Sorry this was posted late. I didn't get Micki's email and just realized it. She was kind enough to resend her notes to me,so here are the notes from 2 weeks ago:
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Hi Ladies - this coming Saturday
is our club's Holiday Lunch & Learn - more like lunch & play
for a change!!! We'll still have our show & tell time - so please
bring whatever you are working on or have recently completed. Let's
make it a holiday fare - I did hear Cathy Franklin say that she's making
her famous Chicken Salad. I have a very favorite jello mold that I
don't get to make very often anymore so that's what I'm thinking. Don't
want to cook, please just bring ice tea to share or chips, etc. We had
our Christmas tree tags/ornaments started last week, so maybe we'll see
some of those come back completed. Someone asked me to resend the pdf
for this little project.
Show & Tell:
Bev Minnerly - large bag, table runner, baskets
Helen Lawriie - dog pillow
Eileen Navikas - bed runner!
Eileen DiSanto - snap bag
Ruth Campbell - pillowcases - say, I lost count - it was a stack of em!!!
JoAnn Colin - charity blankets - A LOT! and 10 minute table runners - A LOT!!
Joan Thomas (not an Ellen) - I shared the PJ's tee shirts she finished up for us in the AM portion of our special sewing day!
Cathy
Franklin - Sweatshirt conversions she is making her two granddaughters -
one is Frozen and one is Little Mermaid - both adorable and nicely
fashioned.
PJ's - I heard from Cathy Franklin
and she and sister Susie Pindry have made up 9 more sets (5 for 15/16
boys and 4 for 13/14 boys) that is very very nice.
Cat
Hammocks - after meeting last week, I cut out 13 cat hammocks from one
bolt of fleece and put 4 corner tabs with them, so they are all ready to
be sewn up. If anyone wants to take some home to finish, pleases ask
and I'll be happy to give you as many as you want !!
Ladies - on Dec. 19th
I'll be purging, sorting, and organizing our storage space shelves.
I've got a goal and gameplan. It starts with taking everything off the
shelves. So that day, if anyone sees, wants, thinks they want,
something from the shelves... please speak up and take it on home with
you. We've got a couple ladies who graciously keep and store bulky
items for us in their homes and garages, and hopefully in the new year
we can come to some solution for that as well. Mostly I'm hoping that
the shelves can become organized enough that each and every one of you
can go in and pick out whatever you want to work with or on. The
shelving will mainly consist of the items and ongoing work we do on
charitable projects. We really do not need to maintain a stash of stuff
that is for any of our personal projects since any given week, we can
easily gather those from Joann's, Sharky's, Michaels, internet, etc.
Dec. 26th
- Reminder - there will be no formal meeting. I will be away, but the
room will be open and available to anyone who wants to come sit and
sew.
Business Information: Official set up time available: 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm
- Our club's SeaBreeze permit is now amended to include set up time
for us that the room is officially ours starting at 12:15 pm on
Saturdays. Please feel free to adjust your time and travel and
especially for our actual sewing meetings, you can arrive plenty early
to set up your machines and then have time to chat and walk around the
room before we need to sit down and give our attention to Show &
Tell presenters and then demos. Since this official set up time is new
for us, I'll be mentioning it from time to time in the New Year.
Additionally, the situation with the parking lot and remote control club guys having play days on Saturday
mornings. Those guys are very helpful and will lower the rope so we
can drive in and unload. They even offer to help unload and carry
machines. Hopefully, cooler weather with Jan. ahead will chase them
away and they will no longer be a problem. That is what I'm hoping. If
they come back in the spring, it will then be something to deal with
officially with Rec. Dept. Admin. It is a big inconvenience and one
that does not make sense considering how large SeaBreeze's parking lot
is and their options for other play places. We only have one good
option for bringing our supplies and machines into the Rec. Center craft
room and that is the craft room door. So, please be patient with me
and we will get this worked out amicably for all of us. And take
advantage of the men if they will lift and tote your machines out of
your cars for you. Why not!?! They just seem to be standing around
talking anyway. Men and their toys!!
San
Bernadino community still in our prayers... and yes, God can help,
contrary to what the New York Daily News put on their front cover
headlines. There are so many stories of heroic, patriotic and good
deeds... that are so American because it is in our nature to help. How
about the Sheriff's Dept. Detective Jorge Lozano who told the
frightened survivors he was rescuing and escorting out of the building
who said, "I'll take a bullet before you do, that's for dam sure." They
were so frightened and traumatized, they were afraid to move, afraid to
follow him down the hallway to get out of the horrific scene in the
building. How about the greatest sacrifice of all when Shannon Johnson
huddled under a table with Denise Peraza, covered her with his own body
to protect her from the bullets saying, "I got you." Her friend and
co-worker Shannon Johnson died and Denise did get shot in the back, but
is recovering. Denise said that she will never forget the smell of
gunpowder that filled the room, but most of all she will never forget
her hero, Shannon Johnson, who in a split second decided to cover and
save her. Denise plans to name her first child after him. Just as Dec.
7th is a Day that will live in Infamy, so is the heroic act of Shannon
Johnson for Denise Peraza. And it should be the same for all of us
Americans as the reality of what is now on our homeland sets in. This
was not the streets of Chicago or Baltimore, this was hometown San
Bernadino, CA. It could be any hometown in America and we are all in
this together now. God bless the loved ones of those lost, the
survivors and their families, all the citizens of San Bernadino and
please God bless America.
Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, Seasons Greetings... the whole shebang!!! Maybe just plain old Ho Ho Ho...
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(¸.·´ (¸.·' Micki MacCumbee
Club Leader, Fabric Fun Arts & Crafts
