We had a wonderful
meeting today! For those who weren't able to come to the meeting today -
we missed you! The show and tell was fabulous. A great program
on felting was given by JoAnn Luco. And we had a very productive and
interesting business meeting in which we decided on a charitable project
and a community outreach/education venue.
Our charitable
project will be to sew stuffed animals or hearts to turn into the
Common Thread Circle, who will then stuff & finish them and distribute them
to patients in area hospitals. Gwynne Ross provided us with patterns
which we can use (or we can use our own). If you would like to
participate, these sewn pieces will be due at the June TAODA meeting. If
you have questions or need more direction, please contact Gwynne at gwynne713@aol.com Gwynne
will bring patterns again to the April meeting. I hope we will have lots
and lots of sewn animals and hearts to donate. Our last charitable
project was in 2012, when we made over 100 pocket dolls for the Dress a Girl
Around the World project, so the bar is set pretty high! But since we
don't have to stuff them, we should be able to easily meet that goal. If
you are outside the Houston area and would like to mail some in they would be
most welcome.
For our education
project we decided to participate in Hands on Houston once again (a
free craft-activity open house on the first Saturday of every month
at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft). Lots of good ideas were
discussed at the meeting. If you have an idea and can present it at the
April meeting, we would like to choose something that we can then present to
HCCC and pick a date that works for us and them as well.
Finally I want to remind
everyone about Gathering of the Guilds on Saturday, April
26 at HCCC. TAODA always has a booth at this event. We have a
sign up for manning the booth, and have openings for the 2-5 p.m. time
slot. If you can volunteer for TAODA at this fun event, please email
me: janetbodin@aol.com
I look forward to seeing
everyone next month when the fabulous Neva Waldt will present the program on
Armatures.
Thanks,
Janet Bodin
