Virtual Meetings
We will be hosting our guild meetings via Zoom until further notice. The link, meeting ID, and password will be in the newsletter that will be emailed out a few days prior to the meeting. Hope to see you there! And (for those like me who are a little vain) [...]
Feb Meeting Demo – Flowers by Jackie
Jackie McKinney demonstrated her style of flower making at our February guild meeting. She had quite a collection of flowers! There were Peonies, Poinsettias, Daisies, and other flowers in a variety of colors! We can't wait for Spring! Here's a grouping of flowers and some tools used. [...]
Dec 2016 Meeting Tag Sale and Pot-Luck Lunch
Our December meeting was held on 12/10/16 at the Hagaman Library in East Haven. December meetings are usually the second Saturday in December, instead of our usual third Saturday meeting schedule. We had a great time! Plenty of goodies were donated for the Tag Sale and all kinds of [...]
Deb and Dorion – Team Demo
Debbie Goodrow and Dorian Merriman-Boddy teamed up to demo Inka-Gold and Gilders' Paste at the October guild meeting. Debbie was lucky to find some Inka-Gold colors on clearance at Hobby Lobby. There are 20 different colors. Deb used the Inka-Gold between layers of polymer clay for a [...]
Christy Sherman’s Flower Making Demo
Christy Sherman demonstrated how she makes flowers at our June guild meeting. She showed us her process to make irises, roses, and calla lilies. Christy started with a Skinner blend and cut out the shapes. Here is the assembled flower. Notice the texture she added to [...]
Marilyn Malcarne’s Extruder Demos
Marilyn has been having fun experimenting with extruding polymer canes and combining with different colors to create different patterns. Sometimes her results are planned and sometimes they are happy "accidents". The single slices show the elements that were combined to create the extruded patterns. [...]