Wow. These celebration ideas are deeply appreciated! Will ya look at their creativity, warmth and meaningfulness!! These warm ideas can lead to more connections among lacemakers, AND make memories that can be rekindled each following year. Thank you each very, very much! Martha Osgood Eugene, Oregon Oregon Trail Lacemakers
> â > A commemorative bobbin and an afternoon or morning tea/get together. Have a cake to share and perhaps a small snack and tea/coffee or if you are daring and don't need to drive a glass of bubbles. > ~ Anna Binnie who is currently re-organising her craft room and rediscovering 'treasures' in a cold Sydney > â > i would offer participating in the bookmark exchange as a way to be involved and enjoying lacing. > Hugs, Lin Hudren and the Mali > â > We celebrate in several ways but the one I like is to have a commerative bobbin with name and date, we have had our Coral anniversary that we celebrated that way. > Sue Harvey, Norfolk, UK > â > I agree with Sue, and our regional guild often uses Chris Parsons (UK), who can provide a painted bobbin based on your picture, or Richard Worthen(US) for hand-turned and pyrographed bobbins. > Clay Blackwell > â > I belong to Silvergate Lacers in the San Diego area and last October we celebrated our 40th anniversary. We had commemorative bobbins, a cake and a pot luck lunch. I was unfortunately absent but the photos look like I missed a good time. We also had a member who had tee shirts machine embroidered with our logo. She donated the shirts and we paid only $5 for the embroidery. Great deal. > Janice Blair, Murrieta, CA, jblace.com <http://jblace.com/> > â > For your anniversary, if you know of a lace expert within a reasonable distance from you, perhaps you could invite her to come and share her expertise, especially if you can offer her meals and a place to stay overnight. Also, some women who have been lacing a long time have acquired interesting things, like lace, books, equipment (they will have some of those anniversary bobbins others have recommended), table favors - acquired at a national or regional meetings of IOLI - that your members may never have seen. Each member could bring what is special to the meeting - to discuss. > > Sometimes I like to bring a large piece of figural lace to people who have never seen any. It can spark a nice discussion to go with tea and cake. These laces show animals and people, or interpret old art masterpieces - in lace. I have collected articles about the original art to go with these laces, giving them provenance. One of my figural laces was purchased from Nancy Evans, who is a lace dealer - in your state. Very few books show them. Mine are made by bobbins, needle, crochet hook. > > Do you have demonstrators? If so, why not contact an appropriate place (museum?), explain you are celebrating the anniversary of the founding of your lace group, and reach out - offer to demonstrate. Be sure to bring along lace information that might result in attracting new members, including your recent press coverage. > > Does your local university have textile-related classes? You could position your group on their radar, and offer support. Perhaps there is a costume collection there, and you can arrange to view it? A few years ago, my assigned roommate at a Costume Society of America annual meeting in Boston was from a university in Oregon. She was V.P. of the CSA! Professional. Competent. > > Read your IOLI Members Handbook. Make sure you are in contact with all other lace groups in your state. Name a member of your group to keep communications flowing. > > Do Oregon Lace Guilds interface with each other? Another idea might be to hire a minivan and go to a meeting of a larger lace guild in Oregon. I realize that Oregon is very large, and driving distances are a problem when you'd like to meet others. Our Lacemakers of Maine has a member who lives in New Brunswick Canada - a very long distance from our meetings. She and her husband come down, maybe once a year to visit for a couple days. One of our members offers them a place to stay. She concentrates on lace and her lace friends; he disappears to pursue his interests and also does a few repairs in the hostess's house, for which she is most grateful. > > Here are a couple things to search on your computer: > Nancy Evans - Lace Nancy Evans, Legacy Lace > www.portlandlacesociety.com/calendar.html <http://www.portlandlacesociety.com/calendar.html> > > Jeri Ames in Maine USA > Lace and Embroidery Resource Center - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
