April Get Together

Hi! Thanks to everyone for attending April’s Get Together. It was so much fun chatting about glass and seeing everyone’s beads.  Welcome to our new April members Barbara, Peggy, Megan, Diana, Debbie, Jenny, and Angela.  A Belated Welcome to our March new members Julia, Shawn, Marianne, and MarieAnn.  Our group is growing every month! 

I enjoyed this month’s get together! It was fabulous to watch so many of us torch and create items to be sent for Shannon Hill’s Project.   

I am including a few polls…please vote!!

Stay tuned for pictures of the beads from our get together!!

Happy Melting~

Fay

April Get Together

Hi fellow flameworkers! You are invited to join us at our next get together on April 25, 2009 at 5:30 pm at the Industrial Arts Center in Gulfport, FL. Our theme is Beach Blanket Bingo.

April’s Exchange Theme: Please bring a Beach Blanket Bingo themed focal bead, bead set, or glass item for the crazy exchange if you would like to participate. Please place the item(s) in a box, bag, or wrap it. (participation is optional and voluntary.)

We will be melting glass and having a theme team challenge at our April meeting so please bring your torch glasses, glass for creating beach themed beads, favorite tools, etc.

Hope to see you there!!
Happy melting~
Fay

March 28th Get Together

Hi!! You are invited to join us at our next get together on March 28, 2009 at 5 pm at the Industrial Arts Center in Gulfport. Our theme is Spring Flowers.

March’s Exchange Theme: Please bring a Spring Flowers themed focal bead, bead set, or glass item for the crazy exchange if you would like to participate. Please place the item(s) in a box, bag, or wrap it. (participation is optional and voluntary.)

We will be melting glass at our March meeting so please bring your torch glasses, glass, favorite tools, etc.
Optional: Also, we have been taking a short break for people to purchase refreshments at two nearby restaurants (right next door) per attendees request.

Happy melting~

Fay

Thank you!!

Hi! Thanks to everyone for attending February’s Get Together. It was so much fun chatting about glass. Welcome to our new members Patsy, Terri, David, and Christina.
Big Kudos to Geneva and Cindy for two awesome demonstrations!! Cindy demonstrated how she creates fish and gave us some fabulous tricks and tips. Geneva demonstrated fusing fish bases 101. For us non-fusers, Geneva’s demo was chock full of information. Thank you once again for sharing your glass knowledge with us!!!

Mark your calendars on March 28th for our next Tampa get together.

February Gathering

Hi!! I just wanted to invite everyone to our next get together on February 28, 2009 at 5 pm at the Industrial Arts Center in Gulfport. Our theme is Fire and Ice.   February’s Exchange Theme: Please bring a Fire and Ice themed focal bead, bead set, or glass item for the crazy exchange if you would like to participate.  Please place the item(s) in a box, bag, or wrap it. (participation is optional and voluntary.)   We will be melting glass at our February meeting so please bring your torch glasses, glass, favorite tools, etc.    Optional: Please feel free to bring a little snack (finger foods) or beverage to share.  Also, we have been taking a short break for people to purchase refreshments at two nearby restaurants (right next door) per attendees request.    Happy melting~   Fay P.S.  We are skipping a get together in the month of January.  I don’t know about you but I need a moment to catch my breath.  Hope to see you in February!!

 

Thank You Geneva

Hi!  I wanted to thank everyone for attending our December get together.  The crazy exchange was a hoot!!  Geneva decided to demonstrate her fabulous dragon eggs and icicles.  Everyone enjoyed Geneva’s demonstration and all of the tips and information that Geneva shared was really appreciated.  Thanks again Geneva!!  Hope to see everyone at the next gathering.

December Holiday Get Together

Hi fellow flameworkers!! You are invited to join us December 13th at 5 pm for our Holiday Get Together at the Industrial Arts Center. 

December is OPEN TORCH! Come and melt glass, play, demo, and socialize with fellow glass peeps.

December’s Exchange Theme: Please bring a Winter Holiday theme focal bead, bead set, or glass item for the crazy exchange if you would like to participate.  Please place the item(s) in a box, bag, or wrap it. (participation is optional and voluntary.)

We will be melting glass at our December meeting so please bring your torch glasses, glass, favorite tools, etc. 

Optional: Please feel free to bring a little snack (finger foods) or beverage to share.  Also, we have been taking a short break for people to purchase refreshments at two nearby restaurants (right next door) per attendees request. 

Happy melting~

Fay

November Gathering

Thank you for attending the November Flamework Get Together.  It was a blast.  David did an awesome job explaining and demonstrating boro techniques to us.  The manatee and bird David created were fabulous!! Thanks again David!!! 

We had two new flamworkers join our group…Welcome Sally and Pam!!!  We are so thrilled to have you join us.

The crazy glass exchange was a blast too!!! Thank you to everyone that participated!

 We hope to see everyone for our December Holiday Gathering on December 13th at 5pm. 

Happy melting~

Fay

November 8th

Hi!  November 8th is our next get together at 5pm.  I was trying to think of something fun to do, so I thought a glass exchange game would be uber cool.  All you need to do is bring a bead you created, or a marble, or glass, or a tool, or supplies, etc….whatever you would like to “gift” and place it in a paper bag.  When you arrive, see me and I will fill you in on the rest of the details. 

We have a few things to discuss then we will play our game, socialize, have a demo, and melt some glass. 

Please email me if you would like to bring finger foods to the get together.

See you then!

Happy melting~

Fay

Thank You

Hi!! I had a blast last night!  I had so much fun meeting everyone and sharing glass tips, tricks, ideas, etc.   I loved our mix of glass artists….from interested in learning to melt glass to thirty years of experience…we had an array of talent in the studio!!  Kudos to The Industrial Art Center  for opening their doors and welcoming us to meet at the center.  The demos were awesome too….thanks again Linda and Fay. 

A huge thank you to the following people for donating doorprizes and glass. We really appreciate your support and all of your efforts to make our first gathering extra special!!

Lincoln Distributors

Deepwood Art, Bath, and Body

Fay Katherine

I look forward to seeing everyone at our next get-together on November 8, 2008 at 5 pm at the Industrial Arts Center.

Happy melting~

Fay