Minutes for meeting January 17 held at Diane Zammitto's house
The following members were in attendance:
Bobbye kee, Micki Donch DiGangi, Maurine Adrezin, Mary Ashcraft, Sandy Leal, Diane Zammito, Linda Dufrene, Fran Parrigan, Lynn Schofield, Barbara Sines, Liz Thurman and Louise Cisco


Fran announced the change of one board member, Mary Ashcraft, who will try to take the place of the former secretary, Diane Zammito. Mary will be in charge of the new blogspot for Silver Doll-ers as it turned out to be unsuccessful to access the original blog set up by Fran from Mary's address. It was agreed that the name would be Silver Dollers.blogspot.com. (note from secretary - this name has changed, however, and that will be addressed following the minutes).

Lynn Schofield has access to a calendar site (Calsnet) that she will set up for the club. It will be linked to the blog so that members can now look at the blog rather than the old website.

Linda Dufrene announced that she hopes to be able to prepare a newsletter in February. This will also be posted on the blogspot.

The calendar was discussed and the following changes were made:
1. The March 28 informal meeting was supposed to be at Mary's house, but will not be possible due to a wedding in her family. The date was left open.
2. A trip to St. George has been proposed. Di will coordinate, and Mary will drive. Other drivers, or a rental van were discussed.

It was noted that rather than meet at our homes, A-1 sew and vac has a new room open available for meetings. The issue of stairs came up and it was decided that too many of us didn't like stairs. We like visiting homes better, have more freedom and time.

A letter was received from Street Teens thanking the Silver Doll-ers for their $150 donation last year.

The trip to Encinitas for a class from Barbara Chapman at Black Sheep for an Enchanted Fairy class on Feb. 6-7 was further discussed, and the following members are confirmed:
Barbara Keeling, Sandy Leal, Bobbye Kee, Mary Ashcraft, Linda Dufrene, Diane Zammito, and Micki Donch. One replacement would be nice for Fran since she has decided she's not making this trip. The group will stay at Days Inn and Sandy has made reservations. If there are any questions about the reservations, please call her.

The EDAC (Enchanted Doll Artist Conference) to be held in Albuquerque the end of July was discussed by Fran Parrigan. Our group will be making table favors - a fairy and sleeping dragon who are being designed by Di and Linda. We will need to make at least 10 favors, so the help of all will be greatly appreciated.

For show and tell, Fran showed her 3 dolls, Dancine, Flutter Rose and Nature's beauty. She will be holding classes for these 3 dolls at her studio. Dates will be forthcoming soon.

Barbara Sines brought in her witch made from Liz's pattern. Great job for a new dollmaker! The face was awesome, Barbara.

Lynn showed us some polymer clay faces she's been working on, as well as a dragon. I see a future project here!

Lynn again mentioned to everyone that she has an available show cabinet at the Boulder City Library. We really need to address filling this cabinet - our potential for new members is probably good here, and at no cost to us.

Maurine showed us her published article in Dol Crafter & Costume for March 2009. Congratulations, Maurine! She also discussed classes that she will be teaching classes about needle felting beads, and a gnome, among others! Go to Maurine's site maurinesfiberfriends.com. She's starting a class on this Sat. Jan. 24.


Lynn has created the calendar, and you may access is here:
http://www.my.calendars.net/lvsilverdollers