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Past Meetings

 

Our Winter Fest Meeting and Party

Glenda Long’s Home

2374 Tyson Road

St. Cloud, Florida  34771

Sunday, December 11 - 11:30 – 3:00(ish)

Great Events!!  Jewelry Tree Raffle! Make a jewelry item for the tree. It can be any item, pendant, earrings, bracelet, slide bead, pin. It does not have to be holiday themed, it can be any season. We will raffle off the tree and one lucky person will be set with finished jewelry they can start wearing right away!

Gift Exchange! Bring a gift and get a gift!! $25 value but of course if you want to give your Meeting Coordinator a new BMW Z4, she wont object! ;)

Hot meal will be provided by the Dragons! This years food theme will be BBQ!!

Please bring a desert item to share!

 (RSVP to Susan Matuzek – meetings@floridaglassdragons.com)

 

Sunday, August 21

     Food Theme: Picnic Goodies!
Bead Theme: Beach Party!

 

Heather Ferman’s Studio

   2789 Kelsey Place
Jacksonville, Florida  32257

 

Blinker Beads!!!

Blink of an eye . . .   That is how long it takes to make.  Ten to fifteen minutes to complete with little work afterwards. Heather says that a “blinker” is any bead that can be made quickly and sells for a prices of about $20 or more.  Examples are frit implosions, raku bead pendants, hearts, organics, drop pendants, etc.  Come with plans to make one to share, we will time you and be awarding prizes!!

 

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June 2011 Meeting

Margie Chan’s Home

 

Tool Identification

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Spring Fling

Raffles, Food, Demos!, Open Torch Time, but wait, there's more!

The Spring Fling  - April 9-10, 2011 - was a great success.  It was held at Dave and Diana Schwartz’s studio in Haines City, Florida.  There were several raffles and lots of people went home with a lot of really nice things. 

The ‘Open Market’ was a great success.  There were beads, bead holders, presses, glass, tools, etc for sale.  There were demos by Carolyn Baum, Heather Ferman, Ray Olsen, Brent Graber and lots of others. 

On Sunday, April 10, Heather Ferman taught a class on Metals and Silvered Glass Techniques.  The class was completely full and Heather did a wonderful job teaching the class.

We would sincerely like to thank Susan Matuszek and Jan Tunnell for all of their hard work in getting the Spring Fling together and making it such a success!! 

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Past Meeting Minutes

Florida Glass Dragons Board of Directors Meeting,

January 15, 2011

 

Attendees: Candice King-Palgut, Terri Fout, Cathy Wetzel, Jan Tunnell, Mary Shaffer, Beth Somers, Glenda Long, Susan Matusek                                             

 

This Board meeting was held at Jan Tunnell’s house.  A big Thank You to her as it was a great place to hold a meeting. The meeting was called to order by Candice King-Palgut at 11:15am. 

 

The Board did an official change of Officers and the new officers are:

 

Candice King-Palgut – President

Terri Fout – Vice President

Cathy Wetzel – Treasurer

Beth Somers – Secretary

Susan Matusek – Meetings Coordinator

Jan Tunnell – Membership Coordinator

 

Thanks so much to Mary Shaffer (outgoing Treasurer) and Glenda Long (outgoing Secretary – but she will continue to be the Librarian) for their service.

 

The State of Florida must be notified of the change in Board members, their names and addresses.  This is going to be handled by Cathy Wetzel, Treasurer and Beth Somers, Secretary.  We will also need to do an Annual Report Filing for the state.

 

Cathy Wetzel’s name must be added to the bank account (signature cards, etc) and other financial documents.  Cathy will also change the appropriate passwords and addresses.

 

Cathy received the financial information from the outgoing treasurer, Mary Shaffer.  The information, however, was in a QuickBooks 2010 format. She was given a copy of QuickBooks 2008 (which the Florida Glass Dragons owns), but this is NOT compatible with 2010.  What does this mean? Well, she cannot view the information she was given until she purchases an upgrade to QuickBooks.

