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First State Mini Club Newsletter

March 21, 2019; Meeting is Thursday at 7-9 PMNew Castle Senior Center, 400 South Street, New Castle DE 19720

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Hello and Welcome to Spring, Everyone. We have a busy month ahead of us. Our annual show is on the 31st. Please don’t fail to sign up for when you will be able to work at the show. Connie needs items for the Grab Bags. Please go through your stash and find some items to donate. I have an idea about this. Everyone who has a subscription to Dollhouse Miniatures please turn to the page with the copyright free items and either cut something out directly from that page or make color copies for items to assemble for grab bags. There are things like calendars we could put together, playing cards, various pictures and book covers. Bring them to our last pre-show club meeting for Connie to bag up before the show. We will still be working on our book projects I April…get to the windows! I will be doing a small demo on the metal grillwork I used on a couple of my previous projects; we once referred to it as quilling, but it isn’t, exactly. It is something you might find useful in future projects. You will need to bring SuperGlue and needle-nosed pliers for this. Looking forward to seeing all of you soon.

Angie Co-president with Marnie

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Announcement—Grace would like our tea scenes to put in the New Castle Library from Monday March 25 at 9 am through Friday and she will bring them to the hotel on Saturday before the show. She also would like our “khlones”…and a photo of ourselves for this exhibit. Bring to meeting March 21 or meet at library Mon 18th at 9 am. BIRTHDAYS: Happy Birthday!! Enjoy your special day! And may you have many Mini more! Angie Phillips 6 -Mar

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz HOSPITALITY Bring your own drink/cup/bottle! Connie Mar. --Lois Weyer, Wanda Simons, Marnie King and Joan HoytApr. --Angie Phillips, Ruth Levin, Bonnie Kincaid and Susan RossMay --Everyone brings refreshments and drinks**************************************************************************************

CALENDAR of Mini Events coming up…ask around…there may be carpools going. Also check M-1 and E-1 Newsletter, available at NAME website (miniatures.org).

Register end of January for small scales regional in Pittsburgh, Sept 26-28, “All Around the Neighborhood,” Marnie is doing Operations…who’s going? The souvenirs are really great ¼” items.

Set up for show will be at Saturday March 30 at 3pm March 31, 2019, FSMC Show—Sunday, 10-4 at the Crowne Plaza in Claymont. April 13, 2019, Mini Yard Sale in Westminster MD, 23 N. Court St, Westminster MD, 10-3.

To sell, register in January up to April 5…with Sue Ketchum. May 19, 2019, Sunday, 10-3:30 Lancaster Mini Show is occurring but not at the Farm

Center due to conflicting booking. It will be at the Scenic Village at Harvest Drive, 3368 Harvest Drive Gordonville PA 17529. Contact [email protected] for more info or call 215-943-3453

July 18-21, 2019 NAME Convention: Nashville TN “A Little Bit of Country—Shabby or Chic.” Aug 11, 2019 Lehigh Valley Mini Club Show, 10-4, Holiday Inn, Exit 49A off I-78 onto Rt.

100 South. 773 Adrienne Dr, Breinigsville PA 18031. Info: Jo Roseberry 570-213-3016 or [email protected]

September 26-29, 2019 NAME Small scale Regional in Pittsburgh, “All around the Neighborhood,” chair is Ann Pennypacker, Operations chair is Marnie. Souvenirs are I ¼ scale and really great.


ANNOUNCEMENTS….

**Grab bag items are always needed for our show! Give to Connie. Thank you for your efforts.


mailto:[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]

**Don’t forget your exhibit for the show. See Marnie! Please exhibit! We need as many as possible!

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Don’t forget to give Angie the name and size of your TEA PARTY project so that signs can be made! We have planks and gray fabric for the exhibit and voting tubs for our club project.

