SANE Winter Solstice Evening Meal and Yankee Swap

Ho, ho, ho, Happy Holidays, said the jolly old person of indiscriminate religious persuasion! Not that Thanksgiving is even over, either, but everywhere I look I see reminders of holiday sales, holiday decorations, holiday depressions, paint holidays (okay, it needs a second coat!), and even Deathly Hallowdays. Makes me want to clench my wallet ever so strongly...

But on a positive note, the details for the SANE Winter Solstice Evening Meal and Yankee Swap (SANEWSEMYS, for short) have been felt out by the hammers at the last meeting. Um, make that "hammered out by the felters." Plans are, in no particular order:

Place: Pam A's Dining Room and Environs
Date: Tuesday, 14 December 2010
Time: 7ish to wheneverish (tho 'tis a school night)
Evening Meal: A potluck event, where we aim to have 2 each of appetizer, salad, main course and dessert. Please send to me a preference (or perhaps two, in case your first pref has two confirmed volunteers) and we'll try to sort this out in time to plan, maybe freeze twice something from T-day to unfrost one of on SANEWSEMYS-day. No one need ever know.
Social Event: A Yankee Swap - continuing the ever-changing tradition, each attendee [who wishes to join the "gift"-sharing] shall bring a wrapped gift costing under $10. Multiple attendees (attendees who arrive in groups of two or more, NOT attendees with multiple identities) shall divide their giftitude into two types, desireable and un-, so as to offer more incentive for tradeage.

The 16 November meeting was remarkably productive for such short notice and people were remarkably productive. I think Betsey should get a lot of credit for some fast research and backpedalling from that unfortunate description out of Drizzle's Compendium of Crafty Afts, but since I wasn't actually at the meeting, having been detained (well, sat upon) by a Crumple-Horned Snorkack, but I've heard certain things and seen certain photos that I will not post here if I get a "consideration," and right quick.

Okay, get back to me about attendance, proposed category of pot-luck contribution, and to just say hey!

Fwd: SANE Meeting Tues 16 Nowonder

Little Liza B asks: What's all this, then, about "felting"?
Great question, Visla, here is a bit is from Deezle's dictionary of Arts and Craps

Felt isn't so much a material as it is a conglomeration of threads held together by compression and prayer. Felting is the art of cutting bits of felt to create a design, then using long, skinny, pointy, dissection needles to repeatedly pierce through the flesh of the adjacent felts so that their essences bleed into each other, and commingle their already loosely aligned layers of threads into one single but thicker loosely aligned layer of threads, albeit of different surface colors. No sewing required (unless, say, to construct a 3-D object out of felted pieces), the process is simple: cut felt, arrange the pieces on a single piece of felt and/or each other, then stab the hell out of it until it cries for mercy or it's all one seriously wounded but single-layer piece.

Where would we be without Deezle's? On a hopeful note, I hope to see my shrink before Tuesday's meeting.

SANE Meeting Tues 16 Nowonder

Get your magic thinking caps on and come up with a project, and/or it will be a free-for-all, do-it-yourself, no-bars-holed kind of event...

The date is Tuesday, the time is 16 November, the place is 7:00 and the day is Pam A.'s humble abode.

Is it a Thanksgibbons theme? Prepare your own turkey and/or stuffing? Build your own Puritan? Let's teach Squanto Esperanto!

Lemme (lemus) know if you have a good idea...

Nov/Dec SANE meeting info

Whilst I was gadding about I also neglected to record info about Nov and Dec meetings. The Nov meeting is slated for Tues 16 Nov, and the famous Winter Solstice Dinner is penciled in for Tues 14 Dec, unless we decide it need not be on a Tues. That's all the info I got.