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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