The Great Southern Stamp Sale

Well, I've been hinting about a great event coming up, and here's the details! SERS has been approached by no lesser stamper than Ellen Eadie, to help her sell much of her magnificent stamp collection. As you may know, she has an extensive collection of PSX stamps. I mean extensive!

I'm so excited, I've set up a special blog just for the sale, so we can share this event with lots of stampers.

The link to go to is :

http://greatsouthernstampsale.blogspot.com.au/

So be a love and pass that on to stampers you know, and any other clubs or groups that would love to be involved.

The picture here shows something I coloured in with one of my own PSX stamps. I'm going to add photos of the sale stamps shortly.

So, our September 29 meeting will be extra exciting! Yes, there will still be snacks.

July meeting

Whoa, did it again, had a meeting in July, and forgot to take any photos! Well, I had a good time as usual, so let's see what we can do about blogging with no photos of the event.

Here's a sight to make stampers jealous - I went to a local op shop the other day, and found a box of stamps! These were my picks. Two original PSX stamps - sigh!

So, that's to illustrate one of the things we like at stamp club.

Here's a chocolate Lego minifig. That's one of the treats I brought along to stamp club. I made it in the mould I recently bought at Legoland California!

So, that's to illustrate that we like good snacks at stamp club.

Here's my travel journal I filled up on on a two week trip to the US. I was happily showing it off at stamp club.

So that's to illustrate two of the things we like doing at stamp club, putting stuff in journals, and talking about holidays.

And here's some stamps I saw in the US. Didn't bring them back though, they were a bit big and not for sale.


Oh, and apart from all that, Jenny coached me in using my new Spellbinders dies, and everyone made pretty things.

I'll probably get back to reporting the day more accurately next time, but this has been fun, hasn't it?

May Meeting - where were YOU?

We knew it would be a quiet meeting - the lovely Picture to Page event was running nearby, and plenty of SERS people were exhibiting, helping or visiting. So it was no surprise when then May SERS meeting looked a bit like this...

Tee hee - I was just demonstrating how to use photography to make a meeting room look desolate.

In real life it looked like this:

See, nice people helping each other to do creative things. That's what we're about.

Jenny made this...

And I made this - that's a classic Stampington stamp I just acquired second hand.

Next meeting, I won't be there! Gasp! So if you are there, do be a love and help get things set up and packed away.

See ya in July!

April Meeting - you can't put THAT through a Big Shot!

For the April meeting, we played another rousing round of "What's in the Box?". This time I'd brought in some older stamps I could part with, and offered them for sale at pocket money prices. I went home a bit lighter, and with money in my pocket. Others got some quality stuff they were really going to enjoy, so that's all good.

Here's what I like to see, a nice busy crowd. About 13 attendees this month I think ... just right.

Remember this stamp from last month? I'd bought it at Paperific and showed it off later in the day. Well, Ingrid liked the set so much, she tracked it down and bought it too. Bunky the Art Sparrow travels on to a new owner!

Oooh, shiny ... what's this pretty thing?

Oh, I see ... flattened out soft drink tin, cut out, run through the Big Shot with an embossing folder, and then coloured with alcohol-based markers. This looks promising...

March Meeting - on a Paperific day!

Stamp Club fell on the same weekend as Paperific this month. Well, Paperific and I go way back, so I had to go and enjoy the day.

Here's how my day went - I left home nice and early. I stopped at the local scout hall, where there was a big Trash and Treasure sale (also a good thing to do). Then I scooted all the way to the Showgrounds to enjoy Paperific (arrived just before going in time too). And then, I scooped up all my new goodies, and crossed town again to get to SERS. A tad late, but nobody minded, I hope.

As a result, I had the fun of playing with all my new goodies at stamp club! This unmounted stamp from Hampton Art is one of my newies. It's a variation of an older stamp I've owned for years - the older one is called "Bunky the Art Sparrow", and he often serves as my mascot.

Cathy was rusting some pretty things - wire lizards, faces and such. This metal coating is one part of the process.

Remember I'd said I started the day at a Trash and Treasure sale? Here's something I bought - a bag of mixed toys, including MERMAID PONIES! One thing lead to another ...

... and before long we were rusting a pony! This plastic may not have been primed so well - there is a special primer for plastic - so next time we will do an even better job.


















Then Cathy got a bit giddy with the metal coating - here she is trying to rust a banana!

Oh, wait, that may have just been an accident.

Anne had brought along some prepared stamped and punched shapes, and was assembling with them. She'd packed them in a pretty tin, and the whole thing was so lovely I had to have a closer look!

Maria was constructing these cards with just punched circles - pretty!

And here's what I made with my new stamps. Yay, Bunky!

So it ended up being a small group, but as merry as ever. See ya next month!

February meeting - the hot, hot day!

The February SERS meeting took place on a super hot day - 37 degrees! People asked if we would go ahead in the heat, but I said yes.

Turned out, the meeting room at Mount St is lovely and cool on a hot day (the hallway was quite hot, but the room itself was fine). We turned on all the fans, and it was great. So, let's remember, SERS can cope with heat any time!

I knew nobody would want heavy snacks, though, so I packed delicious fruit and chilled drinks, along with the usual tea and coffee. Here's the three bottles with stamped tags - water, iced tea, and lemon lime and bitters. Yumm!
















Ingrid was doing beautiful work with a small watercolour painting she had done - a bunch of kumquats. Dare I say it, better than any stamp!















Liz Z came along - hadn't seen her in yonks! She's on the left, next to Cathy. Liz was working on a drawing, and Cathy was refurbishing an older African doll, and using it as inspiration for a new one.











Louise and Maria making things - Maria and I agreed that if you can only have one punch, you should have a couple of square ones.

And here's a distinguished visitor, Miriam Makeba, appearing in doll form. She's Cathy's entry in a doll swap, about to be sent away to a new owner.

So what WAS in the box?

 We just had the January SERS meeting, and as well as a fun afternoon of chatting and crafting, there were GOODIES to be had!

A generous benefactor had donated some back copies of magazines, good ones from Stampington (and don't we all know that publisher well!). Five boxes full, in fact. She instructed that they should be given away to willing readers. So that's what I did.

I opened the boxes and called the ladies over. There was no pushing or shoving, but everyone ended up with an armful of excellent magazines. Here's Pat flipping through a Take Ten.

And here's the whole gang in a not-at-all-posed scene, enjoying their new bounty.

Did you miss the meeting? Don't worry, there's still some stuff in the box! I'll bring it next time.