You're invited to "A Little" Open House to see Wanda's minis--a benefit On Sunday, April 28, 3-5 p.m., my miniatures will be on display at my home (808 Baylor Rd, Nottingham Green, Newark): mostly 1/12th scale from my last 25 years of creative fun, ranging from modest and small scale to award-winning Flower Show and Delaware Art Museum competition settings. And of course, there will be light refreshments. Space is limited, so please respond by email to < [email protected]> that you'd like to come or leave a message at (302) 738-3073.

Proceeds from the event will help send a University of Delaware student to this summer's National Conference for College Women Student Leaders, and for that, we request a donation of $10 each to AAUW Newark Branch, for the student's registration fee.

Friends of friends may also come; just give me their names by April 22, please. Magnifying glasses, small flashlights/cellphones will be allowed and yes, you may take photos. Looking forward to seeing many of you!

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Our 2019 show is looking good. The show committee has met with the new hotel staff and plans have been made. We will be issuing Tyvek paper bracelets to visitors this year to help control the traffic. The club tables will be in the large lobby space near the food concession stand. Exhibits and make-n-takes will be in the Wilmington Room where they were the last time we were at the Crowne Plaza. Seating and tables for eating, conversing, and writing-in door prize tickets will be in the entry lobby at the bottom of the stairs. Vendor applications are continuing to come in, and we now have about 44 tables sold, and there are a few more possibilities. We have at least two new exciting vendors, Itsy Bitsy Minis selling wallpaper and specialty items and Morris Laser Works selling printed-paper laser-cut flower.

An author, Holly Tierney-Bedford, has agreed to send us a stack of cards and a free copy of her book "Flip This (Mini) House” to use as a door-prize.

EXHIBITS are needed…

From Diane Scheuer:Hope all the “Williamsburg Shoppe” owners (you know who you are) are getting them ready to exhibit at the show. The idea is to have a ‘street’ of them...maybe two streets. So far, we are expecting at least ten of them just from club members. More are coming from New Jersey – don’t know how many just yet but the plan is to write an article re the exhibit for the Gazette.....and to surprise Frank with the article and picture. Please let me know if you intend to light your shoppe.

** SUNSHINE**_____________________ Diane Scheuer Susan Ross The club would like to thank Bonnie for the upbeat health report on Susan. She is now at Cadia on Silverside Rd for rehabilitation. Word has it that she is rarely in her room – she’s always visiting others. Wishing you continued progress, Susan. FYI, Marnie knows her neighbor, a social worker recently retired from A.I. duPont, who said Susan would love visitors. So, Marnie circled by today and when offering to take her picture for the newsletter, she willingly smiled


for us.

<o><o><o><o><o><o><o><o><o><o><o><o><o><o><o><o><o><o><o><o><o><o><o><o>OUTREACH Marnie KingSave the dates to help at a table for:

*Festival at the Fort--Sunday April 28 10-4 at Kalmar Nyckel and Old Swedes, East 7th Street *Archaeology Festival--Sunday May 5th 11-4 at Iron Hill, Newark

Thank you, Bonnie Kincaid, for your regular volunteering! Joan Hoyt has volunteered to represent someone-in-time at the Festival at the Fort. I will go as a colonial woman, or maybe a Native American…

Library exhibit at Brandywine…Some of the club windows are shown. Diane Scheuer has a lovely jewelry box house…I do not have names of exhibitors but we thank you for sharing.


Houseparty Helper for Nashville (July 2019) Wanda Simons chairing

Cttee: Connie Gorman, Grace Hayford, Bonnie Kincaid, Marnie King, Angie Phillips

ITEMS NEEDED FOR THE FSMC HOUSEPARTY HELPER FOR THE 2019 NASHVILLE CONVENTION

Plans for our club's donation began coming together at the committee's January meeting. Now, many small items are needed for "country," either shabby or chic, styles for the two adjacent booths in a multi-dealer “antique/junque” mall. Please bring hats, handbags, items for shelves or tabletops, fabric with small patterns, aprons, household items, small rugs, lamps (working or not), and more.....labeled with your name for items to be returned to you if they can't be used. Otherwise, they will be given for our club table's grab bags at our show. The color schemes are evolving, mostly to muted colors.

