to subsidized visits from three Guest Artists.

I still have some work to do.  I have set myself the deadline of the end of the month to get all our sponsors up on the website.

So take a moment in June to review our sponsor list, and please patronize them.

And if you have an idea for a Guest Artist, go ahead and post here or drop me a line!

Sarah

Shimmering Silver Clay in May!

The lovely Rai Nelson came last weekend and taught “Shimmering Silver Clay”, a PMC workshop.  

Saturday, Rai went through how to work with the PMC and how to make bezel forms.  Rai brought her kiln and fired our pieces, which them went into the tumbler to polish.  On Sunday, Rai showed everyone how to torch fire PMC.  We also learned how to combine polymer & PMC (remember those bezel forms?) to make delightful, individual works of art.
I don’t think there are any photos, because I was having too much fun to take pictures (not to mention that I forgot to bring my camera!).  

There was some interest for Rai to bring her kiln by a couple of times a year for folks to fire their silver clay pieces.  If this is something you’d be interested in, let us know!

Terri Powell, deputy to the deputy blogger.

Arlene and Me

My workshop is featured on Libby Mills’ Blog and I have featured Arlene Groch, our resident Polyaddict, on my blog, Ornamento.

                                                                            Martha Aleo, Deputy Blogger 

 

 

 

 

Scenes from Polydelphia! 2008

Countdown to Polydelphia 2008

Here we are stuffing goody bags and cataloging the silent auction contributions.   You’ll see it all at Polydelphia 2008.  Be there or be square!
                                                                                    Martha Aleo
                                                                                    Deputy Blogger   

Polydelphia 2008 Preview

Counting the days down to Polydelphia, 2008. We stuff the goody bags this weekend and catalog the silent auction donations. To preview Julie Picarello’s silent auction donation, go to her Flickr site HERE. Julie’s work was featured today on Polymer Clay Daily. Be sure to check it out.      

                                                       Martha Aleo, Deputy Blogger 

Ellen’s Inside Info

Thanks for posting this in the Comments, Ellen!  It’s so good, I am putting it on the top of the pile:

I’m so looking forward to Polydelphia this year!  Just came from Guild meeting and Marla’s demos to day.  Such inspiraton!  Also, I have a PolyD demo to prepare so I’ve really got to get my hands in clay.  Came upon the following resources- just in time:

 

Arts and Craftsman on Market St between 3rd and 4th in Philadelphia; across the street from Fork.   A great little art store in Old City.    Check it out.  I just bought some woodless watercolor pencils that color nicely on baked clay.

 

New Donna Kato DVD’s -  Miss Donna on CDuvall?  Wish you took better notes when you last took a class with Donna?  Well bring up a new browser window now and go to prairecraft.com and order the 2-DVD set.  You know I did.

 

Meeting this Sunday April 20: New Location and Guest Artist!

Just a reminder that Marla Frankenberg will join us on Sunday and demo her amazing signature cane technique.  Bring clay in contrasting colors and make a cane to “sign” your work.

WE ARE NOT MEETING AT HILLMAN! 

We will be holding our meeting at the former Holiday Inn in Essington (at the PHL Airport.)  I say the former Holiday Inn because they have changed their name to the Philadelphia Airport Gateway Hotel.   They find this name change very exciting.  I am just excited that we have a place to meet.  The address is in our calendar link with an MSN map.

Philadelphia Airport Gateway Hotel  (formerly Holiday Inn)

45 Industrial Highway
Essington, PA  19029

Hope to see you there!

Sarah

On The Road Synergy and PCE

The Deputy Blogger Rides Again!    Here is a slideshow from our March 2008 meeting. We hit the road and went to Polymer Clay Express. Don’t you wish you came? And for those of you who didn’t make it to the Synergy conference, I just put up some pictures on our Flickr site, taken by our very own Lili Velez. Enjoy!

Martha Aleo, Deputy Blogger 

What are you thinking?

Visit the website and let us know!  I am trying out a new poll feature.  We want to have a way to find out who you are and what you want from your guild.  As our former president, Martha Aleo always said, “The Guild is for the Members.”

And we are 77 members strong!

So come to the website: www.papcg.org and weigh in on our first poll:  What are your favorite things to make from polymer clay?  This works more like American Idol (no, no one is humiliated on National Television) than the primaries…. you actually can vote more than once.  Please don’t get carried away.

Give it a try and let me know what you think!