Hey, They'se a Meetin' a'Comin' Up, and I'm a'Runnin' Outa a'Postrophies

Next meeting is on Tuesday, 10 March 2009 - and that's right around the coroner. Quincy, I think.

We don't know where yit, or what we gonna do, but we have the date and time. 7ish.

Hey, here's a thought... It dawned upon me that we could always come up with new cards for a Tarot deck, the old ones bein' all old and all. And unnecessarily cryptic. I mean, what the heck is a Heirophant, for crissakes? We could probably ignore the suits (1-10 cards in each of 4 suits with "suitable" (ah, Tarot jokes) pictures that evoke some particular feeling/state), that have devolved into our current 52-card bridge deck. But there's the "Major Arcana" of higher-profile concepts, such as:

0 The Fool
1 The Magician
2 The High Priestess
3 The Empress
4 The Emperor
5 The Hierophant
6 The Lovers
7 The Chariot
8 Strength
9 The Hermit
10 The Wheel of Fortune
11 Justice
12 The Hanged Man
13 Death
14 Temperance
15 The Devil
16 The Tower
17 The Star
18 The Moon
19 The Sun
20 Judgment
21 The World

The Superhero, The Newspaper Vendor, The Nerd/Geek, The Convenience Store Clerk, Boredom, The Office Manager, Ponzi Schemes, Sitcom Dad, etc. Everybody could make up two or three, and we could... we could make 1000 sets, sell them each for $100, and that's like five million bucks, give or take. Economic tailspin out the window, and we're sitting pretty.

Okay, I was just spitballin' right then. Otherwise, I got nothin'. You got somethin'? Or just wanna play Poker? Shoot hoops on an ice rink, with one hand tied to an ankle? Admit it, that Tarot thing is looking good right now, isn't it?

Talk to me (via e-mail). Or call, I got nothin' to do anyway. Just remember, 3/10 is comin' up fast.

The Fool

Re: Meetin' Place, ACTUAL Project

Hooray to Dianne for a good idea! (See below, if you weren't on her original distribution.) Bring your Fimo/Sculpey, Pam A has one li'l dedicated toaster oven and I think I have one (have to make sure it still works), Dianne will bring some styrofoam molds (if you have a biggish styrofoam ball you wouldn't mind being cooked and shrunk) and we'll form & cut some canes and make us some bowls. Or other polymer clay object d'arts&crafts.

Pam is still on board to be the Hoaster with the Toaster. Hostess with the Toastess? Host with the Toast.

Got that? Bring polymer clay and tools to mess wif it. 7pm Tomorrow (Tuesday). Be there or be square (instead of, say, semiglobular).

Hi all,

Haven't seen you all in a while but I'm still alive and interested in what we are doing! Remind me never to fly reward class...

I don't know if polymer clay is something we avoid since I've never seen us use it. However, I found this site for making "celestial" polymer clay bowls using the shrinking styrofoam method. Sounds positively carcinogenic doesn't it? Anyhow, here is the link. If it is of any interest, I know Pam A has a dedicated polymer clay toaster oven as do I. We could work up some of these lovely things in a jiffy and serve food in them to people we don't like. If it sounds like a go, I have loads of styrofoam balls (smallish so the bowls won't be big) and plenty of clay. We could all make different canes, slice and trade to combine if we'd like. Anyhow, that's my idea. Let me know what all of you think.

http://www.garieinternational.com.sg/clay/polymer_celestial.htm

Dianne

Meetin' Place, Possible Project

Pam A would be honored to hostess the meetin' (kinda makes me want to wear mah formal duds), so we'll see y'all there at 7ish. Otay?

As so what we gonna do, Leslie had a thought or two (she went from 0 to several in a few sentences):

I have no ideas at the moment.  Maybe Valentines because I can't think of anything else...

For a future meeting, maybe we can do some type of moving cards.  I got a book, which I later realized is nothing more than a regular pop-up type book which shows you how to do moving eyes, spinning wheelie things.  I'll bring it in to see if anyone is interested.

 

What about making envelopes ?  That is a pretty quick thing and will easily fit into the inSANE drawer w/ all the other stuff we do. I have lots of envelope templates and one of those do-hickeys for tearing a page into an envelope.  But, only one of us could do that at a time.   I'll keep thinking.

I have one or so of them envelope templates, and I reckon a few more of us do, too.  So that's a possibility. I also have a lovely Sock Puppet kit, thanks to the grab. Not to mention some nice soap (mysteriously slipped into Dy's purse), should anyone have a hot dog they'd like to tidy up, but that's neither hear nor they're. But if you have a sewing jones, we can make an arrangement, I'm sure. In fact, I do have a moccasin kit I could assemble, if this were to turn into a generic bring-in-your-own-craft night.

I did spend a lot of time at a CraftStylish site ogling Jeff Ruddell's projects, so if you want some inspiration, that would take up some time. Nothing struck me as fodder for this meeting (well, maybe the grommeted paper trash bucket).

And since I spent a few minutes altering somebody else's work, why not share? You can tell that the left-most class is added on, I didn't want to spend too much time on this:

Keep thinking of projects...

Meeting Tues 10 Feb 2009 y'all

Hey, we're meeting (where to be decidered) on Tuesday 10 Feb 2009.

Apparently the "what" am to be decidered, too, also.

So... What we gwine to do? It's possible we already decided and I done 4got. Not like it ain't heppend afore. If'n it's so, plz lemme know.

It's gwine be ValDay soon, too late for KingDay and PresDay, a tad to early for PatDay, so we could hartz & flowrz, but could do many nother thangs, too, the likes of which escape me. Matching Forks, mayhaps? Beads? Instant gruel mix? Melting down old soaps from previous years, to make perfumed suet? Mani- and pedi-cures? Norwegian waxes (clear off all that nasty elbow skin chaff)? Writing SEO articles for fun and profit?

Got something you wanna do, that needs nearly no preparation a'tall?

Fire me a kneemail, by crikey, and I'll run it up the fogpole.