SANE Meeting 6 March 2007

Bear with me, here. Let me get it out of my system, then I'll move along.

I used to have a wooden whistle, but it wooden whistle.
Then I got a steel whistle, but it steel wooden whistle.
Then I got a tin whistle. Now I tin whistle!

Well, some of us cut pounded and decorated some tin whilst others whistled at the 9 Jan meeting, and jagged bits of tin are still probably imbedded in Pam's dining room rug (thanks, Betsey!). I dunno, I had my head wrapped up in my computer (all attendees at the next meeting will get an already-assembled nifty keen 2007 calendar (don't worry, it's not a put-it-together-yourself perpetual thingus) delicately designed with SANE in mind). Mary, Molly and Flip couldn't make it (there was a regional Tiddly-Winks tourney at MIT, and all three squopped their way to the top of their tiers in the quarter-finals), so they'll have to take my word for it that the metalwork done at this particular meeting was spectacular, and would likely have made Paul Revere hand in his hammer and anvil in bitter and jealous surrender. Our various SANE drawers are going to be handsomely laid out now, let me tell you.

As far as planning for the February meeting, there were a lot of scheduling difficulties, so we are actually meeting on the 34th. Yes, we're meeting so late in February that some "calendar purists" even consider it to be March.

Next Meeting: 6 March 2007 (aka 34 February 2007) - 7pm, location TBD

The task at hand will be Paper Pop-Ups, and tho nobody seems to know enough about the subject to take a lead on it, I admit to have intimidated Pam A. enough that she promised to do some research, just to quiet me down. I apologize for such heavy-handedness, and issue an appeal to others who may have a source or two, or some actual experience, and might be able to help Pam direct us poor sheep.

Other possible projects were mentioned, so consider them for future meetings:

Making Soap (roundly panned, so unless someone strenuously objects, this is unlikely to be suggested again)
Altered Books (starting with the Pam P collection distributed a few meetings ago). Deemed difficult, perhaps, to accomplish much in one meeting, what with all the eating.
Paint-A-Pottery - we should rent out one of the commercial places for a night, and/or make a plate for the upcoming Winter Solstice dinner.
Sock Puppets - fondly remembered, but also unlikely to make it on the schedule again.
Paper Sculpture -- an earlier incarnation of the Paper Pop-Up project we will be doing. AKA Paper Engineering.
Polymer Clay (Fimo, Sculpey, etc.) - we'd need a place with enough air circulation so we won't pollute our li'l lungs. Dianne mentioned using a ceramic bowl as a form, to make a polymer bowl inside, and once both are cooked together, the polymer one will pop out...
Mardi Gras masks - papier mache with feathers, shiny things
Papier Mache by its own self. Would need to dry.

More on the Paper Pop-Ups as it pops up.