In a message dated 4/3/05 10:42:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >Each member has to report these hours so the collective amount for > >each local group can be reported to the head officers. The total for > >the organization goes on some report yearly to the tax offi > Dear Tamara and other Volunteers, This raises interesting questions. Why wouldn't the time you spend answering technical questions for a group like Arachne qualify as volunteer time? Or, the uncompensated hours you spend designing and writing instructions for a lace that appears in one of our IOLI, The Lace Guild, OIDFA, etc. publications? And then, there is the question of credit for expenses in connection with any educational effort connected with these organizations -- travel, in particular, since it is so costly. You can submit a travel voucher if you are paid to teach. Why not submit the travel time and costs as being a "donation" to your Guild? ----------------- On a slightly different topic about which you have just written: Tamara, you have demonstrated - for the first time, and a very short time - under such fairy tale circumstances that you have a huge experience gap to fill as soon as possible. You must experience all the hilarious things that happen when you demonstrate in a less prestigeous environment! You have no stories about all-day demonstrating assignments in unique costumes, weather-influenced upsets, collapsing chairs or pillow stands, up-turned pillows, dripping ice cream cones (had to add that because of the Cone sisters), outhouse visits while garbed in full petticoats and hoop skirts, or really memorable things people say and do when you and your lace pillow are the first of the kind they've ever met. To tease, and to paraphrase ...."How're we gonna keep her (Tamara) down on the farm, after she's seen (demonstrated lacemaking) Paree (Baltimore Museum of Art)?" -------------------- Wish everyone could have seen Tamara's stunning Rosalibre brooch. Yummy! Tasty as petit fours, also, is the book on "Rosalibre Bobbin Lace" by Cathleen Belleville - available from vendors at BMA's Lace Day. The book, by the way, has exceptional diagrams throughout. Notable are the diagrams and text explaining winding bobbins and making hitches. Both the S twist, and the Z twist are illustrated on pp 100-102. Three pages - just about covers it. I don't agree with her use of hair spray for stiffening lace, but you all have heard my anti-hair spray reasoning before. Seen in the BMA gift shop, but not purchased (having exceeded my book budget for the day) the book: "The Art of Collecting - A Portrait of Etta and Claribel Cone" by Mary Gabriel $35 ISBN 1-890862-06-1. A brief look-though revealed pictures of art. Did not see lace, so cannot recommend for that particular reason. Chapter titles referred to travels to various countries in early 20th Century. Added to an ever-growing list of "must have" books. My favorite activity of the day in Baltimore: Networking (not the thread kind) with all those special people met through the years at conventions, lace days, classes, and other lace events here and abroad. The Lacemakers, collectors and scholars are so much fun to touch base with through the years. Always an excited group, and so so talented! Aurelia and the entire Lace Team: Thank you! Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace & Embroidery Resource Center - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
