September Blueprints

There will not be a meeting on Tues. evening, Sept.  24th.  Instead,  Barb Keeling has invited us all to her house for a story, and a demo, and a workshop on felting a teddy bear, on Sunday, Sept. 29th.

   Barb writes: " Hi Everyone from Barb Keeling. barbkeeling@aol.com     760 806-9109

I will be doing the show and tell and do and learn, demo and come and play day on Sunday Sept. 29^th on needle felting at 2PM -5PM. My place is really small but I do have room for a couple of more people so let me know if you are interested. E-mail or call ME, Barb Keeling.

The necklace and all the bears are needle felted. We will do a bear as our, project. I will have a kit of your basic needles, core yarn, foam etc for about $15. Have gobs of great colors of yarn for felting which you can purchase."

Here are some photos of Barb's felted bears that she will teach:

"Also I am doing a challenge with Soft Dolls& Animals Magazine who will publish photos which involves a bear. Hope you will join in. Will tell you about it when you come to play. I am in Oceanside off the 78 & College, pretty easy to get to. Will E-mail directions to those who sign up."   BARB KEELING

This all has grown out of some stories that Barb has had published.  She wrote them originally for her grandchildren.  She read one to us at the IOLCC birthday party in June.

From Barb: " Just a quick note to let you know two of my kid stories are now on Amazon as a download for your Kindle. You do not need a kindle, you can do it as a download to your computer. Both the stories are full of magical fun and frolic but mixed with good manners too. So life lessons to go along with the Adventure. These are both part of my Mrs. GilleyWilley, A Magical Nanny Adventure. Great read for those of you who have kids, gran-kids and Great Grans. Great for those of your youngsters who like to read. 

August News

There will be no August meeting of the IOLCC.  Look for details of the
September meeting in the next newsletter. If you have anything you would like included in that edition you may email it to me or to Lois.
Babs

Blueprints for July

BLUEPRINTS

IMITATION OF LIFE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY NEWSLETTER

JULY 2013

Next Meeting: Tuesday, July 23rd, 6:30 p.m.

The July meeting will be at Carrie Nisil's house, 13702 Silver Lake Dr.,  Poway, CA 92064.  Her phone and email:  858-679-8716, happystitch58@sbcglobal.net.    Patty Smith will lead the program.  Patty writes:

I'm going to show how to make Artist Trading Cards.  You will need a glue stick, color pencils or gel roll pens. lace glitter, or what ever to want to put on your card. They are 2.5 inches by 3.5 inches so don't get carried away. I'll bring the card stock, paper flowers ( what ever else Edwina has a dye cut for) So go to pinterest and check out ATC's  Patty

We had a ball at last month's meeting  with our Oz theme and our four members who are past 80.  There was an excellent turn-out, including husbands, mothers and other guests,  good food, good fun and good feeling.  Our four octagenarians  are Barbara Chapman, Barb Keeling, Sandy Feingold and Arline Lowenthal.   Each got a bag of goodies as a birthday present.  Gloria Hazel got the big birthday cake decorated with Oz characters.  Many members brought Oz dolls and other pieces.  We had witch's legs under the house, a field of poppies, other witches, a winged monkey,  munchkin houses,  the Wizard  flying off in a balloon, and much more.  Here are some photos taken by Deb Tomcik's husband, Jim.  Deb will have more photos to share at the next meeting.  We thank Deb for hosting this party/challenge and all those who brought food,  decorations, gifts and Oz dolls. 

                     

                       

                          

Deb's husband, Jim, will do a program for us in the fall on photographing our dolls.

Lois had a call recently from Gloria "Mimi" Winer.  She's beating her cancer, with some tumors gone and othesr very shrunken.  She said her oncologist said he couldn't believe he'd cured her stage 4 colon cancer!  She also needed to tell IOLCC that she will soon be 80 and wished she could have come to our party.  What a tough old lady.  Many of us have taken classes from her, and learned so much about doll-making.  

Deb Tomcik's polymer sculpting workshops are taking the summer off.   Next one is on September 22nd at Deb's home in Carlsbad.  Each student is in a different place in making her doll.  Deb has done a wonderful job of teaching us individually.  She is willing to take new students and start at the beginning with them.

Stephanie is sorry she is posting this late.