 

The idea of doing a survey of the membership was presented by Candice King-Palgut (now the President).  She is going to create a survey and send it to the Board for approval. 

 

Terri Fout, who is the new Vice President, will take on some new responsibilities.  She is going to run the Florida Glass Dragon’s Facebook page and start a Discussion Group for the Florida Glass Dragons in Yahoo Groups.  In addition, Terri would like to handle the Beads of Courage program and the Board unanimously decided that this should be the case.

 

Discussed Website – html vs pre-code – Mary Shaffer indicated that we are doing our website in html and she indicated that there was a better way. The webmaster (Beth Somers) indicated that things are going well at the moment so no change is in the offing right now.

 

There was a discussion about standardizing emails addresses for Officers and other Committee chairs.  The webmaster will create IDs for each that will correspond to their position (ie, Candice King- Palgut will be president@floridaglassdragons.com).  By doing this, we can simply change the forwarding information so that a new officer will receive the emails meant for that office.

 

Outside Fund Raising was discussed.  Terri Fout has requested that this be one of her responsibilities.  Insurance requirements and legalities need to be investigated and Terri will do this.

 

There was a discussion of having a ‘Suggestion Box’ and whether it should be placed at each meeting. The requirement is that it must be able to be anonymous.

 

The Spring Fling was discussed and the costs associated with it.  It was decided that we would investigate the costs and discuss them via email before making a definite determination whether to go ahead with the plans that have been made.

 

The Board also discussed the soliciting of donations.  The secretary (Beth Somers) is to send out letters requesting the donations so that we may potentially have them by the Spring Fling.  The Vice President (Terri Fout) will solicit tutorial donations.

 

Also discussed was the potential of having group ‘Glass Buys’.  This will be discussed further and announced at the Spring Fling in April.

 

The Board discussed having a Membership Directory.  Jan Tunnel will investigate this further.

 

Renewals – only a few people have renewed for 2011. There was a discussion on whether to drop members if they have not renewed by the end of February.

 

We also need to find ways to increase membership in the Florida Glass Dragons.  Several thoughts were discussed and Jan Tunnel is going to investigate these.

 

The meeting was adjourned at 3:50PM.

Winter Fling Meeting 12/11/2010

A very successful Winter Fling was held at Rocio's Studio in Cocoa, Florida on December 12th.  I'm sure all who attended will agree that it was a good day.  The weather was beautiful and sunny if a bit chilly.  But once the demos started, everyone forgot the chill and warmed up in the studio watching the creation of icicles, a plum fairy, tree ornaments and more. We truly thank everyone who participated in doing demos which included Candice, David, Ron, Chris, and  Ray,  They  created some fantastic pieces.  (Apologies to anyone I missed as I was moving around a lot.)

 

When the catered food arrived, we moved to the patio and enjoyed a very good catered meal with ham, turkey, vegetables, potatoes and dressing, etc.  Members were asked to bring desserts and those who did provided some awesome treats.

 

Later that afternoon, eight members participated in a  "Beatle Toss" to Holiday music. This observer thinks the beads created there were definitely unique and probably the best I've seen from these combined efforts of eight different artists.

 

There were many great raffle items and lots of winners.  There were goody bags given out to everyone just for showing up at the event. A big Thank You should go out to the planners of the event, Susan, Candice, Jan, and Brent.  They did a great job.  And thanks to all the members who pitched in to set up, run the tables for membership and raffles, conduct the drawings, and clean up afterward.

 

The names of the new officers for 2011 were announced by Susan Matuszek who then thanked all the officers of 2010 for their work and support of the group all year.  Susan Matuszek was president of the Florida Glass Dragons for the past two years and has done an excellent job.  Thank you, Susan, on behalf of all the Florida Glass Dragons members for all your work, great ideas, and positive attitude during that time.. Susan passed the presidency on to Candice King-Palgut, who thanked all of us for our vote of confidence and promised to make next year even better for all the members.  This was a great way to top off the year 2010, a very good year for The FGD.

 

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