June meeting is this weekend

So you'd better come along, eh?

We're having Sesame cookies (also known as Benne Wafers) to snack on, and probably something else too.

I thought we ought to have a Buy and Sell day, so bring any pre-loved papercrafts goodies you wish to part with. Label them with your name and a price, and negotiate direct with your buyers.

And let's pencil in Buy and Sell for July too - it's a nice thing to do in winter.

This month I'm playing with new punches I got from Paperific!

And our illustration today is from MPA 2002 - this is the Stamp Francisco stall, visiting from the US, with our own Coralee womanning the till.

2001 Nostalgia - Melbourne Paper Arts

Here's a bunch of photos from my archives, from Melbourne Paper Arts in 2001. In honour of the fact that Paperific is on this weekend!

Gina was there with newborn Blair - that takes some effort!











Here's Julie van Oosten with Sam, sales lady extraordinaire.




The Calligraphy Society liked to wow us with beautiful handwriting ... it's not as easy as stamping!









Here's Niamh showing off Opals...












Here's Cathy of My Stamps - ooh, I think she's eating a biscuit I made. And laughing about how dodgy it looked. But she came back for more... nobody can resist home baked goodies...

That's enough for this entry, but I have more Paperific nostalgia to post!

Melbourne Paper Arts from 2001

Paperific is coming up this Friday to Sunday.

Now, Paperific used to be called Melbourne Papercraft Exhibition, and before that it was Melbourne Paper Arts, and before that Melbourne Paper Crafts. I think I have that lineage right.

Anyway, at Melbourne Paper Arts in 2001, at St Kilda Town Hall, SERS had a stall!

We'd never done anything like that before (and I confess we never have since) but it was fun!

We had some members staffing the stall for a little while each, letting passers by sit down, chat, look at goodies we'd made, and do some stamping. We ended up with a lot of kids playing for a bit while Mum shopped. Since we weren't trying to do business, that was fine.

Here's Carolyn and Margaret on the stall, next to the Calligraphers and the Origami guys.

May 2009 meeting - with cookies

I baked delicious choc chip cookies this morning, specially to take to stamp club. They went down well. Tee hee, folks, they were a healthy recipe, full of oat bran!

Cathy was doing calligraphy, and Louise was using reinkers to make pretty backgrounds.









Pat came for the first time, and showed Nan how to make quilled flowers.

She had made a box full of flowers!














Averil brought a box full of perfectly nice stamps that were surplus to her needs, and GAVE THEM AWAY! Woo hoo! We like to make sure someone gets something for nothing most months. I nabbed this pretty stamp, which was one of Cathy's designs from ages ago. Beautifully made, too! I watercoloured it with Inktense pencils. It would probably suit less zingy colours, but with Inktense are sunglasses-bright. So there's the next project.




Margaret is colouring a stamp she had made herself - one of many! Now that's one way to get the exact image you want...


Next month's meeting is on 27 June. That'll be a week after Paperific, which I'll certainly be at, so there will be stories to share about that! That meeting will probably be in the OTHER room (the carpeted one). Nan says she prefers that one (it's warmer), so if we all agree, I'll ask if we can take up residence there in the cold months.

Bridget at Stamp Club!

Here's the very dignified Bridget, now of the ACT, at a Christmas SERS meeting in 2004. Bridget stepped in to run things when I was sick (and a bit jaded too). She stayed on for a whole year, then had to give it away because of work committments. I was able to take it back, and we've been going ever since.

It was Bridget that found our new home at Mount Street. Our old venue was getting too pricey, and we might have even had to (gasp) put the prices up! So the move was good news all round. Also the light is rather nice at Mount St.

A little more nostalgia

This is a photo from SERS in 2001 - when we used to meet in Rowville. From left to right, there's Coralee (cutting up some fresh rubber, it looks like); then there's Marg; next to her is Michelle; and then there's Monica (now of Beachhouse Boulevard). See, all with a cuppa: it's nice.

We're still meeting, eight years later! Check our meeting details.

Barb's 2002 photos

Well, we're all getting in on the act now - Barb has posted some photos from another meeting, where I lugged my computer in for some terribly good reason (no laptops in this family). I think I was doing a slide show after returning from a particularly wonderful holiday. Go check 'em out!

Then there's these from 2003...

And these ones from a Christmas dinner in 1999 (I had only just started going to SERS).