Re: [lace] Anniversary ideas for a small guild? Thank you!

2017-04-15 Thread Osgood Martha
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,

[lace] Anniversary ideas for a small guild?

2017-04-11 Thread Janice Blair
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

Re: [lace] Anniversary ideas for a small guild?

2017-04-11 Thread Jeriames
Dear Martha, On March 23rd, and again today, I sent you long private messages to help you with lace public relations and celebrations. Your address is Comcast, and I am not sure you are receiving mail from AOL. If you are not, please request someone you know to be a go-between, and I'll

Re: [lace] Anniversary ideas for a small guild?

2017-04-10 Thread Anna Binnie
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 who is currently re-organising her craft room and rediscovering 'treasures' in a cold Sydney

Re: [lace] Anniversary ideas for a small guild?

2017-04-10 Thread Clay Blackwell
Martha, 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 Sent from my iPad > On Apr 10, 2017, at 1:28 PM, Sue Harvey

Re: [lace] Anniversary ideas for a small guild?

2017-04-10 Thread Sue Harvey
Hello Martha, 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 Sent from my iPad > - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the

[lace] Anniversary ideas for a small guild?

2017-04-09 Thread Osgood Martha
Hi Lacers, We’re still a small guild (ahem - for a while), and some of our members are not able to be as active as they’d like. But we’d still like to do something to acknowledge our (non-zero) anniversary as a charter member of IOLI. Can any of you share little things we could do that would