Winter is a good time to look at your stash to see what you might be willing to part with! Thanks in advance for your help!

THE HOUSEPARTY HELPER FOR THE NAME NATIONAL CONVENTION is on the back burner right now so Wanda can get her tea party started and finished by the show, but you can still bring small accessories to the March meeting...such as bottles, bowls, pitchers, hats, purses, gloves, small framed pictures, etc. for either shabby or chic (no bright colors, please). If your donation isn't used for whatever reason, we can get it back to you if it is labeled with your name. Thanks for helping THE HELPER!

OPTIONS FOR THE CLUB 2020 PROJECT from any scale ----


Wanda -- 1. “The pergola" -- made from weathered snow fence or other wood

plus coffee stirrers and strip wood. Base could be anything. The one shown would look better with a bigger base. It could be used in a garden or as a small roadside stand or you name it...

2. Food, wonderful food ....learn to make fruit, vegetables, breads, sweets,

etc. mostly from polymer clay. Learn how to create molds to make multiples and get realistic looks for all of it. Use the food in any setting.

3. KITCHEN vignette or corner. Make cabinetry and more. See the new Gazette for "kitchens in a cupboard" for ideas that we could adapt for our own FSMC kits.


Angie: Make a display with a Cave of Treasure theme. Not necessarily like Aladdin, but could be art deco, under the sea, Raggy Ann’s treasures. It could have a light source such as a flashlight, torch, or hurricane lamp.

Grace: Make a replica of the room we use at the NCC Senior Center. Fill the room with tables with 2-3 people working at each table such as a garage sale. Each time someone contributes to the display they would get a ticket. At the end, we draw from the pile of tickets to see who gets to keep the display.

Sandra: 1. Make a display of a favorite Childhood memory.

2. Display of your favorite book.

Bring your ideas…pictures, sketches…. We will vote on ideas this March meeting.


PROGRAM FOR MARCH —at home, keep working on your windows for the book. This month we will take a break from the meeting!

Angie Phillips will be leading a QUILLING-type PROJECT like her iron grill window


in her courtyard/foyer.

Bring scissors, tacky, Krazy glue for fast contact, tweezers, needlenose pliers….


Hello, fellow mini-mad club members, I mentioned a couple of months past about my Italian nativity scene and how I always bought more figures when we vacation in Rome. I had chosen a size that is not available over the internet so always had to go to the same store beside the Vatican to buy new figures. My trip last March I had mistakenly bought two figures that I didn’t realize I already had so I repainted them and adapted them to be someone different. You see here the blond lady with the baskets. I repainted her twin to be dark-haired and sell bread instead of the baskets they sit in. The water-carrier got repainted and had his water jars covered in basketwork and filled with grapes to be a vineyard harvester. These are just a couple of ways to “kit-bash” when you have a figurine that doesn’t quite do what you need in a scene. Last month I showed how I had carved up and re-dressed my clone from last year to fit my favorite Regency period. The olive trees I molded from Fimo and painted, adding reindeer moss for foliage, to give the Nativity a little more Mediterranean feel. I have built house fronts for the people to inhabit. It seems that I have gotten all the figures sold in this size and have pretty much filled up my mantelpiece. I am considering getting figures in a smaller size for the background to give an idea of perspective and distance, as the big Nativity scenes do. Thanks , Angie


++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Deb Mackie won Best of Show in Miniature Setting at the Philadelphia Flower Show. She calls it "The Garden of Stubborn Cats". It looks like an old woman (named Marchesa?) who was refusing to sell her little house to builders who have apparently built some high-rises around it. She is holding a real estate contract that had been torn up and peed on (by the cats perhaps!)


Happy Miniaturing!


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· Web viewWord has it that she is rarely in her room – she’s always visiting others. Wishing you continued progress, Susan. Wishing you continued progress, Susan. FYI, Marnie